Denver RiNo Food Tour with Central Market
Taste five dishes and optional drink pairings while exploring Denver's vibrant street art neighborhood.
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Taste five dishes and optional drink pairings while exploring Denver's vibrant street art neighborhood.
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3 hrs
Guided food tour, Five tastings
Eat your way through the RiNo Arts District on a three-hour walking food tour that pairs five generous tastings with a guided walk through one of Denver's most colorful and creative neighborhoods. The tour visits a curated mix of local restaurants and wraps up inside the Denver Central Market, the food hall that helped put this former warehouse district on the city's culinary map.
The tour covers just under one mile at a leisurely pace, with all tastings served indoors and enough food across all five stops to replace a full lunch.
The tour covers just under one mile of flat, easy walking spread over approximately three hours. All tastings take place indoors. Groups are small, up to 15 guests. Five food tastings are included, with enough food across all stops to serve as a full lunch. Three optional drink pairings are available for an additional $35. The tour can accommodate vegetarian, vegan, and pescatarian diets with advance notice; gluten-free and dairy-free diets cannot be fully accommodated. Let the operator know about any dietary needs or allergies at the time of booking. Tours run rain or shine.
This is a typical itinerary for this food tour. The specific restaurants and dishes may rotate, but the format, number of tastings, and neighborhood route remain consistent.
Your guide meets the group at the first restaurant on Larimer Street in the RiNo Arts District. Look for the orange "Delicious Denver Food Tours" button. After introductions and a quick overview of the afternoon, the tasting begins.
The tour visits five restaurants and food vendors over three hours, each selected for what it represents about Denver's culinary identity. Past stops have included Los Chingones, Chef Troy Guard's modern Mexican concept known for inventive tacos with fillings like pork belly and tequila shrimp; Redeemer Pizza, a RiNo favorite serving sourdough-crust slices ranked among Denver's best; and Vero Italian inside the Denver Central Market, known for house-made ricotta gnocchi and wood-fired pizza. Other rotating stops have featured Bavarian pretzels with local beer cheese, urban-farmed greens, mochi donuts, and seasonal small-batch ice cream from High Point Creamery. At each stop, your guide explains the restaurant's story, the chef's approach, and how the dish fits into Denver's broader food scene. Portions are generous, and the cumulative tasting across all five stops is enough to serve as a full lunch.
The walks between restaurants are short and flat, but they pass through some of the most visually striking blocks in Denver. The RiNo Arts District is covered in large-scale murals, painted walls, and alleyway installations that change annually, many created during the CRUSH Walls festival that brings street artists from around the world to the neighborhood. Your guide points out individual murals, explains the themes and techniques behind them, and shares the story of how RiNo transformed from a cluster of abandoned warehouses and industrial buildings into one of Denver's most sought-after neighborhoods for food, art, and nightlife. The commentary covers the district's history as a historically Black neighborhood, its decades of vacancy, and the wave of creative businesses, breweries, and restaurants that reshaped it beginning in the early 2010s.
A highlight of the tour is the Denver Central Market, the food hall at 2669 Larimer Street that opened in 2016 and is widely credited with sparking Denver's food hall movement. Housed in a restored 1920s building that once served as the H.H. Tammen Curio Company warehouse, the market brings together roughly a dozen vendors under one roof: wood-fired pizza, artisan bread, handmade chocolates, fresh seafood, specialty coffee, ice cream, and a full cocktail bar. Your guide leads you to one of the market's standout vendors for a tasting and shares the history of the building and its role in the neighborhood's transformation. After the tasting, you have time to explore the market on your own. Many guests return to the Denver Central Market later in their trip.
Refunds and exchanges are available up until 24 hours before the tour start time. No shows will be charged the full price.
The tour meets at Los Chingones RiNo, 2463 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80205.
Free street parking is nearby, and a paid lot is available at Denver Central Market one block away.
This is a walking tour; guests walk between the five stops.
The tour begins at a restaurant on Larimer Street in the RiNo Arts District (specific meeting point confirmed upon booking). Free street parking is often available nearby but can fill up on weekends and evenings. A paid parking lot is located at the Denver Central Market, one block away. Rideshare and public transit are convenient alternatives.
The Denver Central Market sits at 2669 Larimer Street in the heart of the RiNo Arts District, inside a building that has been a curio warehouse, a cabinet shop, an antique store, and an exotic used-car showroom since the 1920s. When it opened as a food hall in September 2016, it was one of the first of its kind in Denver, and it quickly became a finalist for Bon Appetit's "America's Best New Restaurants." Today it anchors the neighborhood's food scene with roughly a dozen vendors selling wood-fired pizza, artisan bread, handmade pasta, craft chocolates, specialty coffee, and seasonal ice cream under one roof. It is the kind of place where you can grab a ricotta gnocchi from Vero, a pastry from Izzio Bakery, and a cocktail from Curio Bar and eat at communal tables surrounded by the preserved brick and timber of the original building.
This food tour uses the Denver Central Market as both a tasting stop and a frame for understanding the broader RiNo food scene. The tour starts and ends within a few blocks of the market, visiting five restaurants along the way that represent different corners of Denver's culinary identity: inventive Mexican street food, New York-style sourdough pizza, house-made Italian pasta, and seasonal desserts from local producers. Between stops, your guide walks you through the murals and painted alleyways that have made RiNo famous, explaining how the annual CRUSH Walls festival draws international street artists to paint the neighborhood's warehouses and how the arrival of restaurants, breweries, and food halls like the Denver Central Market transformed a once-overlooked industrial zone into one of the city's most popular destinations.
This tour is a natural fit for first-time Denver visitors who want an introduction to the city's food scene and street art culture in a single afternoon, food enthusiasts looking to discover restaurants they would not find on their own, couples or friends looking for a shared activity that combines eating with exploring, and anyone curious about the Denver Central Market who wants context and a guided tasting rather than walking in cold. The pace is easy, the portions are substantial, and you leave with a dining guide of local recommendations to use for the rest of your trip.
This family-owned operation consistently delivers exceptional food tour experiences across Denver, with guides like Barry, Jessica, Nate, and Zach earning enthusiastic praise for their knowledge and energy. Reviewers who've done food tours around the world rank these among the very best, appreciating the generous portions (often full-size rather than just tastes) and carefully curated restaurant selections that showcase Denver's culinary scene. What really sets these tours apart is the combination of great food with genuinely engaging storytelling about Denver's history and neighborhoods. Guides are described as knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and entertaining, creating an experience that feels special rather than formulaic. The tours include thoughtful touches like private seating sections at restaurants, and the walking pace balances exploration with comfort. If you're visiting Denver and want to discover the food scene while learning about the city from passionate locals, this comes highly recommended.
Best time we've had in a long time!!! The food was delicious and Austin was an Excellent Guide!!
Anita Barrett
April 1, 2026
Best time we've had in a long time!!! The food was delicious and Austin was an Excellent Guide!!
Anita Barrett
April 1, 2026