Food & Wine Tours We’d Book Again
Everything listed here is something we’ve actually done ourselves — sometimes with a group, sometimes privately. If you spot a tour mentioned in one of our posts that isn’t here, it’s not an oversight: either we chose not to recommend it, or sadly, it’s no longer in business.
We’ll keep adding to this list as we travel, but we won’t be constantly re-checking every link to make sure it’s still active — so if you find a dead one, let us know. And wherever possible, we’re linking directly to the providers themselves rather than through Viator or GetYourGuide. Nothing wrong with either, we just like supporting independent operators directly.
Looking for general sightseeing tours or private drivers instead? Visit our Tour Companies & Drivers page.
Food Tours
Italy
- Food Tours of Rome — Claudia’s evening walk through the Old Jewish Quarter and Campo de’ Fiori. Read the post
- The Roman Food Tour — an evening food tour through Rome’s Prati neighborhood. Read the post
- The Roman Guy — Oltrarno and Santo Spirito, Florence. Read the post
- Delicious Bologna — tortellini-making, the Quadrilatero markets, and pasta tastings. Read the post
- Streaty Food Tours — a street food and market tour through Capo Market, Palermo. Read the post
Iceland
- Wake Up Reykjavik — one of the best food tours we’ve taken, full stop. Read the post
United Kingdom
- Eating Europe — we’ve taken two of their London tours: Borough Market & Southwark, and the East End (Spitalfields, Shoreditch, Whitechapel). Read the Borough Market post · Read the East End post
Spain
- Best of Basque — Zach’s pintxos crawl through San Sebastián’s old quarter (food + wine). Read the post
Malta
- City Walking Tours Malta — a cultural food tour through Valletta. Read the post
Netherlands
- Amsterdam Food Tours — Rudolph’s Grand Dutch Food & History Tour through Jordaan: apple pie, Dutch cheese and wine, herring, Indonesian street food, and bitterballen. Read the post
North America
- Savor Seattle Gourmet Food Tour — a six-stop downtown Seattle food tour. Read the post
- Vancouver Foodie Tours — dim sum to gelato, downtown Vancouver. Read the post
Wine Tours & Wineries
Wine Tour Guides
- Chania Wine Tours — Anna Maria’s countryside drive and farm-to-table lunch at Dourakis Winery, Crete. Read the post
- Rendez-Vous Au Château — Frédéric’s private Médoc estate tour, Bordeaux. Read the post
- Provence Wine Tours — Bandol and Cassis wineries near Toulon. Read the post
- Verona Local Dreamer — Alessandro’s day through Lake Garda and the Valpolicella valley, ending at Corte Borghetti. Read the post
- Walkabout Tours — the off-road Chianti Wine Safari with lunch, from Florence. Read the post
Wineries Worth the Trip
- Corte Borghetti (Valpolicella, Italy) — Amarone, Ripasso, and Valpolicella side by side. Read the post
- St. Francis Winery (Sonoma) — a wine-first pairing lunch. Food & Wine Spotlight
- Giuseppe Apicella Winery (Tramonti, Amalfi Coast) — a third-generation family lunch in the hills. Food & Wine Spotlight
- Terrazze dell’Etna (Sicily) — four wines, one grape, on the slopes of Mount Etna. Food & Wine Spotlight
- Dourakis Winery (Crete) — our first taste of orange wine. Read the post
- Bodega Monje (Tenerife) — a historic building, a full Canarian lunch. Read the post