What Devour Tours offers
Devour Tours builds every Rome product around eating with a guide who explains the food. The company started in Spain and now operates in nine countries in Europe and North America; the footer identifies it as part of City Experiences by Hornblower, the same group that owns Walks of Italy. In Rome the catalogue is tight: two group food tours (Trastevere in the evening, Testaccio in the morning), a pasta class, a pizza class, a family pizza class, private food tours for up to six, and two overnight trips to the Amalfi Coast and Tuscany.
Everything is in English. The FAQ is explicit that there are no multilingual tours, although guides often speak Italian or Spanish and can answer questions. Prices are all-inclusive: tickets, reservations, entrance fees, and on European tours all drinks.
Signature Rome tours
Listed on the official Rome page at our last check (prices appear on the individual tour pages and vary by date):
- Trastevere at Sunset: Rome Food and Wine Tour — 3.5 hours, evening, max 12 people, about 577 reviews on the company site. The classic route through Trastevere, from supplì to gelato.
- Ultimate Rome Food Tour with Testaccio Market — 3.5 hours, morning, max 12, about 267 reviews. Market stalls and the origins of Roman offal cooking in the district that housed the old slaughterhouse.
- Rome Cooking Class: Make Pasta, Sip Prosecco — 3 hours, max 14, about 1,900 reviews and flagged as likely to sell out. See our cooking classes guide.
- Rome Pizza Making Class in Trastevere — 2.5 hours, evening, max 15, with tiramisù and wine.
- Private Rome Food Tour: Trastevere by Night — 3 hours, 1–6 people, priced per group.
The Rome page also cross-sells Walks of Italy sightseeing products such as Pristine Sistine; those are reviewed on our Walks of Italy page.
Prices and group sizes
Devour does not print prices on the listing cards, which is a minor irritation when comparing. Expect group food tours to land roughly in the €90–150 bracket and cooking classes a little lower, always including food and drinks. Rival Eating Europe prices its Twilight Trastevere tour from €94 and Taste of Testaccio from €104, which is a reasonable benchmark.
Group caps are 12 on food tours, 14–15 on classes, and 6 on private tours. Twelve is the practical ceiling for standing at a counter in a Trastevere shop; anything larger and half the group waits outside. Children are welcome on most tours; the Minipizzaioli class is designed for families.
What the price includes
The FAQ is unambiguous: prices are all-inclusive, covering every tasting, all reservations and entrance fees, and on European tours all drinks, including wine where the route calls for it. There is nothing to pay on the day, and tipping is not expected in the Italian context, although guides accept it. Cooking classes include ingredients, the meal you cook, and wine or prosecco. Not included: transport to the meeting point, which for the Trastevere tours is typically a piazza on the west bank of the Tiber reachable by tram 8 from Largo Argentina, and for the Testaccio tour a metro stop on line B (Piramide).
Plan the rest of the day around the tour. The Trastevere evening tour starts before sunset and runs 3.5 hours across six or seven stops; treat it as dinner. The Testaccio market tour starts mid-morning and ends around lunch, which leaves the afternoon free for the nearby Aventine keyhole or the Pyramid of Cestius. The pasta class runs about three hours and ends with the meal, so book it for lunch or an early dinner rather than adding a restaurant afterwards.
What travellers report
The company site claims more than 15,000 reviews across all destinations, and the Rome listings show review counts per tour. On Tripadvisor and Google the recurring praise is for guides who are food people first, for the sheer amount of food (many reviewers say to skip lunch or dinner), and for stops that feel like real neighbourhood shops rather than tourist counters. The Testaccio market tour is repeatedly singled out as different from every other Rome food tour.
The recurring complaints are few. Some evening tours feel rushed at the last stop when a group runs late; a minority found the historical commentary thinner than at Eating Europe; and English-only departures rule out non-English-speaking relatives. There are occasional notes about sold-out dates in spring and autumn, so book early for the pasta class.
We do not publish a single score because platform ratings change; check the live figure for the tour you want.
Booking, cancellation and support
Book on devourtours.com; confirmation with the meeting point arrives by email, and dietary needs can be added to the booking. The site advertises free cancellation and points to a policy page for the exact cut-off, which we could not confirm at the time of writing. Support is by email and by phone from numbers in the US, Spain, Italy, France, the UK and Ireland.
If you would rather book with a policy you already know, the Trastevere and Campo de’ Fiori street food tour on GetYourGuide is the closest marketplace equivalent.
Book two to three weeks ahead for the pasta class and for evening food tours between April and October; the listing flags the class as likely to sell out, and Friday and Saturday evenings go first. Weekday morning departures of the Testaccio tour are the easiest to secure at short notice and, because the market is a working one, arguably the better day to see it.
How it compares
- Eating Europe — founded in Rome in 2011, max 12, prices shown upfront (from €94), with more formats (breakfast tour, golf-cart food tour, Jewish Ghetto route). The most direct rival.
- The Roman Guy — its Trastevere Local Food Tour (from about US$95) is a cheaper option with a sightseeing operator’s logistics.
- Secret Food Tours — an international franchise with a Rome route; usually cheaper, smaller review base.
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Marketplace alternatives with euro pricing at our last check:
- Trastevere and Campo de’ Fiori street food tour — the evening street-food format.
- Small-group food tour with wine in Trastevere — the sit-down alternative.
- Browse all food and drink experiences in Rome.
Verdict
Devour Tours is a safe, well-run choice for a Rome food tour: small groups, everything included, guides who know the shops. Its Testaccio morning tour is the product to pick if you have already done a Trastevere evening walk. The lack of visible prices and the English-only policy are the only real drawbacks. If those matter, Eating Europe offers the same quality with prices on the page; otherwise, Devour Tours in Rome earns its reputation.
Ratings are reported from public review platforms and the operator’s own pages; we do not host reviews.
