Vancouver Food Tour: Paint the Town Culinary Tour

Experience the best of Vancouver’s food culture in 3 neighbourhoods: Granville Island, Yaletown (Downtown), and Gastown.

Begin your adventure on Granville Island, our local food and art destination. Feast your senses on local seafood, produce and artisanal delights as you nibble through the bountiful Public Market.

Become a sake expert by sampling 3 premium Japanese rice wines at Canada’s first sake brewing studio. Wrap up your afternoon by wandering through Granville Island’s specialty shops and art galleries at your leisure. Beer lovers can take an extra stop to sample a few at the brewery!

Take a ferry across False Creek to Yaletown and enjoy some fresh, local oysters and mussels steamed before your eyes at happy hour. The Pacific’s chilly waters are home to the sweetest shellfish in the world and cannot be missed.

Stroll into the historic Gastown district, Vancouver’s most vibrant restaurant scene and Canada’s cocktail capitol. Meander through the neighbourhood and become acquainted with the hottest restaurants, hidden cocktail nooks, and hole-in-the-wall establishments.

First, sample 3 BC wines alongside local charcuterie and farm cheeses from an ever-changing chalkboard menu. Nearby BC farms produce fantastic, award-winning meat and cheese products.

Conclude your eventful day at a modern, Barcelona-inspired taberna. Entice your tastebuds with innovative, Westcoast inspired tapas and pintxos that pushes the envelope.

BONUS: Love whiskey? Discover a secret whiskey bar with one of the most extensive collection in the country.

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Tour Includes:

• All meals, food, and samplings
• Fun and informative guided walking tour
• Drinks: Sake tasting and wine flight.
• Ferry transportation
• Gratuities to your guide are highly appreciated

Time: 1 pm – 6 pm

Price: $199

• 5% off 6-11 guests, 10% off 12+ guests

Maximum capacity: 12 guests for public tours. Private tours can accommodate more.

Meeting Spot : Granville Island, Vancouver. Outside Kid’s Market (Cartwright St), near the entrance of Granville Island. – VIEW MAP

Ending Spot : The Steamclock in Gastown, Vancouver. (On the corner of Water St. and Cambie St.) – VIEW MAP

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Vancouver Food Tour: Salt Spring Island Food Tour

Explore BC’s most prized Gulf Island, renown for its spectacular natural scenery, organic wineries and farms, vibrant art culture, and outdoor adventures. On this leisurely tour, indulge in Salt Spring Island’s famed wines, cheeses, mussels, oysters, and much more.

Guests can either meet the guides on the Island, or meet Melody at the docks in Downtown, Vancouver. A float plane will take guests on a picturesque ride and arrive at Salt Spring within half an hour.

Upon gathering the group and dropping off our bags, we’re off to our first delectable destination! We first take a tour of the famed Salt Spring Island Cheese farm, followed by a trip to an artisan baker better known as “The Bread Lady”. Saturday guests are treated to an extra detour to the eclectic Farmer’s Market.

Next, we cruise to Salt Spring’s only organic winery for a tour and a guided wine tasting. Upon deciding your favourite wine, let’s take several carafes onto the patio that over looks the winery. Guests are invited dive into their chef-prepared picnic baskets, filled with organic and local fare.

After the picnic with wine-pairings, we head down to a unique organic farm that supplies the attached restaurant. The farmer shares his strategic techniques to yield an array of produce to feed the entire establishment. We then experience the farmed goods, along with renowned Salt Spring Island Mussels on the airy restaurant patio.

A Salt Spring Island tour is not complete until guests savour freshly shucked Salt Spring oysters while overlooking the waters, and that’s exactly what we’ll do. Our tour wraps up with some squeezing of lemon, grating of fresh horseradish, and a whole lot of slurping.

As we say our farewells, the guides will help guests arrange transportation or accommodations.

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[ Pre-register now: spaces will fill up quickly]

Tour Includes:

• All meals, food, and samplings
• Fun and informative guided tour with transportation
• Drinks: Wine tasting and pairing and 1 pint of Salt Spring Island craft beer
  • Gratuities to your guide are highly appreciated

Time: 12:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Price: $199 CDN per person without flight or $259 CDN per person with flight

Meeting Spot: On Salt Spring Island or Downtown, Vancouver. Exact location provided upon confirmation

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Vancouver Island, BC: Island Gourmet Trails

Island Gourmet Trails offers exciting, delicious day tours on Vancouver Island, within the Comox Valley. The lush and fertile terrain of this area inspired its native name – Komox – “land of plenty.” The Valley, located at the heart of the island, is bountiful with fresh seafood, organic farms, superb wines and so much more.

Our tour might start with a stroll through a bustling farmer’s market, then visit a world-renowned cheese factory. Maybe you will roll up your sleeves to create traditional artisan pasta.

You might wander over to an oyster or scallop farm, head down to the docks to meet the fishermen coming in with the day’s catch or have a gourmet picnic. Later, you might choose to meander through an organic berry or vegetable patch. One thing’s for sure, you will experience the island!

Tours are planned to cover different culinary trails throughout the Valley. Some stops may include: farmers’ markets, bakeries, organic farms, orchards, cheese factories, chocolatiers, oyster and scallop farms, fish docks, a lavender farm, cooking classes, wineries, breweries, artisan pasta makers, gourmet picnics and restaurants. We can even explore the countryside in French!

Pricing

• Half-day tours include transportation (pick up and drop off), guided tour, appetizers and tastings starting at $125 CAD per person for a group of 4-6 people.
• Full-day tours include the above, with the addition of a multi-course gourmet dinner and regional wine pairings starting at $195 CAD per person for a group of 4-6 people.
• A private tour for 2 persons starting at $550 CAD.
• Cooking classes and gourmet picnics can be added to your ultimate culinary tour.

To start planning your culinary tour call 250-650-1956 or email info@IslandGourmetTrails.ca

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Gourmet Napa Walking Tour

Tour Facts

• 3-hour walking tour of downtown Napa
• Fridays and Sundays at 10:30 am
• Flat route, 1 mile long, with time to sit
• 8 stops with tastings at each (enough food for lunch!)
• Tour limited to 12 people, advanced tickets required
• Begins at Oxbow Market, ends at the Napa Mill
• $68 per person

Tour description

There is more to Napa than just wine tasting! Welcome to the FIRST culinary walking tour in Wine Country, for those who know that California cuisine is just as sought after as its wine. This tour will delight your taste buds as you explore revitalized downtown Napa with fellow foodies. We’ll share the fascinating history of this beautiful riverfront town, one where celebrity chefs intermingle with organic farmers and boutique winemakers.

We’ll begin at the new Oxbow Market, where a seasonal bounty of California specialty foods and produce awaits you. Your tour will cross the Napa River and visit 19th century historic buildings that weathered Prohibition to showcase the latest trends in California food and wine. You’ll leave the tour with a carefully curated list of Wine Country restaurant recommendations and recipes for your next meal.

NOTE: Customers must be over 21 and bring valid id to participate in wine tastings. Alcohol-free private tours available for groups of 8 or more.

Tastings

• Fresh, single origin brewed coffee tasting from one of San Francisco’s premier roasters
• Oysters on the half shell from one of the “most celebrated oyster producers in North America”
• A sublime, seasonal selection of the best California artisan cheeses
• Artisan salumi and a peek at sausage production
• Sought after tastes from a historic multi-winery downtown tasting room
• Wine infused chocolates and brittle from local brother/sister chocolatiers
• Award-winning California extra-virgin olive oil
• Handcrafted whoopie pies, named the “next cupcake” by Bay Area food writers

Tastings subject to change without notice. Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated.

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Other walks by this company:

Gourmet on Hayes

San Francisco Gourmet Chocolate Tour

San Francisco Gourmet Chocolate & Wine Tour