Chef-Guided Pike Place Market Food Tour

Your experience

Explore Pike Place Market with a working Seattle chef on a two-hour walking and tasting tour featuring nine handpicked vendors.

Getting started

Arrive outside Simply Seattle at 1600 1st Ave, just steps from the market’s main entrance. Your chef guide will greet you and introduce the group, then set the pace for a moving tour through the market’s bustling corridors. Wear comfortable shoes, as you’ll navigate stairs, cobblestones, and hills while following your guide to the first tasting stop.

What to expect

Pike Place Market food tour

This two-hour chef-guided experience takes you deep into Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market, with a focus on local food, small businesses, and culinary expertise.

Features

• Visit nine market vendors selected from a rotating roster of sixteen, including favorites like Pike Place Chowder, Market Spice, Beecher’s, Chukar Cherries, indi chocolate, Hellenika Cultured Creamery, and Maíz. Each stop is chosen by your chef guide based on the day’s offerings and their personal connections.

• Enjoy nine tastings, enough for a meal, sampling specialties that range from fresh seafood to artisan cheese and chocolate. Tastings are included at every stop, with routes and vendors changing by day and guide.

• Learn how chefs shop the market: your guide, a working Seattle chef, shares tips on picking produce and judging fish, and offers insights into the stories behind owner-operated stalls in a market that’s been running since 1907.

• Experience the market in a small group for a more intimate and interactive tour, with plenty of opportunities to ask questions and connect with fellow guests.

• At the end of your tour, receive a 10% discount card valid at all market partners, so you can revisit your favorite stops or explore more on your own.

Your tour concludes inside Pike Place Market, where you are free to continue exploring with your 10% discount card. If you have dietary needs, vegetarian substitutions are available with 24 hours’ notice; for other restrictions, your guide will accommodate where possible, though some tastings may not be swappable.