Vancouver Foodie Tours

Vancouver Foodie Tours has been running guided food tours since 2010 and says it has welcomed more than 75,000 guests. It is a female-owned business, and Forbes named it among its Top City Tours for 2025. Groups are kept small, with between four and twelve people per guide, so there is time to talk to the guides and to the people making the food.

The best-known tour is the Granville Island Market Tour, which lasts about two hours and includes tastings at twelve artisans inside Granville Island Public Market. The market opened in 1979 and has around 50 vendors selling seafood, produce, cheese, baked goods and international food, so a guide is a useful way to find your way around it. It is also the company's most reviewed tour.

The Gastronomic Gastown Tour is a three-hour tour of seated, progressive tastings in Gastown, with a hands-on mixology session, and suits travellers who want to sit down rather than graze on foot. The Ultimate Asian Food Adventure, also about three hours, explores the Robson Street area of downtown and its Asian food. In the festive season the Festive Favourites Market Tour returns to Granville Island with seasonal tastings. The company also arranges special events, team-building tours and private celebrations.

Tours are booked online through the company's booking system. Children's tickets are half price on selected tours, and booking two different tours in one transaction gives 20 per cent off the second, which makes it easy to combine a market morning with an evening tour. If you have dietary needs, contact the team by phone or email before booking. The company also has a gift shop on Granville Island.

Food tours suit first-time visitors who want an introduction to the city's food, couples, families with older children and anyone who prefers to try many small tastes rather than one large meal.

The Granville Island tour fits naturally into a day on the island, which is reached by the small Aquabus and False Creek Ferries boats from downtown, Yaletown and the West End. After the tour, the island's theatres, artisan boutiques and Granville Island Brewing are close by, and JJ Bean's counter in the market opens early for coffee before a morning tour.