10 Food & Drink Tours in Kenya Worth Booking

1.Watamu Marine Park & Sudi Island Mangrove Forest Canoe Ride.With sea food lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 31 reviews · from $101Our pick

Travel from Mombasa to Watamu for a glass-boat ride, seasonal dolphin sightings, snorkeling, and a guided canoe trip through Sudi Island’s mangroves. You’ll have a seafood barbecue, drinks, equipment, and hotel transfers included. Guides such as Derrick, Jim, and driver Eric are named in the tour experience.

“Excellent excursion with African Tours and transfers. Good driver Eric. We saw Dolphins, good snorkeling, Canoe trip into mangroves followed by a delicious seafood lunch bbq on the beach.”

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2.Coffee farm tour, coffee roasting and tasting experience

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 20 reviews · from $35Top rated

Spend about two hours at All Seasons Coffee outside Nairobi with guides such as Stanley and Duncan. Walk among coffee trees, learn about growing and processing, roast beans to take home, and finish with fresh coffee, snacks, and refreshments. A small group of up to 10 keeps the visit personal.

“Stanley was an exceptional guide and host. Being able to roast our own coffee beans was a real treat. The coffee was out of this world delicious, and we much appreciated the extensive knowledge he shared about the coffee making proceRead more”

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3.Street food Experience

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 14 reviews · 2h 30m · from $37

Walk through Mombasa Old Town with an English or Swahili speaking guide, stopping for beef or chicken mshikaki, sugarcane juice, Swahili coffee, tea, potatoes, seafood, and cassava chips. Joan and Nicole have led this experience. Come hungry, report allergies early, and expect a relaxed food walk rather than a formal restaurant meal.

“Paní průvodkyně byla moc milá. Dozvěděli jsme se spoustu zajímavých informací nejen o jídle, ale i o životě místních lidí a také o historii města.”

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4.Mombasa Private City Tour & Haller park Sanctuary with sea food luch

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 12 reviews · from $128

Spend 9 to 11 hours with a private English-speaking driver-guide exploring Fort Jesus, Mombasa Old Town, the Old Port, and Haller Park. Walk among colonial buildings and mosques, feed giraffes in the afternoon, and enjoy a mostly seafood lunch. Hotel pickup, bottled water, soda, transport, and entry fees are included.

“We booked this tour for the 29th of December 2019. We really appreciated the tour, everything was so well organised. We had a highly knowledgeable guide who provided high details about the history of the different places we visited. The visit of the ancient town really puRead more”

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5.Purple Tea Farm Tour from Nairobi City – Specialty Tea Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 12 reviews · from $102

Travel from central Nairobi to Gatanga for a hands-on purple tea farm visit. You’ll pick leaves, learn traditional orthodox processing, walk to a waterfall, eat a three-course lunch, and taste purple, green, oolong, hibiscus, yellow, silver tip, and golden tip teas. Transport, lunch, and tastings are included.

“The Gatura Farm purple Tea tour was excellent, once we got there. It was so interesting to learn how tea is picked and processed by this hands on experience. The 3 course gourmet lunch was fabulous. We also enjoyed a hike to a waterfall and a dip for those daring people. Read more”

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6.Nairobi Food Tour – Street Food Experience Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 9 reviews · from $163

Spend five private hours eating your way through Nairobi with a local host. Try ugali, mukimo, chapati, nyama choma, samaki, madafu and more at familiar local spots and lesser-known eateries. Hotel pickup, drop-off, lunch or dinner, and bottled water are included. Guides may include Faith, Benson, or Simon.

“My mom and I had an excellent time on this tour with Simon. We got to explore many different parts of Nairobi while trying out all the local foods. The food was delicious and plentiful...we didn't have to eat for the rest of the day. Simon was Read more”

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7.Swahili Street Food Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 7 reviews · from $55

Meet your guide at Fort Jesus and spend four hours exploring Old Town Mombasa through food. Choose a breakfast, lunch, or evening departure, then visit six local vendors for traditional dishes, drinks, and stories about Swahili culture, architecture, and daily life. Hawa, also listed as Havah, leads the experience.

“Amazing experience of street food tasting in Old Town Mombasa! Hawa was fantastic and so knowledgeable about the history of Mombasa and the culture of the area, the architecture and the foods. Very worth it!!”

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8.Market and Street Food Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 · 6 reviews · 1h 30m · from $30Best value

Meet guide Tina at Tsunami Garden Cafe for a small-group walk through Diani’s Ibiza Market. You’ll sample Swahili porridge, chapati, coconut rice, beans, ugali, sukumawiki, Viazi Karai, and palm wine, with stops at a tailoring shop and local bar. Expect a hot, very local experience rather than a polished restaurant outing.

“We really enjoyed the tour with Tina. She is great at explaining and we had the opportunity to see the beautiful market and taste some of the tipical dishes and beverage. it was really a great time spent together! :) We do recommend the visit!”

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9.1 Hour Gastronomic and Street Food tour of Nairobi

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 6 reviews · 1 hour · from $37

Join Ishmael Nzioka for a one-hour walk from International House through Nairobi’s central food streets. You’ll visit a market, sample Kenyan snacks, chapati, nyama choma, ugali, fruit, sweets and drinks, and hear how food connects to local culture. Bring at least $20 in cash for food beyond the tour fee.

“The tour was fantastic. Ishmael is knowledgeable and a good companion to explore the streets of Nairobi. He patiently answered all my questions. We tried a bunch of different varieties including snacks, sweets, BBQ, fruits. I had fun knowing about local cuisine, history and culture. I also got good tips about local food and restaurants to try.”

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10.Riara tea farm tour with lunch and tea tasting from Nairobi

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · from $150

Eric Munene’s private half-day outing takes you from Nairobi to Riara tea farm in Limuru, about an hour away. Meet the farm manager, learn how Kenyan tea is grown and processed, taste fresh tea, enjoy barbecue lunch, and browse tea for sale. Hotel pickup, transport, a guide, and farm admission are included.

“Visiting a tea plantation in Kenya is a must but don’t go visiting just any!”

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