Tastes & Tales Food Tours

08/31/2026

Our taste of the week: Jambalaya from the Crab 🦀 Plant. We enjoy this with a glass of w**e or some local b**r as we overlook Kings Bay.

08/24/2026

Guyer’s Ice Cream & Doughnuts is our Taste of the Week! We are featuring weekly items that make our tours delicious! We have a sweet ending to our Crystal River Food Tour! You can order 1 or a half dozen like we did! Pick your favorite flavors! Our friends bought a half dozen too! Imagine pairing your Apple Pie Donut with Apple Pie Ice Cream. Chocolate lovers they have Chocolate Crunch donuts that pair perfectly with Guyer’s Chocolate Ice Cream.

07/31/2026

🥂 We sip, savor & stroll on our 🌴Crystal River Food Tour! Looking forward to tomorrow's private tour for a group of good friends! We're happy to help you and your group celebrate, just send a DM, call or email! We also just put out many public tour dates on our website!

07/31/2026

Here's some of our upcoming tours in Inverness and Crystal River, Florida!

05/16/2026

Check this out!

🍷🎨 NEW CLASS ALERT — Paint Your W**e! 🎨🍷

Calling all w**e lovers and creative spirits! Join us at the Inverness Art Co-Op for a fun and beginner-friendly painting class where you’ll create your favorite w**e style in a beautiful long stem glass painting using acrylic paint markers.

Choose your favorite:
🍾 Chardonnay All The Way!
🍷 Cab Is Fab!
🌸 Rosé All Day!

No experience needed — all skill levels are welcome, and all supplies are provided, including the frame!

📅 May 28th
⏰ 1–3 PM
📍 Inverness Art Co-Op
109 N Apopka Avenue

💲 Cost: $40
👥 Max 8 students — reserve your spot early!

Register today at
🌐 www.invernessartcoop.com

**e **eArt

05/08/2026

Today we had a wonderful tour with 4 girlfriends from high school who traveled from all over the country to visit this area and taste our unique dishes! One of the tasty dishes on today's tasting tour was the Jambalaya filled with fresh caught shrimp, crawfish, grilled chicken, sausage, red beans and rice! The flavor is delicious and memorable! We enjoyed it with a little cold b**r and watched the glistening water on the bay!

04/30/2026

🥂Just a little shameless self promotion for ! We are featured in current issue and our Inverness Food Tour! Our tops picks such as .penns

04/27/2026

Tastes & Tales Food Tours & owner Elizabeth Fernley are mentioned in this recent article in Travel + Leisure Magazine about the top places to eat and when to visit Inverness Florida! "This Hidden Gem in Florida Is Only a 90-minute Drive From Orlando and Tampa—With Tons of Wildlife and a 47-mile Bike Trail"

Mentions our top restaurants such as "Cattle Dog Coffee Roasters, The Cove Resort and Pub La Pergola Italian Argentinian Ristorante and more! Plus our local pontoon captain JillyFish!

Inverness Food Tour
Fernley’s company, Tastes & Tales, offers food tours in Inverness. On the tour, you’ll visit three to four restaurants downtown and sample everything from local specialty coffee to cuisine prepared by a chef who placed in the World Food Championships. The total walking distance is roughly one mile.

"The best time to visit Inverness is during the winter holiday season. “It’s very charming in the fall and winter,” Fernley said. “They do have great decorations, and a lot of family-friendly events. It’s like a Hallmark movie during Christmas. They have tree lightings and all kinds of wonderful parades.”
Discover Crystal River Florida Cattle Dog Coffee Roasters Inverness Art Co-Op Old Courthouse Heritage Museum Friends of the Withlacoochee State Trail, Inc. Inverness Festival of the Arts Connors Gifts Valerie Theatre Rich Fernley Realtor - Residential & Commercial Citrus & Marion County FL

There are plenty of reasons to visit Inverness, Florida, including airboat tours to see alligators and birds, one of the state's longest paved rail-trails, and an Elvis Presley connection.

04/21/2026

We love 💗 to show of Crystal River and enjoy the local restaurants, shops & historic sites! 🥂 Cheers! Thanks for an amazing year so far!