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The first food tour I ever sent friends on in Barcelona was Devour's Sant Antoni tapas tour. I recommended it for years. It is gone now, and finding that out is what sent me back to check everything else on this page.
Sant Antoni sits at the bottom corner of the Eixample grid, pressed against Poble Sec and the old city. For most of the last century it was unremarkable: a working neighborhood built around a big iron market hall, with bodegas serving the people who worked there. Then the market closed for renovation, stayed shut the better part of a decade, and the streets around it quietly became the best eating in Barcelona that no visitor had heard of.
The market reopened in 2018. Carrer del Parlament, two blocks south, turned into the city's brunch and vermouth corridor. And a neighborhood that had never seen a tour group started getting a handful of very good ones, some of which have since disappeared again.
Four are worth your money right now. I checked every one of them against live availability this week, which is the only reason I am confident saying so.
| Tour | Duration | Group | Rating | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sommelier Wine & Tapas in Sant Antoni | 3 hrs | Max 8 | ★ 5.0 (3) | €119 |
| Authentic Tapas & Local Drinks | 2.5 hrs | Small group | ★ 4.9 (6) | €79 |
| Sant Antoni Market & Fork Breakfast | 2.5 hrs | Small group | ★ 5.0 (3) | €95 |
| Private La Boqueria & Sant Antoni | 3.5 hrs | Private | ★ New | €189 |
Prices checked 13 August 2026. Operators adjust seasonally, so August and September rates sit above the winter floor.
The short answer:Book the Sommelier Wine & Tapas tour. It is the only one that treats Sant Antoni as the destination rather than a stop, it caps at eight, and the person pouring actually knows what is in the glass. If wine is not your thing, the Authentic Tapas tour is the safer, cheaper evening.
About the one that closed
Devour's Sant Antoni tour was the easiest recommendation I had. Five stops, never more than eight people, and a route that stayed inside the neighborhood instead of using it as scenery. It started in a family bodega where the wine still came out of the barrel the way locals refill bottles from home, and it finished somewhere you would never have found alone. When people asked me where to eat in Barcelona and I could tell they wanted the real version, that is what I sent them to.
Devour's own site now lists only their Gothic Quarter, El Born and Tastes & Traditions routes. The booking platforms still carry a page for the Sant Antoni tour, complete with its old reviews, which is how I found out: the listing looks alive and the tour is not. If you have read an older guide recommending it, that is why.
It is not the only one gone. A Sant Antoni and Poble Sec walk that ran for years has also come off the market, and so has a two-market tour pairing this neighborhood with La Boqueria.
The reason for the churn is structural, and worth understanding before you book. Sant Antoni is residential. The bars are small, the margins are thin, and an operator can run a higher-volume tour three Metro stops away in the old city with a fraction of the effort. So the tours that survive here tend to be run by people who chose the neighborhood on purpose, and there are never many at once.
That is an argument for coming, not against it. But book earlier than you would elsewhere, and check the tour still runs before you get attached to it. I did not, and I spent a while recommending something that had quietly stopped existing.
What Sant Antoni actually is
Administratively, Sant Antoni is a neighborhood of the Eixample district, so if you have read our guide to Eixample food tours you have already met its bigger, grander sibling. In practice nobody in Barcelona thinks of them as the same place. Eixample proper means Passeig de Gràcia, modernista apartment blocks and the Sagrada Família. Sant Antoni means a market, a lot of bodegas, and rents that were affordable until recently.
The neighborhood runs roughly from Ronda de Sant Antoni down to Avinguda del Paral·lel, with the market at its center. It is small enough to cross on foot in fifteen minutes, which matters, because the long-block problem that makes an Eixample food tour a route march does not apply here.
The market
Mercat de Sant Antoni is a nineteenth-century iron hall, and the renovation that closed it for years turned up a stretch of the medieval city wall underneath, now visible below the building. It is a working produce market rather than a tourist attraction, which is precisely the difference between it and La Boqueria. Nobody is selling you a two-euro fruit smoothie in a plastic cup.
On Sundays the surrounding streets fill with the old book and collectors' market, which has run in some form since the 1930s.
Esmorzar de forquilla
The Sant Antoni speciality worth planning around is the esmorzar de forquilla, the Catalan "fork breakfast". This is a full plated meal eaten mid-morning, historically by market porters and labourers who had already done four hours of work: botifarra, beans, tripe, grilled cuttlefish, and a glass of wine, at ten in the morning.
Very few visitors ever encounter it, partly because the timing sounds implausible and partly because the bars that serve it look like nothing. If a tour offers it, that is a strong signal the operator knows the neighborhood.
The four tours, ranked
1. Sommelier Wine & Tapas Tour in Sant Antoni
From €119 · 3 hours · Max 8 people · ★ 5.0 (3 reviews)
This is the one I send people to now. It is built around Sant Antoni rather than passing through it, and a certified sommelier walks a group of no more than eight to three family-run bars, pouring four Spanish wines from cava to a Rioja red and explaining, in plain language, why each belongs with the plate in front of you. Seven tapas, three unhurried hours, sitting down rather than crawling.
Uncorked Vines was founded by a sommelier who grew up in a family wine bar, and the pours change with the season, so no two sittings match. I like that a lot. It is the difference between someone running a script and someone showing you what they are excited about this month.
Be aware: three reviews on GetYourGuide, all five stars. That is a thin record rather than a bad one, and after what happened with the last tour I recommended here, I would rather tell you the sample size than hide it.
Best for: Anyone who cares what is in the glass. Couples. Repeat visitors who have done a standard tapas crawl.
Skip if: You do not drink, or you want to cover a lot of bars quickly.
2. Authentic Tapas & Local Drinks Tour
From €79 · 2.5 hours · Small group · ★ 4.9 (6 reviews)
The straightforward one. Four stops across Sant Antoni and neighboring Poble Sec, six traditional dishes and three local drinks, with a private upgrade available if you would rather not share.
Every review names the same guide, Ophélie, and praises her for walking people into residential streets rather than the tourist grid. That pattern is the single most reliable signal I know of in this business. When reviewers remember a person rather than an itinerary, you are booking the person.
Best for: First-timers in the neighborhood. Travelers who want Poble Sec included. Anyone who found four hours too long elsewhere.
Skip if: You want to stay strictly inside Sant Antoni, or you want a wine-led evening.
3. Sant Antoni Market Tour with Catalan Fork Breakfast
From €95 · 2.5 hours · Small group · ★ 5.0 (3 reviews)
The one that goes after the thing this neighborhood is actually famous for. It starts outside Els Tres Tombs on Ronda de Sant Antoni, walks the market stalls to see what locals are buying, then sits down to a proper esmorzar de forquilla.
And they do not soften it. The fork breakfast here runs to pork trotters, salt cod, snails and callos, eaten mid-morning the way market porters have eaten it for a century. You will know within about four seconds of reading that sentence whether this is your tour. I admire the listing for not pretending otherwise.
Run by Barcelona Born & Bred, a two-person outfit rather than a tour company. Eli is Barcelona-born with fifteen years guiding; Libor handles the bookings and also guides.
Best for: Repeat visitors. Anyone who wants the market rather than the bars. Morning people.
Skip if: Offal at ten in the morning is not your idea of a holiday.
4. Private La Boqueria & Sant Antoni Food Tour
From €189 · 3.5 hours · Private · New listing
The comparison tour, and a genuinely smart route. It starts at a historic café off La Rambla, goes into La Boqueria before the crowds, walks the Raval backstreets, and finishes with a sit-down lunch at a neighborhood bar by Sant Antoni market.
Seeing both markets in one morning teaches you more about how Barcelona eats than either does alone: one reshaped almost entirely by visitors, the other still selling to the people who live upstairs. It is the comparison I would make myself if I were showing you around. Being private also means the pace bends to you and dietary requirements get handled properly.
Be aware: new listing, no reviews yet. The route is well designed on paper and the logic is sound, but you would be an early customer and I cannot tell you how it runs in practice.
Best for: Anyone with dietary restrictions. Families. Travelers who want the market contrast.
Skip if: You want a proven track record, or the private rate is steep for a solo traveler.
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Quick decision: which one to book
- Care what is in the glass? Book #1 (Sommelier Wine & Tapas). Four wines, eight people, three bars.
- Just want a solid evening in the neighborhood? Book #2 (Authentic Tapas). Four stops, Sant Antoni and Poble Sec.
- Want the market and the tradition? Book #3 (Fork Breakfast). Mid-morning, and genuinely unusual.
- Dietary needs, or traveling as a family? Book #4 (Private Boqueria & Sant Antoni). Two markets, your pace.
Going without a tour
Sant Antoni is one of the easier Barcelona neighborhoods to do unguided, because the density is high and the walk is short. If you would rather not book anything, this is roughly what I would do with a free day:
Go on a Sunday morning for the old book and collectors' market around the hall, then eat at one of the bars on the perimeter. This is the neighborhood at its best and it costs nothing to show up.
Walk Carrer del Parlament end to end. Four blocks, and most of the neighborhood's newer vermouth bars and brunch places sit on it. Busy from noon at weekends, which is the point.
Order vermut de grifo, from the tap rather than the bottle, with an olive and a slice of orange. It arrives sweeter than you expect. Our guide to ordering in Spanish covers the phrasing.
Try the fork breakfast if you can get up for it. Ask for the esmorzar de forquilla at a market-adjacent bar before eleven, and do not order anything else first.
The bigger picture
Sant Antoni is the fourth Barcelona neighborhood I've covered in depth, after the Gothic Quarter, El Born and Eixample. If you're deciding between them: the Gothic Quarter has the deepest history, El Born the best modern cooking, Eixample the grandest setting, Sant Antoni the fewest other people like you in the room, and Gràcia the strongest sense of its own identity.
For the citywide view across all neighborhoods, see our ranking of the 9 best food tours in Barcelona, and for what to actually order once you're in front of a menu, our 15 dishes worth prioritizing.