Global Tourism…it’s a thing! So it comes as no surprise that one in five travellers angle their entire trip around delectable cuisines, food tours, tasting experiences at restaurants, and more. With all this in mind, here are some of the most amazing 2025 culinary experiences around the world. Keep reading to see where you might experience the taste of your life.
$9 CAD Bowls of Ramen at the Tokyo Ramen Festival
From late October to early November, ramen lovers can descend on Komazawa Olympic Park in Tokyo, Japan, for the Tokyo Ramen Festival. Spend the day roaming among stalls chowing down on shoyu, tonkotsu, and shio bowls. The festival will host about 40 different vendors, each showcasing Japan’s regional differences in ramen. Pricing per bowl is affordable, too, starting at about CAD $8.46.
Traditional Fijian Cooking on the Beach
Nanuku Resort Fiji offers a plethora of unique culinary experiences in a beautiful location on a Fijian beach. At least once per week, the entire resort can witness the making of a Lovo dinner – a dinner cooked in a traditional Fijian earth oven. The food alone will convince you to engage in other culinary experiences, like a hands-on experience on the beach where you’ll be taught how to cook prawns in bamboo on a bonfire. You can take it a step further and catch your own food, too, as the resort takes guests on deep-sea fishing trips for tuna, mahi mahi, or marlin, as well as mangrove crabbing. Nanuku chefs will teach you how to make Lovo Crab. There are also opportunities to go on a medicine walk for native herbs and spices, a trip to the local market to buy fresh Fijian produce for a meal, and instructional experiences on how to husk coconut and scrape the meat for a delicious treat. Foodies will leave Nanuku with a full stomach and some ancestral Fijian knowledge of how the natural environment can feed you well.
Moroccan Real Food Adventure with Intrepid Travel
Intrepid Travel offers some truly immersive culinary tours – like the Moroccan Real Food Adventure in Morrocco. It’s a 12-day tour through the region’s Amazigh, Arabic, and European culinary influences in destinations along a route from Casablanca to Marrakech. In addition to a home-cooked meal in Chefchaouen and at a desert camp, you’ll take cooking classes where you’ll learn how to make cous cous, pastilla, stuffed medfouna, and local salads. Expect visits to Fes’ and Marrakech’s medinas, a women’s cooperative that produces Argan oil, and goat cheese producers. This is the ultimate food-cation, one that you’ll never forget.
Dine with Strangers on a Rooftop in Copenhagen
Gro Spiseri is an organic restaurant located on a rooftop farm in Copenhagen, Denmark. There is one long table in the Gro Spiseri greenhouse, which means that you’ll be enjoying a communal dining experience with total strangers during breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Of course, you don’t have to be a solo traveler to join, but the idea is that 25 people gather together for a seasonal multi-course meal featuring local produce sourced from Danish farmers and low-impact fishermen. It’s a magical experience that brings lovers of food and conversation together.
Take an Illuminating Food Route at MIL Centro
There are very few places like MIL Centro that exist in the world. For one, it’s located next to the archeological Inca site of Moray in the Peruvian Highlands. MIL Centro works with the Mullak’as Misminiay and the K’acllaraccay communities to learn their ancestral foodways ways and give visitors a chance to learn about them. Those visiting MIL Centro can book three different experiences, including visits to the archeological site and the farmlands and expert-guided walks to learn about which plants are used for food and medicine. Each experience culminates in a lovely tasting menu by the end of the day. You’ll leave MIL Centro feeling more fully grounded and knowledgeable about the importance of ecosystems and Indigenous knowledge to sustainable food systems.
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