Turin, a food and monument wonderland in North Italy. A city rich in culture and history… and chocolate. I probably bought more chocolate in Turin than all my travels combined. It’s a city that would be a top destination just about anywhere else in the world, but in Italy it gets lost in the shuffle. Not to mention it’s so close to the mother of all food and wine wonderlands, Langhe. You will leave Turin talking about Turin like you talk about your newborn. Especially if you spend one of the days eating and drinking with Abram of I Eat Food Tours.
As some of you know, I’ve been taking food tours before most people even heard of them. I took my first one roughly 15 years ago in Lisbon, way before they went mainstream. 10 years later I started offering my own, before Covid hit and and life happened. While it remains the coolest thing I’ve ever done, I dont regret moving on.
Its a business I know a thing or two about. The good and the bad. Simply put, we both agreed that this was the second best tour we’ve ever done. It’s pretty impossible for a European tour to beat our almost 5 hour eating extravaganza in the markets of Mexico City. But this easily topped anything we’ve done in Europe. It got all the needed ingredients. Small group, entertaining guide, great food. A simple rule of thirds when it comes to Food Tours.
Abram is a Michelin star trained chef. He runs the tours along with his wife Cecilia. You just don’t come across something like this too often in large cities. If they do exist, Trip Advisor has made it very hard to find them since the Viator merge. Last year in Seville my best option was a large group with a company running tours in 20 cities across the globe. A staggering difference to a tour offered by the a local who owns the business.
I wont get into the food details except for the few pictures (there’s much more to this). The less you know the better. But this was some of the best food we had in Turin. There was one particular local specialty that we ate often all over Piedmont and none came to the level we had on the tour.
But the icing on the cake was Abram’s personality. Just the kind you want to be around for half a day and then wonder where the time flew. He’s a wealth of information about Turin, and his personal stories (he worked at the legendary Del Cambio) can carry the tour on their own. But at the end of the day, he’s just a fun guy that didnt stop smiling for four hours. Go!
Eating With Ziggy 