Berlin Food Tours
Berlin eats on the street and around the world: currywurst invented here in 1949, the Turkish döner the city made famous, Vietnamese and Middle Eastern food in Kreuzberg and Neukölln, the market halls, and a craft-beer scene to match. This is our Berlin food hub. Below are the top-rated food experiences, then our notes.
Top-rated food experiences in Berlin
Market halls, craft beer and cooking
Why Berlin for food? Because it is Germany’s most diverse food city — as much döner and banh mi as currywurst and schnitzel — cheap, creative and endlessly walkable, with historic market halls and a serious craft-beer culture.
Formats: street-food and market-hall tours of Kreuzberg, Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg; currywurst-and-döner crawls; craft-beer tastings; international-food tours; German cooking classes.
What to eat: currywurst, döner kebab, Berliner (doughnut), Käsespätzle, schnitzel, banh mi and falafel, Turkish and Vietnamese food, and a craft beer or a Berliner Weisse.
Currywurst, döner and the melting pot
Berlin’s two icons are both street food. Currywurst — sausage sliced and doused in curried ketchup — was invented in the city in 1949 and has its own devoted stands and even a museum’s worth of legend. The döner kebab as the world knows it, in bread with salad and sauce, was popularised by Berlin’s Turkish community in the 1970s. Around them the city eats Vietnamese, Middle Eastern and everything else, especially in Kreuzberg and Neukölln. A food tour is the way to navigate it.
The market halls and German classics
For the traditional side, the historic market halls — above all Markthalle Neun in Kreuzberg, famous for its Thursday Street Food nights — and the old Kneipen taverns serve schnitzel, Königsberger Klopse (meatballs in caper sauce), Eisbein and the sour Berliner Weisse beer with syrup. Berlin also has one of Europe’s liveliest craft-beer scenes, with tasting tours through the taprooms.
How to do it
Food tours run three to four hours through one or two neighbourhoods, with eight or more tastings and drinks. Kreuzberg and Neukölln for the international food, Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg for the classic and the new. A tour on arrival makes sense of a big, spread-out food city. See the Germany hub for the rest of the country.
Frequently asked questions
What food is Berlin famous for?
Currywurst, invented here, and the modern döner kebab the city popularised — plus a hugely diverse international scene, from Vietnamese to Middle Eastern, and craft beer.
Where do I find the best street food in Berlin?
Kreuzberg and Neukölln for the international food, and Markthalle Neun for its Thursday Street Food nights; a food tour threads the best of them.
What is Berliner Weisse?
A sour, low-alcohol wheat beer traditionally served with a shot of raspberry or woodruff syrup — a Berlin speciality.
How we choose
We list only experiences with a strong rating over a meaningful number of reviews and free cancellation where available, and we favour small-group and family-run hosts. FindEatLocal earns a commission when you book through GetYourGuide or Viator links on this page; it doesn’t change the price you pay. More about how we choose.