Tag: Local Food

SHOW KITCHEN AND FINE DINING EXPERIENCE

Post author By genii
Post date September 18, 2022

OVERVIEW

This is a private fine dining experience at a locals’ home who have been dedicated themselves to unique culinary lifestyle. You enjoy an exclusive cooking show and dining authentic, traditional, forgotten as well as popular food and gourmet dishes by Chef Yagub and his team at a small fitted flat in the Downtown Baku.

In this activity, you enjoy a course of a menu of your choice including starter, first course, main course, side dish, dessert and local wine drinks included (water, tea and selection of red wines from Azerbaijan) and feel the warmth of Azerbaijani hospitality.

Chef Yagub and his team of young aspiring chefs hold this experience in a centrally located, small fitted Kitchen showroom apartment. They are passionate and welcoming hosts who open the door to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences in bohemian ambiance.

HIGHLIGHTS

Locally produced organic products from garden to kitchen
Participate in unique kitchen cooking and dining experience
Watch preparation of specialty and gourmet dishes
Dine chosen menu while cooking show progresses
Immerse yourselves into bohemian ambiance
Taste local wine and organic products
Small Group experience and flexibility
Support local food communities

WHAT TO EXPECT?

Meet your local guide/chef in front of Icharisheher metro station, a central location in Baku. Then, your guide/chef will take you to a small fitted kitchen showroom. Get introduced to Chef’s kitchen over cup of tea and conversation about the culinary projects and support to local producers and food communities. Then, the chef prepares the dishes but also show you how to prepare and cook the dishes with the story of historical and social background meanwhile taste and dine the food that is made and served on the set table in the process. At the end of your experience, leave the central location with new insight into Azerbaijani culinary history and hospitality and family life.

MENU

The dishes in the menus are based on seasonal products. Therefore, the menus change depending on a season. The ingredients are all sources from local producers (small local food communities) in regions of Azerbaijan with idea of from garden to kitchen. This way we show our support to business of local communities. The products that produced by the local communities are also available for purchase.

Menus are: Vegetarian and Non-vegetarian

3-Course Menu

Appetizer

Main course

& Wine (local wine)

Appetizer

First course

& tea with dessert

4-Course Menu

Appetizer

First course

Main course

& Wine (Local)

Tea with dessert

WHEN

3-Course Menu: 12:00-15:00 & 15:00-18:00

4-Course Menu: 19:00-22:00 & 20:00-23:00

PRICE

Group size	3-Course Menu	4-Course Menu
1	60	95
2	120	190
3	170	270
4	210	350
5	260	430
6	310	510
7	340	650

ADDITIONAL INFO

Confirmation within 12 hours of booking
This is not a cooking master class
Not wheelchair accessible
Low-seating table
Most travelers can participate
This is a private activity. Only your group participates

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Culinary Tour Food Tasting Tour

Cooking Class at Family Home

Post author By genii
Post date February 14, 2022

Overview

Cooking Class at Family Home is a cooking class that allows you learn how to do shopping at local bazaar, prepare and cook a local Azerbaijani dish. This experience of cooking a local dish will take place with local family at a private apartment. This cooking class is ideal for small group to master cooking one popular dish of Azerbaijani cuisine.

The family home is located 15 minutes walk from city centre in local neighbourhood. It’s perfect to explore very natural lifestyle in areas just outside city centre with local family.

Highlights:

Experience daily routine of local family
Delve into hospitality culture at family home
Explore Neighbourhoods outside city centre
Do shopping in local bazaar like locals
Learn how to prepare and cook a local dish
Talk of everyday life in Baku
Small group experience (max 5 ppl)

What to expect?

Meet your local guide and small group up to 5 people in Fountains Square, A central location in Baku. Then, your guide will take you to meet your family host/your guide in a central location, Fountains Square, in Baku. Then, your guide will take you to a local bazaar to do shopping of esential ingredients of dish to be prepared. Then visit local family at their private apartment. Get introduced to family life in Baku over cup of tea. Then, the cook of the family will guide you how to prepare and cook one local dish with the story of historical and social background of that particular dish. You can choose one of three dishes: Qutab, Vine Leaf Dolma and Three Sisters Dolma. Afterwards, taste the food that is already made before set table. At the end of your experience, leave the central location with new insight into Azerbaijani culinary history and hopitality and family life.

When:

Everyday at 12:00 – 18:00

Duration:

5 Hours

Price:

1 person: 150 AZN

2 people: 280 AZN

3 people: 370 AZN

4 people: 400 AZN

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Culinary Tour Food Tasting Tour

BAKU FOOD TASTING TOUR

Post author By genii
Post date November 29, 2016

Overview

Experience Baku through its food, drink on a walking tour across both medieval and trendy streets meanwhile enjoying sights, smells and tastes of Azerbaijan cuisine and culinary culture, and conclude the tour with a wine tasting. During the 3-hour your guide will lead you in a small group of up to seven people to the six cafes and restaurants, tea house, a candy shop and wine bar in Old Town and Downtown Baku. Come on the hungry side; samples are generous and a shared meal is included. This tour is ideal for food enthusiasts who like to have an overview into Azerbaijani cuisine over three-hour walking tour.

Highlights:

Learn about local cuisine and how locals eat and drink
Tasting a must-have foods and drinks of local cuisine
Visiting 6 top café and restaurants
One shared meal specialty of at one spot
Wine tasting at one of Baku’s best wine bars
Guided Baku Wine Tour
Insider’s Guide to Baku Dining
Small Group experience and flexibility

What to expect?

Meet your local guide and small group up to 7 people in Fountains Square, A central location in Baku. Then, your guide will take you to top restaurants and cafes of Baku to taste selection of Azerbaijani food as specialty of the visited spot. Meanwhile hear about Azerbaijani cuisine, food and drinking culture. Also interact with your with your sommelier and guide about Azerbaijani society in general. Taste generous samples of local food at each restaurant. Visit pastry and sweet shop for best Azerbaijani desserts. Then finish the tour with wine tasting experience at one top wine bars of Baku. At the end of your experience, leave the central location with new insight into Azerbaijani culinary history, and tips for the rest of your trip.