Skye Class Tours: Best Edinburgh Food Tours

Food tours are very near and dear to our hearts. Food is edible history, it’s wellness, and it’s often the highlight of any vacation. Furthermore, you have to eat three times a day, so knowing what and where to eat is important.

Our founder, Skye, delivered hundreds of food tours in Edinburgh before starting Skye Class Tours. With a background in cooking and teaching, leading food tours is in his blood.

Our approach to food tours is unique. We understand that not everyone’s palate is the same. On the other hand, the same restaurants aren’t always available. As such, we tailor every tour to the clients and the day. This also gives our guides the creative license to give the best possible tour every time.

Edinburgh Traditional Food Tour

Scottish Cuisine has some incredible dishes. While haggis with neeps and tatties is the national dish of Scotland, Cullen skink is a close second. Other popular savory dishes invented in Scotland include tikka masala, porridge, Lorne sausage, finnan haddie, and kedgeree, although that last is debatable. Of course, there’s also the Scottish breakfast, but that’s too big for a food tour.

Famous sweet dishes include shortbread, tablet, scones, cranachan, and sticky toffee pudding. For better or worse, Scotland is also known as having invented the deep-fried Mars bar, although the chippie (fish and chips shop) which first fried up the concoction is under debate). Regardless of which town it’s from, it’s an item many want to try in Scotland, and some live to regret it.

On the Skye Class Edinburgh Traditional Food Tour, you will sample a tailored mix of traditional Scottish dishes. The tour lasts around 4 hours and consists of three larger portions and several smaller dishes. Suffice it to say, you won’t be hungry after this tour.

The Edinburgh Traditional Food Tour explores the history and facts about each dish while taking you on a history tour around Edinburgh.

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Edinburgh Street Food Tour

While Scotland has a traditional cuisine, it’s not always the dishes commonly eaten across the country. Pizza, burgers, loaded chips (dirty fries for Americans), and just about anything deep-fried are staples in Scotland. Of course, just like any country, comfort food has a range of quality.

Scotland doesn’t have great weather for outdoor street food trucks and stations. Yet many indoor street food collections can be found in Edinburgh, where many of the stations are run by award-winning chefs and entrepreneurs.

The street food scene in Edinburgh is always changing. Many pop-up food trucks come in the summer and for different festivals. The Edinburgh Christmas Market also has several food trucks and vendors, but not as many as other times of the year.

The Edinburgh Street Food Tour explores several high-quality street food and comfort food items. We use vendors who locally source all their ingredients from Scotland, so you know you’re getting a local experience, just not dishes that are strictly Scottish.

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Edinburgh Fine Dining Tour

With over 30 Michelin restaurants and many more that we believe deserve to be in the guide, Edinburgh is certainly a city with an excellent culinary scene. Many avant-garde chefs put a great twist on traditional dishes. And some hidden gems might not ever make it onto the radar of food critics, yet they provide some of the tastiest creations in the city.

The Edinburgh Fine Dining Tour focuses on finding unique, high-quality dishes to elevate guests’ opinions of Scottish food. For instance, you might have tried haggis, neeps and tatties, but have you ever tried a haggis parcel served with pickled turnips, potato puree, and bacon jam?

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Edinburgh Seafood Tour

Scotland is essentially an island nation. As such, seafood is a key component of Scottish cuisine. Although most of these seafood dishes didn’t originate in Scotland, the country is known for excellent salmon, oysters, mussels, and, of course, smoked haddock, a.k.a. finnan haddie.

The Edinburgh Seafood Tour will explore some of the best seafood dishes in the city. Possible dishes on the tour are fish and chips, oysters, mussels, Cullen skink, kedgeree, Scottish salmon, and more. Note: this tour is not for anyone with a shellfish allergy.

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Edinburgh Drinks Tour

Scotland has been making and perfecting various drinks for centuries, and not just alcoholic drinks. While Scotland is certainly known for its Scotch whisky, the country has plenty of other options such as beer, cider, gin, mead, Drambuie (famously from the Isle of Skye), but also coffee, tea, and perhaps at the top of the list, Irn Bru.

The history just of whisky would take hours to impart, and that’s only a fraction of the information about drinks in Scotland. Besides, you can’t only drink one portion after another without a bit of substance and sustenance.

The Edinburgh Drinks Tour will provide a custom-made choice of drinks based on the guests on the tour, paired tastefully with small nibbles of Scottish treats and snacks. Rather than a pub crawl or a tour to get you drunk, this tour focuses on the history and range of drinks prepared in Scotland.

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Choosing the Right Tour

Except in small instances, these tours do not overlap. The truth is there’s just so much information to give on the food and history of Edinburgh and Scotland, countless dishes to try, drinks to sample, and restaurants to experience, we can’t fit everything into the same tour.

If you ended up joining all five tours, you would have a different and unique experience on each. And yes, we give discounts on subsequent tours with us.