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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>

Secret Food Tours: Manchester

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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>

Secret Food Tours: Sao Paulo

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Baltimore

<p>Discover Baltimore's best bites with a local guide — from crab cake and Old Bay to a century-old deli and a secret stop.</p>

Skip the tourist traps and truly discover Baltimore with our top-rated guided food tour, which takes you to delicious, lesser-known food spots loved by locals.

Baltimore Food Tour

<p>Fells Point is one of the oldest corners of Baltimore, founded in 1763 as a shipbuilding town on the harbour. The streets are still paved with the original Belgian block, the row houses still lean toward the water, and the food still comes from the families who have run these counters for decades. It is a neighbourhood best seen slowly, on foot, with someone who knows which doors to walk through.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Over a few hours, you'll eat your way from the harbour to Little Italy. You'll taste Maryland crab cake the way the city actually makes it, pierogies from a Polish deli that has been in the market since 1985, a potato knish from a Jewish institution that has been slinging corned beef for over a century, and a mini cannoli from a Little Italy pastry shop that opened in 1956. Along the way you'll get to know Old Bay, the seasoning that ties the whole city together.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your guide lives in Baltimore and orders here on their own days off. They'll walk you past the waterfront where Frederick Douglass once worked, through the public market that has stood since 1786, and into Little Italy, where the immigrant story of the city is written into the street names. Less a lecture, more the running commentary of a friend who knows the neighbourhood.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There's one more stop we keep to ourselves. Somewhere along the route we'll take you through a door we don't name in advance, a stop that surprises guests every time. You'll leave full, and you'll leave understanding Baltimore in a way the harbour cruise never shows you.</p>

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Wellington

<p>Discover Wellington's best bites with a local guide — from flat whites and chocolate to craft beer and handmade ice cream.</p>

Discover Wellington's best bites with a local guide — from flat whites and chocolate to craft beer and handmade ice cream.

Wellington Food Tour

<p>Wellington doesn't just feed you — it tells you a story with every bite.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>On this Secret Food Tour you'll weave through the city's most characterful streets, guided by a local who knows where the magic actually happens. Kick things off with a perfectly pulled flat white, because in Wellington, coffee isn't a habit — it's a civic religion. From there you will discover that chocolate, like coffee, changes according to the region it grows, before sitting down to a proper taste of traditional New Zealand cuisine.<br>The tour winds through the beating heart of Cuba Street — bohemian, mural-covered and magnificently itself — before raising a glass of locally brewed craft beer at one of the neighbourhood taprooms. Finish the tour with a scoop of handmade ice cream made fresh from local dairy, rich and unhurried.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Along the way, your guide will share the stories behind the food: the Māori traditions that shaped the local palate, the immigrant kitchens that quietly became institutions, and the hidden spots that don't show up on any map. Come hungry, leave knowing Wellington from the inside out.</p>

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Kansas City

<p>Taste burnt end brisket, French pastry, and a chocolate finale on a guided walk through Kansas City's most flavorful spots.</p>

Skip the tourist traps and truly discover Kansas City with our top-rated guided food tour, which takes you to delicious, lesser-known food spots loved by locals.

Kansas City Food Tour

<p>Join Secret Food Tours on a food tour through downtown Kansas City. You'll dine in several locally owned restaurants, trying some of their signature and unique dishes.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Learn the cowboy’s story of a city that started with the sale of herded cattle from the deep south. At the end of your Downtown food tour of Kansas City, you'll have sampled some of this city’s most delicious dishes and gained a better understanding of America’s Heartland.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your Kansas City food tour starts here as you travel back through history while enjoying foods that resonate with Kansas City. All the food will be served with water.</p>

Secret Food Tours - Kansas City

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Split

<p>Taste the flavours of Dalmatia on a journey through Split's ancient streets, from the oldest bakery to Diocletian's Palace and the bustling Green Market.</p>

Split Food Tour

<p>Discover the flavours, stories, and soul of Split on a journey through one of the most vibrant cities on the Adriatic coast. Led by your expert local guide, you’ll explore a food culture shaped by centuries of history, where Roman heritage and Dalmatian traditions come together.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Starting from our Secret Food Tours Split Meeting Point at the Gregory of Nin Statue, just in front of the Golden Gate, the northern entrance to Diocletian’s Palace, you’ll dive straight into the heart of the Old Town and discover some of Split’s most iconic flavours.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Along the way, you’ll visit the oldest bakery in Split for a traditional Dalmatian sweet, explore the lively fish market, and taste a selection of local seafood favourites, including anchovy bruschetta, fried fish, and calamari paired with a local white wine</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As you wander through the ancient streets of Diocletian’s Palace, you’ll enjoy an olive oil tasting paired with Croatian wine, local cheeses, and pršut, experiencing the rich culinary traditions of the region.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The journey continues to the Green Market, where you’ll soak up the local atmosphere while enjoying traditional spit roasted pork at a restaurant tucked in the market</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Throughout the tour, you’ll uncover hidden gems and must-try dishes that define Split’s food scene, guided by passionate locals who know the city best.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As with all our tours, there is a Secret Dish to discover.</p>