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<p>Asheville has been feeding visitors since the 1870s, when the mountain air alone was reason enough to make the trip. The hospitality came first and the food caught up.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What grows here shapes what you eat here. Apples from the county next door, trout from farms an hour west, sorghum syrup boiled down on family land, and heritage corn stone-ground at a mill supplying bakeries from Miami to Washington. A regional certification covers about a thousand farms within a hundred miles of the city, and downtown kitchens buy from them by name. Producer-only tailgate markets have run here since 1980.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The recognition followed. Asheville-area chefs and restaurants hold forty James Beard nominations and four national wins, and fifteen Asheville restaurants made the first Michelin Guide American South in 2025. There are more than twenty breweries inside the city.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Our food tours Asheville are built and led by guides who live here, with more than 100,000 five-star reviews behind them.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</p>

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<div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><p style="margin-left:0px;">Six hand-picked stops across downtown Asheville, from Indian street food and a dry-cured ham biscuit to a quarter-pound ice cream cookie. Two of the tastings happen in local artisanal shops we keep secret until the day.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Six hand-picked stops across downtown Asheville, from Indian street food and a dry-cured ham biscuit to a quarter-pound ice cream cookie. Two of the tastings happen in local artisanal shops we keep secret until the day.

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<p>Your guide will meet you at the Grove Arcade entrance on Battery Park Drive<strong> </strong>If you have any questions. Please <a href="mailto:asheville@secrettours.com">email us</a>.</p>

<p>If a tour is fully booked, please email us about <a href="/private-bookings">Group &amp; Private Tours</a> options.</p>

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<p style="margin-left:0px;">Downtown Asheville rewards walking. The streets bend past art deco, neo-Gothic, and Spanish Baroque within a few hundred metres of each other, and the food worth eating sits tucked in between: a counter here, a tasting bar upstairs there, a shopfront with barely a sign on it. Our route covers a compact loop of the city centre, and you will eat six times along the way.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">You will start with Indian street food, chargrilled and rolled into warm flatbread with slaw and green chutney. From there, a buttermilk biscuit built around dry-cured Appalachian ham, then a pressed panini on toasted ciabatta from a shop better known for its hand-cut potato chips. Dessert is a quarter-pound cookie with an ice cream centre, halved so you have a hand free. Somewhere in the middle we take you into two local artisanal shops for tastings we do not reveal in advance.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">Our guides live in Asheville. They will tell you why the arcade you meet outside was meant to carry a fourteen-storey tower, how the city's refusal to walk away from a Great Depression debt accidentally saved the buildings you are standing in, and where they eat on a night off. Ask them the awkward questions. They like those.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">By the end you will know how Asheville eats: which traditions are a century old, which arrived in the last fifteen years, and which shops the locals treat as their own pantry. You will also leave with a shopping list you did not plan on.</p>

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Due to the nature of creating a well balanced and thoughtful gastronomy experience, many of our tours are unable to accommodate certain dietary restrictions. Please <a href="mailto:paris@secrettours.com">contact us</a> prior to booking your tour to see if we are able to accommodate your dietary needs.

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<p style="margin-left:0px;">Two decisions saved this part of Asheville. On 20 November 1930, eight local banks failed and left the city carrying the highest per capita municipal debt in the country. Rather than default, Asheville spent fifty years paying it back, finishing in 1976. There was no money to knock anything down, so almost nothing came down. Around 170 buildings from the 1920s boom are still in use.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">Then in 1981, voters rejected the bond issue for a downtown shopping mall by two to one, and eleven blocks stayed as they were. What you get is a city centre of small shopfronts where odd little food businesses took root cheaply and stayed: a honey tasting bar around the corner from a 1929 arcade, a chip shop with a cult following, a bakery selling cheese from micro-creameries up the road. It is the reason a food tour here works on foot.</p>

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Downtown Asheville rewards walking. The streets bend past art deco, neo-Gothic, and Spanish Baroque within a few hundred metres of each other, and the food worth eating sits tucked in between: a counter here, a tasting bar upstairs there, a shopfront with barely a sign on it. Our route covers a compact loop of the city centre, and you will eat six times along the way. You will start with Indian street food, chargrilled and rolled into warm flatbread with slaw and green chutney. From there, a buttermilk biscuit built around dry-cured Appalachian ham, then a pressed panini on toasted ciabatta from a shop better known for its hand-cut potato chips. Dessert is a quarter-pound cookie with an ice cream centre, halved so you have a hand free. Somewhere in the middle we take you into two local artisanal shops for tastings we do not reveal in advance. Our guides live in Asheville. They will tell you why the arcade you meet outside was meant to carry a fourteen-storey tower, how the city's refusal to walk away from a Great Depression debt accidentally saved the buildings you are standing in, and where they eat on a night off. Ask them the awkward questions. They like those. By the end you will know how Asheville eats: which traditions are a century old, which arrived in the last fifteen years, and which shops the locals treat as their own pantry. You will also leave with a shopping list you did not plan on.

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