Taste fresh Chilean produce straight from the market with a passionate local guide.
A private 3-hour food tour through Santiago's local markets, tasting fresh fruit and Chilean products straight from the source with a guide who knows every vendor.
This private food tour is designed to make you feel like a real local rather than a typical visitor. Your guide takes you through Santiago's markets to taste fresh fruit and local Chilean products directly from the source, sharing the food, history, politics and culture of the region along the way.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet your guide at a central Santiago location, confirmed after booking.
Taste fresh fruit and Chilean products directly from market vendors.
Learn about the people, history and culture behind Santiago's food scene from your guide.
Your guide comes prepared to ensure a comfortable, hygienic tasting experience throughout.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private 3-hour food tour through Santiago's local markets, tasting fresh fruit and Chilean products straight from the source with a guide who knows every vendor. This private food tour is designed to make you feel like a real local rather than a typical visitor. Your guide takes you through Santiago's markets to taste fresh fruit and local Chilean products directly from the source, sharing the food, history, politics and culture of the region along the way.
This tour is built around tasting Chilean food the way locals actually eat it, straight from market vendors rather than a restaurant menu. Santiago's produce markets sit at the center of that everyday food culture — stalls selling fruit, vegetables and prepared Chilean staples side by side, run by vendors your guide has real, ongoing relationships with, which is what makes a guided visit different from just wandering through on your own.
A few dishes come up again and again in Chilean food culture and are worth knowing before you go. Empanadas are the country's defining snack, most commonly filled with 'pino' — a mix of ground beef, onion, a black olive and a slice of hard-boiled egg, baked inside a pastry shell. The 'completo' is Chile's take on the hot dog, said to trace back to the 1920s when Eduardo Bahamondes opened a Santiago sandwich shop after seeing hot dogs on a trip to the United States; Chileans adapted it with mashed avocado and mayonnaise, toppings that remain central today (Chile has one of the highest per-capita mayonnaise consumption rates in the world). Pastel de choclo, often compared to shepherd's pie, layers a savory ground-beef filling under a sweetened, ground-corn topping, while mote con huesillo — a cold drink of cooked wheat and dried peach in a sweet syrup — is a classic summer refreshment sold from street carts and market stalls alike.
Your guide uses these real dishes and the market stalls themselves as a starting point for a broader conversation about Chilean history, politics and culture — the kind of context that's hard to get from a menu description alone, and the reason this tour is framed around eating like a local rather than just sampling food.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.