Culinary Tours and Classes

Here’s a selection of cooking tours, classes and cruises – in no particular order.

As we put together more details on each one we’ll link them through, but in the meantime, contact us if you want more info on trips, classes, prices, dates and availability, or there’s somewhere we haven’t covered. 

Remember, we can package any trip up with airfares, insurance and transfers for you.

• Cambodia Culture & Cuisine – spend 6 days around Phnom Penh and Siem Reap sightseeing and learning of the French-Cambodian and Khmer cuisines. Lots of nice extras and available in 3 to 6 star accommodation 

• 4 and 7 day breaks in Andalusia, Spain – stay at a restored finca, eat at local restaurants, help to prepare dinner most nights, visit a local olive oil producer and explore the local area around Cordoba

• A selection of Gourmet and Cooking Tours through Paris – from several hours to 4 days, these tours visit some special gourmet spots around Paris, including local markets and food stores. Join a cooking class or a picnic of your goodies. Learn from local chefs and eat lots of pastry. 

• The Flavours of Tuscany – this 6 day small group round-trip tour from Florence spends time with a truffle hunter, a cheese producer and at several Chianti wineries

• Cooking and Touring on the Amalfi Coast - a 6 day private tour (minimum of 2 people, maximum 6) from Naples, gives three afternnon cooking lessons with three different chefs, and an afternoon at a winery. Learn to cook Neapolitan pizza, pasta and sauces and Italian desserts. 

• Bacchus in Sicily – this oenology tour focuses on the wines of Sicily. In between touring you will visit five beautiful wineries, enjoy tastings and vineyard meals.

• A Taste of Austria - 7 days/6 nights independent tour with 3 nights at a cooking school outside Vienna

• 4 or 7 day courses in Marrakech, Morocco – stay in a privately owned riad in the heart of the city. Learn to cook traditional Moroccan food, shop in the souk, cook a meal in a local communal oven, visit the Mellah food market, and relax

• Turkey Culture and Cooking – this 13 day tour takes a soild look at Turkey, visiting all the sights. On the way you’ll have 6 cooking lessons, visit local markets, eat in local homes,  and visit local farms and vineyards

• Slow Food At Sea – And After  - Silversea Cruises have a Slow Food restaurant on board each of their ships. And now they’ve brought out a 3-night luxury pre- or post-cruise option in to Tuscany to explore the concept further   

• Gourmet China - a 15 day journey through eastern China tasting the cuisines of Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu (home of Sichuan cooking), Yangshuo and Hong Kong 

• A Taste of Hungary – 6 days/5 nights independent tour with some day trips out of Budapest

• A Week in Petra, Jordan – join an 8 day stay learning to cook Jordanian food and exploring the ancient area around Petra. Visit local markets, farms and orchards, explore ancient fortresses and cook a meal in an outdoor Bedouin clay oven

• Amalfi Coast Culinary Holiday – 5 day retreat to Massa Lubrense near Sorrento and Amalfi. Includes cooking lessons, a trip to a limoncello producing orchard and a fishing village. Stay in a family-run boutique hotel 

• A Taste of Transylvania – 6 days/5 nights independent tour discovering the flavours of Romania

• Culinary Delights of Vietnam – a 15 day trip through Vietnam exploring southern, central and northern Vietnamese cuisines. Includes cooking classes, market visits, village food producers, meals in local homes and much more. This great trip is available in 3, 4 and 5 star accommodation 

• The Ginger Factory at Yandina, Sunshine Coast, Australia – daily cooking classes

• Aboriginal Dinner and Wild Foods, Australia - join a local Aboriginal chef as he shows his native foods and prepares a 3-course dinner for you

• Red Bridge Cooking School, Hoi An, Vietnam – half and full-day courses on traditional Vietnamese cooking

• Cooking Schools on Silversea Cruises – explore the culinary arts on a luxury Silversea cruise. Includes cooking demos, show meals, slow food voyages, clus several Culinary Arts voyages

• Paris and Provence – 11 day coach and train tour with a foodie day in Nimes and a winery visit in the Luberon - visit the local market then do a cooking class to make lunch. Tour a family-run winery and enjoy a local foods lunch  

• Flavours of Italy – 10 day coach tour including visits to a winery in Chianti, the olive oil town of Greve, a market visit to buy ingredients for a cooking class, with lunch. Visit Bologna, home of tasty prosciutto and salami and some nice delis and wines

• Flavours of Vietnam – 13 day cooking tour through Vietnam, from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City

Remember to contact us with any questions on the above tours and classes, or about any other foodie destinations you have in mind.