Denmark » Copenhagen | 🏛 Copenhagen Walking Tour · Copenhagen Food Tour

Copenhagen: Food Tour with 6+ Danish Tastings & Carlsberg

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.79 (775 reviews) 89% rated it 5 stars

Free cancellationTravelers' pickLikely to sell out

1/14

Duration3h

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesEN

Mobile ticketAccepted

Six tastings through Copenhagen's oldest streets and markets, ending at City Hall Square

You start at Torvehallerne Market and walk through Strøget and historic squares, tasting smørrebrød, meatballs, roast pork, pastries, and a secret dish along the way, with Carlsberg beer included. The guide shares stories about Vikings and local history while you eat. You finish near City Hall Square after 3–4 hours, having covered six tastings and two drinks without arranging any of it yourself.

Step-by-step itinerary

Copenhagen food tasting and city walk

Meet in front of the Church
Eat and try food at Torvehallerne Market
Walk along Europe's oldest street
Try dishes and visit oldest bar for draft Carlsberg
Discover one of Copenhagen's oldest squares
End near Copenhagen City Hall Square

The Experience

So you're standing in front of a church at Torvehallerne Market and your guide is already pointing at something that smells like butter and cardamom, and you realize you haven't even started eating yet. The market itself is the first stop — seasonal Nordic ingredients everywhere, vendors calling out, that particular Copenhagen light hitting the stalls. You're tasting things here, real things, not samples. A secret dish your guide knows about. An organic Danish hot dog that tastes nothing like what you'd expect. The kind of meal that makes you understand why people talk about food in this city the way they do.

After that you're walking Strøget, which is the oldest shopping street in all of Europe, and it's not some preserved museum thing — it's just where people are, where they've been for centuries, and you're stopping for smørrebrød (two types, because one isn't enough), traditional meatballs, roast pork with crackling that actually crackles. Your guide is telling you about Vikings and Hans Christian Andersen and how LEGO started here, and it lands differently when you're eating while you listen. There's a Carlsberg on draft at one of the oldest bars in the city, which is the kind of detail that matters. The beer tastes better when you know where it came from.

The pastries happen at two separate stops — a cardamom twist at one place, then something else at another — because Copenhagen takes its sweet traditions seriously and this tour doesn't rush past them. You end up near City Hall Square, the biggest square in the capital, and by then you've had six tastings plus two drinks and you've walked through actual Copenhagen, not a version of it made for tourists. The whole thing takes about three to four hours, which is long enough to feel like you've eaten your way through the city but short enough that you're not exhausted.

What’s included

Six food tastings including a secret dish, organic Danish hot dog, two types of smørrebrød, cardamom pastry, traditional meatballs, and roast pork with crispy crackling.
Two drinks: Carlsberg beer on draft and an organic kombucha shot.
Walking tour through Torvehallerne Market, Strøget, historic squares, and ending near City Hall Square.
A guide sharing stories about Viking history, Hans Christian Andersen, and Copenhagen's cultural roots.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyPublic transport nearbyNot for heart conditions

Operated by Secret Food Tours

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to taste real Danish food without figuring out which restaurants to hit or how to order smørrebrød — the guide handles the stops and the ordering, and you just show up hungry and walk.