Dedicated food tours that take you into neighborhoods and help you appreciate the dining choices of the people who live in these neighborhoods are often enlightening because you are on the ground walking among the locals. Food tours are about ten years old as tourist offerings and probably no one does it better than the city of Miami Beach. Not only is this a good way to acquire more than a surface knowledge about the city; but over the course of a tour, you’ll engage in food tastings, exercise, historical insight on the communities you visit and then finish feeling like a local. Try one of these tours and learn the cultural background and ingredients of each mouth-watering insight.
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A Miami Culinary Tour is South Beach From An Insider’s Perspective
The Miami Culinary Tour is guaranteed to leave you feeling like a local. This tour gets enormous approval for its knowledgeable tour guides who share not only on food but also architecture and the city’s history as the Miami as-melting-pot. Have you ever eaten real Cuban, contemporary Peruvian, Argentina or superb Italian food? Well this tour will give you that opportunity. Excursiopedia is your backup resource for identifying excursions such as this should you get in a pickle. Tours run daily at noon and 5 pm.
Little Havana Food Tour is a Visit to Cuba in North America
This tour runs Thursdays through Sundays, lasts two and a half hours and makes five stops. You will visit Calle Ocho, the quintessential Cuban street in the area and sample Cuban food that prepared using age-old recipes. Savor a picadillo-stuffed empanada followed by a guava pastry. Then wash it down with a Guarapo juice. If you cannot take a direct flight, don’t feel badly.
Wynwood Food Tour is a Mashup of Food and Culture
Wynwood is a super trendy district where the melting pot of food that comes alive not only in the food but also in the arts and culture that is everywhere visible in the area. You may not have known that outside of Japan, Peru is home to the highest community of Japanese citizens. In the Wynwood District, you can enjoy a fusion meal of these two cultures. Vegetarians welcome. As mentioned, your guide will also share the origins of the urban graffiti on selected large murals that you’ll find in abundance. And you’ll come to understand how abandoned warehouses in this neighborhood helped it become a large outdoor museum.
Over the course of two and one half to three hours, what you eat on these tours will be enough to satisfy you as a full meal. You may either join a regularly scheduled tour or create your own group with a minimum of six people. Tour routes may change from day-to-day but unlike a bus tour that allows you to experience an area as a voyeur, these culinary tours will take you into the heart of a neighborhood. And if in moving around Miami Beach you find you need more information on how to find cheap local transportation, please read my in depth post here to help you plan.
This post is part of Hipmunk’s Cities Less Traveled Project. I was compensated for this post however all opinions are my own.
Deborah Davis says
Hi Patricia,
What a delightful and delectable way to spend the day — taking a food tour in Miami. I love food and I love travel so taking a food tour is a great way to immerse oneself in the cuisine, neighborhoods and culture through food. Thanks for sharing these food tours. I will look them up when in Miami.