Montmartre Food Tour: Cheese, Wine And Hilltop Bakeries

Montmartre carries more guided food tours than any other single hill in Paris. The roster on this site lists four of them in the 18th arrondissement alone: a three-hour cheese, wine and pastry walk, a gourmet hill tasting, an itinerant full meal by Do Eat Better, and a seated cheese and wine tasting hosted by a local cheesemonger on Rue Marcadet. Same neighbourhood, four different formats, and a price spread from $77 to $137 per person. For a similar spread of formats on the Left Bank, see the guide to Saint-Germain and Latin Quarter food walks.

This guide compares all four so you can match the walk to your appetite, your budget and your schedule. The comparisons pull directly from each listing, and every figure printed here comes from the tour data itself.

Why Is Montmartre The Centre Of Paris Food Walking Tours?

Montmartre concentrates bakeries, cheesemongers, wine shops and charcuteries into walkable cobbled streets that climb from Place Blanche to Sacré-Cœur, which is exactly the terrain a guided tasting walk needs. Four separate operators run food experiences on this hill, from a 4.8-rated 10-tasting route to a seated cheesemonger tasting with 8 cheeses and 5 wines. No other Paris neighbourhood on the roster matches that density.

The hill's food identity is older than the tours. The vineyard at the foot of Sacré-Cœur still produces wine, and the annual Fete des Vendanges de Montmartre runs Wed 7 to Sun 11 Oct with a Parcours du Gout tasting course, as the city's event programme prints on paris.fr. Bakeries cluster along the lower slopes, and the fresh neighbourhood reporting notes a croissant-and-breakfast spot open Mon-Fri from 9:30 on Rue Lamarck, a short climb from the main tour routes.

One honest warning from the same local food guides: the restaurants immediately around Sacré-Cœur itself are repeatedly flagged as overpriced tourist territory. A guided walk solves this neatly, because the operator has already picked the stops.

For a wider view of the options across the whole city, start with the best food tours in Paris overview before drilling into this neighbourhood.

Which Montmartre Food Tour Should You Choose?

Choose the full-meal walk if you want dinner replaced, from $102 for three and a half hours. Choose the cheese, wine and pastry walk if you want the broadest tasting spread across the hill, from $135. Choose the hill gourmet tasting for cured meats and macarons with wine, from $137, or the seated cheesemonger tasting for 8 cheeses and 5 wines in one room, from $77. All four cap groups at 12 or fewer.

The four formats genuinely differ. The Paris: Montmartre Cheese, Wine & Pastry Guided Walking Tour by Original Food Tours is the classic tasting walk: pastries, local savoury specialties and wine across three hours, rated 4.9 from 2,401 reviews. The Montmartre Hill French Gourmet Food and Wine Tasting Walking Tour, same operator, leans into macarons, cheeses and cured meats with wine tasting, 4.8 from 2,746 reviews. The full-meal walk by Do Eat Better is an itinerant dinner: the listing states it is a full meal with at least one glass of wine included, 4.9 from 1,713 reviews. And the EATCHEESEWITHMAX tasting sits you down with 8 French cheeses, 5 wines and unlimited baguette, 5 from 793 reviews.

If your real question is whether a guided walk beats exploring alone, the comparison piece on is a food tour in Paris worth it works through the arithmetic.

How Much Does A Montmartre Food Tour Cost?

The Montmartre options span $77 to $137 per person before date and group-size variation. The seated cheesemonger tasting is the cheapest at from $77; the hill gourmet tasting is the dearest at from $137. Every price here is a "from" figure printed on the listing, since dates and group sizes move the final number. The full-meal walk at from $102 also replaces a dinner you would otherwise buy separately.

Price alone is a poor comparator here, because the formats deliver different things. The cheesemonger tasting is two seated hours with alcohol included and no walking between stops. The full-meal walk costs $25 less than the pastry walk but includes what the listing calls a complete itinerant meal with at least one glass of wine, so your evening restaurant budget goes to zero. The two Original Food Tours walks are tastings, not meals: you leave fed but you have not had dinner.

Cancellation matters too. The cheesemonger tasting, both Original Food Tours walks and the Do Eat Better meal all print free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start. That is worth checking against your own plans before booking, not assuming.

For a fuller breakdown of where tour money goes across the city, the food tour cost guide compares every category on the roster.

What Is The Cheese, Wine And Pastry Walk Actually Like?

The Paris: Montmartre Cheese, Wine & Pastry Guided Walking Tour is a three-hour small-group walk capped at 12 people, meeting at Place Blanche, from $135 per person. The listing includes a live guide, the walking tour itself, a selection of French pastries and local savoury specialties. It holds a 4.9 rating from 2,401 reviews, one of the larger review pools on the whole roster.

This is the broadest of the hill walks: pastry in the morning sense of the word, savoury stops, and wine poured along the way. It suits a visitor who wants the neighbourhood explained as much as fed, since three hours on foot between Place Blanche and the upper slopes passes a lot of history between bites.

Reviews on the listing point at the guides rather than the food, which is typical of the well-run walks. The operator's sibling tour, the hill gourmet tasting, draws comments like "Garanche our tour guide was very knowledgeable and interesting. She gave us not only the good and wine experience but very much French history !!" and "Mixing the history with the food and drinks made it so much better. Highly recommended!" Both are five-star guest reviews from that listing.

Details and live dates for the walk are on the Montmartre cheese, wine and pastry tour page, with Check availability for your dates. If cheese and wine rather than walking is the priority, the wider wine and cheese tours in Paris guide covers the seated options.

Is The Full-Meal Walk Enough For Dinner?

Yes: the Paris Montmartre Guided Food Tour: A Full Meal by Do Eat Better is built as a complete itinerant meal, not a tasting crawl. The listing states meals are included and that at least one glass of wine comes with them, plus water and an English-speaking local guide. It runs three and a half hours with a maximum of 12 people, from $102 per person, rated 4.9 from 1,713 reviews.

The distinction matters more than the $33 price gap with the pastry walk. A tasting walk leaves you pleasantly full; a full-meal walk is dinner, moved between venues. You eat standing and seated, you move between stops on Boulevard de Cichy's surrounding streets, and you finish having eaten an actual meal with wine.

Guest reviews on the listing confirm the dinner-scale ambition: "The food was yummy and I loved the mixed in city explprations too! Kathryn was fun, friendly, and informative guide." Another reads "Ariyna was a wonderful guide who provided lots it history about the area, kept us moving and engaged in great conversation over wonderful food." Both are verbatim five-star reviews from that listing.

Dietary note, straight from the listing: vegetarian options are available, but life-threatening food allergies are unfortunately unable to participate, and the operator's page asks you to confirm specifics before booking. Anything not printed there should be checked with the operator directly.

What Happens At The Cheesemonger Tasting?

The Cheese & Wine Tasting in Montmartre with Local Cheesemonger is a two-hour seated tasting on Rue Marcadet hosted by Max or a trained member of his team: 8 French cheeses from different regions and styles, 5 French wines including one sparkling, and as much fresh baguette as you want. It is from $77 per person and rated 5 from 793 reviews.

This is the outlier format on the hill. No walking, no route, no history tour: a cheesemonger's guided tasting in one room. It fits a rainy evening, a tired second-week-of-the-trip afternoon, or a traveller who has already walked the hill on another day and now wants to sit down with the cheese.

It also works as a complement rather than a substitute. Several itineraries on this site pair a walking tour one evening with a seated tasting the next, and Montmartre is one of the few neighbourhoods where both halves exist within ten minutes of each other. The hill gourmet walk starts at Place Blanche; the cheesemonger tasting sits on Rue Marcadet, a short metro or bus hop north.

For context on how a seated tasting differs in pacing and etiquette from a walk, the beginners' wine tasting in Paris guide covers what to expect from a first guided tasting.

When Is The Best Time To Take A Montmartre Food Tour?

The Fete des Vendanges de Montmartre runs Wed 7 to Sun 11 Oct, when the Parcours du Gout tasting course sits at the foot of Sacré-Cœur, and it is the one dated event that genuinely changes a food visit to the hill. Outside that week, any day works: tours run year-round, and the walking formats are dry-weather experiences while the cheesemonger tasting is indoor and weatherproof.

Timing within the day matters more than timing within the year. The walking tours run to fixed start times set by each operator; check the live listing for slots. If you want the hill's bakeries at their best, mornings win: the neighbourhood reporting notes a bakery near Rue Lamarck opening 9:30 on weekdays, and croissant stock at good Montmartre bakeries thins by early afternoon.

Seasonally, autumn brings the grape harvest festival and the squash-and-fig produce of October markets; winter makes the three-hour outdoor walks brisk and the seated tasting more attractive. Paris's 83 food markets, 74 open-air and 9 covered, all close on Mondays, as the city's own market pages state, so a Monday arrival should not be built around market browsing.

Can Kids And Vegetarians Join A Montmartre Food Tour?

Vegetarians are explicitly welcomed on the 10-tasting Secret Food Tours route and can be accommodated on the full-meal walk, per each listing's own notes; vegan and gluten- or dairy-allergy guests cannot be accommodated on the 10-tasting route. Children must be accompanied by an adult on the hill gourmet walk. For anything a listing does not print, confirm with the operator before booking. Parents debating whether younger children will keep up can check our guide to Montmartre food tours with kids, which covers age minimums, pacing, and what a child's portion actually includes.

This site's policy is strict on dietary claims for good reason: they change, and a wrong assumption ruins a tour. The hill gourmet listing prints that children must be accompanied by an adult. The full-meal listing prints that vegetarian options are available but life-threatening food allergies cannot participate. The cheesemonger tasting and the pastry walk print no dietary notes at all, which means: ask first, in writing, before you pay. If you're deciding whether to bring the whole family, our guide to what Montmartre food tours actually say about kids covers age limits, walking time, and what a child's ticket includes.

For families weighing the whole question, the site's piece on is a Montmartre food tour good for kids goes deeper on pacing, group size and what an accompanying adult should expect on the climb.

Where Do The Montmartre Tours Meet, And What Should You Know On The Day?

Three of the four tours meet at or near Place Blanche at the foot of the hill; the full-meal walk meets on Boulevard de Clichy, one block over; the cheesemonger tasting meets on Rue Marcadet further north. None includes hotel pickup, every tour on this roster is a fixed meeting point, and the walking routes involve genuine climbs, so wear real shoes.

Two practical points the listings print and travellers overlook. First, the hill gourmet listing advises a moderate physical fitness level: this is a real hill, and three hours of it is a workout in bad shoes. Second, arriving hungry is not a slogan on the full-meal walk, it is the design; the listing's own reviewer advice on the Saint-Germain sibling route, "Bring an appetite!", applies double when the tour is the meal. If the flatter sibling route across the river sounds more your speed, the guide to Saint-Germain and Left Bank tasting walks applies the same bring-an-appetite advice with far less climbing.

Alcohol is included on all four tours, and France's drinking age is 18; anyone under that travelling with you should expect a soft-drink substitution, arranged with the operator in advance.

How Does A Montmartre Walk Compare With Other Food Tours In Paris?

Montmartre's four tours sit mid-range on the city roster: cheaper than the $217 history-and-market walk or the $246 full-day cooking class, comparable to the $107 Le Marais 10-tasting walk, and pricier than the $38 Bastille market tasting. Its distinguishing feature is density, four formats on one hill, which lets you combine a walk and a seated tasting in a single trip.

If the climb is the attraction, nothing else on the roster replicates it. If you would rather stay flat, Le Marais offers a 10-tasting walk from $107 rated 4.8 from 809 reviews, and Saint-Germain a very small group option capped at 6 from $113. The trade is straightforward: Montmartre for the view and the hilltop bakeries, Marais for the old Jewish quarter and falafel row, Saint-Germain for the smallest groups. The site's Paris Food Tours hub page lays out all 28 products side by side.

One more dated fact worth planning around: the city crowned its 2026 best baguette winner, Fournil Didot at 103 rue Didot in the 14th, as announced on paris.fr, and the baguette itself carries UNESCO inscription since 2022. Neither is on the Montmartre routes, but both explain why every walk on the hill makes its first or second stop at a bakery.

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