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The 10 Tastings of Cusco with Locals — Private Food Tour

Ten real local tastings, tailored to your own group.

Private tour — just your group 3 hours Up to 20 guests Free itinerary changes Local expert guide
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Overview

A private food tour through Cusco sampling 10 local specialties, with dietary preferences and a local host to help bridge the language barrier.

Sample local specialties you might otherwise miss on this private food tour of Cusco. Taking a private tour means the ten tastings can be tailored to your dietary requirements and preferences, including vegetarian options, while exploring with a local host helps you overcome the language barrier. Your host can also offer personalized recommendations for the rest of your time in Peru.

Highlights

  • Local market stalls Cheese, bread, and produce stops at real, working Cusco market vendors.
  • Ten tastings A real, varied sampling of Cusco's everyday food culture.
  • Dietary flexibility Tastings can be tailored to vegetarian and other dietary needs.

What Stops Does This Tour Make?

A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.

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Pickup

Meet your host at a central Cusco location for the start of the tasting walk.

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Local market stalls

Cheese, bread, and produce stops at real, working Cusco market vendors.

2

Ten tastings

A real, varied sampling of Cusco's everyday food culture.

3

Dietary flexibility

Tastings can be tailored to vegetarian and other dietary needs.

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Drop-off

Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.

What's Included

A private vehicle and driver, just for your group
A professional, knowledgeable local guide
Door-to-door pickup and drop-off
A fully customizable itinerary built around you
All tolls, parking, and fuel

What's Not Included

Attraction admission tickets, unless noted as included
Meals and snacks
Gratuities for your guide or driver
Personal expenses

Why Book a Private Tour With Voyzo?

Your group only — never combined with strangers
Crowded 50+ seat group buses
Fully custom stops, built around you
A fixed script with no flexibility
Door-to-door pickup, wherever you're staying
Meeting at a fixed public meeting point
Direct, transparent pricing — no marketplace markup
Third-party booking fees

Important Information

Know Before You Book

  • Group size can range from 1 to 20 guests — we match the vehicle to your party.
  • Pricing depends on group size, vehicle, and tour length, and is confirmed after your quote request.
  • Tour duration is flexible — the times shown are a typical starting point.

Know Before You Go

  • We'll confirm your exact pickup time and vehicle details after booking.
  • Bring a camera, comfortable shoes, and weather-appropriate layers.
  • Your pickup address is required to finalize the itinerary.

Special Requests

  • Mobility needs, dietary notes, or accessibility requirements? Let us know when requesting your quote and we'll arrange accordingly.
  • Traveling with young children or larger groups — just tell us, and we'll recommend the right vehicle.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — since it's a private tour, the tastings can be tailored to vegetarian and other dietary preferences.
Around Cusco's historic center and local markets, on foot with your host.
It's centered on real, working market stalls and local vendors rather than restaurant courses — the kind of everyday food spots a visitor is unlikely to find or feel confident approaching without a local host.
Once your quote is accepted, we'll confirm your exact pickup time, vehicle, and driver details by email ahead of your tour date.
Yes — reach out to our team any time before your tour and we'll do our best to accommodate itinerary or schedule changes.

About This Tour

A private food tour through Cusco sampling 10 local specialties, with dietary preferences and a local host to help bridge the language barrier. Sample local specialties you might otherwise miss on this private food tour of Cusco. Taking a private tour means the ten tastings can be tailored to your dietary requirements and preferences, including vegetarian options, while exploring with a local host helps you overcome the language barrier. Your host can also offer personalized recommendations for the rest of your time in Peru.

Cusco's food culture runs on markets and small, family-run stalls more than restaurants, and this tour is built around that reality — moving through ten real tastings at the kind of everyday vendors a visitor would be unlikely to find or feel comfortable approaching alone. Andean cuisine draws on ingredients cultivated in this region for thousands of years, from dozens of native potato varieties to Andean corn and quinoa, alongside cheeses and breads that reflect both Indigenous and Spanish colonial influences layered together over centuries, much like the city's architecture itself.

Because this is a private tour, the ten stops can be adjusted to fit real dietary needs rather than following one fixed script for every guest — a genuine advantage over a scheduled group tasting walk, where substitutions usually aren't possible. Having a local host along also does real, practical work beyond language: market vendors are often more generous with an introduction from someone they already know, and a host can steer you toward stalls that are genuinely busy with local customers rather than ones set up mainly for visitors.

Food is also one of the more direct ways to understand a place at altitude — Cusco sits above 3,400 meters (roughly 11,000 feet), and the local diet leans on dense, calorie-rich staples that have sustained Andean communities at that elevation for generations. A three-hour walk through working market stalls, with time to actually talk to the people selling the food rather than just eat it, tends to surface more of that context than a single sit-down meal would.

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