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.

Walk through the Brussels' city center along famous landmarks and their chocolate-related legends
Venture past the Grand Place, the Royal Palace, and art nouveau houses
Learn about the history of chocolate and Belgian pralines
Free tastings in the most exclusive chocolate boutiques
Extensive Belgian chocolate demonstration including samples
Hands on chocolate workshop with a chocolate connoisseur
Take your own chocolate creation home with you

What's Included

Guided walking tour
Exclusive chocolate tastings at the best chocolatiers of Brussels
1 hour chocolate workshop
Experienced Belgian guide
Selection of Belgian pastries with hot drinks (coffee/tea)

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

Meeting And Pickup

Meeting point

Grand Place 21
Grand Place 21, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
You'll meet your guide outside GODIVA in the Grand'Place. Our tour guides wear a blue jacket or sweater with our logo' Global Enterprises'.

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 Grand Place, a former market square, and art nouveau architecture. Browse the window displays of antique shops on 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 specialties like Easter eggs and delicate truffles filled with creamy alcoholic liqueurs. Conclude your epicurean excursion with a chocolate-making workshop in which the complex production processes are revealed.

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

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Guild Houses

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Please note: Infants and children under 6 years old are not allowed on the tour. Anyone who arrives at the departure point with a child under 6 years old will not be allowed to take the tour and will not be refunded.
Our guides are wearing a blue jacket or tshirt with our logo Brussels Walking Tours

Near public transportation
Most travellers can participate
People beeing late will have to call a least 30 minutes before the tour. No shows will not be refunded.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travellers

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 travellers. If it’s cancelled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

Traveller Photos

Traveller Tips

Highly recommend doing this tour but don't plan a nice meal afterwards because all the chocolate will ruin you lunch/dinner!

It was a very, very crowded day in the city center, but still worth it.

Making your own chocolates with toppings and getting to take them with you is a very nice touch to a great experience.

Reviews

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The guide was very...

Deborah_B, Mar 2023

The guide was very knowledgeable and the tour was great. And of course the chocolate was amazing....

Great chocolate tour of...

amp881, Mar 2023

Great chocolate tour of Brussels. Tastings at 4 different shops with history interspersed both on chocolate and the city. Details on regions, selection, and then a workshop to prepare some creations to take home.

Choccy heaven

Sam_M, Feb 2023

Guide was fantastic worth every penny, the chocolate class was a blast, gave good insight on the best choc shops tp buy from.

Fantastic tour!

Bradley_C, Jan 2023

We had such a great time on the tour! We had some fantastic chocolate from multiple different chocolatiers and learned so much about chocolate and Brussels history. Would definitely recommend this tour to others who are visiting Brussels.

Love learning about chocolate!

Anita_L, Nov 2022

Loved going to the Bean to Bars chocolate stores. The guide was very knowledgeable but spoke too fast, even asking him to slow down. I also wished I knew we were also getting some city tour highlights as I could have skipped the morning tour we did. It was nice to include on this tour. I thought the workshop was going to be more hands-on but was really just a chocolate-decorating exercise

Chocolate Lovers Heaven!

Michael_S, Aug 2022

WOW WOW WOW - if you love chocolate, you will love this tour and workshop! We learned about the different regions of the world that produce the cocoa bean and how the taste changes between those regions. In the workshop, we made our own chocolates and got to take those with us. The highlight, though, was really Avo, our guide who has extensive knowledge and a great sense of humor, and the chocolate sampling at different chocolatiers and confectioners. The sampling is bordering on Death by Chocolate as there were so many samples provided along the tour and an extensive variety. This tour was the highlight of our trip to Brussels!!!

Chocolate Delight

Gregory_S, July 2022

Mark was very knowledgeable about chocolate. We experienced good Belgian chocolate and then exquisite chocolate at Mary’s. The chocolate workshop was insightful and really a lot of fun. His tour also included parts of Brussels we had not seen before. I highly recommend this tour.

Got Chocolate?

Hazel_Y, July 2022

Wonderful couple who were hosts. Enjoyed thoroughly, especially Mary’s! Loved hearing about the history of this place plus about the history of chocolate!

Must do in Brussels

Ann_C, June 2022

Wonderful tour! Avo, our guide was knowledgeable as well as humorous. We learned so much about the history of chocolate as well as the city. Ate lots of amazing chocolate and then created some of our own. Highly recommend for any age.

Excellent experience

Lisa_W, June 2022

Excellent tour guide, was super knowledgeable about the chocolate history and industry of Belgium. The workshop was so fun!

Wonderful!

tvssc9pf9c, May 2022

All the chocolate!!!! We saw lots of different thing than the walking tour we took that morning! We highly recommend!

Yummy Chocolate!

Ann_Z, Apr 2022

This was the best Chocolate tour ever because of the Workshop!!!!! The sister Beer Tasting Tour said they were better, but I KNOW ours was more fun! We visited 3 Chocolatiers, toured the main sites of Brussels then went to our workshop. We had so much fun making chocolate and making friends. Was a wonderful treat/souvenir to take home! We even tasted single origin European Hot Chocolate! I will do this tour the next time I go to Brussels, and I will recommend it to all my friends.

Deliciously decadent

Araceli_E, Feb 2022

We enjoyed our chocolate tour very much. Guide was very knowledgeable and we learned about the different chocolates choices that are available.

Don’t bother

Valerie_P, Sept 2021

Zero stars. The tour guide never showed up. I’m just hoping I get a refund but if so that will be at least a week to process.

Response from Host, Oct 2021

Hello Valerie, are you shure it was with us that you booked the tour? A guide that never showed up with us is impossible, even after 35 years of experience. Maybe you were at the wrong meeting point? And whydidn't you call when there was nobody?

Outstanding tour guide, fantastic chocolates!

David_B, Aug 2021

Outstanding tour guide, fantastic chocolates. This was not our first time to Brussels but our tour guide showed us several different places we had not seen before.

Great time

donnavanderhagen, July 2021

What a great tour! Mary was an amazing tour guide. We saw the city of Brussels and enjoyed delicious chocolates along the way. We had a wonderful time learning about chocolates and making our own during the workshop. Highly recommend!

Great experience 5/5

Ernst_S, Jan 2021

Nicest people giving the the tour. Even with Covid-19, they made it worthwile! Fantastic, I would recommend it to anyone who visits Brussels

Great tour experience, the workshop is a bonus :)

Niaritiana_R, Dec 2020

Took this tour with my mom, what an incredible experience. We had a very experienced and friendly guide who made it really enjoyable to walk around Brussels and visit all the finest chocolate shops there. The workshop was an awesome experience.

Chocolate walk

Priscilla_Y, Mar 2020

This chocolate walking tour was great. All the shops we sampled were very good. I especially like the order in which the shops were presented so that we really got a good sampling and were able to see the variations in the tastes of different makers. The workshop was a lot of fun. I highly recommend this tour. Our guide, Christos, was very knowledgeable and not only gave us a lesson in chocolate but also filled us with history of Brussels and Belgium.

Great tour

Yolanda_H, Mar 2020

This was a great way to learn the city it was only two of us for this tour so we got to do extra stuff and when it came for the workshop we took our time it was so much fun to make my own chocolate

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