Local Food – Baku Original Walking Free Tour

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 is ideal for small group to master cooking one popular dish of Azerbaijani cuisine.

The family home is located 15 minitues 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 wil 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 top 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 to 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:

Saturday and Sunday at 12:00 – 18:00

Duration:

5 Hours

Price: 150 AZN per person

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.