Zest Food Tours - Wellington

• Walking Gourmet Tour. Explore Wellington's favourite food places in this compact city in this very popular tour. Known as New Zealand's cafè capital, Wellington is ideal for this Zest Walking Gourmet tour. Visit a boutique coffee roaster and cafè. Enjoy tastings at Wellington's best specialist gourmet food stores. Meet owners, baristas, coffee roasters and chefs. Savour a delicious, light, three course tasting lunch with matched New Zealand wines at a top Wellington restaurant or cafè.

 

• Taste Wellington food tour. This includes classic Zest Walking Gourmet activities of coffee roasting and discovering culinary treasures at our top Wellington gourmet food stores. We will drive you through interesting suburbs to a food writer's home to chat and taste some delicious treats. To finish, savour a larger, longer lasting tasting lunch with matched New Zealand wines at a top Wellington restaurant, and meet the chef and/or owner.

 

• Chocolate Espresso Tour. Two favourite food groups, in a short but intense tour! Indulge the senses as you examine - and taste - traditional and contemporary chocolate and coffee styles. Walking this compact city, start with an in-depth coffee tasting experience; explore the adventurous edge of contemporary chocolates with flavour combinations and tastes you've never dreamed of before. Savour the traditional approach with hand-made classic chocolates. Experience a commercial kitchen producing innovative chocolate dishes. Finish with one last unforgettable coffee flavour combination.

 

• Zest can tailor a tour to your special interest, for a larger group, or an area you'd like to explore. It might be a team building exercise, incentive rewards programme, a conference partner programme or a special client event. Maybe visit the bountiful Kapiti Coast and lunch with top caterer Ruth Pretty. From 2 to 100 people, just let us know what you want and leave our Zest team to weave its magic.

• All Tours Monday to Saturday by arrangement, 9.30 am start at i-SITE Visitor Centre, Civic Square. Available year round except for public holidays.