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Suivez nos guides qualifiés à travers les rues médiévales de Tours pour une expérience culinaire à faire frétiller les papilles. Pendant quelques heures on vous offre une immersion complète dans la culture et la gastronomie tourangelle, le temps d’une visite guidée rythmée entre anecdotes insolites et dégustations de caractère. Durant votre visite, chaque client dégustera des spécialités délicieux fait par des producteurs passionné s de la région. Des produits tels que des fromage s locaux, de la glace artisanale, du chocolat, charcuteries, vins régionaux, nougat de Tours, des bières artisanal es et bien plus encore!

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LA Cuisine Française

Faites votre choix parmi nos trois visites gourmandes et plongez-vous au cœur d’une virée qui ravira le gourmand qui sommeille en vous !

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Dîner Culinaire de Tours (Soir)

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Visite Culinaire de Tours (Matin)

Une bonne activité.

Tout le monde a vraiment apprécié l’excursion y compris nos filles de 9 et 12 ans. Elles ne pouvaient goûter le vin, bien sûr mais de la limonade faite maison leur a été offerte à la place et elles en ont été ravies. La cuisine était délicieuse et notre guide nous a raconté de nombreux faits intéressants. Une bonne activité lors de votre première journée dans la ville car vous recevrez beaucoup de suggestions d’endroits à visiter. Une excursion incontournable à Galway.

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Sheena est vraiment fantastique..

Ma femme et moi avons déménagé à Tours récemment et cette excursion m'a été recommandée par un collègue comme beau cadeau d'anniversaire pour ma femme. Nous y sommes allés tous les deux et c'était fantastique. C'est incroyable de se dire que l'on peut se promener dans les rues d'une ville sans savoir quelle merveille on va soudain découvrir.||||Sheena est vraiment fantastique. Elle est chaleureuse, sympathique, accueillante et détendue. C'est une excursion très décontractée avec relativement peu de marche. Les plats et les boissons dégustés sont délicieux et servis en abondance aussi vous n'aurez certainement pas besoin de vous restaurer après cette excursion. C'est un excellent moyen de passer 2-3 heures et je la recommande vivement.

Excellente activité pour découvrir la ville.

Le tour brillamment mené par Sheena est un réel plaisir gustatif et historique à la fois. Une des meilleures façons de découvrir la ville à travers sa gastronomie, le tout lié à son histoire et ses acteurs actuels. Dans la bonne humeur bien sûr, Sheena nous guide à travers ses anecdotes dans toute la ville.

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Le Fooding 2023 award winners named

Le Fooding has named its best restaurant in France for 2023– and it comes with its own free-range pig farm and vegetable garden.

Le Doyenné , in Saint-Vrain (Essonne), about 40k from Paris, is run by Australians James Henry and Shaun Kelly and only opened in July.

The Presbytère in Heugueville-sur-Sienne ( Manche ) by British chef Edward Delling-Williams is named best country pub in the 2023 Guide, and Oiseau Oiseau by Frenchman Sven Chartier in Perche-en-Nocé ( Orne ) is awarded the Fooding d’amour. They and Le Doyenné are all part of a growing trend which has seen chefs moving out from Paris to settle in the countryside where they can more easily grow their own produce.

Christine Doublet, deputy general manager of Le Fooding, told AFP the increasing number of top chefs working in the regions was “inspiring”. “They are reviving places that were sleepy,” she said.

Created in Paris in 2000, Le Fooding rewards 15 of the best new openings of the year alongside 500 top tips for restaurants and bars across the country. This year’s winning list included:

Le Doyenné, Saint-Vrain, Essonne (James Edward Henry et Shaun Kelly) 

Fooding d’amour

Jones, Paris (Riccardo Ferrante et Damien Lacour) 

Oiseau Oiseau, Préaux-du-Perche, Orne (Marianne, Sven et Nils Chartier) 

Best country pub

The Presbytère, Heugueville-sur-Sienne, Manche (Edward Delling-Williams)  

Best team spirit

Restaurant l’Idéal, Marseille , Bouches-du-Rhône (Julia Sammut, Aurélien Baron et Jérémy Nguyen) 

Best Village Café

Jour de Fête, Valennes, Sarthe (Raphaële, Adèle et Maud Yon-Araud et Étienne Legrand) 

Best bistro

Bistrot des Tournelles, Paris (Geoffroy Langella et Édouard Vermynck) 

Ritournelle, Dinard, Ille-et-Vilaine (Miléna Cugny et Benjamin Joinville) 

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  • March 29, 2016

PARIS — The pithiviers de canard at Clown Bar , a historic restaurant in Paris with circus-themed glazed tiles from the 1920s, is an exquisite rendering of a classic dish. Duck breast surrounded by minced duck meat, topped with duck foie gras and baked inside a pastry shell the color of varnished teak, it is a flaky, tender, succulent argument for why we still worship traditional French cuisine.

The pithiviers may be as French as the four-week vacation, but the one at Clown Bar is the creation of the chef Sota Atsumi, who is from Tokyo.

Mr. Atsumi, 30, is part of a new generation of Japanese chefs who set out to master French cooking and who now run some of the most acclaimed French restaurants in Paris — notable in a city known for its snobbish dismissal of outsiders. Le Fooding , possibly the most influential food publication in the country, named Clown Bar the best bistro in all of France for 2015.

Some of the chefs, such as Dai Shinozuka of L es Enfants Rouges , are so orthodox that the food they cook could illustrate a textbook. Others, like Shinichi Sato at Passage 53 , a white jewel box of a restaurant with two Michelin stars, or Atsushi Tanaka at Restaurant A.T , embrace modernist cuisine. They moved to France to learn from the country’s culinary lions and to absorb its traditions and techniques.

“You can impress Japanese people with French cuisine, but I want to cook French cuisine for French people,” said Katsuaki Okiyama, the 39-year-old chef at the restaurant Abri . Mr. Okiyama, who was born outside Tokyo and studied French cuisine in Japan before moving to France, worked at Taillevent and La Table de Joël Robuchon (now closed), two citadels of formal dining in Paris.

Japanese chefs have been cooking in Paris for some time. Alexandre Cammas, the editor of Le Fooding, recalled that a handful of Japanese chefs were running the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants with expensive menus in 1990s.

But recently, he said, many in this new generation are opening the kind of small, studiously informal restaurants that have changed the culinary landscape in Paris. They are card-carrying members of the “bistronomy” movement, which brings the sophistication and technique of fine dining to tastefully scuffed neighborhood restaurants, where the confidently disheveled waiter is more likely to guide you to a weird, wonderful and inexpensive natural wine than a pricey grand cru. These ambitious and affordable restaurants have created a new eating culture, cultivating a youthful and discerning clientele. Some of the most refined cooking in Paris is now found in restaurants that are young, loud and fun.

These Japanese-born chefs are integral to that movement, running the kitchens in a number of the city’s most talked-about restaurants. “The big increase is maybe since three years,” Mr. Cammas said. The current edition of Le Fooding includes a “Japaname Tour” of Paris with a lavishly illustrated foldout map. It lists 40 restaurants headed by Japanese chefs, 28 of which are cataloged as “Japarisiennes,” a portmanteau for Japanese chefs cooking French cuisine.

It’s not easy to win over Parisians, but diners have been seduced by how these émigrés have mastered the local vernacular. After all, food is more than sustenance or a source of pleasure in France; it’s an important part of the nation’s identity. In 2010, Unesco named the multicourse French meal — the organization defines as “commencing with an aperitif” and consisting of “at least four successive courses” — as a heritage worthy of protection.

Chefs like Mr. Atsumi and Mr. Okiyama are as much the guardians of that legacy as any chef from France.

“It is a question of talent and passion, and it’s a question of soul,” Mr. Cammas said, explaining that technical skills will only take you so far in Paris. “The mille-feuille at Abri is one of the best you can taste,” he said, speaking of Mr. Okiyama’s playful interpretation of the intricate pastry. It isn’t a classic mille-feuille, but the flavors are true to the original — it doesn’t flirt with fusion.

“He just does it better,” Mr. Cammas said.

Narrow and cramped, Abri feels more like a student dive than a restaurant that books up weeks in advance. At night, fashionable Parisians navigate an unphotogenic stretch of rue du Faubourg Poissonnière to crowd into one of the small tables and linger over one of the city’s gastronomic bargains, a six-course tasting menu that costs 48 euros (about $55). On a recent evening, that included two Normandy oysters barely warmed through so that they still had a briny bite, sitting on pureéed cress and emulsified vinegar, and cod cooked to tender perfection with rosemary honey and aerated sunchokes.

There is longstanding mutual admiration between French and Japanese cuisines. Both are refined and highly codified, and revere technique that’s handed down through a strict master-apprentice relationship that is basically the same as that of a medieval guild. Some exceptional French restaurants have opened in Japan over time — out of Tokyo’s 13 restaurants with three Michelin stars, 11 are Japanese and two are French — and the food they serve has ignited the imaginations of some young cooks.

It helps explain why many of the Japanese chefs working in France are ingredient fanboys. Lamb, butter, chanterelles: What was so exotic back home can be picked up at the local markets in Paris.

“Yuzu is easy,” said Mr. Okiyama, the chef at Abri. “I go to shops and see what French people are buying. For example, fennel. I don’t naturally like fennel, but I’m trying to understand fennel and to see what flavors I can bring out of it, what I can do with it.”

Akiko Kawamura, a Japanese journalist based in Paris who writes for Madame Figaro Japon, said, “The difference between French food and Japanese food is one of addition, one of subtraction.” In French haute cuisine, more is more, with the reductions and sauces that form dishes set out to impress you. On the other hand, formal Japanese cuisine is more understated, defined by its subtleties.

According to Ms. Kawamura, that essential distinction is never fully erased. “Young Japanese chefs in France are always saying that they use French technique, but they really are doing their own cooking,” she said.

You see that intersection of cuisines at Dersou, a high-ceiling restaurant in a raw, loftlike space close to the Place de la Bastille that crackles with animated conversation. The restaurant is known for its food and its cocktails. The five-course tasting menu, which is paired with five cocktails, is 95 euros a person.

The chef, Taku Sekine, worked at Alain Ducasse in Tokyo before moving to Paris and cooking at Clown Bar. He starts the meal with a broth served in a Japanese-style soup bowl, and it looks as if it could be a part of a kaiseki, but it tastes of France: bouillon de légumes with poulet fermier and brown butter.

Mr. Sekine, 35, and the Japanese chefs working in Paris are less an informal group of like-minded expats than a cadre. Many worked in the same kitchens (a number cooked at le Comptoir du Relais under the exacting chef Yves Camdeborde, or at Vivant Table when it was owned by the tastemaker Pierre Jancou), and after hours they gather at the same bars. On Sunday nights, when most restaurants in Paris are closed, you can find them at Clown Bar, which is open.

They go to Clown Bar for the intimate room, which is as elegant as it is kitschy; for the wine list, which is full of obscure and wonderful choices; and for the food, which is unmistakably Gallic — turbot with white asparagus, roast pigeon, veal sweetbreads. In other words, they gather at Clown Bar for the same reasons they moved to France.

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Au début des années 2000, les spécialités culinaires faisaient leur apparition sur les plaquettes des tour-opérateurs. Depuis quelques mois, des « tours gastronomiques » fleurissent, qui proposent de visiter une ville ou un quartier en s’intéressant d’abord à sa cuisine.

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« C’est fou comme cela donne l’impression d’y être » , me faisais-je naïvement la réflexion, l’autre jour, en plongeant mon nez dans les vapeurs d’un bol de riz fumant, agrémenté de saveurs camerounaises typiques. Le plat s’appelle l’« afrosubsaharienne » et on le sert au comptoir du food truck New Soul Food, installé tous les vendredis midi sur le parvis de La Défense, à Puteaux dans les Hauts-de-Seine. Il s’agit d’une recette à base de poulet braisé au poivre blanc de Penja (une variété de poivre fermentée et légèrement piquante qui pousse au Cameroun), de bananes plantains frites, de riz basmati parfumé et d’une sauce à la cacahuète épicée. Je n’ai jamais mis les pieds au Cameroun ni en Afrique centrale et, pourtant, cette odeur de bois fumé qui se dégage de l’assiette m’envoûte. Elle est, m’explique Rudy Lainé, le patron de l’enseigne, également propriétaire d’un restaurant dans le 10 e  arrondissement de Paris, typique des « maquis », ces petites gargotes de restauration rapide que l’on trouve un peu partout au bord des routes camerounaises.

L’expérience, vécue à une dizaine de kilomètres de chez moi, est un voyage en soi. Parce qu’elle convoque les cinq sens, qu’elle se partage, qu’on l’introduit dans son corps et parce qu’elle laisse un souvenir mémorable, la nourriture reste le meilleur moyen de s’imprégner de la culture d’un autre pays. Un bon réflexe, quand on débarque pour la première fois dans une ville, est de partir à la découverte des petits restos des environs. Goûter la cuisine locale permet de prendre le pouls, de faire des rencontres et finalement de se connecter – par le goût – avec l’esprit d’un lieu mais aussi, et surtout, avec ses coutumes.

Bouis-bouis de campagne

On a tous en tête les frasques d’Antoine de Maximy et ces séquences télévisuelles mythiques, dans lesquelles le présentateur de J’irai dormir chez vous , connu pour parcourir le monde en sac à dos, s’installe à la table des habitants pour goûter à des mets exotiques (beignets de tripes dans les steppes mongoles , bouillie de homard au Nicaragua …), avant de parvenir à s’inviter chez eux pour la nuit. Cette manière de voyager en faisant de la nourriture le point de départ des pérégrinations n’est pas nouvelle. Elle a été fortement popularisée au début des années 1970 avec l’apparition, aux Etats-Unis et en Europe, des premiers « guides de randonneurs » ou backpackers’guides – comme le Guide du routard, le Lonely Planet ou encore la collection des Hitchhiker’s Guide de Ken Welsh. Avec eux, pour la première fois, les guides de voyage ne recommandent plus uniquement de visiter des sites touristiques, des hôtels ou des monuments archéologiques mais orientent désormais les voyageurs vers des restaurants, des tables d’hôtes et des bouis-bouis de campagne – autant de points d’ancrage culinaires qui donnent à voir les cultures locales sous un aspect on ne peut plus immersif.

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On this 10-day all-inclusive gourmet food and wine tour in France, discover the history of French cuisine and culinary traditions. You and your guide leave from Paris and follow our route across Paris, Normandy, Champagne and Burgundy, tasting gourmet food and wine

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Our French culinary tourism agency La Route des Gourmets specialized in food and wine tours and culinary visits in France has just created a new package for food lovers.

This 9-day food and wine tour la route de la gastronomie française will take you in some of the most beautiful French regions, famous for their gastronomic specialties.

This culinary itinerary in France includes

  • Cities most involved in French culinary history and development: - Paris "Capital of Gastronomy and hub of Distribution" - Provins, "Eating in the Middle Ages" - Beaune, capital of Burgundy 

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  • Gastronomic regions, famous for the quality and diversity of their local products: - Normandy and its Cider, Camembert and Calvados routes - Parisian countryside

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  • Famous wine regions: - Champagne in Reims and Epernay - Grands Crus in Burgundy

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This gourmet food and wine tour in France is made for tourism professionals who are looking for a unique thematic holiday as well as for associations, foreign travelers, students, families or groups. All culinary tourists are welcome to discover this country and its regions through local gastronomy and customs!

Highlights of this exclusive 10-day food tour of France

  • Thematic cultural voyage, highlighting French culinary, gastronomic and oenological heritage
  • All-inclusive package, featuring food and wine activities, museums and other sites, tastings, guide, transportation and accommodation
  • Careful selection of the best regional producers so you enjoy many high quality tastings of wine and local gourmet products
  • Personalized service during the whole tour with a bilingual guide, specialized in French culinary heritage expertise
  • Depending on the lenght of your stay, this tour can be customized to improve your experience and better highlight regions and business sectors of particular interest. 

The price includes

  • All the cultural and gastronomic visits
  • Museums entrances fees
  • Local gourmet product and wine tastings
  • Private guide
  • Accommodation
  • Transportation with driver for every step of the route
  • Optional restaurant reservations

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  • Duration: 10 days and 10 nights
  • Departure/Arrival: Paris
  • Minimum number of guests: 8  (please contact us for smaller groups)
  • Gourmet activity suitable for: families, individuals or groups, student or company outings
  • Languages available: French, English, spanish and Korean (please contact us for other languages)

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Visiting Russia is like flashing back in old times – the times of Tsars and Tsarinas, Peter the Great, Lenin, Communists and Stalin.

On our Food Tour you’ll see all  the most historical areas of Moscow , and try  Russian pelmeni, Ukranian borsch, Georgian Khachapuri , as well traditional hospitality, coziest and amazingly beautiful interior.

All food is included!

We can add/drop some places to make it more/less historical, cultural or foodie.

We can include food markets and street food.

The price and menu for this tour varies depending on number of people, season and duration of the tour. All tours are always customized to make you happy. You are welcome to pay $20 per extra person in cash on the tour (starting from 2nd traveler).

The menu for our food tour is pre-set, but you can buy something extra in cafes, if you wish. 

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We’ll start with historical downtown and walk around Kuznetsk Bridge, Petrovka street, Kamergersky lane, Stoleshnikov lane and Mokhovaya street. Expect architecture from different epochs, monuments to Russian leaders, Moscow Mayor’s house and Russian state library – the biggest in Europe.

Lunch at Korchma, Ukranian traditional restaurant

Korchma is famous for its great atmosphere, interior and food. Best Russian and Ukranian traditions in one place! Our lunch will include:

  • Lean sorrel borsch
  • Podolsky Salad,  incredibly juicy and crispy salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, cauliflower, carrots and greens;
  • Zrazy with mushrooms and spinach
  • Chicken soup with noodles
  • Spring salad with cucumbers, radish, eggs, green onions, lettuce and mayonnaise
  • Chicken schnitzel with stewed cabbage

Walk around Kitay Gorod, Bolshoi Theater, historical streets of Moscow.

2 options for snack: either Georgian or Siberian cuisine

1. Tbilisi snack in traditional Georgian restaurant (choose  one)

  • Khachapuri with compote (Russian sweet drink from berries), or
  • Porridge with persimmon, or
  • Chirbuli – fried eggs with saffron, or
  • Tkvila chakhokbila – fried eggs with tomatoes, or
  • Borano – omelette with Imerulo cheese, or
  • Curd rissoles with greens, or
  • Home-style matsoni yogurt with honey or jam, or
  • Penovani – cheese puff pastry, or
  • Sinori – fried pastry rolls with tvorog (cottage cheese) filling, or
  • Churchkhela – Georgian nuts dipped in thickened grape juice, or
  • Pumpkin cake with orange juice, or
  • Baklava, an Eastern sweet made form puff pastry, honey and walnuts, or
  • Medovik – classic honey cake with smetana cream.

2. Snack in Altai restaurant, Siberian cuisine with old Russian traditions in historical Zamokvorechye area (choose one)

  • Atlantic herring fillet, onion rings with roasted potatoes on the coals, fennel and amber vegetable butter, or
  • Julienne chicken – sliced ​​chicken with fried mushrooms and onions cooked in cream with cheese crust, or
  • Traditional Russian pancakes with the main ingredient of your choice – rustic sour cream, homemade jam, Altai honey, or
  • 3 kinds of little pies: 1. with sauerkraut, carrot, salt, pepper, eggs; 2. with potatoes and mushrooms; 3. with potatoes, onions, mushrooms, mushrooms, salt, pepper, eggs, or
  • Sausage-roll with beef, pork, onion, butter, salt, pepper, eggs, or
  • Vinaigrette – classic Russian salad with boiled potatoes, carrots, beets, sauerkraut, cucumbers, beans flavored with fragrant herbs and butter, or
  • Deer milk – two kinds of rep milk caramel crust.

Walk along Tverskaya, the main street of Moscow.

Walk around zamoskvorechye area, the most beautiful and ancient district of moscow., fun time in gorky park.

  • The most popular place among locals, absolute must do when in Moscow. Sitting on a bench on fresh air in front of fountains and sipping traditional Russian tea, or having a yummy ice-cream, specialty of Gorky Park – whatever you prefer.
  • Your guide will leave you in Gorky Park after the tour so that you take your time and discover the park, as it’s huge. From there you can head to Neskuchny Sad (Not boring Garden) and Sparrow Hills, as they are now part of Gorky Park.
  • You can just as well take a night river cruise from Gorky Park or Sparrow Hills – it would be a perfect end of the day

What you get:

  • + A friend in Moscow.
  • + Private & customized Moscow tour.
  • + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
  • + An authentic experience of local life.
  • + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
  • + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
  • + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
  • + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
  • + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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It’s apparently a move to appeal to a younger audience

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Michelin, the tire company perhaps better known for its star-based restaurant rating system, has announced it’s acquired a 40-percent stake in fellow France-based dining guide Le Fooding. In a move to reach a broader (and, perhaps, younger) audience, Michelin, which publishes restaurant guides to dozens of cities worldwide with the help of anonymous restaurant “inspectors,” is buying into Parisian Le Fooding’s “quirky” approach to gastronomy.

Le Fooding launched in 2000 as an alternative to fine-dining guides like Michelin and its competitor the World’s 50 Best. The guide offers restaurant and hotel recommendations in both print and online and, when it launched, made a point to include options at lower price points than the established guides at the time. Now best known for identifying food trends and up-and-coming chefs in Paris, Le Fooding had a brief presence in the U.S. in 2013 and 2014 with Le Grand Fooding events in New York and Los Angeles.

Le Fooding founders Alexandre Cammas and Marine Bidaud remain the majority stakeholders. In a press release, Cammas said the partnership with Michelin would help Le Fooding expand to other major French and foreign cities. According to Alexandre Taisne, Michelin Group’s gastronomic and tourist activities director, Michelin’s alliance with the younger dining guide will “enable [its] customers to benefit from more efficient offers and services to find the right table according to their desires and their budget.”

This isn’t the first time Michelin has expanded its reach through acquisitions. In July, Michelin took on a 40-percent stake in wine guide Robert Parker Wine Advocate, and last year, Michelin acquired UK reservation booking site Bookatable — now called Bookatable by Michelin — becoming the leader in Europe’s online reservation market.

Michelin notes that its partnership with Le Fooding will have no impact on Michelin stars. Cammas and Bidaud will continue to control Le Fooding but will work closely with Michelin Experiences on events and special offers.

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The perfect addition to your Paris explorations - a food tour and tasting in one of Paris's most dynamic neighborhoods! Start your evening in Paris with a Food Tour at one of France's most revered times of the day: l'apéro (the before-dinner hours when the French enjoy a sociable glass of wine and a little charcuterie, fromage, and more). It's the perfect way to warm up your appetite!

We’ll wind our way through the tiny cobbled streets of the iconic Le Marais district, one of the most popular and diverse areas of the city, and make our way to our favorite specialty boutiques, where you'll discover the best of French Gastronomy. You’ll get an insight into the history of the area, visit some famous landmarks, and discover some hidden gems along the way - all en route to eat the tasty essentials of our Marais adventure !

-We wind through the streets of the Marais to collect our goodies, including Charcuterie and Pâtes

-No experience is complete without collecting Fromage, so we'll visit our favorite Fromager!

-Naturally, one must have du Pain to enjoy with our tasting, so we will swing by our favorite local Boulangerie to pick up breads…who just happens to be an award-winning Boulanger!

- And of course, every tasting deserves a sweet finalé, so we will be taking advantage of the plethora of wonderful French Pâtisseries in the area!

- After all of that, we sit and enjoy a glass of vin !

This 2.5-hour cultural adventure will eat on the streets of Paris, with new friends, tons of goodies to enjoy, and end with a list of other ‘must do’s’ in our area. Be ready to indulge – and bring your appetite!

Please note that we start our Tours on time and are not able to wait longer for late guests. If you may be running late, please notify the school directly. This Paris food tour operates outside for the majority of the time - we will enjoy eating the majority of our goodies on the streets of Paris and in shops, during the tour. We will spend approx 2.5 hours on foot walking, so you will want to dress comfortably and appropriately! We intend to have a typically Parisian experience and there may be transport via metro involved (if this is the case, tickets will be provided).

Do keep in mind that we are visiting traditional stores and will focus on tasting traditional french items, there are no substitutes for gluten or lactose items. If you have any intolerances that we need to be aware of, please let us know beforehand.

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10 Delicious Fall Food Tours Across the U.S.

Food tours are an introduction to both cuisine and culture.

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Travel and food just seem to go together. When we're away from home, we eat at restaurants and often try dishes that we don't prepare in our own kitchens. Also, cuisine and culture are inextricably related, so when we travel internationally, we might dine on foods that are unfamiliar, and that's part of the experience of learning about a place and the people who live there. In fact, many experienced travelers plan a food tour as a way to get acquainted with a new destination.

Food tours combine tasting new dishes with getting to know a country, cuisine, or even a different part of your own town. Guides are usually locals who are well acquainted with the neighborhoods they cover, and they offer details on history, architecture, and culture along with introductions to new dishes or places to buy ingredients. Often the conversations within the group are not only part of the entertainment, but they provide ideas about things to do or places to go.

Food tours are a perfect staycation activity even if you're not traveling. You might find a new favorite dining spot or add a new recipe to your repertoire. Whether you're on a food tour near home or thousands of miles away, one more plus is that you'll be walking — burning a few calories as well as learning about the neighborhood, meeting new people, and expanding your tastes with an authentic experience.

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Tours by Locals - Food Tours - New York City

A variety of tours covers many of the cuisines found in the New York City and Long Island area, including Italian foods, Chinatown specialties, Long Island's wineries, Brooklyn distilleries, food trucks, and Staten Island pubs.

Best of New York Food Tour by Sarah Funky

Tour New York's food scene with experienced guides and learn how certain dishes shape the city today. Enjoy sizable tastings covering iconic New York snacks, lunches, dinners, and desserts. Between stops, you'll hear about the Brooklyn Bridge, see local street art, and enjoy breathtaking skyline views.

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Downtown LA Food Tour

This guided tour visits six unique stops including a French bakery, the historic Grand Central Market, cheese shop, and the iconic Bottega Louie. In addition, guides point out landmarks like the Bradbury Building and Biltmore Hotel while you skip the lines to enjoy LA's best tacos, BBQ, and sweets.

Melting Pot Food Tours

Choose a tour of the Farmers' Market or explore historic Old Pasadena, East LA's Latin flavors, or Thai Town. On the La Española Meats VIP Tour, guests shop and dine with the Dona Juana family, purveyors of authentic Spanish charcuterie, cheeses, wines, and imported specialties, ending with a patio lunch of tapas and paella followed by homemade churros.

New Orleans, Louisiana

Destination Kitchen

A variety of tours are offered, including a three-hour walking food tour with six to seven tastings of NOLA specialties like gumbo, jambalaya, muffaletta, and more. Visit famous eateries and learn about the history and culture of New Orleans while exploring the Crescent City's streets. Small groups, cocktail tours, and cooking classes are available as well.

Taste of New Orleans Food Tour, Tours By Locals

Sample appetizers during a walk through the French Quarter, stopping at two to three restaurants and selecting a variety of appetizers and deserts as well as a cocktail if desired. Informal conversations will cover the history and culture of New Orleans. Guides are natives of the city who can answer questions as their guests learn about the food and attractions of New Orleans.

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The First Squares tour blends gourmet food with visits to the historic squares of Savannah, making stops along the way at six different restaurants and food boutiques. Family-friendly, small groups, and knowledgeable tour guides connect Savannah's history to the foods. Tasting stops include an award-winning honey store, British pie shop, a trendy eatery, pub, and more.

Southern Flavors Savannah

The Dessert Tour is a three-hour excursion that includes a variety of sweets along with a bit of the city's background as you walk through historic downtown Savannah. Visit a Cheesecake Market, sample coffee cake, and visit Savannah's Candy Kitchen for praline samples and nibble on cookie samples from Byrd's Famous Cookie Company. End your tour on the historic riverfront with brownies and ice cream.

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Little Havana Food Tours

Join a small group to explore Miami's Cuban cuisine and culture while you visit a traditional bakery for a guava pastelito, taste a beef picadillo empanada, sip fresh-squeezed guarapo juice, learn about the tropical fruit, and snack on a croqueta de pollo, and more, ending with Abuela Maria's ice cream. You'll also see an authentic cigar factory, street art, and local parks.

Miami Food Tours

The South Beach (SoBe) tour takes guests through five different restaurants and cafes — favorites of locals — with tastings that include Miami Nouvelle cuisine, ethnic dishes, and ice cream. It's an architectural, historic, and cultural walking tour, and guests will see Miami's Art Deco buildings and hear stories of the city's past.

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Guide Fooding 2023, en avant la province

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Avant sa sortie le 17 novembre, le guide des tables, chambres, bars et commerces «qui font et défont le goût de l'époque » présente son palmarès annuel. 15 adresses sont primées un peu partout en France.

La valse des prix gastronomiques démarre comme chaque année, un lundi de la mi-novembre, avec le plus irrévérencieux de tous, le Fooding. Racheté en 2020 par son aîné le Michelin, qui clôturera la saison des palmarès le 6 mars, depuis Strasbourg, le guide qui se targue de faire et défaire « le goût de l'époque » compte depuis 2020 une nouvelle direction, qui a pris la suite d'Alexandre Cammas et Marine Bidaud.

Le palmarès Fooding 2023 décline 15 prix, dont seulement quatre à Paris (Jones, le Bistrot des Tournelles, Reyna, Soces), confirmant la volonté du guide, entamée depuis plusieurs années déjà, de ne pas apparaître comme «parisiano-centré».

Le prix majeur revient toutefois à une table située à 40 km au sud de la capitale: le Doyenné (Saint-Vrain, Essonne). 100% dans l'air du temps, taillée pour le Fooding, elle est tenue par deux chefs australiens, James Henry et Shaun Kelly, qui ont notamment fait leurs armes dans l'est parisien (Au Passage, Bones, Yard...), avant de tomber amoureux du parc du château de Saint-Vrain, qu'ils ont transformé en maison d'hôtes (9 chambres, bientôt 11) avec une table sous une immense grange réhabilitée (40 couverts). Le duo y cultive un vaste potager depuis 2017, élève ses cochons et ses poules, pour alimenter l'assiette (menus à 45 - déj - et 80 €).

À lire aussi Au restaurant Le Doyenné, le potager récompensé

En dehors de Paris, plusieurs grandes villes repartent avec un prix: Marseille (Regain et Restaurant l'Idéal), Nantes (Maison Arlot Cheng) et Perpignan (Yegg). Mais aussi trois cités balnéaires très fréquentées: Ritournelle à Dinard ; Chéri Bibi à Biarritz ; le Bistrot de Cancale par l'étoilé Hugo Roellinger.

Enfin, de petits villages sont à l'honneur: dans le Perche, où tant de Parisiens ont leur résidence secondaire, avec Oiseau Oiseau de Sven Chartier (ex-Saturne à Paris) ; Heugueville-sur-Sienne, dans la Manche, avec The Presbytère d'Edward Delling-Williams (ex-Le Grand Bain à Paris) ou dans la Sarthe avec Jour de Fête à Valennes.

Notons que certains des primés n'en sont pas à leur première récompense dans le guide: Au Passage époque James Henry ou la bande des Bars populaires (Bones aujourd'hui Jones...) ont déjà reçu des prix, tout comme l'Idéal de Julia Sammut, le Clown Bar à l'époque de sa reprise par l'équipe de Saturne (Sven Chartier) ou la Ferme du Vent de la famille Roellinger.

Le guide, disponible le 17 novembre, recense 500 restaurants, bars, chambres, commerces et caves partout en France. Comme l'année dernière, ce ne sont désormais que les nouveautés qui trouvent leur place dans la version papier - l'ensemble de la sélection est toujours consultable sur le site. Intitulé «Faim de nuit» et illustré par une dizaine d'artistes émergents, il contient également une partie magazine avec pour fil rouge la nuit.

Le palmarès complet du Guide Fooding 2023

  • Meilleure table : Le Doyenné, Saint-Vrain, Essonne (James Edward Henry et Shaun Kelly)
  • Fooding d'amour : Jones , Paris (Riccardo Ferrante et Damien Lacour)
  • Fooding d'amour : Oiseau Oiseau , Préaux-du-Perche, Orne (Marianne, Sven et Nils Chartier)
  • Meilleur country pub : The Presbytère, Heugueville-sur-Sienne, Manche (Edward Delling-Williams)
  • Meilleur esprit d'équipe : Restaurant l'Idéal, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône (Julia Sammut, Aurélien Baron et Jérémy Nguyen)
  • Meilleur café de village : Jour de Fête, Valennes, Sarthe (Raphaële, Adèle et Maud Yon-Araud et Étienne Legrand)
  • Meilleure glutennerie : Maison Arlot Cheng, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique (Chin-Jy Cheng, Louise Dumas et Pierre-Antoine Arlot)
  • Meilleur sophistroquet : Regain, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône (Sarah Chougnet-Strudel et Lucien Salomon)
  • Meilleur frit style : Reyna , Paris (Erica Paredes)
  • Meilleur bistrot : Bistrot des Tournelles , Paris (Geoffroy Langella et Édouard Vermynck)
  • Meilleure buvette : Ritournelle, Dinard, Ille-et-Vilaine (Miléna Cugny et Benjamin Joinville)
  • Meilleur antidépresseur : Soces , Paris (Kevin Deulio et Marius de Ponfilly)
  • Meilleure cave à manger : Chéri Bibi, Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques (Augustine You et Adrien Witte)
  • Meilleur petit luxe : Le Bistrot de Cancale, Cancale, Ille-et-Vilaine (Chloé Guillemois, Maxime Belloir et Hugo Roellinger)
  • Meilleur lèche-doigts : Yegg, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales (Eva Fèvre, Alexandre Domerg et Thibault Reverdy)

Guide Fooding 2023. 228 pages, 20€. Sortie le 17 novembre. En vente en ligne , en kiosques et en librairies, ainsi que dans un pop-up au 30, rue du Vertbois (Paris 3 e ), du 17 au 20/11 et du 24 au 27/11.

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The Le Fooding Guide to Paris, France

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Alexandre Cammas, founder of Le Fooding, shares his guide to the best restaurants, bars, and hotels in Paris, France.

Parisian born and bred, food journalist Alexandre Cammas has been documenting the culinary scene in the City of Love for the better part of 20 years. In 2002, he and a group of friends (and fellow food lovers) founded Le Fooding —a comprehensive guide to the best restaurants, bars, and hotels in Paris—where he currently works as director and managing editor, most recently launching the Priceless Cities  Best New Bistro  food awards program.

While Le Fooding now hosts international transdisciplinary events—their food, music, graphics, and design-based fests live in France but have had stints in LA and NYC—the primary way to Cammas’s heart will always be through his stomach. Below, find the Parisian cafés, cocktail bars, and meals he believes stand out among the rest.

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Alexandre Cammas’s Perfect Day in Paris

9:00 a.m. — le petit dejeuner .

When I’m not having a cup of Nespresso at home, I’m heading straight to Mokonuts , where the coffee is good, the granola is even better, and the cookies come out of the oven piping hot. The place is simple, small, and welcoming with an open-kitchen and owned by the freshest couple in East Paris: Omar Koreitem and Moko Hirayama. It’s also one of the best spots for lunch in Paris. 

10:00 a.m. — Take A Late Morning Market Stroll

On weekends, I like to go shopping on Rue de Faubourg St. Denis and buy cheese, pasta, meat, bread, croissants, and fresh produce. You can also find me in the aisles of the Vanves or Clignancourt flea markets. 

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12:00 p.m. — Hit A Not-So-Typical French Corner Bistro

For lunch, I like to book a Formica-topped table at Le Maquis , one of three exciting “bistros” shortlisted for our first-annual edition of Priceless Cities Best New Bistro , a new international food awards program launched by Le Fooding and MasterCard in Paris, London, New York, and Mexico City. It’s a typical French corner bistro, yet it’s actually not all that typical since everything there is better than everywhere else. Thinking back on the last cod brandade I ate and the last chocolate cake I devoured, all for the modest sum of €18, has me quite literally drooling over my keyboard. 

2:00 p.m. — L’Art Dans L’Après-Midi

I  like to read a lot, and one of my favorite book shops is L’Ouvre Boite located on Rue des Petites Ecuries. I’m also a cinephile and highly recommend the Max Linder and Beau Regard theaters. I also enjoy discovering new artists at the Martel Art Gallery .   

I sometimes go to the ballet at Opéra Garnier after work. I’m not really into museums and exhibits. For me to truly appreciate a piece, I need to be isolated. At a concert (even in the pit) or a theater, you are alone with yourself. No interference.

4:00 p.m. — Skip Croissants for Doughnuts and Kebabs

Not far from my place, there is a great doughnut shop called Boneshaker Doughnuts in the Sentier neighborhood. If I had a late breakfast, I sometimes order a veal kebab in the early afternoon at Ozlem —the best kebab in Paris (at least among those I’ve tried).

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7:30 p.m. — A Pan-Asian Expedition in Paris

If the weather is nice, I’d take friends to Cuisine at 7:30 p.m., a small Franco-Japanese wine bar with two no-reservation tables out front that most notably offers up some incredible veal brain tempura, fried pigeon, and outrageous natural wines.

If the weather is grey, I would take them to Cheval d’Or , also at 7:30 p.m., to grab one of the (also unbookable) bar seats, and embark on a pan-Asian tour by scarfing down the best pork belly bun I’ve tried since 2008 (at Momofuku Noodle Bar in New York) and some mind-bogglingly-good haricots verts tossed in a spicy soy, yuzu, and Sichuan pepper sauce—truly out of this world! These two exceptional joints complete the shortlist of three new 2019 spots vying for the title of Priceless Paris Best New Bistro .

9:00 p.m. — Don’t Forget Dessert

A great binchōtan (charcoal cooking)-obsessed restaurant where everything is absolutely delectable, from yakitori and pasta to desserts— Le Rigmarole .

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10:00 p.m.—Bars With Personality

On the right bank of la Seine, Déviant , Pierre Touitou’s creative tapas and natural wine bar is perfect to eat something with a bit of personality after a show. On the left bank of la Seine, Le Bar des Prés by Cyril Lignac is known for its cocktails, California rolls with royal crab and mango, and the crunchy curried crab and avocado tartlet.

As for cocktail bars, one of my favorites is Combat in Belleville, located between a Thai restaurant and a Chinese wholesale shop. It’s owned and run by women only, including owner and head bartender Margot Lecarpentier (ex- Experimental Cocktail Club ). Her bar isn’t lacking any panache, and the cocktails are always unique; I often order the Frais Maison made with vodka, gin, homemade bergamot syrup, lemon juice, and cucumber. 

I also really like the more recent Cambridge Public House that opened this year in the heart of Le Marais. The owners, Hyacinthe Lescoët and Greg Inder, are from Brittany, France and Great Britain, and you really feel like you’re in an English pub drinking a Pimm’s, eating cheese and onion pasties—only hipper.

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I really like the suite at the top of Les Bains , a famous old nightclub. It has an insane terrace and an outdoor shower—practical in the summer. Similarly, there is also the 1923 Suite on the rooftop of the Maison Albar Hôtel Le Pont Neuf , which has 180-degree views of Paris and is perfectly, centrally located.

What to Read Before a Trip to Paris

Le Fooding guide , of course ! 

The last Parisian writer to really move me was Simon Johannin. One of his books, Nino dans la Nuit , takes place in Paris, but it isn’t his best work. Although that book may not be translated yet, I imagine that Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes has been, and the depiction of Paris is quite contemporary.

What to Know Before You Go

Paris is quite small compared to other big cities in the world. It’s important to get lost in the City Of Lights, and in order to do so, I recommend walking a lot and using a paper map—not Google Maps, which is great in a hurry but doesn’t give you a full geographical view of the city. I would also recommend taking the subway or bus, the fastest modes of transportation, in which case Google Maps is your friend. 

For a less splashy budget, I still have a soft spot for the Hôtel Amour . For a medium budget, I would suggest Hôtel Providence , where every room has a mini cocktail bar.

If You Have Extra Time

Check out Plein Air , a hidden flower garden in the 20 th arrondissement, where I like to buy flowers or even seeds from the owner, Masami Charlotte Lavault.

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A cheeky French dining guide that’s backed by Michelin is launching reviews in New York for the first time today.

Le Fooding — which is 40 percent owned by the more internationally famous Michelin guide — has previously hosted events in New York, but this is the first time that it will be publishing a guide to restaurants here.

The so-called Priceless Cities Best New Bistro list, named in part due to an opening partnership with Mastercard, will ultimately choose 20 restaurants in New York that have opened in the last 18 months for its inaugural year, starting with 11 today.

Along with New York, Le Fooding is doing reviews for London, Mexico City, and Paris as well, and like Michelin, Le Fooding employs anonymous diners and pays for the meals. Each city has three of them, who are selected based on experience and knowledge of their respective cities.

Though Le Fooding is backed by Michelin, it runs on its own and without editorial input from its fancy parent, insists founder Alexandre Cammas . It’s also different from Michelin in that it doesn’t rank the restaurants or give stars, and it only focuses on new bistros, a way to track what’s happening on the dining scene right now. Prices, too, tend to be lower, and the idea is that the restaurants are more festive and more laid-back, he says.

But there’s “no hierarchy” between the restaurants on the list, says Cammas. “We just have crushes on places.”

Le Fooding’s New York “best new bistro” list this year includes Greenpoint Vietnamese restaurant Di An Di , Williamsburg all-day cafe Gertie , Missy Robbins’s pasta restaurant Misi , Park Slope Korean restaurant Haenyeo , Prospect Heights Persian newcomer Sofreh , the Olmsted crew’s second restaurant Maison Yaki , and the Vongerichten French-Indonesian Wayan .

Cammas started Le Fooding in 2000 as a reaction to other fine-dining guides such as World’s 50 Best, which he thinks is untrustworthy and “anarchic.” Since then, it’s become known in Paris for highlighting up-and-coming restaurants and pinpointing contemporary trends. Michelin acquired a stake in 2017 in hopes of reaching a broader (and potentially younger) audience.

Besides the reviews, Le Fooding picks three finalist restaurants in each city in September, and people can vote online to pick a winner, which will be named the year’s “best new bistro” on November 25.

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