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Raleigh

<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>Five hand-picked stops between Moore Square and the Warehouse District, from Cantonese barbecue buns to eastern Carolina chopped pork, plus one secret dish we reveal only on the day.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Five hand-picked stops between Moore Square and the Warehouse District, from Cantonese barbecue buns to eastern Carolina chopped pork, plus one secret dish we reveal only on the day.

Raleigh Food Tour

<p style="margin-left:0px;">Downtown Raleigh is smaller than you would think, and better fed. Our Raleigh culinary tour walks you from Moore Square, one of two four-acre public squares surviving from the city's 1792 plan, west across the old commercial grid and into the Warehouse District, where red brick buildings once held freight, tobacco, and railway offices. The whole route sits under oaks and takes about three hours on foot.</p><p><br>Five stops, and no two belong to the same tradition. You start with a steamed Cantonese barbecue pork bun in a room part brewery, part bookshop, part flower stall. You work through a Lebanese spread built on family recipes carried over a century ago, hummus and baba ghanouj and shawarma and fried kibbee. You eat whole-hog barbecue chopped fine and sharpened with vinegar, the way eastern North Carolina has done it for three centuries. You finish over three bars of chocolate made from the bean in a converted railway depot. Somewhere in the middle, we hand you our secret dish, which stays secret until the day.</p><p><br>Your guide lives here. They will tell you why the barbecue argument between eastern and western North Carolina still gets heated, what East Hargett Street meant to Black Raleigh in the 1920s, and which of these kitchens they take their own family to. Groups stay small, no more than fourteen guests, so there is room to ask.</p><div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><p style="margin-left:0px;"><br>You leave full, and you leave with a downtown you know how to walk. Most guests go back to at least one of these stops before they head home.</p></div></div></div>

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Halifax

<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>Five stops between an old civic square and the working harbour: the city's official donair reworked as poutine, seafood chowder and deep-fried pepperoni in an 1800s privateers' warehouse, a secret stop, and a chocolate tasting with a story.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Five stops between an old civic square and the working harbour: the city's official donair reworked as poutine, seafood chowder and deep-fried pepperoni in an 1800s privateers' warehouse, a secret stop, and a chocolate tasting with a story.

Halifax Food Tour

<p style="margin-left:0px;">Downtown Halifax sits on a slope between an old civic square and a working harbour, and the whole of it walks in an afternoon. We start at Grand Parade, laid out in 1749 between City Hall and St Paul's, and head downhill through the streets Haligonians eat in.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">You will taste the city's official food. Halifax invented the donair, and in 2015 the city made it the only municipal food in Canada. We take it as a donair poutine, so the spiced beef and the sweet garlic sauce land over fries in one forkful, at a downtown institution known as much for its warren of rooms as for its cooking.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Down at the water you sit in a pub open since 1974 inside a stone warehouse built for privateers. A cup of seafood chowder, then a plate of deep-fried pepperoni with honey mustard, which is the snack Haligonians order without thinking and most visitors walk straight past.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your guide lives here. You get the argument over who makes the best donair, the reason one North End butcher supplies most of the deep-fried pepperoni in town, and an honest answer on where to eat after we finish. We keep groups small, so questions are welcome and the pace stays easy. We also take you somewhere we do not name in advance, a stop surprising guests every time.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>By the end you will have eaten across three centuries of Halifax, and you will leave with a list of places worth coming back to.</p>

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Kingston

<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>Six kitchens from four continents inside six blocks of limestone. A Montreal-style bagel, Himalayan dumplings, South Indian vada sambar, an olive oil tasting and ice cream at the harbour, plus one stop we keep secret. Kingston the way the people cooking here eat.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Six kitchens from four continents inside six blocks of limestone. A Montreal-style bagel, Himalayan dumplings, South Indian vada sambar, an olive oil tasting and ice cream at the harbour, plus one stop we keep secret. Kingston the way the people cooking here eat.

Kingston Food Tour

<p style="margin-left:0px;">Kingston was built as a garrison town and the downtown still looks the part. Grey limestone walls, 1840s shopfronts, a working harbour at the bottom of the hill. Step through the doors and the story shifts.</p><p><br>Six stops, six kitchens, four continents, and about 1.3 kilometres of walking. You'll eat a Montreal-style bagel, hand-rolled and honey-boiled before it meets the oven, from a bakery open a few hours a day. Steamed Himalayan dumplings, half vegetable and half chicken, from a family kitchen on Princess Street. A fried lentil doughnut sunk in South Indian sambar. Extra virgin olive oil and small-batch balsamic, poured side by side so you taste the difference between them. Ice cream from a counter making it in-house since 1986. And one stop we keep to ourselves until you're standing outside it.</p><p><br>Your guide lives in Kingston. They know which owner will talk your ear off about a grandmother's recipe, which door looks shut when the kitchen is wide open, and why a city of 130,000 supports this much cooking from this many places. Along the way you'll hear how Queen's University reshaped the streets around it, why Kingston holds more Feast On certified restaurants than any other city in Ontario, and what a 19th-century market square still does for the people who cook here.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><p style="margin-left:0px;">On your own, you'd walk past three of these six doors. Two of them barely read as restaurants from the pavement. Going with someone who eats here is the whole difference.</p></div></div></div>

Secret Food Tours: Kingston

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Asheville

<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.

Asheville Food Tour

<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;">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>

Secret Food Tours: Asheville

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Santiago de Compostela

<div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><p style="margin-left:0px;">On our Secret Food Tour: Santiago de Compostela, you'll eat your way from the historic city centre and its famous cathedral to the modern streets on its outskirts, tasting everything from Polvo a Feira (Galician-stlye octopus) and Rixóns to the famous Zorza, tapas, local wines and of course our secret dish.</p></div></div></div>

Santiago de Compostela Food Tour

<p style="margin-left:0px;">On our Secret Food Tour: Santiago de Compostela, you'll wander through the city's beautiful granite streets while discovering the rich flavours that have welcomed pilgrims for centuries. Along the way, you'll enjoy some of Galicia's most iconic dishes, from tender octopus and traditional meats to local wines and our famous rixóns. You'll taste the best of both the sea and the countryside while exploring one of Europe's most enchanting cities. Plus, as with all our tours, there is a Secret Dish!</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">As locals, we´re passionate about sharing the food, history, and traditions that make this city so special. Galician cuisine isn't the most elaborate or extravagant, but it's honest, comforting food, made with exceptional local ingredients and recipes passed down through generations. Join us as we explore hidden streets, hear the stories behind the city's most beloved dishes, and discover why Santiago de Compostela has captured travellers' hearts for over a thousand years.</p>

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Santiago

<div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><p style="margin-left:0px;">Six stops from Mercado Central to Lastarria: a Completo italiano, a secret stop inside the local market, Carménère on a rooftop facing the Andes, and lucuma ice cream to finish. Spend three hours exploring the hidden gems where Santiago eats.</p></div></div></div>

Santiago Food Tour

<p style="margin-left:0px;">Santiago is a city rebuilt again and again. Earthquakes have brought its churches down four times over, and four times the city raised them back up. Its food carries the same layered story, and our Santiago culinary tour walks you through all of it, one bite at a time.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">Over three hours and six stops, your local guide leads you from the historic downtown to the heritage streets of Lastarria, tying each plate to the history around you. You'll taste how Indigenous corn, Spanish stews, the colors of the Italian flag on a hot dog, German cheese, and a French vine once presumed extinct all found a home on the Chilean plate. Between bites you'll learn why Chile handed a hot dog its own national holiday, how the lost Bordeaux grape spent a century hiding in these valleys before becoming the country's calling card, and why the Plaza de Armas was built for defense long before beauty.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">This is where a local guide makes the difference. Your guide knows which counter builds the best Completo Italiano and why, reads the market like a regular, and turns each dish into a thread back through the city's past. On your own, you'd eat well. With us, you'll understand what you're eating and why it tastes of so many different histories at once.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">There's also a secret dish we reveal only on the day, made from the freshest local ingredients and served alongside a pisco sour. It holds the heart of Santiago's cooking in a single course, and we keep what it is to ourselves until the moment you taste it.</p>

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Manchester

<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;">On our Secret Food Tour: Manchester, you'll eat your way from the historic canal arches of Castlefield to the packed streets of Chinatown, tasting everything from small-batch coffee and Manchester Tart to double-fried wings, a flaky pub pie, and Chinatown's finest bakery bite.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Manchester Food Tour

<div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><p style="margin-left:0px;">Manchester built the modern world twice over. First with cotton mills and canal locks during the Industrial Revolution, then again decades later when it gave the world Madchester and a music scene still echoing through the city's late night venues. Both histories show up on your plate here.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">We take you past the glass towers locals call Manc-hattan, along the historic canal arches of Castlefield, and through the packed streets of Chinatown, stopping wherever the city's food story runs deepest. An independent coffee roastery sits tucked into old railway arches. A music venue still serves up rock and roll energy alongside its wings. A bakery keeps European and East Asian baking traditions on the same counter. Your guide lives here and knows which door to knock on, which counter to queue at, and which building has a food story worth telling before you even taste what's inside. This local knowledge is the difference between eating in Manchester and understanding it.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">Along the way you'll taste how a city shaped by immigration, industry, and reinvention still feeds itself today. Near the end, we'll hand you a Secret Dish, a local specialty kept off the menu until the day, chosen because it says something true about Manchester no guidebook does.</p></div></div></div>

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Sao Paulo

<div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><p style="margin-left:0px;">Taste São Paulo's Liberdade neighborhood — cured meat sandwiches, Chinese buns, Korean fried chicken, Japanese pork cutlet, and mango sticky rice.</p></div></div></div>

Explore Liberdade, São Paulo's pan-Asian neighborhood, on a guided food tour tracing generations of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese immigration through the city's kitchens.

Sao Paulo Food Tour

<div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><p style="margin-left:0px;">Join us on the São Paulo culinary tour through Liberdade and let your taste buds guide you through one of the most layered neighborhoods in Brazil. Taste your way through generations of history, from a working class sandwich stacked with peppery cured meat to sweet and unique Chinese buns, glossy Korean fried chicken bites, and a golden Japanese pork cutlet. And of course, we have a surprise Secret Dish waiting for you in between. Cool down at the end with a Southeast Asian dessert of warm coconut rice and cool, ripe mango, a fitting way to close out a day built on centuries of flavor.</p></div></div></div>