Daily at 6:30pm Duration: 3.5 hours
$69 USD / adult $50 USD / child
This walking food tour covers approx. 1.5mi / 2.5 km.
Try local Han, Mongol, and Muslim cuisines (plus more!) at Beijing’s most authentic restaurants. This top-rated walking food tour will explore the historic hutong alleys of Beijing while making stops at our favorite off the beaten path eateries.
Far more than a meal’s worth of food, local beer, and soft drinks at 4 sit-down restaurants.
Small groups of 2-12 people per tour.
Starts at Shichahai Subway Station. Ends 10 minutes walk away from the start location. An email will be sent with meeting location details immediately after booking.
Reservations cancelled 24 hours or more before your tour start time are fully refundable.
We can accommodate the checked dietary requests on this tour. All requests must be communicated at time of booking. Visit our FAQ section for more details.
This tour starts at Shichahai Subway Station. An email will be sent with meeting location details immediately after booking.
This hidden gem offers rooftop views of Beijing’s historic bell tower and serves local hotpot in traditional copper pots and filled with a clear broth that highlights the quality ingredients. Thin slices of mutton and beef are quickly cooked in the pot and then dipped in a sauce made with sesame paste…plus grab a pint of local craft beer!
When Beijingers want noodles, there’s only one dish we think about. In fact, we literally call it “Beijing Noodles” because all other noodle dishes are inferior. Visit the Yan family’s 100+ year old home, nestled deep inside a hutong courtyard, to try their made-from-scratch secret recipe.
Step into old-Beijing’s historic lanes for a unique glimpse into authentic local life. Dating back to the 12th century, these narrow passages were formed between rows of courtyard houses built by government officials and the wealthy. Find out what the name hutong means, and how they’ve evolved over time, while being guided through the maze of alleyways that spread in every direction from the Forbidden City.
Ever been to a Muslim diner? This hutong eatery is frequented almost exclusively by neighborhood men who keep their bottles of baijiu alcohol behind the counter. The rare Beijing speciality they serve was known to be a favorite of Empress Cixi, and is one of the few places left in town that serve it.
Run by a husband-wife team, this hidden restaurant specializes in spring pancakes, a dish traditionally enjoyed with family during Chinese New Year to celebrate the arrival of spring and a good harvest. Made fresh to order, they are eaten like a burrito and symbolize family reunion and togetherness.
* This itinerary is subject to changes and adjustments based on daily vendor operations and availability, but it will always be awesome.
Seafood chowder, “Kung Pao” chicken, and beef steak with tomato sauce.
We can do much better.
Here’s your Beijing dinner itinerary: you get an email with directions to meet us at a central subway station. Within moments, there’s a cold beer in hand (you’re welcome). You then follow your local guide into your first hutong alleyway, originally home to the city’s first inhabitants centuries ago. You have no idea where you’re going, which way is North, and your Google Maps don’t work. Your gut is telling you that you’re hungry, but also that you’re about to have an excellent time. Trust it.
TripAdvisor’s Travelers Choice Awards ranked our Beijing Hutong Evening Food Tour as the 2nd best food experience in the World. Our Xian Evening Tour was 1st.
“The fun of tonight has been in the adventure: the lost-then-found feeling of a night spent blasting through the unknown, punctuated with homey, unpretentious meals. Tomorrow, we’ll go back to being clueless foreigners in an unfamiliar city, but tonight the curtain was pulled back, and we lived in Beijing, even if it was just for a few hours.”
All dietary requests must be communicated at the time of booking. When booking online, you will have the opportunity to let us know if you have any dietary requirements or special requests. Please use the following information to understand if this tour is right for you.
This tour can accommodate vegetarian travelers, including those who are pescatarian and those who do not eat beef, pork, seafood, shellfish, and/or mutton. However, there will not always be direct substitutes for every dish that we try on the tour. For example, at our 3rd stop we order fried buns filled with beef, and the restaurant does not provide any substitutions. Instead, we order different dishes for those that do not eat meat. Please note that every stop we visit during the tour does use meat in their kitchen.
This tour cannot accommodate vegan or gluten-free travelers. Wheat products are featured at every stop, in sauces like soy sauce and in tour highlights like noodles and doughs. There are no substitutes or alternatives available.
This tour also cannot accommodate severe allergies as we do not have control over the preparation for your food. Travelers that don’t eat nuts are welcome, but kitchens do use nuts and cross-contamination is possible.
If you have any questions not answered here, please contact us prior to booking.
This is not a tasting tour, you should come hungry and you will get more than a full meal of food. If you need more, just let your guide know and we’ll get more, but usually guests cannot finish everything. We also provide unlimited local beer and soft drinks during the tour, plus one glass of local craft beer.
This is a walking tour; let’s just get that out of the way. This tour covers about 1.5 miles / 2.5 km by foot, so we recommend leaving the heels at home. This distance is split up between 4 stops, so it’s roughly a 5-10 minute walk between each stop and a great chance to digest a bit before the next stop. We also find that exploring by foot is the best way to enjoy the sights of Beijing’s hutong alleyways and to see what local life is like up-close.
Our child pricing is valid for ages 4 through 15. Children ages 3 and under are free.
The tour starts at 6:30pm at Shichahai subway station which services subway line 8. You’ll get the exact address, directions, and transportation details immediately after booking.
The tour ends at our last restaurant about 10 minutes by foot from the meeting location. Your guide will point you in the right direction for wherever you need to go next. Many guests decide to stick around the area to do some browsing at a popular nearby shopping street.
Our minimum is 2 and maximum is 12. There’s no flag to follow, or megaphone, or tacky uniforms. It’s small enough to be intimate, but big enough to get away with trying several dishes at each stop. You’ll get plenty of face-time with the experts. Bottom line is, you’ll follow the guide through a super-local experience and make friends along the way.
This tour lasts about 3.5 hours and ends at our final restaurant stop. It’s not uncommon for guests to continue exploring the area on their own after the tour.
If you have any concerns about timing and meeting up based on your itinerary, let us know and we’ll see what we can do to make this as hassle-free as possible.
All of our tours are rain-or-shine, so we suggest you dress for the weather. If rain is possible, an umbrella, along with shoes that can get wet, is a good idea. In rare cases of extreme weather, your guide will cancel the tour and provide a full refund. During times of extreme air pollution (AQI over 400) our tours will run but refunds will be provided if you are unable to join due to health concerns.
Yes we do! If you would like to book a special tour for your organization or group, just contact us and we’ll take care of you.
We have many happy customers who do more than one of our tours in Beijing and across China! We have designed our tours to focus only on food from each city. This means that each dish, story, and vibe is unique to each tour and there aren’t any repeats.
Most people are very surprised how much the cuisine changes as they travel throughout China, and our tours are a good way to discover those differences. We encourage you to pick the tours that best fit your itinerary and we offer a 10% discount if booking more than one tour.
Yes! You’ll get a promo code in your confirmation email that will give you a 10% discount on all future Lost Plate tours. It doesn’t matter if the tour is in the same city or a different city, we want to keep feeding you as long as you let us. Also, children ages 4 through 15 receive a discount on all tours (3 & under are free).
Bookings canceled 24 hours or more before your tour are fully refundable (100% refund). Bookings canceled within 24 hours notice are not refundable. If you would like to reschedule your tour with less than 24 hours notice, we will need to charge 50% of your total since we are unable to fill your spots at short notice.
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Beijing Hutong Evening Food Tour
$69 USD / person
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