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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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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 Queens food tour, we’ll hit the streets on a Saturday – when the griddles, grills and vendors are out in full force – to explore Corona’s culinary essentials.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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 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.

This 5 1/2-hour food tour dives into the incredible diversity and gastronomic depth of downtown Los Angeles through some of its oldest neighborhoods, exploring how the communities living in them earned the city its reputation as a culinary frontier. It’s a delicious side of L.A. even locals usually drive right by.

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 Wine Club for a guided tasting tour of six of Portugal's best wine regions with Sílvia Moura Bastos from the boutique wine distributor Os Goliardos.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

On this afternoon food tour of Exarchia, we’ll explore this vibrant neighborhood’s roots in political activism but also what makes it home to some of the city’s best eats. This 6-hour tour includes more than a dozen essential bites, sips and stops that illustrate the history and culture of this iconic, complex and exceptionally vibrant district.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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