In Osaka, flavor doesn’t happen by accident. It’s engineered, refined, and honed over time through generations of makers who treat food like a craft. This tour explores that mindset through the lens of shokunin – the Japanese philosophy of relentless dedication to one’s work, whether that means perfecting miso soup, the mastery of sushi knife work, shaping noodles by hand, or cutting glass with precision.

On this full-day tour of Xochimilco – an ancient and significant canal-side agricultural region of Mexico City – we will taste our way through the area’s vibrant market, trying a range of pre-Columbian foods while learning about the local products grown in the area. Then, by private boat, we will visit the district’s ancient farms and meet the farmers upholding Xochimilco’s unique traditions.

On this food tour in Oaxaca, we’ll get an edible crash course on the ingredients and techniques that form the bedrock of traditional Oaxacan cooking, and meet the cooks and individuals that protect and honor these traditions.

Join our full-day food tour in Barcelona to explore the proudly Catalan district of Gràcia, during which we’ll visit markets, an old school bodega, cozy traditional haunts and creative contemporary restaurants in search of the neighborhood’s soul.

In the backstreets of eastern Paris, the city feels most alive. From Bastille to Belleville, immigrant kitchens, corner bakeries, and family-run cafés capture the flavor of a capital always reinventing itself. On this full-day walk, we’ll taste how global influences shaped modern Parisian cuisine — from Chinese canteens to North African bakeries and open-air markets — discovering where tradition and creativity meet.

In Buenos Aires, food moves like a tango – part tradition, part improvisation, part seduction – across parrillas, bodegones, bakeries, and historic cafés. On this full-day walk, we’ll trace the city’s heritage, tasting how flavors converge into a distinctly Argentine table. From flaky medialunas and empanadas to cheesy pizza, towering platters of grilled meat, and local aperitivo culture, we’ll meet the people and places that keep these culinary rituals alive. Moving through cafés, markets, pizzerias, parrillas, and neighborhood bars, we’ll taste how porteños socialize, argue, linger, and obsess – about food, football, and the economy – from morning coffee to sobremesa chats.

On this 5 1/2-hour food tour, we’ll dive into the heart of downtown Athens, itself a vibrant microcosm of the city’s rich gastronomic diversity, its ancient and modern histories, and a meeting point for culinary traditions from all across Greece.

This tour dives right into the vibrant Rio mix by taking you through the heart of the city’s two most historically and architecturally significant neighborhoods, uncovering their delicious culinary secrets along the way.

On this food tour in Mexico City, we’ll weave through cobblestoned streets of the city’s famous Centro Histórico district, discovering its many hidden gems: from delicious carnitas, tropical fruit cocktails, to enchiladas and home-cooked cantina classics.

Get ready to rethink what you know about Thai food on this full-day tour of Rattanakosin Island, the place where today’s Bangkok – and its vibrant cooking – was born. From markets to food stalls and beyond, we’ll unravel all the delicious strands that make up the city’s incomparable cuisine.

On this full-day food tour in Osaka – Japan’s “umami town” – we’ll chase down the eats and flavors that make this city such a culinary capital. From street stalls to markets and backstreet restaurants, we’ll join the locals in their daily obsessive quest to find that perfect, flavor-rich bite.

Join our epic Marseille food tour to discover how this charming Mediterranean metropolis has emerged from Paris’s shadow to find its own gastronomic voice. Over 5 ½ hours, we’ll explore the diverse tapestry of flavors and communities that are making this ancient city one of Europe’s most exciting if least-known culinary destinations.

Our food tour of Tokyo — the world’s biggest city, and perhaps its most delicious — explores the exquisite culinary heritage of a single neighborhood, Kichijoji, sampling our way through old school yakitori joints, gleaming department stores, avant grade taverns, hopping street food stands and much more.

On our Keramikos food tour, visit local institutions both new and old, exploring the mix of creativity and tradition found at this laidback neighborhood’s weekly street market. From Cretan home cooking and classic northern-style pastry to souvlaki al fresco and the freshest seafood, it’s a miracle that Keramikos remains a neighborhood under the radar.

On this afternoon-into-evening food tour in Plaka, we’ll explore how this ancient district comes alive as the sun sets, visiting the hidden culinary gems and out-of-the way historical sites of this otherwise touristy neighborhood.

On this food tour in Plaka, we’ll explore how this ancient district shaped both the growth of modern Athens and the palette of its locals, visiting the hidden gems of this otherwise touristy neighborhood.

On this bodega tour in Barcelona, we'll follow the contour of the city's urban "wine route," from historic El Raval to the upscale bodegas of San Antoni, mingling with regulars as we eat and drink our way through some of the city's most iconic bodegas.

On this tour – our own take on a classic Athens family-style Sunday – we move at a leisurely pace, enjoying the quiet streets around downtown’s normally bustling historic Monastiraki Square, as we fill up on some of its best-kept culinary secrets.

Join our Sants food tour to spend the day eating your way through a lesser-explored neighborhood with a booming local food scene and a fascinating history. We’ll dig into markets and old vermuterias, pastry shops and down home restaurants, but we’ll also find the pulse of Sants in some contemporary culinary projects. Don’t expect Gaudi architecture and top 10 tapas, Sants satisfies those hungry for alternative Barcelona.

Europe’s greatest comeback city, Bilbao is a place reborn. Until a few decades ago a postindustrial metropolis plagued by pollution and economic decline, Bilbao today is a buzzing cultural and culinary capital. On this full-day tour, we’ll trace Bilbao’s history and rebirth through the exceptional eateries – old and new – that call the Basque city home.

On this full day tour in Guadalajara, we’ll explore the delicious contradictions that make this historic city. From deliciously messy tortas ahogadas to classic cantina cocktails, we’ll uncover the influences – pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary – that have shaped Guadalajara’s world-renowned cuisine.

Far from the tourist trail, get a taste of one of the last bastions of classic Istanbul flavors, including bread fresh from the tandir oven, a mind-boggling assortment of meze, sizzling kebab, old school ice cream and much more. On this full-day food tour, we will dig deep into the culinary traditions of one of Istanbul’s most culturally diverse and food-centric neighborhoods.

Join us for this Porto food tour, as we spend the day getting to know the city’s lesser-known food traditions, its local institutions and its culinary heroes. We’ll visit and taste dishes across a wide spectrum of places, from the decadent to the down-home.

On this tour, we’ll set off in search of New Orleans’s and Creole culture’s tangled roots, using the city’s incomparable cuisine as our guide and its historic neighborhoods in and around the French Quarter and Treme as our stage.

On this full-day exploration of San Sebastian, we’ll get an edible crash course on the very roots of this seaside city's cuisine, delighting in peak seasonal ingredients, learning about local culinary traditions and visiting iconic haunts, old and new. Stop by stop, from classic pintxos to new school ciders, funky gastrobars to sleek dining rooms, the throughline will reveal itself, and that is the irresistible Basque way of enjoying food.

On this day-into-night crawl through the heart of Seoul, we’ll explore this bustling city’s almost magical power to take outside influences and turn them into something uniquely – and deliciously – Korean. By the end of our tour, we’ll learn that “Made in Korea” might be the most appetizing seal of approval to be found.

On this Tbilisi food tour – an epic day of eating – we’ll explore some of the roots of the often-overlooked but incredibly delicious Georgian cuisine. Together we’ll sample a range of dishes that reveal unexpected culinary influences, ones which the Georgian kitchen accumulated over centuries of rule under Eastern and Western powers, and also as a crucial stopping point along Silk Road’s trans-continental trade routes.

On this afternoon-into-evening food tour in the Beyoğlu neighborhood, we will take a deep dive into Istanbul's historic European Quarter, with its cosmopolitan history now playing backdrop to its vibrant contemporary nightlife. From home cooking to street food, viewpoints to grill joints, we will eat and drink our way toward a better understanding of this singular neighborhood.

Join our full-day food tour of historic Palermo and eat your way through the city’s history and rich culture. With more than ten full tastings in two different markets, explorations of local neighborhoods and visits to historic sites, this tour takes in iconic Palermo as well as lesser-known hidden gems.

Step back into the Tokyo of another era in Yanesen, the historic trio of the Yanaka, Nezu, and Sendagi neighborhoods. Among temples, shrines, and winding backstreets, we’ll discover a neighborhood where daily life still hums to an older rhythm. This full-day walk blends history and flavor: from handmade onigiri and fresh unagi to nostalgic sweets, retro kissaten coffee, and sake. Along the way, we’ll slip into century-old shops, sip drinks in a converted bathhouse, and meet the craftspeople keeping Tokyo’s culinary traditions alive.

In Istanbul’s Old City, two culinary worlds exist side by side – one for tourists and one for locals. On this Istanbul Old City food tour, we go beyond the major monuments to time-honored spots where all of the serious eating is done.

From hidden izakayas to generations-old food shops and historic temples with taiko drum and fire ceremonies, Monzen-Nakacho has everything you could dream of in a Tokyo neighborhood – and more. On this afternoon into evening tour, we’ll explore this magical slice of old-school Tokyo, where the city’s ancient spirit and modern-day creativity live deliciously side-by-side.

On this evening tour of Palermo’s old port area, we’ll explore the Sicilian city’s historic and enduring connection to the sea, as well as taste the food and meet the people that tell this district’s fascinating story.

Istanbul’s Bazaar Quarter is one of the world’s biggest open-air commercial centers and a historic hub of small craftsmen who still carry on their traditions in the district’s atmospheric and historic trading posts. On this 6-hour food tour, we will meet some of these masters and sit down to eat with them in some of the area’s most classic spots.

Naples is at once beautiful and rough around the edges, accessible and exotic – in a word, charming. On this tour of the city’s historic center and then beyond its walls, we’ll taste the city’s best bites, from the local pastry, sfogliatella, to iconic street foods, in the old market streets and local “institution” restaurants.

On this full-day Queens food tour, we’ll visit two of the borough’s most diverse neighborhoods, Corona and Jackson Heights, where we will sample more than a dozen specialities that reflect the incredible gastronomic range that the borough is known for. From the massive Puebla-rooted cemita sandwiches to Bengali street snacks, we’ll criss-cross the globe without leaving the neighborhood.

On this full-day tour of Xochimilco, for private groups of seven or more, we will have exclusive access by private boat to family farms, meet the people upholding ancient agricultural traditions and enjoy a rustic feast in a field surrounded by canals and family gardens. The day begins with breakfast, ends with a big lunch and includes snacks along the way.

On this Lisbon food tour, we’ll experience a cultural feast: exploring the deep-rooted links the city shares with kitchens and pantries around the world and tasting a range of dishes as enchanting and complex as the city itself.

On this Lisbon food tour, we’ll explore the historic heart of the port district, where old traditions die hard and the day’s catch is always the discussion. We’ll spend the day in search of the very best seasonal bounty of the sea, sampling several preparations of fish and seafood in a variety of neighborhood institutions.

On this afternoon-into-evening tour, we’ll explore the Oaxaca backstreets during a culinary changing of the guard, tasting our way through some of the city’s best nighttime food spots while also gaining an understanding of their important role in maintaining Oaxaca’s civic life.

On this full day tour, we’ll explore Matosinhos, a fascinating seaside town on the outskirts of Porto, and its fishing traditions, visiting bustling markets, neighborhood grill spots, and a spectacular sardine cannery which has been in business since 1920.

From the market to the kitchen: join us as we spend a full day shopping, cooking, and eating like local Istanbulites. After shopping for ingredients in one of Istanbul’s most food-centric neighborhoods, we’ll teach you how to cook six of our favorite regional recipes from across Turkey – dishes like Circassian chicken, stuffed eggplant from southeastern Turkey, Aegean-style mincemeat pastries and more – before sitting down to enjoy them together.

This full-day Istanbul market tour draws from our best-of list in the European side’s Karaköy neighborhood and the Asian shore’s Kadıköy, tied together by a ferry ride across the Bosphorus, visiting two markets on two continents.

On this culinary tour of central Naples, we’ll go off the beaten path by visiting two wildly contrasting neighborhoods, Vomero and the Spanish Quarter. In both we’ll stop into the places – from artisanal producers to street food vendors and more – that locals go to for the quintessential taste of the city, one that was developed over millennia and, on this walk, distilled into a single day of eating and exploring.

From a workingman’s breakfast in a frenetic seaside market to a leisurely fish lunch in a waterside Bosphorus neighborhood, this full-day Istanbul food tour explores the diverse cultural and culinary range of Istanbul’s amazing waterside neighborhoods.

On this afternoon food tour, we’ll explore the historic and multicultural neighborhoods of Mouraria and Graça. Winding down scenic side streets, we’ll stop for a bite in kitchens both old and new, where chefs – regardless of their approach – are united through a shared love of the city’s deep-rooted culinary traditions.

On this full-day tour of central Lisbon, we’ll study the cuisines, history and diversity of Portugal’s former colonies. Get a taste of Cape Verdean cachupa, Brazilian pastries, Goan samosa, spiced convent cakes and Angolan piripiri sauce, and meet the people keeping these traditions alive.

On this 5-hour food tour in the unexplored district of Azcapotzalco, we will experience the wild range that defines dining in Mexico City – from sophisticated huevos at a detour-worthy restaurant to iconic street tacos – on a journey through time and space framed by monumental and hidden reminders of this city’s layered history.

On our Flushing food tour – a full-day stroll through New York’s largest "Chinatown" neighborhood – we’ll explore the area’s almost mind-blowing culinary diversity.

On our Izmir food tour we’ll explore the tangled roots of this Aegean city’s cuisine and culture, enjoying the friendly laid back environment of the markets near the agora and sampling a variety of dishes unique to this city.