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The way to a city's heart it's through its food! And on this private food tour, you'll get to know Valletta through its cuisine and the tastings favorite of the locals. A local food expert is ready to give you a taste of the real Valletta satisfying your cravings for local food and city highlights.

Destination

Valletta, Malta

Category

Food Tours

Duration

2 hours

Transport mode

Walking tour

Available languages

English, Italiano, Português

Included

• Private Guide
• 6 Local Food & Drink Tastings
• Vegetarian Options Available
• All Withlocals Tours are Carbon Neutral

Excluded

• Entrance to attractions

What you can expect

Choose your local

Get to know these 2 passionate locals, each bringing unique perspectives and talents. Choose your favorite, check their availability, and book to create an unforgettable adventure tailored to you.

This is the plan

Check out the plan below to see what you'll get up to with your local host. Feel free to personalize this offer with the host of your choice.

1. Meeting point

   Meet at By the Sette Giugno Monument - Valletta to start your journey

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2. Itinerary

   This is what our experience could look like, but it’s not set in stone! Once you book, you can chat directly with your host to make small tweaks to suit your preferences.

3. Food Introduction

   This culinary kickstart tour is short and sweet! A perfect way to get acquainted with the local cuisine, its best tastings, and where to find them - all with the help of a local food expert

4. Locals’ Favorites

   Kickstart your time in Valletta by discovering the local cuisine. Try some of the ultimate locals’ favorite food treats like Qassatat and Kinnie picked by your local host and hear why the locals love them so much!

5. City Highlights

   This tour is more than just food; it’s a cultural experience! In between food stops, discover city highlights for a well-rounded experience that will satisfy your appetite for Valletta. Check out The Grandmaster's Palace, The Chapel of St John and more city highlights along the way

6. Food Recommendations

   With this private food tour, you’ll be set to keep enjoying the most authentic food and drinks in Valletta. Your food expert host knows where to go and what to order and will give you recommendations based on your likings and dietary preferences

7. Special Diet or Allergies?

   If you follow a special diet or have an allergy to a specific food, let your host know! They’ll make sure to consider that so you can have an enjoyable and safe experience

8. Make it yours

   Want to tweak the itinerary? Book directly & chat afterwards with your host to adjust highlights, skip stops, or make small changes to fit your preferences.

   Book risk-free: Cancel within 24 hours for a full refund.

   Need something special? Personalize your experience for more time, alternative locations or a completely tailored plan.

Flexible cancellation policy

• Feel confident booking

  Cancel within 24 hours for a full refund. Even up to 7 days before your experience, you’ll receive a refund, minus the service fee.

• Change of plans?

  Reschedule your experience to a date and time that works best for you.

• Loved by travelers worldwide

  Simple and flexible – your plans, your way.

Reviews from guests

Greta

(About local Bruna)

14 April 2025

Bruna provided a great introduction to Valetta and its history, and we really enjoyed the snacks we tried during the tour. She did a great job making the tour interesting for my 10 year old daughter, and the whole family had a great time. Definitely recommend!Great experience with Bruna!

Evelyne🇨🇦 Canada

(About local Victoria)

28 March 2025

Our 2 back-to-back tours with Victoria were excellent (The Culinary Kickstart & The Three Cities Tours). We had a wonderful experience with Victoria despite the rain. She was our sunshine. Victoria was flexible and accommodating to our needs and expectations. Victoria is very very knowledgeable, personal, fun and passionate about Malta. We sure appreciated her humorous manner in sharing her personal comments on different topics during our tours. The city of Birgu is not to be missed and we tasted such lovely local food.! Victoria even gave us her WhatsApp so that we could message her for recommendations for our free time! Our stay in Malta was definitely enhanced by Victoria's 2 tours, complementing very well our organized motor coach tour. We will definitely seek her out if returning to Malta! Thank you Victoria!Wonderful time in Malta with Victoria!

cherylmcj

(About local Victoria)

6 February 2025

Victoria is very professional and friendly, telling us many stories along with interesting facts along the way. We tasted lovely local food and drink and all the communication when arranging was perfect. Victoria also gave us her WhatsApp and we could message her for recommendations afterwards too - all her recommendations were great and she helped us with an itinerary for the next day too. Thank you Victoria Lovely friendly and fun

Sher

(About local Victoria)

17 January 2025

We had an interesting time with Victoria yesterday. We had booked a walking food tour of Vallatta as we thought that would offer a different experience to just a walking tour. We were not disappointed! It was a marvellous morning discovering the food history of the capital. I would really recommend Victoria ( her knowledge was amazing!) and this tour. Don’t have breakfast. You are going to be nibbling all morning! Highly recommended. Fantastic food tour of Vallatta

Margaret🇩🇪 Germany

(About local Victoria)

31 December 2024

Victoria was a fantastic guide! She was able to share so much knowledge about the city and explain how the food developed within the country. We were able to try so many different bites and treats. She was very personable and shared information about food traditions you don't see at local restaurants. I would highly recommend Victoria. She was a great guide and felt like a friend by the end of the tour.Excellent Tour

Renarta🇯🇵 Japan

(About local Victoria)

27 August 2024

We really enjoyed our tour with Victoria. She showed us some great places for food and drink. Communications were great. Would recommend. Brilliant fun

christopher🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

14 April 2025

Victoria was brilliant and I would highly recommend the 2 hour tour. It was full of history and interesting information about Valetta. Victoria was happy to answer any questions we had. A very interesting our with Victoria

Line🇩🇰 Denmark

(About local Victoria)

2 April 2025

Yesterday we went to Mdina and Rabat with Victoria as our guide. Our contact prior to the visit was very smooth and meeting Victoria at the gates of Mdina was easy. On our tour around the cities Victoria was very good at informing us of details and small stories. She was attentive to our students and welcomed their questions. When finishing the historic tour, Victoria gave us tips on where to go and what to have for lunch. And also which local treats to try. All of this was greatly appreciated by us and our students. Thank you for great day.Wonderful Victoria

Kathryn🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Bruna)

30 March 2025

We (a group of 5) booked for 4pm, and moved to 5pm to accommodate Bruna's schedule (or we could move to a colleague). There were only 2 food stops: one at a food stand by the Triton Fountain, for pastizzi (cheese/pea) and the second at Luciano in Merchants Street, for a platter and a pizza. Bruna also gave us a box of Maltese biscuits. The tour lasted only 2 hours, not 3, finishing at the Queen Victoria Pub. After the tour we asked why, and it was because we were "very energetic". The tour was not absolutely not worth the EUR425.43 we paid, and WithLocals has provided a gift voucher for part of the cost.Disappointing

Paula

(About local Victoria)

30 March 2025

Victoria was very knowledgeable and really brought Valletta's history and culture to life for us. We had already seen the major sights so without any hesitation, she revised her tour and showed us other sights. We really enjoyed our tour.Great tour with Victoria!

Jodie🇺🇸 United States

(About local Victoria)

27 March 2025

Our tour with Victoria was fab - we were a large group from all over the world but unfortunately a little limited on time and the weather was not in our favour! Despite all that, she provided a fantastic tour for our group - an informative overview of the history of Mdina, scenic route through the windy streets to see and learn about the most striking landmarks and even tailored the tour to add in some unique nuances that personalised the tour to us (church visit and coffee shop stop). Victoria was professional, a fountain of fun and interesting knowledge, super friendly and a guide we would highly recommend! Extremely good value for money. I will definitely seek her out if returning for a personal visit too - thank you!!!The Perfect Host!

Unknown

(About local Victoria)

22 March 2025

Darragh

(About local Victoria)

19 March 2025

Victoria is lovely. Very friendly & knowledgeable. We had a great experience. Well worth the tour!Highly recommended

Andrea🇦🇹 Austria

(About local Victoria)

9 March 2025

Victoria was extremely flexible with the tourplan and with break-times. She told us so many insights about Malta and the economy as well as the typical touristic stuff. Her knowledge and way to present it was outstanding. I highly recommend her. Best Tourguide ever

Paul🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

7 March 2025

Great knowledge and commutation skills easy way about about her thanks for the experience. Excellent guide even in the rain

Fatima

(About local Victoria)

23 February 2025

We were a group of 11 and we can't recommend Victoria highly enough. She was flexible and accommodating to the needs and expectations of our group. Her outgoing personality made it easy for us to connect with her immediately. She is very knowledgeable about Malta's history and is passionate about Malta. The food tour, where we sampled local cuisine in small shops frequented by locals, was great. It was a fabulous tour and so informative that it exceeded our expectations!Excellent food tours - highly recommended

Amr

(About local Victoria)

14 February 2025

We were lucky to have Vicky (Victoria) as our guide on a 3hour long walking tour of Valletta. She was very friendly and very well informed and guided us through the city and its fascinating history in a really engaging and often humorous manner, always ready to answer questions and offer helpful suggestions. Highly recommended!Fantastic 3 hour tour

alexandra.herden

(About local Victoria)

7 January 2025

We did a three hour tour with Victoria. She was extremely friendly, well informed and sympathetic guide. Thank you very much Victoria!Great guide

ianlivingston🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

24 November 2024

Victoria was an excellent guide. Arrived promptly, good tour, wide and deep knowledge and friendly. Would definitely recommend. Definitely recommend

Annette🇺🇸 United States

(About local Victoria)

18 November 2024

Vicky shared her extensive knowledge with us and had lots of great suggestions for further exploring. So interesting!

Mandy🇦🇺 Australia

(About local Victoria)

17 November 2024

Victoria was our energetic, engaging and delightful guide who led us on two separate walks during our time in Valletta - a Valletta Kickstart tour and an in-depth walking tour of Mdina and Rabat. Her amazing knowledge of Malta and its history is indeed impressive, and she passionately conveyed this during the tours. Her explanations and descriptions really helped us gain an understanding into the heart of this beautiful country - and the events that have shaped it. She also gave us many brilliant tips and suggestions for the rest of our time in Valletta - invaluable to get all this from a local! Thank you, Victoria! We will definitely be recommending you to all our family and friends!An Amazing Guide - Highly recommend!!

Jen

(About local Victoria)

16 November 2024

Amazing experience. Victoria was brilliant and had so much knowledge. Could not have asked for more

Julie🇨🇭 Switzerland

(About local Victoria)

10 November 2024

My family and I did a Valletta tour with Victoria . She was super friendly and very informative. The city is beautiful with so much history and Victoria had great stories and was able to provide a lot of information. I would highly recommend her ! Great 2 hours spent with Victoria !

Tiago

(About local Victoria)

31 October 2024

Victoria was very helpfuk, very knowledgeable and gave us an overall great tour. We highly recommend her!Excellent introduction to Valletta

Magnus🇸🇪 Sweden

(About local Victoria)

27 October 2024

We have been to Malta and Valletta before. Victoria was fast in finding out what would be an adjustment of the tour that would make it extra interesting for us. We got a lot of tips what to do on our own when we come back next time. Also the tour itself was excellent. We can highly recommend this tour and Victoria as a guide. Modified tour

Chrystal🇨🇦 Canada

(About local Victoria)

25 October 2024

We spent an amazing afternoon with Victoria guiding us through the historical core. She is very knowledgable about Malta, with the right mix of history and legend to help everything make sense. She knows so much history about all the buildings! We had asked her to show us a few specific things (including local pastries), which she did and showed us much more. She also made great recommendations for other things to do while we were in the city. Thanks Victoria, we had an amazing time!Victoria + Malta = Fabulous!

Tracey🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

22 October 2024

Victoria was knowledgeable, interesting and informative as we walked around the city. We learnt a lot about the history, architecture, culture and family life of the island. Would thoroughly recommend.Great tour of Valletta

j4wqtcgg5c🇨🇦 Canada

(About local Victoria)

30 September 2024

We did a historical tour around the city of Valletta. She was very informative and provided us with details of all the amazing history of the city and Malta. We hit all the highlights of the city, as well as some back street gems. I would highly recommend a tour with Victoria.Excellent

Stephen🇦🇺 Australia

(About local Victoria)

25 September 2024

Our group had a fantastic time with Victoria on our walking and food tour. Victoria was engaging and informative and provided a great history of Valetta. Victoria took time to get to know all of us on an individual basis. As a group we shared many of a laugh, over some local cuisine and beverages. Informative and fun

Sonja🇩🇪 Germany

(About local Victoria)

18 September 2024

Victoria is an extremely nice lady with a lot of knowledge about Valetta. She gave a good overview, jumping from one topic to the other, which made it kind of interesting. Unfortunately, it was extremely hot, so it was not that much fun to walk around. But that was not Victorias fault. She also gave us a few helpful tips for restaurants to visit and even walked us to our first reservation. Really nice. Crazy little walk

Colin 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

12 September 2024

Victoria was a polite and informative guide. We had an easy pace around the whole of Valletta with Victoria explaining the history of the island and pointing out the history of significant buildings from the Knights Templar to the British.Victoria recommended we go back in our own time to see at leisure a number of buildings, eg Cathedral and Hospital or underground tunnels. An enjoyable and relaxing tour Thanks again.Valletta tour

Andrew🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

10 September 2024

Victoria was delightful company and gave us the greatest insight of Valletta that we could have hoped for. Given all the things she shared with us we have our entire week full of things to do. Highly recommend everyone who is visiting to spend some time with a guide like Victoria. Thank you. Fabulous tour

Karin🇧🇪 Belgium

(About local Victoria)

7 September 2024

Onze gidse Victoria was historisch zeer goed gedocumenteerd. Aanstekelijk enthousiasme.Zeer gedocumenteerde rondleiding

Deirdre

(About local Victoria)

21 July 2024

We had a wonderful morning with Victoria. She provided an interesting and engaging insight to the history of Malta and Valletta . Victoria gave us an insight into Malta from a local perspective. She provided great info on where to eat and places we should return to. Thank you Victoria for a great tour. Deirdre WalshGreat time with Victoria

Michael🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

13 July 2024

Vicky guided us through the beautiful streets of Valletta on a wonderful tour of its history and culture. A great tour from an engaging and informative host. I would highly recommend. Walking tour of Valletta with Victoria

Leslie

(About local Victoria)

11 July 2024

Victoria is quite honestly the most informative and insightful tour guide we have ever had from Paris to Sidney. Thank you Victoria, we will be back shortly to have a more in depth tour....xo.Extremely insightful!

Evert🇨🇭 Switzerland

(About local Victoria)

11 July 2024

Vicky met us in Valetta and showed us aroud the not so touristy spots which we enjoyed greatly. Lots of history and little details made for a wonderful walk. The only thing to improve would perhaps be to indeed guide for the full 3 hours. She had to return to her family but left us with a great recommendation for a lunch!A lovely walk!

Stephen

(About local Victoria)

10 June 2024

Victoria is extremely knowledgeable, and she was able to accommodate our schedule to allow us to see the highlights in three hours.Malta with Victoria

CHRISTINA🇬🇷 Greece

(About local Victoria)

26 May 2024

We loved our walking tour of Malta with very nice Victoria, who has deep knowledge of the history of her country and also the gift of "putting you in" all the interesting details through the years. Victoria was exactly what we had in mind, when we booked the tour! We highly recommend her, as a guide and as a personality!Wonderful walking tour!

Jan🇩🇪 Germany

(About local Victoria)

5 May 2024

Gute Mischung aus geschichtlichem Überblick und Details.Runde Sache

Christoph 🇨🇭 Switzerland

(About local Bruna)

27 April 2024

The Tour did not match our expectations, Bruna wasn’t there and the other girl was polite but could barely speak English and was very annoyed. The food was bad: just cheap stuff … not worth the price…

6n5tm8mb4r🇦🇺 Australia

(About local Bruna)

26 April 2024

Bruna accommodated a later time for me and I was so grateful and she advised that her representative Deborah will so the tour. I arrived early and could not see a guide however it ended up that Deborah was there the whole time and on her phone and not looking for me at all until I approached her. Deborah was friendly and shared interesting facts of fascinating Valletta. However she spent a lot of time on her phone and did not dedicate her time to the tour.i also struggled to understand her at times.

caroline🇲🇹 Malta

(About local Victoria)

26 April 2024

The tour was wonderful! Our team liked everything very very much ❤️ Victoria is a wonderful guide who knows her business very well! I'm sure we'll use her services more than once. Thank you Victoria 🫶🏻

Gayle 🇦🇺 Australia

(About local Victoria)

21 April 2024

Victoria is an engaging and knowledgeable guide, sparkling with passion for her homeland. We learned so much from her, asked all our questions and had some laughs too. She also very kindly adapted the tour for our requests and for my husband’s mobility issues. A perfect tour

Matt🇺🇸 United States

(About local Thalyta)

31 March 2024

Thalyta was great! She took me and my friend on a great tour of food through Valletta, showed us sights and cool views, and was just really fun to hang out with. Highly recommend her and With Locals if you want to get a great tour of Valletta and some tasty food! Thanks, Thalyta!Great food with Thalyta!

Nikolay🇦🇹 Austria

(About local Thalyta)

31 March 2024

The whole idea of "withlocal" is not just to go around a few random places that happen to be open and eat some stuff. It is much more about "local" experience, learning about history, culture, etc. To that extent: 1. Our guide was someone who moved to Malta only 2 months ago (to learn English). She had less local knowledge than we do. Sho did not spoke Maltese and could barely speak English. This was absolutely not the "local" experi nce. 2. 2 of the 4 places on her list were closed, she just tried to drag us to some other random restaurants. We actually gave up and cut our tour short. 3. We got no information on the towns history, architecture, culture, etc. We just walked from one place to another. 4. We did food tours in many different countries and cities. We actually even had a food tour with your company in Naples last December. And it was always someone local, who can tell stories, share knowledge... Our today's tour in Valletta was by far the worst experience we've ever had.Really bad

Dagmar🇩🇪 Germany

(About local Victoria)

20 March 2024

We had a very informative tour of Valetta with Victoria and learned a lot about the History of Malta and the Knights. Victoria also gave us great tips about restaurants and other places to visit in our own time. Perfect start to our first visit to Malta!Excellent professional guide in Valetta

Olivia

(About local Thalyta)

19 March 2024

Thalyta was warm and friendly, very knowledgeable, and brought us to some really amazing places. Everything we ate (from local drinks, sandwiches, and desserts) was fantastic and well rounded. We had a delicious salad with local cheese and a tomato and local meat pasta, as well as a variety of sweet desserts and pastries. We also got to try some of the local drinks and alcohol that we wouldn’t think to try! She curates the tour to fit your needs and preferences, and we enjoyed everything we ate! While walking to the different restaurants she highlights interesting facts and monuments throughout Valleta, and we saw things that we would not have noticed if she didn’t show us. All in all it was worth every penny and more, and we would recommend it to anyone visiting the area. Thalyta was an absolute delight and the experience was magical. Amazing Night and even more Amazing Host

Kevin🇨🇦 Canada

(About local Thalyta)

14 March 2024

We enjoyed a wonderful tour with Thalyta yesterday in this spectacular city. The sites and tastes were incredible and there was far more food to taste than we could have possibly eaten. A great way to get a sampling of Malta in a short time that balanced the city sites with the cuisine. Thank you Thalyta for such a perfect day out in Valletta. A Feast for the Senses

Ali🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

(About local Victoria)

7 February 2024

I had one of the most beautiful experiences in Malta with Victoria, a professional tour guide, excellent timing, a comprehensive explanation of all the tourist and historical information, great experience. Victoria helped me a lot in understanding Malta in a special way. Thank you, Victoria, for the wonderful time. It was an honor to get to know you, and I hope... We meet soonOne of the most beautiful trips in Malta