Albania · FOOD
Every trip has one free day too few. These 15 food experiences justify the slot, priced and timed so you can decide in minutes and get back to the fun part of planning.
Learn to make Albanian dishes, share lunch, wine, and raki, and enjoy a warm small-group cooking class in Tirana.
“Very nice afternoon 👍I enjoyed the cooking, the explanation and the taste of the food very well! As a bonus: the conversations with other travelers from all over the world”
Explore Tirana through byrek, markets, local dishes and raki on a small-group walking tour with history, food tastings and practical city tips.
“Angjelo was a delight - personable, informative and fun. This was a great outing! The food was very good and the history lesson was interesting. What a perfect way to learn and see the city.”
Explore Tirana through local soup, grilled dishes, coffee, raki, markets, and communist-era sights on this highly rated small-group tour.
“I've been on a few food tours but this was one of the best. I take a food tours because I want to get an insight into the local culture. Our guide understood this and shared a lot about life in Albania and the journey from communism. The food was also great.”
Sail Butrint Lake from Ksamil, learn mussel farming, and enjoy fresh local dishes, vegetables, bread, wine, and a quiet lakeside meal.
“What an amazing tour! If you’re in Ksamil, I highly recommend taking this tour. Learning about the mussel process was fascinating, and the dishes prepared with the mussels were absolutely delicious. Our guide was fantastic and made the experience even more memorable.”
Cook four traditional Berat dishes in a working restaurant kitchen with local ingredients, friendly hosts, lunch, and a taste of Albanian life.
“The cooking class was a highlight of our trip to Albania. It was very authentic, a lot of fun and a lot of food ☀️🤗 We had an amazing chef 👩🍳and she was really good in including our kids. Our host Nazira was so kind and excellent in making the experience a blast for the entire family 🤩”
Review of the Kruja and Durres day tour from Tirana, with castles, Roman ruins, local lunch, hotel pickup, and practical booking advice.
“Kruja Bazaar and the castle was full of history and the atmosphere and architecture is well maintained. City of Durres is beautiful. Mix of modern and old architectures. The Amphitheatre is still somewhat buried, and new buildings are built over it, but what is shown is impressive. Mimoza, my guide is very knowledgeable and goes into very precise detail of each topic. Highly recommend.”
Explore Tirana’s communist past, Bunk’Art, socialist art, street food, and raki on this small-group history tour.
“Great guide! Super interesting journey into Tirana’s impressive communist era-bunker. Lots of details about this heavy period of history”
Explore Albania in six days with UNESCO towns, canyons, lagoons, local food, wine, and the Riviera from Tirana to Vlore.
“We traveled with a large group of 30 woman. We seen a lot of Albania and did amazing things. For 10 days we had a very good guide who told us many of interesting things. I would do it again!”
Review of Berat from Tirana with castle walks, local food, four wines, hotel pickup, and a family-run winery lunch.
“A really good day trip from Tirana to see the historical Berat and a sweet family run vineyard. A great informational walking tour of Berat castle by someone that lives in the castle grounds is a nice touch. The winery stop for lunch was amazing, and their wines are divine; I wish I could have bought some back with me! I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone visiting Albania.”
Taste Tirana through byrek, tave kosi, rakija, and baklava while exploring the city’s Ottoman and communist past with a private guide.
“3 most wonderful trips and they were all amazing. Martin was so easy to communicate with and he left no detail uncovered. Hard, too hard, to pick a favorite as all of the recommendations and visits were great. This place though, Mrizi i Zanave , truly magical. Thank you!!”
Taste six Albanian dishes, sweets, and dhalle while walking Tirana’s landmarks on this small-group, four-hour food and culture tour.
“It was extremely good value for money and our guide was exceptional. Her knowledge was incredible and she adapted the tour slightly for what we needed. She had some great recommendations and we really had the best morning!”
Taste Albania in four days, from Berat and Gjirokaster to Butrint, the Blue Eye, coastal seafood, and UNESCO heritage sites.
“We added an extra day to make this a 5 day tour, as unfortunately we couldn't make the 6 day tour, and it was FANTASTIC! Flori was our guide and from the start it was obvious he's been doing this for years and has a job he loves anRead more”
Explore Berat from Tirana with castle views, Ottoman streets, local wine, raki, snacks, and a flexible English-speaking guide.
“Me and my boyfriend had a great time with Our Tour Guide zeni. He is friendly ,passionate, funny and really detailed about the history of the lovely Cities in albania and its Countryside. We had good conversations and the winetasting at Kantina Pupa was great too. We both recommend!”
Taste four wines at two family-run Berat wineries, sample raki and local snacks, and enjoy easy transport on this intimate Albanian food tour.
“When my friends and I decided we wanted to do a wine touring day in Berat, we needed to find a driver, but not just any driver- a driver that after 5 minutes was our friend - Isuf B. was one of the best parts of our amazing day.”
Sip Albanian beer, wine, and flavored raki while walking Tirana’s Pyramid, Castle, and New Bazaar, with snacks and a full dinner included.
“Great tour with an excellent guide. Not only did we have some great drinks, including Raki flavors I didn’t know existed, had an excellent conversation about Albania.”
Water, mountains, stone towns, and the table at the end of the day.
