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Paris Small-Group Food and Wine Tour With Tastings and Lunch
3 h
Lunch
Small Group
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Stop At: Les Halles, 101 Porte Berger la rue Étienne Marcel et le boulevard de Sébastopol, 75001 Paris France
Meet your guide and small group at the Etienne Marcel metro station in Paris, where you'll begin your tour of the best of French regional gastronomy. Start in a local bakery, in typical French style, with a coffee and a buttery croissant. Learn about how these specialties are made, along with traditional, organic breads. Your guide will pick up some baguettes here to enjoy later in the tour.
The Les Halles quarter of Paris is traditionally known as ‘the belly of Paris.’ Once home to the huge, teeming food market that fed the city each day, it remains today a mecca for food lovers, the streets lined with specialty food stores, restaurants, cafés and kitchen supplies. Join the local Parisians as they shop for their daily groceries, and take a stroll along its most animated street, the rue Montorgeuil, stopping along the way at favorite boutiques. Savor tasty artisan cheeses from across France in a traditional, local fromagerie, and delicate flavored fine chocolates from an artisan chocolatier. Then it’s time for a visit to the oldest (and possibly most beautiful) patisserie in Paris, founded by the baker to Queen Marie in 1730 - also the inventor of the ‘Baba au rhum’. Winners of several awards, including Best Chocolate Eclair, ’choose your favorite pastries to be savored later over lunch. The last stop is a beautifully restored epicerie, where you'll try traditional delicacies from the South West of France.
Your expert guide will also point out a centuries-old oyster house (the oysters were originally rushed to Paris by horse), as well as will highlight traditional butchers, fishmongers, and grocers as you wander along this fascinating street. For the cooks among you, particularly pastry lovers, don’t miss the wonderful suppliers of kitchenware and ingredients, including one of the oldest supply stores in Paris.
The tour ends at an award winning wine bar, where the days' discoveries collected will be paired with a flight of top-class French wines, served by a sommelier. Sample wines from three different regions, and discover and how to pair each wine with your food. Your gourmet tour concludes with a typical picnic-style lunch with wine.
Duration: 3 hours
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This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Les Halles, 101 Porte Berger la rue Étienne Marcel et le boulevard de Sébastopol, 75001 Paris France
Meet your guide and small group at the Etienne Marcel metro station in Paris, where you'll begin your tour of the best of French regional gastronomy. Start in a local bakery, in typical French style, with a coffee and a buttery croissant. Learn about how these specialties are made, along with traditional, organic breads. Your guide will pick up some baguettes here to enjoy later in the tour.
The Les Halles quarter of Paris is traditionally known as ‘the belly of Paris.’ Once home to the huge, teeming food market that fed the city each day, it remains today a mecca for food lovers, the streets lined with specialty food stores, restaurants, cafés and kitchen supplies. Join the local Parisians as they shop for their daily groceries, and take a stroll along its most animated street, the rue Montorgeuil, stopping along the way at favorite boutiques. Savor tasty artisan cheeses from across France in a traditional, local fromagerie, and delicate flavored fine chocolates from an artisan chocolatier. Then it’s time for a visit to the oldest (and possibly most beautiful) patisserie in Paris, founded by the baker to Queen Marie in 1730 - also the inventor of the ‘Baba au rhum’. Winners of several awards, including Best Chocolate Eclair, ’choose your favorite pastries to be savored later over lunch. The last stop is a beautifully restored epicerie, where you'll try traditional delicacies from the South West of France.
Your expert guide will also point out a centuries-old oyster house (the oysters were originally rushed to Paris by horse), as well as will highlight traditional butchers, fishmongers, and grocers as you wander along this fascinating street. For the cooks among you, particularly pastry lovers, don’t miss the wonderful suppliers of kitchenware and ingredients, including one of the oldest supply stores in Paris.
The tour ends at an award winning wine bar, where the days' discoveries collected will be paired with a flight of top-class French wines, served by a sommelier. Sample wines from three different regions, and discover and how to pair each wine with your food. Your gourmet tour concludes with a typical picnic-style lunch with wine.
Duration: 3 hours
Included
- Guided walking tour
- Visit local artisan producers and taste regional specialties
- Flight of wine at an award winning wine bar
- Picnic style lunch with local produce bought during your tour to accompany your wine
- Bottled water
- Coffee/tea
- Fully accredited local guide
- Lunch
- Snacks
- Coffee and/or Tea
- Alcoholic Beverages
Not included
- Hotel pick up/drop off
- Gratuities
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- A moderate amount of walking is involved, we recommend you wear comfortable shoes
- The minimum drinking age in France is18 years. Participants uder 18 will not be served wine on the tour.
- Please advise of any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- A vegetarian option is available: please advise at time of booking if required
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 12 travelers
Features
Tourism
85%
Food
70%
Cultural
70%
Original
40%
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This is the best food tour I have ever been on! Not only do you get to taste so many different types of French food but you also have breakfast, lunch and a wine tasting. We met our fantastic guide Caroline at 10.30 and after a short tour we arrived at a small bakery where we had a typical French breakfast with coffee and French pastries. The croissant I had was so delicious you could really taste the butter. You could also see where the baker made the bread and pastries. After breakfast we moved on to a really famous patisserie and our guide told us about the history of the place and then we got to taste a yummy mini eclair and choose a dessert for later. Next it was time for the chocolate stop and there were so many to choose from. Now it was time for some savoury food and our guide took us to a beautiful cheese shop which had 100s of cheeses displayed in their window. Our fourth stop was in a restaurant where we tried a selection of their home made pates, hams, sausages and to top it off, foie gras!! The tour ended in a small wine bar where we tasted 3 glasses of wine while the sommelier explained the different types of wine, their tastes and where they were made. The wine was accompanied by a lunch that the guide had bought at the places we had visited during the tour. The tour was so enjoyable because our guide, Caroline, was fun, friendly and passionate. Each place we visited and each food we tried was accompanied by stories that linked the food with the French culture and history. Definitely Money Well Spent! Thank you so much Caroline and Memories.