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Dubrovnik

<div class="cardx-desc">On our Secret Food Tour: Dubrovnik - Food & History, you'll walk the Old Town when the crowds are gone and hear the stories of the Republic of Ragusa. Warm up with cheese, prosciutto, black risotto and local wine, then finish with carob cake.</div>

Explore Dubrovnik's Old Town with a local guide while the summer crowds are gone. Hear the stories behind its walls, then warm up with Dalmatian dishes, a glass of local wine and a slice of carob cake.

Dubrovnik Food and History Tour

Meet your guide by Onofrio's Great Fountain and set off along the Stradun, the Old Town's main street, its limestone worn glassy by centuries of footsteps. Your guide unpacks the stories behind Dubrovnik's walls and squares, and its long life as a trading republic on the Adriatic.&nbsp;Wind through the side streets past churches, cloisters and palaces, from the Franciscan Monastery to the Rector's Palace, the Cathedral and the baroque Jesuit Staircase. When the wind picks up, we step inside some of the Old Town's churches along the way.&nbsp;Pause to warm up at a local tavern over a platter of cheese and prosciutto, followed by Croatia's black ink risotto and a glass of local wine.&nbsp;Continue the walk down to the Old Port, where Dubrovnik's merchant ships once set sail, and finish on something sweet: a slice of carob cake. Carob trees grow all along the Dalmatian coast, and for generations their dark, caramel-sweet pods were what local kitchens baked with when sugar was a luxury.&nbsp;Fewer food stops than our classic Dubrovnik Food Tour, more time for the stories. A relaxed, warming way to see the Old Town at its quietest, when you can actually hear your own footsteps on the Stradun.

Secret Food Tours: Dubrovnik - Food & History

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Marbella

<div class="cardx-desc">On our Secret Food Tour: Marbella, you'll wander whitewashed Old Town streets beneath ancient castle walls, then stroll to the sea. Taste churros with chocolate, salmorejo, sardine skewers and tapas, plus our Secret Dish. You'll never want to leave.</div>

On our Marbella Food Tour, you'll wander the whitewashed Old Town beneath ancient castle walls, then stroll down to the sea. Taste churros with chocolate, salmorejo, traditional tapas and sardine skewers, with Tinto de Verano to keep you cool.

Marbella Food Tour

On our Secret Food Tour: Marbella, you'll experience how the city blends ancient history with modern life. We'll wander through the charming whitewashed streets of the Old Town while an ancient castle looms over us, then enjoy a walk along the coast after admiring the famous Dalí statues. All of this while discovering the rich flavours the city has to offer, from iconic churros with chocolate and Crema de Abuela ice cream to sardine skewers, refreshing salmorejo and a variety of traditional tapas.&nbsp;It's not called the Costa del Sol for nothing, so to help you stay cool there'll be no shortage of Andalusian wine, beer and Tinto de Verano. Plus, as with all our tours, there's a Secret Dish!&nbsp;As locals, we're passionate about sharing the food, history and traditions that make this city so special. Andalusian cuisine is just like its people: fun and sun-soaked. Feel free to sing and dance while enjoying your Tinto de Verano by the beach. Join us and discover why Marbella will make you never want to leave.

Secret Food Tours: Marbella

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Granada

<div class="cardx-desc">On our Secret Food Tour: Granada, you'll walk between Moorish and Christian Granada, from the cathedral to the lanes of the Albaicín. Taste piononos, Alpujarra ham, salmorejo, rabo de toro and plenty of tapas, plus our Secret Dish. You'll leave full and in love with Granada.</div>

On our Granada Food Tour, you'll walk between two worlds, Moorish and Christian, from the cathedral to the whitewashed lanes of the Albaicín. Taste piononos, Alpujarra ham, salmorejo and rabo de toro, with plenty of tapas along the way.

Granada Food Tour

On our Secret Food Tour: Granada, you'll walk between two worlds, the Moorish and the Christian, and see how their blend gave birth to such a unique city. From the grand Granada Cathedral to the old Arab market streets and the winding whitewashed lanes of the Albaicín, we'll discover a city whose history is told through its food.&nbsp;You'll taste everything from the iconic piononos to hearty rabo de toro, and from refreshing salmorejo to the famous Alpujarra ham. Tapas are a way of life here, so there'll be no shortage of them! All of this is paired with Andalusian wine, vermouth and beer, each served the local way. And as with all our tours, there's a Secret Dish.&nbsp;As locals, we're passionate about sharing the food, history and traditions that make this city so special. Granada's cuisine is just like its people: warm and generous (don't let the "malafollá" cliché fool you). Join us and discover why Granada is not just a city but a gift to anyone who has ever set foot in it.

Secret Food Tours: Granada

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St. Louis

<div class="cardx-desc">St. Louis has two stories: the one the Gateway Arch tells, and the one told in corner diners and Italian kitchens where working people invented the food this city argues about. Our downtown tours cover both, with toasted ravioli, Provel, smoked brisket and gooey butter cake.</div>

Five stops, three hours and the St. Louis that locals know best. Walk downtown with a guide, skipping the tourist traps for neighborhood favorites, slow-smoked barbecue and the classics this city swears by, plus a Secret Dish revealed only on the day.

St. Louis Food Tour

St. Louis has two stories. One is told by the Gateway Arch: big, gleaming and triumphant. The other lives in the corner diners, Italian kitchens and neighborhood bakeries where working people invented the food this city still argues about. Our St. Louis culinary tour gives you both.&nbsp;You start at the Old Courthouse, where landmark cases in American history were argued. From there, your guide leads you through downtown's century of stories. You'll hear about 1904, when St. Louis was the fourth-largest city in America and hosted the World's Fair and the Olympic Games in the same year. Then you'll see the city's newest chapter on Washington Avenue, where grand red brick buildings line one of the liveliest streets downtown.&nbsp;Along the way, you taste the dishes St. Louis gave the world. Things like toasted ravioli, born from a clumsy cook, and Provel, the city's iconic and divisive smoky cheese. Then there's gooey butter cake, a Depression-era miscalculation turned into the city's favorite dessert, and slow-smoked brisket from a smokehouse showing off the St Louis's serious barbecue credentials. And somewhere on the route waits our Secret Dish. We don't reveal what it is until the dish hits your table.&nbsp;Our local guides know these stories because they live here. They'll tell you which immigrant kitchens shaped the way this city eats, the happy accidents behind its most famous dishes, and what a world's fair from more than a century ago has to do with your plate. You get the history behind each bite, from the people who know this city best. By the end, you'll leave knowing why St. Louisans are so protective of their food, and chances are you'll side with them.

Secret Food Tours: St. Louis

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Cork

<div class="cardx-desc">Cork is a market city with the swagger to call itself Ireland’s food capital. Walk the English Market, the cobbled backstreets and the riverside pubs with a local guide, tasting award-winning Irish cheeses, a seafood platter, chowder and chocolate made in the city.</div>

On our Cork Food Tour, you'll taste why locals call Cork Ireland's real food capital. Wander historic streets and centuries-old pubs, sample award-winning cheese and fresh local seafood, and finish with a taste of a drink most visitors never get to try.

Cork Food Tour

<div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm">On our Cork Food Tour, you'll taste why Cork calls itself Ireland's real food capital. We'll start in the English Market, one of Europe's oldest covered markets, tasting fresh local seafood and award-winning Irish cheese with the stallholders who know them best. From there, we'll wander into traditional bars, step inside a working chocolate factory, and cross the River Lee to a historic site with centuries of stories to tell.&nbsp;Along the route, you'll pass through Cork's old French Quarter, tracing streets first settled by Huguenot refugees centuries ago, and catch glimpses of the city walls that once marked where Cork ended and the marshland began. You'll stop in at a family-run pub that has poured pints for two hundred years, the kind of place that has outlasted plenty of the city built up around it.&nbsp;Your guide lives and eats in this city, and they know it far better than any guidebook does. They'll point out the stalls worth remembering, the pubs the locals actually drink in, and the small details that make Cork's food scene what it is. They'll also slip you a drink most visitors never get the chance to try. We won't tell you what it is, only that it's ours, and that Corkonians have been quietly enjoying it for a very long time.&nbsp;By the end of your tour, you'll have sampled some of Cork's best food, walked streets that trace the city's history back centuries, and earned your honorary title as a Corkonian.</div></div></div>

Secret Food Tours: Cork

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Memphis

Follow the flavor from historic South Main to the neon of Beale Street on this three-hour, five-stop Memphis food tour: famous fried chicken, ribs, gumbo, and a secret dish, with the blues, barbecue, and the history that built the city told between bites.

Follow the flavor from historic South Main to the neon of Beale Street on this three-hour, five-stop Memphis food tour: famous fried chicken, ribs, gumbo, and a secret dish, with the blues, barbecue, and the history that built the city told between bites.

Memphis Food Tour

Memphis is a city that gets knocked down, then gets back up even stronger. The fastest way to understand the city's resilient soul is to eat your way across it. This Memphis food tour walks you from the quiet, historic edge of downtown along South Main up to the loudest, most famous street in the South, Beale Street. Over three hours and five tastings, you'll trace how a river town named after ancient Egypt grew into the home of the blues, rock and roll, and some of the finest food in the American South.&nbsp;Your local guide does far more than point at buildings. Between bites, you'll hear how cotton money built downtown while the Black community built its soul, how a plague nearly wiped the city off the map, and how a man born enslaved raised Beale Street from the ruins, handing the world the blues along the way.&nbsp;The eating is serious. You'll try some of the most famous fried chicken in America, a plate of ribs served the Memphis way, and gumbo built on okra, smoke, and a masterful blend of spices. We finish with a fried PB&amp;J in tribute to Elvis's legendary sweet tooth, on the street where he first soaked up the sound that made him. And our itinerary hides a secret dish, revealed only when it reaches your table, inside one of the oldest establishments in the city.

Secret Food Tours: Memphis

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Bogotá

Eat your way across Bogotá's oldest neighborhood, La Candelaria. Taste a local tamal steamed in banana leaf, a locally adored potato soup, fresh local fruit, and Colombian coffee brewed to order. At least nine tasting stops with a local guide, plus one secret dish we reveal only on the day.

Eat your way across Bogotá's oldest neighborhood, La Candelaria. Taste a local tamal steamed in banana leaf, a locally adored potato soup, fresh local fruit, and Colombian coffee brewed to order. At least nine tasting stops with a local guide, plus one secret dish we reveal only on the day.

Bogotá Food Tour

Bogotá sits high in the Andes, on a savanna the Muisca farmed for centuries before the Spanish arrived. Our Bogotá food tour walks you through La Candelaria, the oldest part of the city, and tells its whole history through what you eat.&nbsp;You'll start in a working market with a syrup-cooked fig and a tasting of fruit most people outside South America have never seen. From there, a local guide who lives in Bogotá leads you through the streets and plazas of the old center, one bite at a time: the corn the Muisca grew, turned into a leaf-steamed tamal, a fermented drink this city once tried to ban, and a griddled arepa. You'll try coca tea and finally hear the truth about the leaf, then warm up over ajiaco, the potato soup Bogotanos adore like family.&nbsp;Along the way your guide fills in the parts a map leaves out: the plaza where the city was founded, the Indigenous people who were here first, and the murals painted across whole buildings and the fight it took to make them legal. This is the context you can only get from a local guide who knows the food and the history behind it.&nbsp;We finish with Colombian coffee brewed in front of you at a working barista school, and the story of how the country learned to keep its own best beans.&nbsp;Somewhere in the tour, we'll also hand you a secret dessert dish we reveal only on the day. It is a local favourite, and pulls the whole city together in a single bite.

Secret Food Tours: Bogotá

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Victoria

Seven hand-picked stops, from Pacific chowder on the Inner Harbour causeway to a barbecue pork bun under the Chinatown gate. Three hours on foot through Old Town with a local guide, and one dish we keep quiet about until the day.

Seven hand-picked stops, from Pacific chowder on the Inner Harbour causeway to a barbecue pork bun under the Chinatown gate. Three hours on foot through Old Town with a local guide, and one dish we keep quiet about until the day.

Victoria Food Tour

Old Town Victoria is a few blocks of brick warehouses built on gold rush money, and it holds together better on foot than through a bus window. The wharves and the buildings behind them made this the main port of western Canada until 1900. Walk north from the Inner Harbour and the streets narrow, the brick gets older, and the shop signs switch to Chinese.&nbsp;We start at the water. Your first stop is a takeaway window on the causeway below the boardwalk, where you eat looking across at the Legislature and the harbour planes coming in. From there we work inland through Old Town: a tasting bar with dozens of oils and vinegars on tap, a chocolatier trading since the 1880s, and a bakery on Fort Street. Then north through a heritage market square and under the Chinatown gate for barbecue pork.&nbsp;Your guide lives in Victoria. They know which counter to order from, which day the bakery sells out, and what the buildings held before they held shops. Ask where to eat dinner and you get a real answer rather than a list.&nbsp;Seven stops across three hours, and one dish we keep quiet about until the day you walk it. Along the way you pick up how a port town, a British colony and Canada's oldest Chinatown ended up sharing six blocks, and why an island this size grows so much of its own food.&nbsp;You finish under the Chinatown gate with an afternoon still ahead of you, holding a far better idea of where to eat for the rest of your stay.