Paris Montmartre Guided Food Tour: A Full Meal by Do Eat Better
Children from six with their own fare, stroller accessible, and a full meal rather than tastings they may not finish.
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Paris Food Tours With Kids
The short answer
Most of these walks take children and publish a fare for them, some from as young as two or three. The wine is not the problem — the drinking age is eighteen and soft drinks are standard — the problem is three hours on foot. Pick the Marais for flat ground, avoid Montmartre, and book the full-meal walks rather than the tasting rounds.
Which walks actually take children
Most of these listings publish a child or youth age band with its own fare, which is the clearest signal an operator can give you. The ages differ more than you would expect, and they are worth reading before you book a family food tour paris parents will actually finish.
| Walk | Takes children from | Ground | Pushchair? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devour, the Marais | 2 | Flat | No, stated outright |
| Original Food Tours, the Marais | 3 | Flat | Yes |
| Original Food Tours, Montmartre | 3 | Uphill | Not stated |
| Secret Food Tours, the Marais | 3 | Flat | Not stated |
| Eating Europe, the Marais | 4, or free under 4 without food | Flat, step-free | Yes |
| Do Eat Better, any quarter | 6 | Varies | Yes |
| The seated wine tastings | 18 | None | n/a |
The real constraint is not the wine
Every operator that pours states a minimum drinking age of eighteen and offers non-alcoholic alternatives as standard. One day trip pours grape juice for under-eighteens by default.
The constraint is distance and time. A three-and-a-half-hour walk with six stops is a long afternoon for a seven-year-old however good the pastry is, and no operator will shorten it for you.
✅ Useful tip. Book a full-meal walk rather than a tasting round. Children do better sitting down at a table with a plate in front of them than standing at a counter being handed a sample, and the full-meal walks put you at a table more often.
Which quarter to pick with children
Le Marais, for three reasons: it is flat, the walking between stops is short, and it has the step-free routes. The quarter guide covers the alternatives, but the case for the Marais with a family is straightforward.
Avoid Montmartre. It is a hill and its own listings say so — ups and downs along the hill, a little bit of a steep way up, short bursts of stairs. With a pushchair it is a bad afternoon.
What children actually eat on these walks
- Reliably popular: croissants, pain au chocolat, macarons, chocolate, crêpes, the croque-monsieur.
- Often a surprise hit: falafel in the Rue des Rosiers, and the cream puffs on the Montmartre walks.
- Harder: aged cheese, foie gras, cured meats, oysters.
The dish list defines all of it, and it is worth ten minutes with a child who is nervous about being handed something they cannot name.
Booking for a group with mixed ages
The cap is the constraint. Most of these walks take nine to twelve people in total, so a family of five is half a departure, and a family of five plus grandparents may not fit at all. Book early for the school holidays, and if your party is larger than seven, ask the operator before you assume one departure will hold you.
The ones that are eighteen and over
Both seated wine tastings. They are the right afternoon for two adults and the wrong one for a family, and the listings are explicit rather than coy about it.
⚠ Worth knowing. If anybody in your party has a food allergy, contact the operator before booking rather than on the day. Three operators state that their walks are not suitable for severe or life-threatening food allergies, and one requires a waiver signed at the start. The FAQs set out which listing says what.
How long a child will actually last
About two hours, in most people’s experience, and these walks run three to three and a half. That gap is the single thing to plan around, and there are three ways to close it.
- Take a shorter format. The two-hour express Marais walk and the morning pastry walk are the shortest food walks on the site.
- Take a walk that sits down. A full-meal walk puts you at a table two or three times; a tasting round keeps you standing.
- Take the earliest departure. A tired child at two in the afternoon is a different proposition from a tired child at seven in the evening.
What to do about the wine stops
Nothing, in practice. The pours on these walks are one or two glasses across an afternoon, taken with food, and the stops are cafés and bistros rather than bars. Children are handed a soft drink at the same moment.
The one thing worth knowing is that the operators treat the drinking age as a hard line and will not bend it for a seventeen-year-old with a parent present. Say who is coming when you book, and the stops will be ready.
What to tell the operator when you book
Ages, and anything anybody cannot eat. Both change what is put in front of your party, and both are easier to arrange a week out than on the pavement at the meeting point.
If you are bringing a pushchair, say so: some listings state stroller access plainly and at least one says outright that it cannot take one. If you are bringing a child under four on one of the Eating Europe walks, they join free without food, and a paid child ticket with food starts at four.
Practical notes worth having
One operator asks for a passport or ID card for children as well as adults. Several offer infant seats on the minivan day trips. Under-fours join two of the Eating Europe walks free, without food — a paid child ticket with food starts at four.
And book the earliest slot you can get. A walk that finishes at six is a better shape for a family day than one that finishes at nine, and planning your visit has the meeting points.
One last thing, and it is the one parents tell each other rather than the one operators write down: bring a bottle of water. The fare covers the eating on almost every walk here and the drinking only sometimes, a couple say outright that bottled water is not in the fare, and a child who has worked through cheese, charcuterie and a croque-monsieur will want it long before the guide reaches the next stop.
Travelling with children?
The Marais walks are flat, short between stops, and the ones whose operators publish a child fare.
Every age band quoted here comes from the operator’s own listing, and every walk is on the Paris Food Tours grid.
Walks that take children, and say from what age
Paris Le Marais District Original Food and Wine Tasting Tour
Youths from three with their own fare, wheelchair and stroller accessible, and flat ground the whole way.
From $153 per person
Check AvailabilityParis Le Marais Food and Wine Tour with Eating Europe
Under-fours join free without food; paid tickets with food start at four. The smallest group on the site, at nine.
From $159 per person
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