This food tour is a guided walking tour including visits to local eateries to savor the diverse tastes of Turkish cuisine. While walking your guide will talk about different Turkish food, history, and fun cultural facts. Join us for a unique culinary experience. Just make sure you come hungry
Turkey is an opulent destination for a culinary vacation. Diversity and the full flavor makes the Turkish cuisine worldwide famous. This tour is colorful and full of taste. Turkish people love to buy groceries and dairy products at local markets and every day the stands get filled with organic fruits and vegetables, fresh bread, olives and much more.
We will start the tour doing the same thing, as all locals do. We will buy food for breakfast from local eateries then have lunch in a tea house hidden in one of the back streets of the spice bazaar. Then we will visit the spice bazaar and dive into the fantastic world of Turkish delicacies and spices. And note it, it's a taste before you buy kind of place.
Then we will take the ferry to Kadıkoy, the Asian part of the city famous for the vibrant food market and local shops. While we are on the ferry, we will enjoy Turkish tea in traditional tiny tulip-shaped glasses. As you sip your tea your guide will explain you the history and tradition of food and why this beautiful country has such strong culinary wealth. With this background information we will eat our way through the local eateries and smell the atmosphere of this lively neighborhood .lstanbul food tour is a very popular tour.
Here are some of the food we are going to try during this tour;
Borek (savory Turkish pastry) in a local bakery
Traditional Meze Stop
Pickle Stop
Cheese and olives
Honey and Yogurt
Lahmacun(thin bread lightly covered with minced
Meat,Tomatoes, and Onion)
Turkish Coffee and Baklava
Freshly squeezed orange and pomegranate juice
End of the tour we take the ferry to Eminonu where our trip concludes.