This tour was exceptional and was the perfect way to start our trip in Istanbul! Didem was such a wonderful guide and went above and beyond to provide the best… read more experience possible – she tailored the tour to fit our specific needs, and provided great recommendations for the rest of our stay in Istanbul. I highly recommend this tour to anyone interested in Turkish food and culture!

  We had a great tour with Didem and she went to great lengths to customize it for us to cater to our many dietary restrictions. Highly recommend!

  Food tour was top, we really liked the opportunity of walking around the city and trying local food icons.
Ozcan is a great guide, very friendly, talkative and kept us interested… read more throughout the qhole experience. definitely recommended.

  It’s an amazing experience, much better than expected. We went to amazing places we would have not known without Ozcan! We ate delicious local food and walk in amazing places.… read more Ozcan was incredibly patient with us and he takes into consideration our wants and needs. I would 100% recommend this experience and 100% recommend Ozcan as a guide!

  Ozkan was AMAZING! We ate the most delicious food and had a super personalized tour. Ozkan was very knowledgeable not only about food but about all of the history of… read more Istanbul. We had so much fun traveling from the European side to the Asian side as well. Highly highly recommend this tour!

  Didem and Rabia were fantastic hosts! We tried delicious foods, learned a lot about local Turkish culture and history, and explored some places we definitely wouldn’t have found on our… read more own. The tour was the perfect amount of time and the perfect pace — just enough walking, and lots of delicious bites. Come hungry, leave full!

  The tour was fantastic and Didem our guide was knowledgeable about both food and history. She made sure that I had plenty to eat as a vegetarian.

  sude was an amazing guide and took us to many special places! felt like a true local tour- highly recommend her and ozcan’s tour-

  Didem was a fantastic host – warm, thoughtful and knowledgeable. We learnt not only about turkish food but also facts on turkey’s history and culture.

  A GREAT EXPERIENCE! Went to both the spice and grand bazaar, had a huge breakfast (turkish pizza, cheese, olives, tea), had a turkish coffee tasting and coffee grinds reading, sampled… read more the best baklava, had the best chicken skewers. Great quality of food and great history by Didum, HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS TOUR.

  We had such a wonderful time with Ozcan on this tour. We ended up being the only two on it and Ozcan really personalized it based on what we were… read more looking for – unique locations, delicious food, and great spice market shopping. Ozcan was easily able to cater to our needs as vegetarians and we tried food we wouldn’t have found otherwise. By the end of the tour, we felt like old friends.

  This was such a great experience! Didem was a tremendously knowledgeable leader, took us to places off the beaten path, provided interesting historical food tidbits and each thing we ate… read more was absolutely delicious. Highly recommend for anyone visiting Istanbul!

  Didi was an excellent host that showed is the nice places with the good food and background of both the area and the food.

  This tour is an absolute must, if you want to see parts of Istanbul, eat in places and try food that most tourists would not get to see or… read more try.
It was a great experience and I met some really nice people in our group.
Didem was a charming and personable host and a great guide. Thank you so much
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  Ozcan was a very friendly and enjoyable guide and the food experiences were very good, what we had hoped for. A little more time than we needed spent wandering… read more through touristy lanes with cheap merchandise and not a lot of talking between food stops – which some may like and others not so much – but overall a decent tour with a very nice host.

  Didem was such a great guide, very knowledgeable and easy to chat with. The tour felt personal and we learnt a lot of the history along the way while enjoying… read more amazing food. Would 100% recommend, this was a highlight for our trip to Istanbul!

  Lovely tour guide and ended up being a private tour due to low tourist season. However, the food itself looked very different to the pictures and the food / tour… read more guiding was poor value for money vs the other tours we did in Istanbul.
I’m afraid the food we had felt low quality or the venues we went to didn’t look or feel good quality either. The only one we enjoyed was the coffee. The rest was dishes we could’ve gotten ourselves in London or venues that felt basic with little or no explanation of why it was special to bring us there.
What could have made it better is if the guide had better quality storytelling skills about the food – it’s background, why it’s popular in Turkish culture, how people eat it, how people prepare it, the history of the food. She was very approachable and friendly, but we mostly talked about our personal lives rather than the food. And towards the end of the trip, it felt like we were just walking around with very little explanation and more us pushing the guide for more info. She was very friendly and asked us lots of questions about ourselves, but our preference was to learn more about the food and enjoy the quality and variety of the food.
To compare, we went to a show and dinner experience and for cheaper price, we tried far better food with wider variety and much more explanation and story telling than this one – which was supposed to be a food tour.
Overall, we have been to many food tours around the world and the value of this experience needs to increase – either with better quality food stops, more unique variety of dishes or better guiding of the tour.

  Of all the small group tours we have done around the world, this one was indeed one of the best and most enjoyable. Absolutely fantastic tour for a group of… read more 11 with 5 children – guided by Didem. A great introduction to the fascinating city of Istanbul, it’s culture past and present, history and delicious food scene. Our tour guide Didem was an absolute pleasure – engaging, kind, so informative and passionate about tourism and the food scene. We all enjoyed ourselves immensely and would highly recommend this tour. We left with full bellies and great memories!

  Very good tour to enjoy Istanbul in a different way. Didem, our guide was very interesting and precise. She gave us so many details on Turkish culture and spirit. It… read more is the best to find hidden places and treasures.
Thank you very much.

  Wunderbare Erfahrung! Ich entdecke eine Stadt am liebsten mit einer Kombination aus Geschichte und gutem Essen, das man nur als Local findet – beides wurde voll erfüllt. Klare Empfehlung!

  I was on the tour with Didem and she was a wonderful guide. We went to some amazing places and Didem did a magnificent job telling the stories about the… read more places we ate at and the people making the food. We went to some hidden spots in the Grand Bazaar that I would have never found on my own. This tour was truly one of the highlights of my trip to Istanbul.

  Ulku est une très bonne guide, qui parle très bien de son pays et de sa culture. Le tour est très agréable en partie grâce à elle. De notre point… read more de vue, il ne s’agit pas d’un tour culinaire à proprement parlé, mais d’un mix entre visite culturelle et nourriture. Je déconseillerais ce tour aux personnes qui ne mangent pas de viande ( la compagnie n’avait même pas transmis à la guide que je ne mangeais pas de viande !!). Nous avons trouvé que le prix de cette visite est excessif par rapport aux produits goûtés durant ce tour,même si les produits sont bons.

  The tour was excellent. Didem was knowledgeable, kind and I greatly enjoyed the spots she took us to. They’re not spots I would have thought to visit on my own… read more so I appreciate the hidden gems included in the tour.

  Be prepared to eat well! We stopped at local hidden gems that you would never find on a map and it made it extra special.

  Maravillosa experiencia guiada por Didem que nos ha cuidado y tratado de forma exquisita. Una buenísima forma de conocer lugares de la ciudad a los que nunca irías… read more a no se que fuera acompañado por una persona local a través de la riquísima gastronomía turca.
Totalmente recomendable.
Gracias por todo!

  WOW. We’re doing a 7mo wedding instead of a big wedding in California and Didem was incredible, overly nice to the point where I’m still asking her for recs and… read more tips for the rest of our time in turkey . I couldn’t recommend someone higher to bring you on a tour of Istanbul, we hit all the local places and everyone loved her plus the food was amazing 11/10 ⭐️

  Everything was great. Food, walk, stories, hidden places one will not find on g00gle maps or guides. Also get to see some local food artisans that tourists don’t… read more get to see or know. Highly recommend.

  Our tour with Ozcan was amazing! We learned so much and got to try the tastiest foods in Istanbul! Definitely a great tour, and we’ll be doing his Asia side… read more tour this week too! Can’t wait!

  What an amazing day with Ozcan. More than a food tour, I learned so much on Turkiye and its history, saw the highlight spots of the City and of… read more course amazing food. Couldn’t recommend enough.

  I left some private feedback for the host as I feel our experience may not have been a genuine reflection of how the tour typically is. We felt most restaurants… read more were not prepared for our arrival, and most of the places we ate at differed from the photos.