Food Tour in Acre

Free Food Tour in Acre with Roamee Pro

Roamee Pro, also known as Roamee, offers a free food tour route in Acre. The audio walking tour can include stops such as Crusader Fortress — The underground halls and tunnels built by the Knights Hospitaller in the 12th and 13th centuries were buried when the Ottomans built their citadel directly above them, creating a subterranean complex that remained sealed for over 500 years until its rediscovery in 1994. The excavated chambers include a massive refectory with Gothic ribbed vaulting, a sugar production facility, latrines, and a network of passages, all in remarkable condition, their carved column capitals and vaulted ceilings conveying the scale and ambition of the Crusader presence in the Levant., Ottoman old town — The UNESCO-listed walled quarter is a living neighborhood where roughly 10,000 residents occupy houses above and around the Crusader ruins, its market lanes threading between mosques, hammams, khans (caravanserais), and the massive sea-facing fortifications that Napoleon famously failed to breach during his 1799 siege. The old city's layered history is visible at every turn, with Ottoman arches resting on Crusader foundations and Mamluk-era decorative stonework embedded in later walls., Al-Jazzar Mosque — Built in 1781 by the Ottoman governor Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (who earned the epithet 'the Butcher' for his ruthless governance), this is the largest mosque in Israel outside Jerusalem, featuring a green dome, a courtyard with a marble fountain, and an underground cistern from the Crusader period repurposed as a ritual ablution pool. The mosque is said to contain hairs from the Prophet Muhammad's beard, kept in a small reliquary displayed during Ramadan., plus hidden gems like Uri Buri — This legendary seafood restaurant in a vaulted Ottoman-era building on the old city's waterfront has been run by chef Uri Jeremias since 1989 and is widely considered one of the best restaurants in Israel. The menu, which changes daily based on the local catch, features dishes that blend Middle Eastern spices with French technique, and the intimate stone-walled dining room fills nightly with diners from Tel Aviv and beyond..

Use this page as a starting point for a Acre walking tour, a free route, or the Roamee app for Acre. Roamee Pro keeps the route flexible so you can follow the stops, skip ahead, or explore nearby streets at your own pace.

• •Crusader Fortress — The underground halls and tunnels built by the Knights Hospitaller in the 12th and 13th centuries were buried when the Ottomans built their citadel directly above them, creating a subterranean complex that remained sealed for over 500 years until its rediscovery in 1994. The excavated chambers include a massive refectory with Gothic ribbed vaulting, a sugar production facility, latrines, and a network of passages, all in remarkable condition, their carved column capitals and vaulted ceilings conveying the scale and ambition of the Crusader presence in the Levant.
• •Ottoman old town — The UNESCO-listed walled quarter is a living neighborhood where roughly 10,000 residents occupy houses above and around the Crusader ruins, its market lanes threading between mosques, hammams, khans (caravanserais), and the massive sea-facing fortifications that Napoleon famously failed to breach during his 1799 siege. The old city's layered history is visible at every turn, with Ottoman arches resting on Crusader foundations and Mamluk-era decorative stonework embedded in later walls.
• •Al-Jazzar Mosque — Built in 1781 by the Ottoman governor Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (who earned the epithet 'the Butcher' for his ruthless governance), this is the largest mosque in Israel outside Jerusalem, featuring a green dome, a courtyard with a marble fountain, and an underground cistern from the Crusader period repurposed as a ritual ablution pool. The mosque is said to contain hairs from the Prophet Muhammad's beard, kept in a small reliquary displayed during Ramadan.
• •Templars' Tunnel — This 350-meter underground passage, carved through solid rock, connected the Templar fortress in the southwest corner of the city to the harbor, serving as both a supply route and emergency escape tunnel. Discovered accidentally in 1994 when a homeowner cleared a blocked drain, the tunnel has been excavated and illuminated, allowing visitors to walk the full length beneath the old city's streets from the Templar compound to the lighthouse at the port.

• •Uri Buri — This legendary seafood restaurant in a vaulted Ottoman-era building on the old city's waterfront has been run by chef Uri Jeremias since 1989 and is widely considered one of the best restaurants in Israel. The menu, which changes daily based on the local catch, features dishes that blend Middle Eastern spices with French technique, and the intimate stone-walled dining room fills nightly with diners from Tel Aviv and beyond.

• ›Eat where there's a line of locals, not a menu in five languages — turnover means fresh, and a queue is the most honest review you'll find.
• ›Hit food markets in the morning when produce is freshest and stalls aren't sold out; many close or wind down by early afternoon.
• ›Carry small cash — the best street stalls rarely take cards, and exact change moves the line.
• ›Order one thing per stop and keep walking. Grazing across several places beats one big sit-down meal for tasting a city's range.
• ›Start near Crusader Fortress, then drift one or two streets off the main drag — prices drop and quality usually rises the moment you leave the tourist frontage.