Savor Seattle Food Tours

We did the breakfast food and culture tour with our guide, Kacey, and it was absolutely amazing! We are locals and have always loved the market and after this tour we have a deeper appreciation and connection to the market. The deep sense of community and respect among the people who work there is astonishing. The way they come together to help each other and how long everyone has been there shows it’s a wonderful place to work and live. Food: we LOVED all of the food stops on this tour and every single piece of history we were given! We will absolutely be doing more tours with savor and looking forward to the holiday food tour!

What a fun morning touring Pike Place Market with Kacey! If you do just one thing in Seattle make it a Savor Tour and ask for Kacey! Kacey took us to all the best spots and gave us a fun and informative insider view of the market. Loved hearing the history and had the best tastings! Yummmm!

Not sure what I can say that does our tour justice. Kacey, our guide, was fantastic! We learned so much more about Pike Place Market than we could have on our own. The food we had was out of this world! We went back to most of the stops we made during the rest of our trip to try more of what they offer. If you can, you should absolutely do this tour!

Judson was a terrific tour guide! I could really tell he has a passion and a love for Pike Place Market. This was a very enjoyable tour. Excellent treats, interesting facts and history, a nice easy walk and fun! Highly recommend this tour.

Judson was an absolutely brilliant tour guide! It was clear that he loves what he does and he helped make sure everyone in the group left the tour knowing more about the market, having tasted many delicious things, and having had fun! I loved starting the day with the tour and wish we had time to go back for more - more exploration of the things we didn’t get to try and more of the things we did try. Alas, we were in a rush and will have to plan another trip in the future. Thanks for a wonderful tour!! Highly recommend 10/10

If there is one thing you do in Seattle, make sure you book the Savor Seattle Original Food and Culture tour! Tessa was so engaging, considerate, knowledgeable, and funny! She learned the group’s names fast and guided us through the busy market while making sure we didn’t get lost. She was also considerate of the general public, making sure our group wasn’t taking up too much room. Tessa had great personal connections with the vendors. My personal favorite was the lovely family at Turkish Delight! Although, me and my sister paid multiple vendors a visit after the tour! I learned a lot and it made my time at the Public Market some of my favorite in Seattle. Thank you Tessa!!!!

I can’t begin to express how incredible The Original Tour was! There is so much to see and try and this tour helps you knock out a lot! You get mini samples of the popular places to visit like Pike Place Chowder, Rachel’s Ginger Beer, and The Daily Dougnut. We tried smaller venues too and weren’t disappointed! Tessa was our tour guide and she was friendly, accommodating and full of knowledgeable. A wonderful person to experience Pikes Place with. I highly recommend this tour for any first timers!

The “Insider’s Breakfast and Culture Tour of Pike Place Market” was amazing. Great food, yes; but so much more! Not only the food, but the history of the market and the people who have made Pike Place Market the icon that it is today. Kacey is such a knowledgeable tour guide! Having previously worked at the Market, she brings an inside angle to everything. Great day, great food, great story and a GREAT tour guide!

Kayce's Insider's Breakfast and Culture tour was great! I'd done a similar tour as part of a cooking class awhile ago, and I've been to Pike Place a few times, but I still saw new places and learned new facts! Loved most of the food we tried, but a smoothie or juice drink option would be a nice addition! :) I also wish sharing pronouns was part of the introductions. I realize folks are from all over and might not understand, but you can make it optional! It would have made me feel more comfortable in the group as a non-binary person.

Great tour! My kids and I enjoyed hearing historical facts about Pike Place Market. There are many things we learned that we would have never known otherwise. Rowan did a great job weaving history with tasty treats along the way. The tastings initially seem small but our bellies were quite full by the time the tour ended. Loved hearing just how close the merchants, artisans and producers are and the sustainable community they built. Pike Place Market is huge and can be overwhelming. Savor Seattle Food Tours is a great way to get introduced to the community and helps visitors have a greater appreciation of the place.

If there is one thing you do in Seattle, make sure you book the Savor Seattle Original Food and Culture Tour! Tessa was so engaging, considerate, knowledgeable, and funny! She learned the group's names fast and guided us through the busy market while making sure we didn't get lost. She was also considerate of the general public, making sure our group wasn't taking up too much room. Tessa had great personal connections with the vendors. My personal favorite was the lovely family at Turkish Delight! Although, me and my sister paid multiple vendors a visit after the tour! I learned a lot and it made my time at the Public Market some of my favorite in Seattle. Thank you Tessa!!!!

Just went on their Bites of Bellevue tour and had a great time learning about the history of Bellevue and how it's modernized to be what it is today. Along the way we stopped at SeaStar, Bellden, Bis on Main, Matcha Magic and Mercato Stellina Pizzeria for delicious bites and drinks. Even with it being a rainy day, it was a great tour.

I hadn't been on a Savor Seattle Food Tour in a post-COVID world and can happily report that it is as excellent as ever. I went with my mother and cousin and quickly discovered it was a tour with just the three of us! Ok, so here's the first thing that caught my attention - I have gone on these guided walking food tours in other cities and every other tour cancels when they don't have a minimum. Instead, Matt warmly greeted us and gave us a fantastic tour. Here's the thing - I have lived in Seattle for over two decades. I have very fond memories of Pike Place and so I go every year no matter. I love it. But, the Savor Seattle Food Tour always gives me a new perspective. I'm so much busier now then when I first moved here, so I don't have the time to check everything out but taking a walking food tour ensures my old haunts are visited and new discoveries are made. I could hear the same story a thousand times and love it with each telling. Then there's the food. The walking food tour will give an opportunity to try enough little bites that you won't leave feeling hungry. There's a lot of walking, but not enough to burn off all the delicious bites. Come hungry! Lastly, let's talk about my guide, Matt. Walking with Matt through the market was like walking with the most popular guy in the room. The warmth and familiarity was welcomed and lovely. This particular tour very much felt like "meet the producer" as we were able to learn the back stories of so many stores and restaurants. I left with a deep appreciation for my favorite Seattle feature - Pike Place Market. So, go, take a food tour whether local or visitor because it is so enjoyable!

This was our second Savory tour- we did it again becasue the first one was so fun that we needed a round two, First time with Joanthan, this time with Tessa-Both were so charismatic, friendly and informative! We learned so much about the culture, community and history of Pike Place Market and what a special place it is, not to mention what great bites we were able to expeereince along the way. Highly recommend it!

This is the second time I've done this tour, with 10 years in between, and it was just as fantastic as I remembered. Our guide was Tod and he was energetic, informative and friendly. He took us through the history of Pike Place Market and guided us through some amazing food and drink. He also offered lots of great advice for exploring both the market and Seattle beyond the tour. The New England clam chowder from Pike Place Chowder was probably our favorite, and I forgot to get a picture. I'd recommend this tour to anyone who is visiting and wants to get a sampling of what Pike Place had to offer!

We had an amazing time with Matt, our tour guide. He knew all there was to know about the market & the Seattle area. The food we tasted was great and we left super full. It was fun to see the market waking up and we met some great people there.

Great tour guide! Fantastic information and some good eats. Kacey knew Pike Place and told us many interesting facts about this great Seattle icon!

We four Seattleites loved playing tourist in our own city! Kacey, our fabulous tour guide, brought Pike Place Market to life as we walked through this local treasure, giving history lessons and choice anecdotes while we noshed on the Market's best offerings. The time flew by. I have to say Kacey is among the very best guides we've had among our many worldwide tours. Ask for Kacey by name when booking!

I loved this tour and will be back again and again with visitors and locals. I live here in Seattle and took some visiting family and friends on the food tour after learning about it. We had Rowan and Sky as our guides and I was blown away by the knowledge they had to share about the market. It's really heart warming to see the relationships the guides have with the producers at the market. I discovered 3 new-to-me amazing eateries and learned so much about the history of the market. I enjoyed it so much that I took another round of family and friends on this tour one week later with Judson. It exceeded my expectations the second time around as well. Simply amazing. Highly, highly recommend.

Frankie was an incredible source of knowledge! Great insider info and amazing food. Highly recommend!

Our tour guide Cassie was amazing! Her knowledge for the food and history of Pike Place Market is definitely something I will cherish for my first time in Seattle. I enjoyed everything we ate on this tour and my favorite thing will be something I will continue to purchase over and over and that is the Chukar honey pecans!

This was a great tour for a first timer in Seattle (aka, me). I liked the variety of food we got to try and that all stops were able to accommodate for a vegetarian diet. Our guide, Todd, did an amazing job giving us the story and history behind Pike Place Market and answering any questions we might have. My favorite part was the history lessons shared during the tour, but in terms of food - definitely the ginger beer and Chukhar cherries. All of the food was enjoyable, with some seeming a little more special than others. For example, the tacos kinda just tasted like any other taco. Good, but not super unique or mind blowing. However, the chowder, cherries, donuts, and ginger beer (so the majority of the samples), were all delicious and felt more special and unique. Really loved that I got to even try Turkish delight! It was definitely just okay but still so happy I got to try something new that is less common in other states. I really enjoyed my time and got to try a variety of places within Pike Place Market and would definitely recommend this tour to a new timer in Seattle.

We recently did the Insider's Breakfast and Culture Tour of Pike Place Market with Savor Seattle and can't recommend it highly enough. Our tour guide Matt was incredibly knowledgable about the Market and his love of the place shines through from beginning to end. Doing the morning tour is a must - when we were moving through the market it felt alive but there was plenty of space to move from stall to stall. By the time the tour was over and we were exploring ourselves, it was body-to-body and felt a bit overwhelming. The tour is so well planned with each stop ready with our "samples" when we arrived. ("samples" in quotes because it ended up being a lot of food altogether - we were glad Matt offered to-go bags so we could save things for later once we were full). We learned a lot, ate lots of delicious food, and felt we got to know this special place a little better. Highly, highly recommend!

Thanks so much for the amazing experience, Angela and team! We learned a lot about oysters and clams and what's the best way to find them. The team was extra helpful in even helping us shuck some of haul too!

First off, we got lost finding the start of the tour, but someone called us and guided us from where we were to the start, and we got there on time. She definitely knew her way around the market area! The tour itself was all we could hope for and more. Tracey knew all the ins and outs, history about the place and where we could eat some delicious food, the donuts were to die for, wonderful clam chowder, Chuka Cherries that had to come home with us, and I wish we were local so some of the Hellenika creamery frozen cultured gelato could come home as well. Of note is that allergies were taken into account. All in all a great experience.

Everyone in our group simply adored Matt's tour. His talk and attitude were so entertaining and engaging that we actually had people trying things they didn't like or thought they wouldn't like. It was clear that Matt loves Pike Place Market and we enjoyed learning about his passion.

Tessa, you were so bubbly and passionate about your knowledge and the area and that made the tour even more enjoyable. Thank you for filling a couple hours of my time as I passed thru Seattle. I couldn't think of a better way than with your market and food tour. Great food selections - so many tasty samples. All were my favorites.

Tessa was a wonderful tour guide, she was very friendly and made us all feel welcome! We learned so much about Pike Place Market and tried some awesome bites. We were full after! Definitely recommend for visitors or locals looking for a fun outing.

Our family took this tour on our second day in Seattle, and I have to say that it was the highlight of our 5-day stay. Our guide Kacey was interesting and had a unique perspective as a previous worker in the Market. I especially appreciated learning many interesting things about the history and culture of the market. The food was varied and delicious; we have since returned to 3 of the vendors for more! I'd recommend this tour even for locals!

wonderful tour. Judson was our tour guide. we tasted so many great things, starting with hot donuts! I went back to the market the next day and knew exactly what I wanted to buy and where to buy it,

Loved the Bites of Bellevue tour! It was so fun to get to see behind the scenes & explore! The food was fab!

Another wonderful local food tour by Savor Cities! I thought Bellevue was mostly Seattle's more corporate counterpart - I was wrong! I loved learning the stories behind the places we visited. The food was, of course, incredibly delicious and plentiful. I highly recommend this tour for visitors, staycationers, corporate team-building events, and folks who just want to learn more about your neighbors.

We took the Pike Place Market tour in Seattle, and it was simply incredible. Couldn't recommend more!

We had a great time at the Pike Market Place sampling the food and learning the history of the area. Our tour guide was kacey and she was awesome!!! This is a must do for all.

Fantastic insider experience of the market. Judson brought the history and producers to life and the tastings were delicious!

Absolutely loved this eating tour. I love to try new foods and what better way to tour the pike place market than by doing a savor food tour! Our tour guide was Judson and he was great and funny and extremely knowledgeable. He was training Tessa from Australia and she was amazing as well! All the food was amazing and we felt like we got the perfect food exposure to the market. Great for all ages!

Annie and Heather were fantastic to work with! They made our corporate sightseeing event truly special, offering insightful historical context about Pike Place and treating our employees to delightful tastings along the way. If you're looking for a tour that combines history and flavor, this one is a must-do!! Thank you ladies and our tour guides.

This was mine and my boyfriend's first food tour and wow, we wish we would've done these sooner! We were led by our incredible guide, Judson, who was well versed in all things Seattle. He knew all the good spots and had our food and fun facts prepped and ready to go! We really hope to do more tours with Savor Seattle during our time here. Would highly recommend!

Fantastic 3-day kayaking/camping trip with uber-guide Luke! This is truly a special once-in-a-lifetime experience to kayak from San Juan Island to a boat-in only island, camp for 2 nights and have delicious gourmet food. And plenty of wine! Kayaking, hiking, story-telling, views, learning about the geology and biology of the area from Luke. Amazing how guides Luke and Audrey prepared these incredible meals! Happy Hour with the other tour participants who quickly become your new best friends for the wkend. Campfire with incredible starry nights and someone breaks out a nice bottle of scotch - amazing what you can pack into these kayaks :) TYSM to Savor Seattle for the gourmet kayaking trip (this was our second time and I got my sister and her husband to fly out fr the E Coast to join us, they loved it!)

Just when you think you know alot about our beautiful Pike Place Market, you spend time with Skyler our amazing tour guide and have your mind blown. We could feel how passionate Skyer was about it's mission and the amazing community of people that make it happen. We felt like true 'insiders' talking to the vendors and tasing incredible food we have never tried before. The mutual admiration the vendors and Skyler shared warmed our hearts. The Savor Food tour with Skyler completely exceeded our expectations . Thank you for making my husband's birthday so special! Kristin

This was great. It was my fiancé first time to Seattle and our anniversary. SKY was funny and super knowledgeable. He's the prime example of the good hearted people of Seattle, market especially. We truly enjoyed this, ate really well and learned a bunch. It was perfect amount of time and distance. I don't do anything twice really, but we will do this again when we come. Seattle is our new favorite spot

It was a lot of fun and informative. Very highly recommended. Our tour guide, Kelsey, was very knowledgeable and really made the experience.

This tour was so worth the time and money. Great food aside, the stories and history behind the market were captivating. Our tour guide, Tessa, brought her energy and enthusiasm to make our tour fun and interesting from start to finish.

We greatly enjoyed the tour, historical information and food samplings - great variety, enjoyed them all! Matt and Casey (sp?) were fantastic guides! So glad we took this tour and didn't just try to experience Pike Place Market on our own for the first time! Highly recommend this tour!

Went on another food tour almost 10 years later since my first food tour with them. We had Scott as our tour guide, and he was awesome. It was a really intimate food tour filled with tons of jokes and good bites. Would highly recommend the tour to others.

We knew we had to go to Pikes Market and the only way to go was a tour and we chose Savor Seattle. Our tour guide was extremely knowledgeable about the food but even more so the history of the market. He made the tour so enjoyable

This review is about the PIKE PLACE FOOD TOUR. Savor Seattle has a lot of different types of tours including Pike Place, booze n bites, gourmet, and chocolate indulgence. The Pike Place one is their "signature" tour. I believe they also have some culinary getaways available as well. I was on the fence about going but I decided to trust Yelp reviews and made the purchase for about $50 per ticket (including taxes and fees). I did think this was pricey but the food tour had so many great PROS. A few pros, in case you're on the fence like me: 1. You get to skip all of the lines!! All the mega popular places are on the tour and the wait for these places can get to be hours long. With the tour, you can try a bit of everything within 2-3 hours rather than wait in line for over 6 hours. 2. The tour is efficient, you won't be wandering the entire market multiple times because the tour stops are structured in a way that you see the whole market in one pass through. 3. Super informative! The guides know a lot of history and will point out iconic parts of the market that are often overlooked. The only downside of this tour was that I booked it for the 4th of July and two stops on the tour were closed on that day (so we weren't able to try everything in the typical tour..even though we paid the same amount as a typical tour). However, our tour guide (Stephanie 2) was really transparent about this at the beginning of the tour and she made the best of the situation. Speaking of guide, I wish Savor Seattle would update their website. I couldn't remember our guide's name so I went to the website to see a list of their guides, but I couldn't find Stephanie 2 on there.. Anyway, here is a list of all the food places (and samples) a typical tour provides (I also have pictures of mostly everything attached): - Daily Dozen: mini cinnamon sugar donuts - Fish throwing stand: smoked salmon (closed on July 4) - Pike Place Chowder: New England Clam Chowder, my favorite sample! - Chukar Cherries: five assorted chocolate and dried cherries - Beecher's: cheese curds, cheese and cracker, amazing cheesy macaroni - Piroshky Piroshky: a fourth of a sweet one and a fourth of a salty one - Ellenos Real Greek Yogurt (closed on July 4) - small crab cakes, I forget the store name At the end of the tour (don't forget to tip your guide!) you receive a "vip" card that gives you discounts at a long list of shops in Seattle. The vip card is set to expire at a certain date. You also get free chocolate at a gift store in Pike Place - the chocolate is good but it's merely just wrapped candies available in some jars at the back of the store, nothing too fancy.

I'm not one to typically do these types of tours... but it was recommended by a trusted friend who travels a lot and likes food like me... so I figured I should give it a try. I was hesitant also because there is no "kids price" so I was paying the same amount for my kids, who are so picky. I think there might be some confusion on the number of tastings. I think on their site, it says something like "12-14 tastings" or something like that. But when you look at the list of places they go to, it might only show about 8. In hindsight, I believe they could the tastings individually - so if you had two different items at one shop, that is 2 tastings. We really enjoyed a taste at many of Pike's Place's famous shops. Many had long lines, none of which we had to wait in. It was also good to get a sampling as there is soooo much to offer and we wouldn't even know where to begin. Our guide (I'm so sorry I forgot her name) was great! Friendly, enthusiastic and we learned at the end it was only her second tour on her own! I wouldn't have even known! She did a nice job of telling us some of the history of the market and also making sure we were on the side or on the corner so we were not in people's way or blocking areas... hard to do for a group of about 12 people! They give you a card at the end that entitles you to discounts at multiple partners to Savour Seattle. If you're coming here on a trip, I'd recommend taking the tour on the front end of your trip so you can use your discount pass throughout your stay.

This was a great way to get around pike place market. We heard a lot of very interesting stories about the market, got to see old photos, watched the fish be thrown but best of all was the food! Our guides were great! Very animated and have loads of passion for Seattle. We walked from stand to stand and got to taste the places that were very popular. Almost all of them had long lines. The highlight of the tour is a tie between the perosky and pike place chowder. I wasn't a clam chowder fan but as my guide referred to me, I am a convert. Luckily our tour was on a day that was sunny and crisp. The whole market was busy and I feel like I got the full experience of the whole market. I had a great time and I would highly recommend taking this tour.

Absolutely worth every penny! We only had a few days in Seattle before our cruise to Alaska and the idea to tour the Pile Place Market came up. We found Savor Seattle and it was a terrific find. If I remember it was around $50 a ticket. The market is a huge place so we splurged to get a tour of it. We were lucky enough to have Kat as our tour guide. She is amazing! Not only is she funny and personable, but remembered our names, and also gave us so much history and insights of the market as we did the tour. I remember the puns and jokes along the way. She kept us moving in an upbeat way and took us to some great food booths. She also remembered our specific food needs for those of us who don't eat meat and came up with alternatives. Very cool on her part. We could tell she loves the market, knew many of the vendors personally, and really cared about the pace and loves her job. I highly recommend this tour, and if you're lucky to get Kat you'll have a blast. Also, you won't go hungry. If you get a tour time late morning or early afternoon it's like having a two hour lunch break!

As a local, this tour allowed me to gain a new appreciation for Pike Place. I took the Insider's tour and was in awe the entire time! The food was incredible and our tour guide Heather was so passionate, it really was contagious. Being able to speak with the vendors directly was such a unique experience, there's so much heart put into the market that makes it so much more than a popular tourist/local spot. Through fantastic bites, we were able to learn the rich history and processes of the market. It was so amazing to see this hometown staple under such a unique light. This tour is fantastic for locals and visitors alike!

Great fun, great food, great guide. Matt really made this experience special! Highly recommend!

Food tours are one of my favorite ways to experience a new city! Since I only had 2 days in Seattle, I wanted to make the most of my time so booked the Gourmet Seattle tour! Our small group of 8 met up with our tour guide, Heather, at Orfeo to start our adventures. Heather is extremely bubbly, friendly, and knowledgeable not only about the various restaurants we went to, but also their chefs, the dishes, and general Seattle knowledge and whatnot! She really kept everyone engaged throughout the whole day! Our first dish at Orfeo was sausage and peppers atop a crispy polenta triangle paired with a bubbly wine. I had never had polenta that crispy before and it was delicious, not to mention I'm a huge sausage/peppers fan! Heather's knowledge of this specific chef that started this restaurant empire was very interesting! Next stop was Serious Pie where we were brought into the back pizza making kitchen! Awesome to know they have group pizza making classes there, I'm sure that would b a fun experience! We had both the margherita pie and the mushroom pie, both were amazing. The mushroom pie actually tied one other dish (see after this one) for my favorite of the day! After pizza, we strolled over to Steelhead Diner for the delectable razor clam chowder topped with truffle oil and paired with a white wine. The chowder was my other favorite dish of the day, it had such a deep meaty flavor to it and just hugged my insides lol. After getting all warm and fuzzy, we stopped into Heartwood Provisions where we enjoyed the wagyu beef jerky paired with a beer cocktail. The jerky had an excellent kick to it which was easily cooled by the cocktail. Heather had explained to us that we'd be getting a VIP card at the end of the tour to get discounts at all of their partner locations (big list!) but HP didn't participate in that deal... instead they gave us a $25 coupon! It's a good thing I checked out their menu because I ended up coming back here for dinner to get their most expensive dish - when else would I get the opportunity to enjoy a wagyu steak dinner for almost half off?? Right down the street from HP was Von's which was super interesting both for their small batch (and cheaper) spirits but also their sourdough pasta! Seeing the spinning spirits barrels when we walked in was neat. This pairing included the pasta with a lighter style beer. The pasta had such an interesting texture to it, this was my second favorite dish after the combo pizza/chowder. And Heather made sure to tell us several times that they offer $5 martinis all the time, which I came to enjoy later that evening after my dinner at Heartwood Provisions. Last but certainly not least was Fran's Chocolates where we learned some more history and enjoyed 3 different chocolates - the best saved for last of course! It was Obama's favorite chocolate and I can definitely see why! It had caramel inside and it was topped with some big hunks of sea salt which gave it that added umph and also a nice finishing texture! This was a fantastic tour and I definitely recommend it for anyone wanting to try out some great Seattle classics. Heather was such a lovely hostess, had a blast with her and the others in my tour group!

Highly recommend for first time Pike Place visitors! Our tour guide, Heather met up with our group and gave us a history background of this hassle bustle place. We walked into about 10 different shops/restaurants to chat with the people that works there and get to sampled their goods. Some of my favorites were the donuts and the love shack burger! At the end, we also received a discount card that can apply to a list of places. Totally worth it!

I just had to write a message about our tour today. We had the best time. We did not budget our arrival time well and Heather was so gracious to meet us and help us join the tour. Matt was AMAZING, he was clever, responsive, engaging, personable, and knowledgeable. His love and respect for the Market, it's culture, and community was apparent. And the food was incredible, truly a testament to the dedication of the collective work ethic and desire to share the fruits of their labors. I could go on for days about all there is to see at the market, and I know I was only able to experience a tiny slice of it this trip! Thank you for an excellent tour!

Friends recommended this tour and they were right!! That place is huge and we would never have appreciated it the way we got to through this tour. Sky is a truly gifted tour guide. Told us so many interesting things and really made the market come to life for us. Also - he speaks loudly!! It's so nice to be able to hear a tour guide! Thank you for such a wonderful experience!!

We enjoyed our tour with Amber. She was a fantastic guide and the tour included a nice variety of stops and samples.