What travellers wrote after the morning or the evening they booked, paraphrased, next to every operator's own published rating. Prices and what each fare covers sit with the best Testaccio food tour listings.
These are travellers' accounts of the walk they took. The one- and four-star ones stay: a note that a private afternoon cost far more than it delivered, or that one sit-down stop did not match the rest of the morning, tells you more about choosing than another line of praise.
★★★★★
Testaccio food tour · market and local tastings
She booked a solo place a few days before the trip and got one. The guide was excellent, the market was the highlight, and the food was among the best she ate in Rome.
Tara W. · Solo traveller · March 2025
★★★★★
Testaccio food tour · market and local tastings
A local quarter well off the usual route, with a guide who explained how Romans actually shop and eat. Plenty of stops and plenty of food — she says skip breakfast.
Clare J. · Traveller · March 2025
★★★★★
Testaccio food tour · market and local tastings
The pace was right: time to ask questions, time to shop a little in the market, and no sense of being hurried. She liked that the stops were independent businesses the company has worked with for years.
Kim M. · Traveller · October 2024
★★★★☆
Testaccio food tour · market and local tastings
Every stop was enjoyable and the guide knew the quarter well. Her advice for anyone booking: arrive hungry and ready to eat.
Sharon F. · Traveller · August 2024
★★★★★
Testaccio food and cooking class · Roman pasta
Making pasta and sauces in the hosts' own home was the part she remembers, and eating what they made afterwards. Cacio e pepe, amatriciana and carbonara were all walked through step by step.
michelle g. · Couple · January 2026
★★★★★
Testaccio food and cooking class · Roman pasta
She had made pasta at home many times and still came away with techniques she had not met before. Her husband and adult son enjoyed it as much, which does not always happen.
Jennifer T. · Family · January 2026
★★★★★
Testaccio food and cooking class · Roman pasta
A warm, welcoming kitchen and hosts who happen to make very good pasta. She calls it the easiest way to learn traditional Roman cooking properly.
Camalla L. · Traveller · January 2026
★★★★★
Testaccio food tour · market morning with lunch
The walk started in Trastevere and crossed into Testaccio for the market, with a guide who grew up in the quarter. Maritozzi, polpette, supplì, cheeses and local wines all appeared along the way.
Catherine B. · Traveller · July 2024
★★★★★
Testaccio food tour · market morning with lunch
The market stretch was his favourite part of a morning he rated all the way through, and the guide could explain everything they were eating.
Bob K. · Traveller · November 2024
★★★★★
Testaccio food and wine tour · semi-private
Being a little way out of the centre was the point: it showed her a different side of Rome. The food was good and she was thoroughly full by the end.
Vanessa P. · Traveller · January 2020
★★★★☆
Testaccio food and wine tour · semi-private
A small group of seven and a guide who gave everyone her time. His one reservation was the restaurant chosen for the sit-down stop, which did not match the rest.
Mark M. · Group of seven · January 2017
★★★★★
Testaccio food tour · by golf cart, hotel pick-up
Collected from the hotel and driven through back streets a coach could not reach, seeing familiar sights from unfamiliar angles. The food market was where they tried the local specialities.
Michael G. · Traveller · November 2025
★★★★★
Testaccio food tour · by golf cart, hotel pick-up
Areas of Rome he says no other tour reaches, a driver-guide who knew the city and was happy to change the route once they had seen the obvious sights, and food he rated highly.
Walter B. · Traveller · October 2025
★★★★★
Testaccio food tour · by golf cart, hotel pick-up
Booked as something lighter for children of seventeen, fourteen and eleven, and it still carried plenty of history. Lunch came from a local market and the cart reached alleyways other tours do not.
Eric T. · Family · June 2025
★★★★★
Testaccio food tour · market, pyramid and cemetery
A quarter of Rome with no crowds, local products to taste, and the poets' cemetery and the old city walls on the same walk. The guide answered everything she asked.
Alessandra N. · Solo traveller · July 2017
★★★★★
Testaccio food tour · private and personalised
Local food and historic corners in the same afternoon, with a guide he says felt more like an old friend showing them around than a professional working through a script.
Sean T. · Traveller · July 2024
★☆☆☆☆
Testaccio food tour · private and personalised
He rated it the worst value of his trip: one food stop he considered a tourist trap, a long walk in 32-degree heat, and far less food and drink than he had expected for the price. He asked for a refund.
Mike S. · Traveller · September 2026
★★★★★
Trastevere street food tour · Campo de' Fiori
Genuinely local stops and nothing that felt aimed at tourists. His advice: arrive hungry, because the tastings keep coming.
Jason · United States · September 2025
★★★★★
Trastevere street food tour · Campo de' Fiori
Several Roman specialities and a good deal of the city's history picked up along the way, in an energetic group with a guide who kept it moving.
Rachel · United States · September 2025
★★★★★
Trastevere food tour · small group with wine
A host with clear communication and a sense of humour, and tastings he considered strong value for the fare.
Brad · South Africa · September 2025
★★★★★
Trastevere food tour · small group with wine
A good way into a quarter he did not know, with a relaxed guide and stories between the stops. He would book it again.
Jean · Canada · September 2025
★★★★★
Trastevere food tour · twenty tastings, free-flowing wine
The food and wine pairings were the strong point, and at no stage over the four hours did she feel rushed.
Louise · United Kingdom · September 2025
★★★★★
Trastevere food tour · twenty tastings, free-flowing wine
What she took away was how much she learned about the wine, and the gelato at the end.
Rosemarie · United States · September 2025
★★★★★
Trastevere food tour · evening, with wine
Seven separate stops, good food, good wine and a guide who was patient with a boisterous group. He rated the service throughout.
Steve · Group of friends · United States · September 2025
★★★★★
Trastevere food tour · with a local
Her children, nine and twelve, enjoyed it as much as she did. They tried things they would never have ordered for themselves, which is most of the point.
Naomi · Family · Australia · September 2025
★★★★★
Trastevere food tour · Ghetto and Campo de' Fiori
The explanations of local history were as good as the food, and her children of eleven and fourteen were happy throughout.
Carly · Family · United Kingdom · June 2026
★★★★★
Trastevere street food tour · the Jewish Ghetto
A guide who knew the Ghetto's history well, and a bakery on the route she would not have found alone.
Johanna Marin · Iceland · September 2025
★★★★★
Trastevere food tour · Tiber Island tastings
She has taken many guided activities and rates this guide the best of them: enthusiastic, engaging, and as strong on the history as on the food.
Mary · Repeat visitor · Australia · September 2026
★★★★★
Trastevere food tour · private guide
Small delicacies, each with its story, and the tales about Trastevere between them. She rated the guide warmly.
Alexandra · Germany · May 2026
It is the single most repeated line across the Testaccio market reviews, and it is meant literally. Fourteen tastings across eight places, with a sit-down pasta course in the middle, is a meal and then some.
Julia, Mattia, Chiara, Fernanda, Aurelio, Alessandra, Achille. What separates a good morning from a flat one is told almost entirely through the person leading it, and reviewers remember the name months later.
Reviewers of the market mornings name the market first and the restaurant second, and several mention being given time to shop rather than only to taste. The walks that skip it get praised for other things.
The personalised private walk carries both five-star reviews about a host who felt like an old friend and a one-star review calling the fare far too high for one food stop in the heat. Read its inclusions closely before you book it.
These figures are the operators' own, published on their booking listings and shown here as they stand. They belong to the operators, not to us. Every fare in the last column is per person.
| Tour | Rating | Reviews | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rome: Trastevere & Campo de' Fiori Street Food Walking Tour | 4.9 | 4,266 | From $48 per person |
| Rome: Small-Group Guided Food Tour with Wine in Trastevere | 4.9 | 3,622 | From $88 per person |
| Rome: Trastevere Street Food Walking Tour with Local Expert | 4.8 | 1,914 | From $55 per person |
| Rome: Food Tour in Trastevere with 20+ Tastings and Free-Flowing Wine | 4.9 | 1,732 | From $120 per person |
| Rome All in One: Trastevere Food Tour, Dinner & Wine | 4.9 | 1,150 | From $82 per person |
| Rome: Twilight Trastevere Food Tour with Wine Tasting | 4.9 | 839 | From $120 per person |
| Food & Wine Tour: 15 Local Tastings in Trastevere & Ghetto | 4.9 | 420 | From $84 per person |
| Rome: The Ultimate Trastevere Food Tour with a Local | 4.8 | 395 | From $68 per person |
| Rome Food Tour: Small-Group Testaccio Market & Local Tastings | 4.9 | 299 | From $79 per person |
| Rome: Trastevere and Jewish Ghetto Street Food Walking Tour | 4.8 | 170 | From $52 per person |
| Rome: Guided Food Tasting Tour in Trastevere | 4.7 | 159 | From $49 per person |
| Rome Trastevere Walking Food Tour | 4.8 | 136 | From $103 per person |
| Rome Food Tour: Hidden Gems of Trastevere with Dinner & Wine | 4.7 | 109 | From $56 per person |
| Home Cooking in Testaccio: Cacio e Pepe, Amatriciana, Carbonara | 4.9 | 106 | From $93 per person |
| The Original Rome Food & Market Tour (All-Inclusive) | 5.0 | 67 | From $117 per person |
| Rome: Lip Smacking 4 hours Foodie Tours in golf cart | 5.0 | 53 | From $121 per person |
| Rome: Local Food and Wine Tour in Trastevere & Heart of Rome | 4.8 | 48 | From $80 per person |
| Off the Beaten Path: Semi Private Rome Food and Wine Walking Tour in Testaccio | 4.4 | 26 | From $97 per person |
| Rome Food Tour: Trastevere, Tiber Island & Local Tastings | 4.9 | 22 | From $45 per person |
| Testaccio Quarter Market and Pyramid Food and Sightseeing Tour | 4.9 | 7 | From $373 per person |
| Rome Private Food Tours by Locals: 100% Personalized | 4.4 | 7 | From $180 per person |
| Rome Testaccio Market Walking food Tour and surrounding | 5.0 | 5 | From $117 per person |
| Private Panoramic Rome Food Tour by Golf Cart with Hotel Pick-Up | 5.0 | 2 | From $189 per person |
Two rows near the top are one operator's Trastevere walk sold as two separate listings on the same route at different fares; both are separately bookable, and the food and wine tours page sets them side by side. The gap between a listing with four thousand reviews and one with five is a gap in how long it has been on sale, not a verdict.
Read the practical detail on planning your visit, weigh the options in the guides, then compare what each fare covers on Testaccio Food Tours.