Private Rome Food Tour: Six or Ten Tastings, Two Start Points

Check which version you booked before you leave the hotel, because the two do not start in the same place. The six-tasting tour meets at the entrance of bar Il Siciliano, Piazza San Cosimato 62, in Trastevere. The ten-tasting tour meets across the river at Campo de' Fiori, under the statue of Giordano Bruno. Same operator, same idea, different corner of the city. The tour is private, so the group is only the people you book with, and the guide picks the stops. Savoury, sweet, and local drinks, chosen by someone who eats in these places rather than working from a fixed list. Buffalo mozzarella and gelato are on the route, both worth eating where they are made properly rather than where they are convenient. Between stops you walk. The ten-tasting version runs from Campo de' Fiori, whose name means field of flowers and which still holds a morning market, over Ponte Sisto and into Trastevere, so you get a stretch of the old centre and a river crossing along with the food. Withlocals runs this as one of its signature tours in cities worldwide. The operator states that guides are paid a fair fee, that only local produce is used, that groups are kept small, and that the tours are carbon neutral.