Paris food tours in Montmartre climb a genuine hill and feed you a full meal on the way up, from the Moulin Rouge to the Sacré-Cœur terrace. Every walk here is built as a meal rather than a tasting round, and not one of them is step-free.
A full French meal on the way up the hill, from the Moulin Rouge to the Sacre-Coeur by way of the Wall of Love and the Place du Tertre. Three and a half hours, wine and water included, vegetarian options available. The listing warns about the gradient, and it is right to.
From $105 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The one with oysters, and with aligot — sausage and the cheese-and-potato dish from the Aveyron. Eight stops, ten tastings and two drinks in three hours, past the Clos Montmartre vineyard. Two guests minimum; short bursts of stairs.
From $134 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Fifteen tastings, the highest count anywhere here, built as lunch rather than samples and finished sitting down. Three hours around the Rue des Abbesses with a guide who works in food. Look for the light blue umbrella at Anvers. Group of ten.
From $153 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The most-reviewed way up Montmartre. Macarons, cheeses and cured meats with wine, past the Bateau-Lavoir and the Moulin de la Galette, finishing on the Sacre-Coeur terrace. Three to three and a half hours from the Place Blanche, capped at twelve. No bottled water in the fare.
From $141 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Every one of these refunds in full up to 24 hours ahead, so an early booking costs you nothing but a decision.
Check AvailabilityThree to three and a half hours climbing the 18th arrondissement, from the Moulin Rouge or the Place Blanche up through the Rue Lepic and the Rue des Abbesses to the Sacré-Cœur. You eat as you climb, and you finish with the whole city underneath you.
The food is heavier than the Marais and deliberately so. Every walk here is sold as a full meal or as a fifteen-tasting afternoon, and the boeuf bourguignon, the aligot and the oysters are what people come back talking about.
Every one of these finishes at or below the basilica, and the terrace in front of it is the best free view in Paris.
No light tasting rounds here. What you are buying is dinner, taken in pieces across an afternoon.
The Rue Lepic and the Rue des Abbesses have real bakeries and fromageries rather than souvenir shops, two streets away from the most touristed square in the arrondissement.
Sausage with the cheese-and-potato dish from the Aveyron, which appears nowhere else in this catalogue.
The honest comparison, because these two quarters carry most of the walks in Paris and readers choose between them more than anything else.
| Montmartre | Le Marais | |
|---|---|---|
| The climb | 60 m to 130 m, stairs on some routes | Flat |
| What the fare buys | A full meal or fifteen tastings, always | Either, depending which you book |
| Fares from | $105 | $80 |
| Step-free | No route qualifies | Several do |
| The ending | The Sacré-Cœur terrace | The Place des Vosges arcades |
| Best for | Walkers, and a second trip to Paris | A first trip, and anyone with tired legs |
You get: a full meal in pieces, wine at the stops, a guide for three hours, and the climb with somebody who knows which of the Place du Tertre's restaurants to walk past.
You do not get: the dome, which is €8 and separate; the Moulin Rouge show, which no fare here covers; hotel pickup; or bottled water on two of them. The basilica itself is free to everybody.
Fares run from $105 to $158 and the band is tight, because these are all the same kind of afternoon. Book three to five days ahead in season. Take a morning or early-afternoon departure in July and August: the climb at twenty-six degrees is a different proposition.
Wear shoes you can climb in. The listings that mention footwear all mention it for this quarter, and the Rue Lepic is cobbled for most of its length.
If you use a wheelchair or a pushchair. No walk here is described as accessible. The Le Marais food tours include three that are.
If a hill is a problem for anybody in your party. The gradient is real and the listings say so.
If you want a light afternoon. These are meals. A two-hour tasting walk in another quarter is the lighter option.
If you would rather sit down. A seated wine and cheese tasting does not move at all, and the quarter guide points at both.
| Tour | From | Runs | The fare buys | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris Montmartre Guided Food Tour: A Full Meal by Do Eat Better | From $105 | 3 hours 30 minutes | A full meal | Walkers who want the climb, the view and a full meal in the same afternoon | Book |
| Eating Paris: Montmartre Food Tour & French Wine Experience | From $134 | 3 hours | A full meal | Eaters who want oysters and aligot rather than another cheese board | Book |
| Montmartre Hill French Gourmet Food and Wine Tasting Walking Tour | From $141 | 3 hours to 3 hours 30 minutes | Tastings | Wine drinkers who want the most-booked route up the hill | Book |
| Montmartre Food Tour: 15 Tastings, Most Complete Paris Experience | From $153 | 3 hours | A full meal | Anyone who measures a food tour by how many things they got to try | Book |
The fares here are set by the operators and move with the season. Availability is the quickest way to see what a date actually costs.
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