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In the backstreets of eastern Paris, the city feels most alive. From Bastille to Belleville, immigrant kitchens, corner bakeries, and family-run cafés capture the flavor of a capital always reinventing itself. On this full-day walk, we’ll taste how global influences shaped modern Parisian cuisine — from Chinese canteens to North African bakeries and open-air markets — discovering where tradition and creativity meet.
$175 per adult
In Buenos Aires, food moves like a tango – part tradition, part improvisation, part seduction – across parrillas, bodegones, bakeries, and historic cafés. On this full-day walk, we’ll trace the city’s heritage, tasting how immigrant flavors converge into a distinctly Argentine table. From flaky medialunas and empanadas to hearty stews, towering platters of grilled meat, and dulce de leche-swirled gelato, we’ll meet the people and places that keep these culinary rituals alive.
$135 per adult
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.
$125 per adult
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.
$175 per adult
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With blue 18th-century tiles, a deep cellar of wine, and a menu that refuses trends, Osteria della Mattonella remains one of Naples’ most steadfast trattorias. Run by the Marangio family since 1978, it’s a place where Neapolitan classics like Genovese sauce, pasta e patate, and baccalà are served exactly as they should be.
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On this week-long seafood pilgrimage, we’ll delve deep into the world of barnacle hunters, oyster fisherman, lobster trap builders, razor clam-diggers, and net menders, along with the local chefs who are harnessing the incredible offerings of their coast, transforming Galician cuisine into something new and exciting. Though our focus will be seafood and the traditional artisans along this coast, we’ll be exploring all facets of Galician identity—history, folklore, architecture, music, language, and religion—and gaining a deeper understanding of its unbreakable bond with the sea.
$5000 per adult
A Journey Into the Heart & Soul of Mexican Cooking We like to think of Oaxaca as the heartland of Mexican cooking. All those things that seems so classically and elementally Mexican – corn, chiles, moles, mezcal – can be traced back to the fertile area that surrounds this historic city.
$4000 per adult
Milk Street on the Road: Mexico City Follow in Christopher Kimball’s footsteps during a weeklong immersion into the culinary traditions of Mexico City. This trip brings together the best of Milk Street’s and Culinary Backstreets’ networks and offers guests a one-of-a-kind introduction to a vibrant metropolis where pre- and post-colonial foods and culture collide and combine.
$5000 per adult
From cochinita pibil cooked in underground ovens to corn milpas and family kitchens, this eight-day journey through Yucatán reveals the ancestral roots of Mayan cuisine. Meet the home cooks, farmers, and artisans preserving centuries-old traditions that shaped Mexico’s culinary soul.
$5000 per adult
Considering its small size, Catalonia has had a profound impact on the food world. From this bountiful territory nestled between Spain and France have come an almost hard-to-fathom number of culinary traditions and innovations, groundbreaking chefs, and iconic dishes – both new and old – that are celebrated the world over.
$7000 per adult
The freshest buffalo mozzarella. Tomatoes grown on steep terraces overlooking the Bay of Naples. The world’s best noodles from “the city of pasta.” These are the building blocks of the world-famous cuisine of Campania, the southern Italian region that includes Naples, Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast and Mount Vesuvius. On this exclusive-to-Milk-Street eight-day culinary tour, we get a perspective on Naples and Campania that few visitors ever do. We begin with a crash course in Neapolitan food led by Culinary Backstreets tour leader and Naples native Chiara Garofalo.
$6750 per adult
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