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Host: Robert (food tour)

Montreal, Canada

USD
$128-$165 per person

Farmer's Market + Street Food Tour w/Michelin-Trained Chef

Host offerings
  • Apartment
  • Professional cook
  • Pets
  • Vegetarian
  • Alcohol
  • Transportation
  • Cooking class
  • Market visit
  • Food tour

Meet Robert (food tour)

Robert has been cooking, teaching, and writing professionally about food and culture for over 30+ years. He has worked as a food editor/critic, restaurant designer, hotel operator, and chef. He launched his first restaurant pop-up as a high school junior and began traveling the world in search of flavor by 19. As a food writer, he was nominated as World’s Best Food Journalist and has won numerous global accolades as a correspondent for Travel+Leisure, Gourmet, and Slow Food, among many other of the world's biggest outlets. As an Oxford-trained scholar, he has lectured at food conferences and taught on four continents. As a food consultant, he has worked with generational talents like Michelin 3-star chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Sydney’s top toque Neil Perry, and Top Chef winner Harold Dieterle, and James Beard Award-winner Zak Pelaccio. As a culinary and operations director, he has developed 50+ restaurants and luxury hotels in the US, UK, and Asia, including some of the world’s top brands (W Bangkok and Seoul, Fullerton Bay Singapore, Corinthia UK). He believes that food has a unique ability to connect people, transcend culture, and create lasting memories. He is so excited to share his passion and hopes his Montreal food tour can bring a few dollops (or more) of joy into your life!

What to expect

Please note menu might vary. If there are particular dishes you are interested in trying, please include your request in the booking form.

Food tour: (1-20 guests) This Montreal food culture tour is a deeper gastronomic adventure than others. First, it has been curated by a Michelin star-trained chef and award-winning food and travel journalist. Second, you will eat from a selection of artisan producers, butchers, cheesemongers, and industry sources that can't easily be found on Google. Third, it focuses on the cuisines, home cooking, and street foods of Montreal’s diverse immigrant communities - Italian, North African, French, Asian, Quebecois, and more - visa the setting of North America's largest daily farmer's market. Fourth, the tour frames the cultural and local history that give the dishes you will taste dimension. Finally, your Montreal food tour includes tastes of 6-7 local foods. Wear walking shoes and loose pants and get ready to immerse yourself in the food, culture and culinary traditions of Montreal! If you choose the optional alcohol add-on, your host offers 1-2 glasses of sommelier-chosen wine, craft cider or beer.

Notes: Note 1: Drinks, any needed transport, and alcohol (unless added as a paid option) are not included.
Note 2: Robert will be your guide on most days, but on days that he is sick or not available, an equally wonderful guide and partner personally trained by Robert will be your guide.

Languages spoken: English

Sample menu

This is just a sample menu to give you an idea of the types of dishes the host cooks. Your menu will vary according to seasonal availability.
  • Old European Street Foods
  • Quebecois Cheesemonger's Plate
  • Chef's Rare Fruit Tasting
  • Homestyle African Flavors

Traveler reviews

4.5 (2)
Excellent and unique fine dining. Special event. Great fun. We were treated a great many course dinner in a private home . Also meals were paired with many wine beers and teas as I preferred. He also recommended other places to eat which were also great places
- Q2525S December 03, 2024
Seeing the amazing markets and hearing about the history and different cultures. Our guide was very knowledgeable and had a chef’s perspective of the unusual foods and how to use them in cooking.
- Sam_S August 20, 2024
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Robert (food tour)

$128-$165 USD

per person
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Pricing (per person)*
1 person 2-4 ppl 5+ people
Food Tour
 $165 $140 $128
Alcohol
 $31 per person
*Does not include 3% payment processing fee applied at checkout.
1 person 2-4 ppl 5+ people
Food Tour
 $165 $140 $128
Alcohol
 $31 per person
*Does not include 3% payment processing fee applied at checkout.
Experience Timings
 Lunch Dinner
Food Tour
 10:00am-1:00pm

Meet Robert (food tour)

Robert has been cooking, teaching, and writing professionally about food and culture for over 30+ years. He has worked as a food editor/critic, restaurant designer, hotel operator, and chef. He launched his first restaurant pop-up as a high school junior and began traveling the world in search of flavor by 19. As a food writer, he was nominated as World’s Best Food Journalist and has won numerous global accolades as a correspondent for Travel+Leisure, Gourmet, and Slow Food, among many other of the world's biggest outlets. As an Oxford-trained scholar, he has lectured at food conferences and taught on four continents. As a food consultant, he has worked with generational talents like Michelin 3-star chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Sydney’s top toque Neil Perry, and Top Chef winner Harold Dieterle, and James Beard Award-winner Zak Pelaccio. As a culinary and operations director, he has developed 50+ restaurants and luxury hotels in the US, UK, and Asia, including some of the world’s top brands (W Bangkok and Seoul, Fullerton Bay Singapore, Corinthia UK). He believes that food has a unique ability to connect people, transcend culture, and create lasting memories. He is so excited to share his passion and hopes his Montreal food tour can bring a few dollops (or more) of joy into your life!

What to expect

Please note menu might vary. If there are particular dishes you are interested in trying, please include your request in the booking form.

Food tour: (1-20 guests) This Montreal food culture tour is a deeper gastronomic adventure than others. First, it has been curated by a Michelin star-trained chef and award-winning food and travel journalist. Second, you will eat from a selection of artisan producers, butchers, cheesemongers, and industry sources that can't easily be found on Google. Third, it focuses on the cuisines, home cooking, and street foods of Montreal’s diverse immigrant communities - Italian, North African, French, Asian, Quebecois, and more - visa the setting of North America's largest daily farmer's market. Fourth, the tour frames the cultural and local history that give the dishes you will taste dimension. Finally, your Montreal food tour includes tastes of 6-7 local foods. Wear walking shoes and loose pants and get ready to immerse yourself in the food, culture and culinary traditions of Montreal! If you choose the optional alcohol add-on, your host offers 1-2 glasses of sommelier-chosen wine, craft cider or beer.

Notes: Note 1: Drinks, any needed transport, and alcohol (unless added as a paid option) are not included.
Note 2: Robert will be your guide on most days, but on days that he is sick or not available, an equally wonderful guide and partner personally trained by Robert will be your guide.

Languages spoken: English

Sample menu

This is just a sample menu to give you an idea of the types of dishes the host cooks. Your menu will vary according to seasonal availability.
  • Old European Street Foods
  • Quebecois Cheesemonger's Plate
  • Chef's Rare Fruit Tasting
  • Homestyle African Flavors

Traveler reviews

4.5 (2)
Excellent and unique fine dining. Special event. Great fun. We were treated a great many course dinner in a private home . Also meals were paired with many wine beers and teas as I preferred. He also recommended other places to eat which were also great places
- Q2525S December 03, 2024
Seeing the amazing markets and hearing about the history and different cultures. Our guide was very knowledgeable and had a chef’s perspective of the unusual foods and how to use them in cooking.
- Sam_S August 20, 2024
Pricing (per person)*
1 person 2-4 ppl 5+ people
Food Tour
 $165 $140 $128
Alcohol
 $31 per person
*Does not include 3% payment processing fee applied at checkout.
1 person 2-4 ppl 5+ people
Food Tour
 $165 $140 $128
Alcohol
 $31 per person
*Does not include 3% payment processing fee applied at checkout.
Experience Timings
 Lunch Dinner
Food Tour
 10:00am-1:00pm
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