The Cali Street Food Tour

Cali Cultural Tours
Aug 2, 2024
3 min read

Updated: Jun 9

Duration: 2 hours.

Mode: walking.

Start time: 12:30pm (private start times also available).

Price: 95.000 COP (or $23 USD) per person via card or PayPal. Get 10% discount paying in pesos or dollars cash.

Meeting point: Subway Sandwich Store at Bulevar del Rio and Calle 8 crossing https://maps.app.goo.gl/a31rFKMoMxQRtwQB8

Includes: More than 20 different local snacks, like: mango viche, chontaduro, cholado, marranitas, papa rellena, empanadas, champús, pandebono & more. Vegetarians are welcome.

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Tourist enjoying cholado during street food tour Cali Colombia — Enjoy a refreshing cholado: ice with fruits

Discover my hometown tasting it's flavours, found on the street 🥟 Plus landmarks 🏛️ and culture 💃 with this street food tour. Beyond that, it's my introduction to Cali.

Check the tour's route in Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9WfZsbL66hpKNc1H9

I will take you through a list of food spots that I've personally chosen for their authenticity and taste. We will cover a good range of street food & snacks: from hots to colds, solids to beverages, sweet to salty, stores & street vendors, national and local, fried to baked, fruits to meats, and everything in between.

Local Cali bread to taste during street food tour Cali Colombia — Sweet Cali bread

BAKED GOODS STOP

Good colombian bread. Pandebono, buñuelo, roscón, pan galleta. There are also options with guava sweet or milk caramel, coconut, cheese, sausage, and even coffee.

Plantain chips platanitos to try during street food tour Cali Colombia — Plantain chips

BONUS intermmediate stop (only during weekdays): street fried chip plantains, potato chips, and salchipapa.

Surprise! As part of this food tour, we will check out the Salsa Plaza, listen to some salsa songs, even learn some salsa steps for you to feel more confident to face front a night of party and dancing in Cali...

Plazoleta Jairo Varela salsa trumpets during street food tour Cali Colombia — It's not just food, it's also landmarks and touristy spots

FRIED FOOD STOP

The stop of the street food tour to get full!

Empanada: fried corn crust, meat and potato inside (celiac)

Papa aborrajada: loaf of potato with a crusting (vegetarian)

Papa rellena: potato with rice and meat inside

Marranita: sweet plantain with fried pork inside

Cali Colombia Street Food Tour — Everything will be explained to you

typical local authentic fried food during Cali Colombia Street Food Tour — Papa rellena

Aborrajado: sweet plantain with cheese inside (vegetarian)

Champús: beverage with corn, pineapple, lulo, bitter orange leaves and cloves (vegan)

Lulada: beverage with lulo, ice and condensed milk (vegetarian)

Juices of assorted fruits

BONUS intermmediate stop (only during weekdays): chontaduro, fruit & juice of this regional fruit said to be aphrodisiac, great for vegans and vegetarians because it has a lot of protein, found as street food.

SHAVED ICE STOP

Raspado shaved ice with sweet syrup cali colombia street food tour — Raspado: shaved sweet ice

Raspado: scraped ice with blackberry syrup

Cholado: same as above + assortment of 10 fruits

Cholado explosión cítrica: shaved ice with green mango syrup + assortment of acid and citric fruits.

Lulada: beverage with lulo, ice and condensed milk.

Maracuyada: beverage with passion fruit, ice and condensed milk.

Ensalada de frutas: assortment of 10 fruits, cheese, condensed milk.

All tasting options are snacks, not big dishes. But don't be fooled, some are not small and I ASSURE: your stomach will be full by the end.

Vegetarians welcome. Gluten-free people are welcome. Meat-lovers welcome as well! There are options for everybody.

The street food tour starts and ends in Bulevar del Rio, the city's favorite spot for its breeze and ambience. We will be walking and stopping at several food businesses and street vendors. I will guide you on what everything is and what each spot does best, and you'll let your eyes and mouth decide what you want to try. We will have stops over a short distance of 1.3 kilometers (less than a mile). We will go around the Bulevar, CAM, Plazoleta Jairo Varela, La Ermita and back to the bulevar. We will focus on the nicer, safer side of town. Try to bring an empty stomach if you want to try everything or most. We say "full belly, happy heart".

Any questions just let me know with the button at the beggining, or book now with the button below and taste all the must try snacks of the city while walking around the major landmarks with my street food tour!