Seattle: Pike Place Market Chef-Guided Food Tour

What you’ll taste

Nine stops from a roster of sixteen Market partners. Routes shift by day, time, and guide, so no two tours are identical — that’s deliberate, and it’s why our guides can take you somewhere they’re actually excited about that morning.Past routes have included Pike Place Chowder, Market Spice (the oldest spice shop in Seattle), Beecher’s, Chukar

Cherries, indi chocolate, Hellenika Cultured Creamery, and Maíz. You’ll get a mix of the places you came to Seattle for and several you’d have walked straight past.

Where chefs actually shop

Your guide wears a chef coat, and it isn’t costume. You’ll learn to pick produce and judge fish the way people who cook for a living do it, skip the lines that eat an hour of most visitors’ mornings, and hear the real stories of owner-operated businesses in a market running since 1907.

Good to know

Tour is two hours long, meeting at 1600 First Ave outside Simply Seattle. Wear comfortable shoes — stairs, cobblestones, and hills. This is a moving tour, not a leisurely restaurant crawl. You’ll leave with a 10% discount card for our Market partners.

Tell us about dietary needs when you book and we’ll do what we can. Vegetarians are straightforward with 24 hours’ notice, and our guides regularly work around allergies and preferences at most stops. Gluten-free and dairy-free are harder, not every tasting can be swapped, so you may sit out a stop or two. If that works for you, come along. If you’d rather not miss anything, get in touch and we’ll suggest a better fit.