London: Borough Market & Leadenhall Food Tour with Wine

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Duration3h 30m

GroupUp to 12

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Six Stops Through London's Food Markets, From Bacon Roll to Wine Bar

You taste six dishes across two markets — bacon roll, sausage roll, fish and chips, a British dessert, meringues, and cheese — while learning about Southwark's history and seeing the Monument and Leadenhall's Victorian arcade. The tour includes wine pairings at the end and covers lunch, so you're not hunting for food or paying separately for what you eat. A local guide leads the whole thing, which takes around four hours and ends at a wine bar.

3h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Borough Market and London landmarks

Meet guide and eat bacon and egg roll
Try sausage roll and British dessert
Walk through Southwark and see Bridget Jones pub
Visit Clink Prison and learn history
Eat award-winning fish and chips
Learn about the Great Fire of London
Enjoy handcrafted meringue confections
Explore Victorian Leadenhall Market
Finish with wine and cheese pairing

The Experience

The sausage roll hits different when you're standing in Borough Market at nine in the morning, watching the stalls fill up around you. Your guide meets you here, in Southwark, and right away you're tasting a bacon and egg roll from a place that's been doing it the same way for years — the kind of breakfast that makes sense only when you're standing in a 1,000-year-old market with people buying fish, cheese, and bread all around you. It's not fancy. It's just the thing locals eat, and you're eating it too.

From there the tour moves through six tasting stops, each one a small shock of flavor or history. You'll try a sausage roll from a shop beloved enough that it's become an institution, then a modern take on a British dessert from a place that's somehow famous on social media without losing the point. The fish and chips comes next — an award-winning version that teaches you something unexpected: this dish that feels quintessentially British actually has Southern European roots. Between stops, your guide walks you through Southwark's older streets, pointing out the pub from Bridget Jones's Diary and Clink Street, where one of London's oldest prisons used to hold people. You'll stand at the Monument, the stone column that marks where the Great Fire of 1666 started and how it burned the city into a different shape.

Leadenhall Market is the turn that catches people off guard. It's a Victorian arcade with a glass roof and cream-colored ironwork, and if you've seen Harry Potter or a dozen other films, you've been here without knowing it. The market is still a working place — people buy food here, not just tourists — and that's what makes it feel real instead of like a set. You'll taste handcrafted meringues from a French pastry chef here, and then the tour ends at a wine bar where a sommelier pairs two wines with cheese. It's the kind of finish that makes you sit down for twenty minutes instead of rushing off.

The whole thing takes about four hours, and it covers lunch — you're not paying extra for the food you taste along the way. The guide is English-speaking and local, which means they know which stalls are worth stopping at and which ones tourists skip. You'll need sensible shoes because the walking is steady and the streets are uneven, but it's not a hike. Public transport is close by if you need to get there or leave early.

What’s included

Your day includes a local English-speaking guide, six food tastings at Borough Market and Leadenhall Market, two wine pairings at a wine bar, and visits to historic Southwark, the Monument, and Clink Street.
The tour covers lunch and lasts around four hours.
Public transportation options are available nearby.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearby

Operated by Devour UK Food Tours

Is this one for you?This tour works well if you want to taste London's most famous markets without arranging your own stops or timing — the guide handles the route, the sommelier handles the wine, and the four hours keeps the whole thing manageable in a single morning or afternoon.