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Brussels Chocolate Walking Tour and Workshop

Name: Brussels Chocolate Walking Tour and Workshop
Brand: Global Enterprises bv
SKU: 5071WALKING
Price: 75.53 USD
Rating: 4.5 (732 reviews)

Badge of ExcellenceBrussels, Belgium

3 hours 30 minutes
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

Overview

Learn about the history of Brussels and its love affair with chocolate on a walking tour led by a guide. Walk past the Royal Palace and art nouveau architecture of Brussels and stop in exclusive chocolate boutiques for tastings as you go. After sampling truffles, pralines and more, attend a chocolate-making workshop where you learn the secrets behind the sweets.

Save time: Combine a walking tour with a chocolate workshop
Walk through the Brussels' city center and learn chocolate-related legends
Enjoy 10 tastings at exclusive chocolate boutiques
Experience includes a selection of delicious Belgian pastries

What's Included

Guided walking tour.
10 chocolate tastings at the best chocolatiers of Brussels
1,5 hour chocolate workshop. Create your own pralines.
Experienced Belgian guide
Selection of Belgian pastries

Gratuities
Hotel pickup and drop off
Food and drinks, unless specified

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Grand Place 23, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
The meeting point for your tour is Grand'Place 23, 1000 Bruxelles. You will meet up with your guide, outside MARY GRAND'PLACE, a least 15 minutes before departure. The tour will start on time. Late arrivals will not be accepted or refund.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Greet your guide at a central location in Brussels then set out on your tour of the city. Combine culture with cuisine as you stroll to historic highlights like the Grand Place, a former market square, and art nouveau architecture. Access photo opportunities such as Jeanneken Pis and venture inside the oldest chocolate shop in the country to taste Belgian pralines.

Stop intermittently for samples in established chocolate shops, trying around 10 different chocolates. Your epicurean excursion also includes a chocolate-making workshop in which the complex production processes are revealed and you can sample pastries too.

Under the guidance of a connoisseur, create your own flavor combinations then enjoy the fruits of your labor after you’ve completed them. After your tour of culture and cuisine, bid your guide farewell at another central city location.

Grand Place

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Jeanneke Pis

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

St. Catherine's Church

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Belgian Chocolate Workshop in Brussels

1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Mary Chocolatier

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Galler Chocolatier

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Manneken Pis

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Place St. Gery

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation

Most travelers can participate
Infants are not allowed on this tour.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 25 travelers

Operated by Global Enterprises bv

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Featured review

Matthew_F

Walking through parts of the City with Beni while she showed us some of the best chocolates and chocolatiers in Brussels. She was an awesome guide and we had lots of fun. Having delicious prepared chocolate for us to make our own shapes and add ingredients was a tasty takeaway. We had a blast and would definitely recommend.

Reviews

4.5

732 reviews

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Tasty Tour in Brussels.

Matthew_F, May 2024

fun filled family activity

Vanessa_M, May 2024

Beni is a wonderful lively and interactive guide! Lots of fun facts and good history shared. Warm memories were created and surely be kept.

Great chocolate tour

Sara_D, Apr 2024

It was great the tour guide was knowledgeable about history and chocolate. On top of everything the chocolate stores were delicious. It gave you an insight into which stores were worth spending money at.

Not what we expected!

April_B, Apr 2024

Eddie was very nice and very knowledgeable about the area. By 10 samplings they mean 4-5 chocolate shops and choosing 2-3 pieces of chocolate. We didn’t see the statues on the tour that it indicated. And we expected professional dipping with instructions, it’s more like “here’s a bowl of chocolate, go for it!” Then a big beer tasting group came in the room and I and it was loud and crazy. It was very expensive for what we got. Still an enjoyable evening but too much walking and too much money.

Le tour chocolat

Leslie_B, Apr 2024

Had such a great tour/worksop with Avo! He is super knowledgeable! Learned so much about chocolate and Beligum! Definitely recommended!

Best guide ever

julie_k, Apr 2024

The tour was amaizing, the location was convenient, the shops and the factory were all a walking distance and the best thing about the tour was the guide!! Eddy made our experience exceptional, THANK you!

Best tour guide

Tyler_K, Apr 2024

Our tour guide is what made this experience 5 stars. She was outgoing, funny, knowledgeable and kind. Of course all of the chocolate shops were amazing as well!

Tasting chocolate

Tim_O, Mar 2024

I enjoyed hearing your stories. Thanks Mary! It was nice to learn some history of Brussels and walk and see different buildings.

Wow

James_M, Mar 2024

Our Guide Avo was INCREDIBLE!! Such a great tour guide. Would recommend this opportunity to anyone who travels to brussels!

History and Chocolate info combo

Roberta_M, Mar 2024

Mary was a lovely guide :) witty and knowledgeable making the whole tour mire interesting. She incorporated history with chocolate info and gave us some tips along the way

Awesome time!

Samir_K, Mar 2024

Had an amazing time! Benny was great, she taught us the history, showed us the sights, and kept the whole experience super fun. She really gave my wife and I a great lesson on chocolate, would strongly recommend

Loads of fun

Sofia_R, Feb 2024

Great experience, the guide was fun, energetic and interesting. Gave us plenty of suggestions also on what to do after the tour.

Most delicious chocolate we have ever tasted!

Catherine_M, Jan 2024

The chocolate tasting was amazing but learning all about of the origins along the way made the whole experience a 10/10

Yummy tour

Linda_Y, Jan 2024

I had Eddie today and we got to try some amazing chocolates today. I like that we go into some smaller places that are unique in taste and creations. Not the big factory churn outs. We also got to make some of our own creations with biscuits and marshmallow and seeing a short video of how chocolates came about. We ended the tour with some more chocolate tastings and a hot chocolate. Now I'm in a sugar coma. It's was great introduction to the belgium chocolate and walking around the square. Thoroughly enjoyed my day. Thanks Eddie

Thought the workshop would be better than dipping pieces into a fondue pot

Di_L, Dec 2023

Not much! Just we expected a bit more. We were disappointed. We didn’t need to go and see some of the places we were brought to .. they had no relation to chocolate!

Response from Host, Jan 2024

First of all : the tour is a walking tour past the main sights of brussels. There are 10 chocolate tastings and 1 hour chocolate workshop. In 1 hour workshop there is not time to make real pralines, since you need to temperate the chocolate. What we teach you are the basics to make mendiants and your own creations. It's a fun workshop. Don't forget that it takes 3 years to become a chocolate master.

Good tour but sadly overpriced

Rachel_P, Dec 2023

Tour was good.. Avo is very knowledgable. In terms of chocolate making - just poured melted chocolate into circles on a piece of plastic and topped with nuts and fruit etc. in terms of chocolate tasting, around 8 chocolates from great chocolatiers (this would be around €10 if you did it yourself). Good tour but not quite worth €60pp

Response from Host, Jan 2024

Hello Rachel, our chocolate tour is one of the cheapest on Viator, with 3H30. Combining 10 chocolate tastings, 1 hour chocolate workshop and venture past the major sights. Besides the chocolates you made in the workshop are sold in the major chocolate stores of Brussels at 12 euro per 100 gr. And you made 250 gr during the workshop. Take a look at the price for a professional chocolate workshop : at least 250 euro, for 1 hour.

Loved our guide, exceptional tour

Elizabeth_P, Dec 2023

We loved our guide who told us about Brussels as well as the history of chocolate making. The chocolate tastings were exceptional. The chocolate making portion of the tour was very simple and better suited for children (in my opinion we could have skipped the chocolate making and visited another store instead). Overall we immensely enjoyed this experience and would recommend it to others.

Rochelle B

ROCHELLEM_B, Dec 2023

The most memorable part was making our chocolate. However that was a very small part of an otherwise very boring tour!

Response from Host, Jan 2024

Hello Rochelle, what exacly was boring? The explinations, the guide?

A must do!!!

Gregory_L, Dec 2023

Madeline was great and she knew a lot about the city and the chocolate. She was easy to talk to and made the group quit comfortable as we all didn’t know each other. What a great experience.

Easy paced tasting tour.

Jeff_S, Nov 2023

Good tour or some Brussels high spots and chocolate shops. Slow paced and informative guide. Great tastings at multiple spots along the route.

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