Discover Funchal through a guided walking tour centered on local food, wine, and the everyday flavors of Madeira. This experience offers a natural introduction to the city through taste, tradition, and storytelling.

The tour takes you through local markets, traditional shops, and carefully selected tasting stops, allowing you to explore Madeira’s gastronomy in a relaxed and accessible way. Along the route, you’ll experience regional products while gaining insight into the culture and habits behind them.

The experience is paced to balance walking, tasting, and storytelling, creating a comfortable and engaging way to connect with the city.

Highlights

9 Stops.
11 Food Tastings
6 Drinks

Experience Schedule

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday – From 10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Meeting Point

Infante Roundabout (right next to H&M Store entrance) at 10:00 a.m.

The meeting point is centrally located in Funchal, making the tour easy to access for visitors staying in the city. Full details are provided after booking confirmation.

The tour starts at 10.00. Attendance 15 minutes earlier is required.

What you can expect

Our guide will meet your clients at the H&M Store entrance by the Infante’s roundabout at 09:45 a.m. along with the rest of the group. The tour always begins at 10:00 a.m.

1st Stop: Madeira Wine

The first stop is at a Madeira Wine Producer. Madeira island is best known for its fortified wine for over 500 years, which is why this tour must start off with a Madeira wine tasting. In Madeira no matter what it is always past 5 o’clock!

2nd Stop: Homemade Dish

Next stop, a local favourite, a restaurant where everyone will taste a homemade dish called “Carne de vinha d´alhos” (pork marinated with garlic and wine) traditionally served at Christmas time in Madeira. Along with this delicious dish we´ll taste the locally produced beer “Coral”, a lager type beer of a pale golden colour, loved by locals.

3rd Stop: Local Chocolats

Following on to our 3rd stop of the tour: a Madeiran chocolatier with delicious treats that combines irresistible chocolate with typical local flavours.

4th Stop: Cookies & Sweets

Continuing with sweets we move on to our 4th stop: a well-known cookies and sweets factory in Madeira. This factory is an all-time favorite and classic where all Madeirans go to, specially during Christmas time!

5th Stop: Madeiran Still Wines & Finger Food

After tasting all of these mouth-watering sweets, our 5th stop is next: a restaurant where we will taste our Madeira table wine and crostinis made with local products and flavours.

6th Stop: Poncha

A typical old Madeiran grocery store is stop number 6, where we can shop for spices, beans, potatoes…and taste the famous Poncha, a much-loved drink by the locals of many flavours being the most typical one consisting of sugar cane rum, lemon and sugar. Locals always say that “In Madeira, if you have a cold, a fever, a broken heart… Poncha is the medicine”.

7th Stop: Local Market

Our 7th stop is our famous Farmer’s Market. Inaugurated in 1940, this building will showcase and abundancy of flowers and all the seasonal exotic fruits that grow in Madeira, some we probably may have never even seen in our life. Take time and contemplate all the beautiful colours and scents… Here, we will also encounter our bustling fish market and get to see how some of the fish that we will taste or tasted look like.

8th Stop: Local Market – Fruit Tasting

Our 8th stop is our little surprise right inside the market. Smell, touch, taste and challenge your taste buds while discovering our local, seasonal and may we add delicious fruits!

9th Stop Savoury Tuna

On our last stop is in the charismatic old town Funchal where you’ll taste a typical and popular dish amongst the locals, Garlic Tuna accompanied by fried cornmeal and the famous flatbread with garlic & parsley butter. Our local soda is offered to accompany this tasting and will not leave you disappointed!

Target Audience

People who like to eat in general (who doesn’t?)
Foodies
People who value to get to know the gatronomy and specialties in a destination
Cruisers – If Funchal is a destination of your cruise itinerary this tour makes a great shore excursion. The meeting point is within walking distance from the port and you get to walk though the city centre. Since you won’t feel the need to have lunch after the tour, you will have the remaning hours to enjoy as you wish before you get back to the cruise ship.