Bespoke Gourmet Tours

03/19/2026

03/13/2026

Its finally done. After a long hiatus of almost 2 years the food and wine tour business is back with a few changes to tours and a big change to name and website.

We are now Bespoke Gourmet Tours and our website is www.bespokegourmettours.com

We will be updating website and email in the next few days but our tour information will also be available on this page.

02/05/2026

We are currently planning two tours to Europe for different clients.
One to the Loire Valley, Champagne and Paris, which will be mostly wine oriented and the other to Germany to discover the regional cuisines of Eastern Germany in Berlin, the Rhineland Cuisine in Cologne and the Bavarian food feasts in Munich and the Alps.

Tours like these can be organized and executed for any group of a minimum of 6 people and up to 12, for any destination in France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and others.

Please contact us to learn more about what we can plan for you.

10/18/2025

Tours to Europe are back!!

We offer tours to France, Germany and Austria/Hungary/Slovenia
We will also continue to offer our Latin American tours to Mexico City and Peru

Most tours are 10-12 days long and all our tours are tailor made to our clients interests as long as the interests are food and beverage related.

Our mini group size continues to be 10 max and 6 minimum participants.

Prices vary depending on group size, destination, duration and itinerary activities, but as a rough metric a 10 day tour to Europe with 8 participants will cost aprox. 600 USD per day for each traveler. For Mexico and South America the cost is closer to 500 USD per day and person.

Let us know if we can plan a tour for you

06/20/2025

Given that today the Restaurant Maido in Lima, won the title of Worlds Best Restaurant, as announced by the 50th Best competition today in Turin, we will start offering a foodie tour to only Lima, with a duration of 6 days including travel time. Leaving the US on Monday afternoon/evening, eating our way through Lima from Tuesday to Saturday, and returning to the US in the night from Saturday to Sunday.

Minimum participants of 4 and max. of 8.

During the tour we will try to visit the restaurants Maido and Central, the Worlds Best Restaurant in 2023 and now a Best of the Best entrant. But also other restaurants on the 50 Best List and other really good restaurants Lima has. We will also visit some food markets, and some hole in the wall places, as well as doing a foodie tour through downtown Lima, a city with over 500 years of history.

Trip Cost without 50 Best Restaurants Maido and Central
2990 USD, per person, excluding airfare US-LIM-US (aprox 1000 USD from Houston)

if reservations can be obtained for one of the two restaurants the price will increase by 200 USD and if reservations can be made for two the price will increase by 400 USD.

Included in the trip:
- 5 nights in a four star hotel in a central top location in Lima
- transport from Airport to hotel, during the stay and back to airport
- guide services on all days of your stay
- 5 breakfasts (in hotel or some special place), 5 lunches (in rather "normal" restaurants), 5 dinners (2 top if possible (top 5 and best of best, 2 present or past top 50 restaurants, 1 farewell restaurant)
- walking food tour of Downtown Lima with some historic visits

05/17/2025

While GTWW Will no longer offer accompanied tours to destinations around the world, we have started helping some people in planning their own vacations and upgrading the content with our food and wine knowledge.

So if you are comfortable moving around France or Germany by yourself, for instance in a rental car, we can help you in finding the right itinerary and stops to enjoy the best food and wine along the way.

Inquire per email: [email protected]

07/01/2024

Due to some political (elections, radicalism, etc), some weather conditions (super rainy and hot summer), other large events happening in Europe and the elections in the US we will reduce our activities at Gourmet Tours World Wide for a while. We will not offer tours to Peru, Europe and some other destinations world wide, for a while.

We will only offer our city tour to Mexico City and our chef tour to Quintana Roo, which both are limited to a four day duration.

For that purpose we have created our new page Mexico City Foodie Escapes, where we will post pictures, itineraries, upcoming trips and more information on the tours.

Please like or follow our new page and tell your friends. From 4 people onwards we can offer these tours almost any days of the year with a preference to Thursday to Sunday long weekends and from February to June and end of August to early December travel dates. We need about 6 weeks leadtime to organize a personalized tour, so if you have 4 people to travel with contact us as soon as possible to block your preferred dates. Mexico City Foodie Escapes is a subsidiary operation of Gourmet Tours World Wide LLC not a new company.

06/04/2024

We were asked several times to do shorter tours, less time on the road wise. So here are our first tours that fit this bill. We also reduced the group size to only 6. The transport will be in Mercedes Benz Vito/V-Class/Viano van, and luggage space is limited to one piece per person. The advantage is that this van can go almost 50km/h faster than the minibuses we usually use for a group of 8-10, so we will save around 75% travel time on the road, giving you more time off in the cities we go to, to explore or shop on your own.

Southern France: Friday to following week Sunday. Marseille, Chateauneuf du Pape, Southern Rhone, Avignon, Languedoc, Bordeaux, cost point aprox 6500 per person.

Northern Italy: Turin, Genova, Alba (Barolo, Barbaresco, Barbera), Milan. cost point aprox. 6500 per person

Central Italy: Florence, Pisa, Cinque Terre, Parma, Modena, Bologna. Cost point aprox. 6500 per person

Germany: Mainz/Frankfurt area wine regions, Heidelberg, Nuernberg, Munich. Cost point aprox. 6300 per person

Austria wine tour: Graz (wine region Styria), Eisenstadt (wine region Burgenland), Melk (wine region Wachau), Vienna Cost point aprox. 6200 per person.

Only 6 people needed, 4 possible for an additional 250 per person.

Dates can be determined by the group, with exceptions during winter and height of summer times. At least four months lead time on these tours.

Check out our page in order to find pictures from previous tours to these destinations.

05/21/2024

The big foodie news this week were the induction of Mexico as a country into the Michelin Guide.
Yes, the guide is issued for countries that pay a hefty fee to be included and yes some areas with really good food get dissed because they do not pay for being included. My hometown of Houston included or my home country of Peru.
However the Michelin guide is still one of the most respected guides when it comes to evaluating great food. The way how Michelin critics evaluate the restaurants (more than one visit to give bad ones a chance to redeem themselves, or good ones a review to see if it was a lucky hit). And their evaluation methods have nothing to do with a country's tourism board paying the fee, the restaurants evaluated still are evaluated using the standards of the guide.
Michelin has several levels, Three stars is the highest honor (none in Mexico this time), two stars is exceptional quality (two in mexico that have been on other high end food lists for years, Quintonil and Pujol) and one stars which honor restaurant with exceptional cuisine more than a white table cloth and great service (this explains a stall in Bangkok getting one star and a taco stand in Mexico City achieving the same.)
But then there is also Bib Gourmand and recommended restaurants, which to my experience are still very good propositions whenever one travels to unknown places.
Gourmet Tours has been offering tours to Mexico City over the last years, and it makes us happy to see many restaurants that we go to with our visitors to be mentioned in the guide now. Even without stars.

For this we will start offering more tours to Mexico City from now on. A short but sweet tour to Mexico City over four days to experience what the critics of the guide found good, what great and what exceptional.

Please see the pictures below from one of our previous tours to the city and the new flyer for our future tours. The cool thing with Mexico City is that even a tour with 4-6 people is possible. Dates are very flexible (except for the Christmas period and the strong rain season from Mid-June to Mid August) any long weekend is possible.

05/03/2024

Is Southern France of interest to you? We have a tour spanning the area from Marseille to Bordeaux in September 2024. if you want to see what our last group experienced there in April, check out the pertaining album on our page