Food Tour of Montreal's Little Italy Including Jean Talon Market
Montreal, Canada
Taste the best of Montreal's Little Italy neighborhood on this 2.5-hour food walking tour. As you explore the streets of this distinct area with a professional guide, you'll sample a wide range of unique local foods at well-known restaurants, fine epicurean grocery stores and the famous Jean Talon Market, the biggest outdoor market in North America.
Discover Little Italy, one of the most captivating neighborhoods in Montreal, with a professional foodie guide on this food walking tour that includes Jean Talon Market. With its colorful past, quaint streets, well-known restaurants and fine epicurean grocers, Little Italy is full of tasty hangouts and local gems.
The highlight of your walking tour will be your visit to the world-famous Jean Talon Market. This market is the largest outdoor market in North America, and since 1934, it has been the ideal place to buy fresh local products, remarkable cheeses and meats from regional producers, flowers, gourmet cookbooks and so much more. You will be charmed by the wonderful smells and the vivid colors of the impressive fruit and vegetable stands.
In addition to the Jean Talon Market, you will visit popular restaurants and specialty grocery shops to sample local favorites such as fiddle heads, wild meat sausage, artisan bread, cannoli with coffee and pemmican, a dried meat that natives made.
Along the way, your foodie guide will tell you all about the rich heritage of Italian Canadians and point out historical sites like the Madonna della Defesa (Our Lady of Protection) Church, Dante Park and the St Laurent Boulevard – the heart of Little Italy.
AMAZING! Great tastings! The sight and sound of this market are just mesmerizing. I'd love to live in this neighborhood and come to this market every weekend. The guide was very patient and took us to many locations and she let each store owner/worker to explain their products. I loved how each person was passionate about their products and see the love and dedication to their work. There were quite a few sweet tastings towards the end. I stayed after the tour and went back to places and visited many more vendors and had my own tastings. This is worth your time. You will walk quite a lot, so wear comfortable shoes and bring water.
Review by: Lbaril, June 2017
Really enjoyed this wonderful tour! Very generous food tastings! The history we learned was remarkable. Our guide, Stacy, was very passionate and fun! She had a wonderful sense of humor. I would definitely recommend this as a must do while visiting Montreal!! Tres bien!!!
Review by: Mary M, June 2017
Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and pleasant. The choices of food were disappointing and no Italian food except for the cannoli at an Italian pastry shop. So my recommendation would be to include more food choices and to KEEP the tour guide. She was great!
Review by: Frank R, May 2017
Fantastic way of discovering food shops you would never have known existed. We were fortunate to go in late September, abundant harvest season - Oh my I never saw so many apple and fruit varieties! I thought I was in heaven itself! and there's a surprise in the end but I won't mention it so as to not spoil the fun.
Review by: Wendy H, September 2015
Tour could have included more tastings. Our guide was very knowledgeable about both food and its history. Really liked the Jean-Talon market.
Review by: Marilyn G, September 2015
Food was excellent on the tour!!!! Nice variety!! Very impressed with Jean Talon Market, bought a lot of tasty fruit and veggies after tour.
Review by: Leslie b, September 2015
Very interesting and tasty tour of the jean talon market with Stacy, who was a ball of information and a very nice young woman too! And the last stop at the Internationale for real fresh cannoli was a fine touch. Only recommendation would be to add more of Little Italy which then would've ranked a 4th star
Review by: Michael G, September 2015
I believe that if you grew up in Europe and experienced the European markets, consider a different tour.
Review by: Isadora T, June 2015
The tour and food were great! There were times when the pace was slow, but overall a fun experience.
Review by: Anita K, June 2015
I had a great time. The tour guide was very charming and enthusiastic about the various food options that Montreal has to offer and the history of the city. I highly recommend it!!
Review by: John A. M, December 2014
This was our most enjoyable tour of our four day stay in Montreal. Our guide was excellent and made for a fun afternoon. It was fortunate that we arrived early. The designated pickup spot was very difficult to find. I would suggest a more prominent location.
Review by: Christine C, October 2014
Great to visit all the shops around the Jean Talon Market too! Loved the Jean Talon Market, made us want to live there just so we could shop there.
Review by: Alfred J, June 2014
The tour was EXCELLENT. Our guides brought the tour alive by integrating the background history, culture, and economics into the foreground of the food tour. This background gave us an evolutionary perspective on the people, market, and food.
Review by: Nidale T, September 2013
This was a 2 and 1/2 hour food tour taking place in the Montreal Jean Talon market with a bit of little Italy (the Madonna della Defesa (Our Lady of Protection) Church and Dante Park) . Lise our guide who was very nice took us around the market where we started first by tasting some Turkish delight , then some local made bread , after that we went to taste 2 different cheeses (black goat cheese and Charlevoix Hercule cheese) with Spruce beer . Next, we continued exploring and reached a sausage stand that had sausages made of : Bison , Deer , Duck , Boar , etc... We took Bison (excellent) and Boar (not bad). During the walk we were explained the history of the Madonna Della Defesa church and the Dante's Park. Last we reached the International cafe where we had a cannolli and a cappuccino (simply delicious).
Review by: Thomas C, November 2012
The food Tour was extremely informative-the samplings of food were like a Reward for choosing this tour. The walk was very comfortable, all locations were within easy access to the Jean Talon Market. The guide offered many historical highlights of the area as it evolved from just a bus terminal area. The Italian neighborhood was interesting.
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