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Secret Food Tour: London Bridge and Borough Market

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Savour London’s fantastic Secret Food Tour: London Bridge and Borough Market. Your guides are real foodies, and they have made it their goal to introduce visitors to the excellence of British traditional food. Surely you wouldn’t want to miss London’s delicious food. During Christmas times, you will be welcomed with mulled wine all around. The guides will be sharing with you their local knowledge of the dining culture and the latest gastronomy trends. The local guides will take you to food shops, beloved by the locals of the area, and we are sure that you’ll fall in love with them too. If you are a foodie, this is a tour you should get done when you are in London. And London tour packages won’t disappoint you in any way.
borough market london
Borough Market London

Highlights of the Secret Food Tour:

  • Get inside tips from a local
  • Free drinks included
  • Vegetarian meal options available

You’ll get to try many famous British foods and delicacies, all guaranteed to get your taste buds tingling.

Itinerary of the London Bridge and Borough Market Secret Food Tour

  • Firstly, your local London guide will take you to the exciting Borough Market to soak up the atmosphere, see the 100 different stalls and eat some English fudges/chocolate. This eating paradise was not even on the tourist foodie radar a few years ago. Still, in the market, you will try award-winning Lincolnshire sausages followed by the best and most fresh fish and chips in town (and you will get to see the difference between chips and French fries).

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  • Next will see local chocolate and cheese shops and try freshly baked homemade bread from the famous Bread Ahead Bakery.
  • Your tour will continue to a historic pub where you can try the best of British cheeses, served with grapes, fig cakes and chutneys Washed down with real London Beers, Ales, or delicious ciders (or non-alcoholic options).
  • You’ll also see the world-famous London Bridge and Tower Bridge along the River Thames and also the Battleship HMS Belfast.
  • Finally, the tour ends with classic desserts, such as cheesecakes, chocolate brownies or treacle sponge pudding all washed down with a pot of refreshing tea.
  • Oh, and of course, there’s the delicious secret dish too which we are sure you wouldn’t want to miss after an all-day tour!

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London Bridge Food Scene

London Bridge has a flourishing market and food scene, mixed with real London life, historic culture and a charming ambience. The area is packed with exciting little back streets, pubs and market stalls, all adding to its appeal as a unique London food destination.

You can’t go to London Bridge without going to Borough Market and seeing the River Thames. During your tour, your guide will entertain/enlighten you with stories about the area, and by the end, you’ll have a great understanding of the city’s food, history and culture along with some top tips about the best places to visit.

London secret food tour
London Secret Food tour

Inclusions in the Secret Food Tour:

  • Food tour in small-group or private groups (depending on the option selected)
  • Bacon and egg bap
  • Traditional sausage roll
  • Fish and chips
  • Selection of British cheeses, fruit, crackers, chutney
  • Sticky toffee pudding
  • A Secret Dish (to be revealed on the day)
  • Drinks (Fresh Tea; Ale, beer, or cider; Honey mead; Non-alcoholic options)
  • Local professional guide

Exclusions in the Secret Food Tour:

  • Hotel pickup and drop-off

Additional Information about the Secret Food Tour:

  • Confirmation will be received at the time of booking
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • The minimum drinking age is 18 years
  • Adult pricing applies to all travellers

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Meeting And Pickup

Meeting point

6 Tooley St, London SE1 2SY, UK

We’ll meet outside Evans Cycle Shop near London Bridge Station. Evans Cycle Shop is on two floors – please meet at the top on Dukes Street Hill – outside Evans Cycle Shop – which is opposite the Barrowboy and Banker Pub and next to London Bridge.

The endpoint of the Secret Food Tour

Tower Bridge, United Kingdom

The tour will end very near London Bridge Station.

Secret London Food Tour Information

  • You can present either a paper or mobile ticket for this activity.
  • Complete Operator information, including local telephone numbers at your destination, is included on your Confirmation Ticket.

Tour Cancellation Policy

All sales are final and incur 100% cancellation penalties.

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Saxon London

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After the Romans left, the city of London fell into a downside of decline. The population diminished considerably and a large area of the city was left in ruins.

London’s location on the Thames River where the London Bridge was made by the Romans was too good for this decline to continue, and the 7th century saw trade once more expand and the city grew once again.

By the 9th century, London was a very wealthy trading and business centre, and its wealth attracted the attention of Danish Vikings. The Danes periodically sailed up the Thames and attacked London. In 851 some 350 longboats full of Danes attacked and burned London to the ground.

The tale of the next century is a confused one, with first English, then Danish, then Norman kings controlling the city. The Danes were ousted from the city by Alfred the Great in 886, and Alfred made London a part of his kingdom of Wessex. In the years following the death of Alfred, however, the city fell once more into the hands of the Danes. Danes seriously didn’t’t want to give up the city of London knowing the wealth made by people through business and trade at that time.

The Danes did not have it all their way. In 1014 when they were busy occupying the city a large force of Anglo-Saxons and Norwegian Vikings sailed up the Thames to attack London. The Danes lined London Bridge and bombarded the attackers with spears.

The attacks ceased when the Danish king Cnut (Canute) came to power in 1017. Cnut managed to unite the Danes with the Anglo-Saxons and invited Danish merchants to settle in the city. London prospered under Cnut, but on his death, the city reverted to Anglo-Saxon control under Edward the Confessor. Edward had been raised in Normandy, so his rule brought French influence and trade.

London was now the wealthiest and largest city on the island of Britain – but it was not the capital of the realm. The official seat of government was at Winchester, although the royal residence was generally in London.

Edward the Confessor was an extremely religious man, and he made it his dream to build an enormous monastery and church on an island on the Thames just upriver from the city. He founded again the abbey at Westminster and moved his court there.

When Edward died in 1065, his successor, Harold, was crowned in the new abbey, strengthening London’s role as the most significant city in England.

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