Experience food tours in
Medellin with Withlocals

"Jhoan was an excellent guide - highly knowledgeable, passionate, proud about his Medellin & Communa13 where he Greece up. With Jhoan you get a truly personal experience and a fantastic storyteller. Choose him. "

"Incredible experience around Medellin with Jhoan! He is so flexible for time of tours, dates and will adapt to almost anything! Very friendly and passionate about his city he will take the time to answer every question that you may have! I would recommend Jhoan to anyone looking for the best local experience, regarding food around the city, history and culture and even history of the #1 religion in Colombia, futból! See you soo amigo :) "

"Jhoan was an awesome tour guide and travel expert! He showed us all around Medellin and gave us even more information than the details we received through our larger travel agency. He took us around to his favorite street food areas and showed us some hidden secret cultural pieces as well. It was some of the best food we had all trip. After the food tour, he offered to take us to Comuna 13 on a different day after our other tours. He was nice enough to answer a late text from me a few days later and meet up with us to show Comuna 13 at night. This was an amazing experience to see all the sights, people, and culture really come alive. Jhoan has firsthand knowledge of the area and incredible passion for sharing it. We felt extremely safe and were so happy we got to check it out at night. Cannot recommend him or the tours enough!!"

"Jhoan was an excellent guide who made the experience even more worth it. Very informative and I learned so much more than what I could have on a big tour. The food and drinks were also very delicious and when I or my friend were too full to finish a snack or drink, he left it for a homeless person so it wouldn't waste. Definitely recommend him and this experience to everything. Muchas gracias, Jhoan!"

"Jhoun was the best.. I don’t have enough words to say how awesome and knowledgeable he is. We had a great time highly recommend Jhoun!"

"I had a great time during this tour with Jhoan! He is very knowledgeable on the history of Medellin and a authentic person to hangout with. I recommend doing this tour with him!"

"My wife and I took a tour with Jhoan and loved every bit of it. We started with a bunch of street food tastings around Parque Berrio where Jhoan told us so much about the history of the city and the area. After we finished there, Jhoan was kind enough to extend the tour to the Comuna 13 area so off we went to visit there. It was amazing to see the area at night where the street art color seemed to pop even more under the street lights. Jhoan told us so much about the area and everything it's gone through over the years which was so enlightening. We highly recommend this tour, especially with Jhoan!!"

"We did the local foodie tour the first day we were in Medellin. We were a bit intimidated when we first arrived at the meeting spot. The area downtown was pretty rough and our taxi driver warned us to be careful before he let us out. Then we misunderstood the exact meeting spot but Jhoan found us anyway (we stuck out like a sore thumb being the only fair skinned folks and clearly tourists… also fun fact, the locals in Medellin don’t wear shorts…we learned that pretty fast). Jhoan explained what to expect and told us that we were safe and there was nothing to worry about. It was pretty intimidating for us though, especially our kids (8 and 11), who had never been out of the states, as people constantly approached us trying to sell their wares (which of course is not unusual) however some were more aggressive than others which scared my kids a bit. Also we learned that tourism is fairly new to Medellin, like the last 5 years or so, so most folks did not speak English and weren’t used to seeing white folks. Two different men touched my son’s strawberry blonde hair when they walked by because apparently it was exotic to them. Also we had a very hard time getting a taxi after the tour and we hadn’t learned how to take the metro yet (which we found very easy once we did), so we ended up downtown once it got dark basically begging a cab to stop for us. It was a little scary. But as for the tour itself, Jhoan was fantastic. Super knowledgeable, great at sharing the history of the country (which he is clearly passionate about), and the food was delicious. I especially liked the different fruits and fruit juices that I had never tried or heard of. Jhoan was easy to talk to and very likeable. I definitely recommend selecting him as a guide if you’re considering a foodie tour. We really enjoyed our time but having the kids with us made it a bit more stressful because we weren’t as mentally prepared as we should have been with them for the downtown area we were in. "

"Such a great tour with Johan. Johan was very accommodating, showed us great food around downtown Medellin and made us feel like locals. Really fun. Then he took us through Communa 13, and shared the very important history with us in immense detail - he knew the meaning behind the graffiti artwork very well and had very personal stories to share given he also grew up in the neighborhood. Would highly recommend Johan if you want an authentic guide of Medellin, which you most definitely do! "

"Come hungry! My husband and I were very happy with the food and history Jhoan provided on our afternoon together. He is very knowledgeable and shared some of his background with us that really helped us to appreciate not just the food but the history of Medellin. I recommend this tour with Jhoan."