Cologne: Belgian Quarter Culinary Food Tour

Quick Information

Number of participants: 2-21

Meeting Point: 1 Rudolfplatz Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen DE 50674

Start Times: Tuesday – Sunday at 3:00pm

Language: German

Important Information

On our tours, we often visit small, traditional restaurants that do not accept card payments. Please keep this in mind and bring enough cash if you would like to buy drinks at the restaurants.
If you need to withdraw cash during the tour, please note that the other guests will need to wait for you and there may not always be an ATM nearby.
Some restaurants and toilets are not wheelchair accessible, and parts of the route may be uneven.

Highlights

On our tours, we often visit small, traditional restaurants that do not accept card payments. Please keep this in mind and bring enough cash if you would like to buy drinks at the restaurants.
If you need to withdraw cash during the tour, please note that the other guests will need to wait for you and there may not always be an ATM nearby.
Some restaurants and toilets are not wheelchair accessible, and parts of the route may be uneven.

A Unique Culinary City Tour

Experience Cologne’s Belgian Quarter up close on this unique culinary city tour. Over three hours, our friendly, expertly trained guides will show you impressive places and share fascinating stories. Along the way, you’ll stop at five carefully selected venues to enjoy a variety of delicious specialities.

Your guide will take you on a city tour with a difference. In a relaxed, friendly atmosphere, we’ll talk, laugh and eat our way through one of Cologne’s liveliest and most colourful neighbourhoods for three hours—experiencing the area authentically and up close.

The tour begins at Rudolfplatz, directly in front of the Hahnentorburg. Your guide will first treat you to some appetising background information about the individual snacks. After these first exciting stories, your stomach will surely be rumbling—so it’s time for the first culinary stop.

From then on, fascinating insider stories about the history and culture of this extraordinary corner of Cologne alternate with delicious international specialities. You’ll explore German coffeehouse culture, then travel through India and France, finishing in Belgium and the Netherlands. Expect plenty of surprises—culinary, cultural and historical. This tour is just as enjoyable for long-time Cologne locals. No stomach goes hungry and no question goes unanswered.

You’ll experience the full range of the Belgian Quarter: colourful second-hand shops, quirky neighbourhood kiosks, trendy bars and Lukas Podolski’s ice-cream parlour.

We’ll explore the advantages and disadvantages of the neighbourhood’s recent development, caught between tradition and modernity, students and high earners, long-standing Cologne residents and fashionable newcomers. What do their neighbourhoods mean to the people of Cologne? Who was the true Cologne lad, and what did he do here for over 60 years? Who invented Kölsch rock in this neighbourhood? Who were the Orange People sect, and how did they shape this district and Cologne’s restaurant scene?

A neighbourhood full of contrasts—and you’ll be right in the heart of it.

At the end, you can choose whether to head off on your next Cologne adventure or relax over a coffee or beer. The neighbourhood’s hosts and restaurateurs look forward to welcoming you!