Izmir on fire! - It was burning hot, still, our guide gave it all. Great food, great stories, great people. We loved it as always! The best culinary tours in the world.

Excellent day - Excellent day exploring the sights of Izmir. Well organised and a great variety of traditional food. We had 14 stops and each was well coordinated and our guide seemed to know everyone! Good insight into local customs and traditions and an excellent way to spend a day. You certainly don’t need breakfast or lunch if you take this tour.

Thank you Nuket! - Our guide Nuket Franco was terrific. She educated us on food and culture. We experienced the real Izmir - away from tourists and ate lots of delicious food. We loved Izmir because of her and miss her!

At the end of the tour you will be full. And not just with delicious food, but with fantastic memories. - Great way to get to know the city, if you want to see more than images on touristic posters and taste more than food on touristic menus. You will hear stories, learn some history, meet loveliest local people, have a wonderful walk, and, of course, taste some fantastic food. I was priveleged to have Nuket as my guide, a very knowledgeable and super friendly lady, who walked me through unique places and answered my countless questions. I was very happy with the experience and would highly recommend it.

Getting full in the local market - Nuket was wonderful. She took us to so many places we lost count. She gave us options to try offal and fish(we declined) due to being so full of so many wonderful foods. We wandered the local market like a native and she made us feel like we were just visiting with a family friend. Can't recommend her enough but come very hungry!

Highly recommend! - We had a great food tour of Izmir with our tour guide Nuket. There was so much food offered that we had to skip some of the items. Make sure you start the tour without breakfast and have small samples in order try everything.

Best day in Turkiye! - Nuket delivered us one of the best days we had in Turkiye. It was a very cool day where we got to experience the real Turkiye (not the overly tourist side), and it made the day special. We ate amazing food all day, while also learning about the history and social dimensions of İzmir. She was very knowledgeable and took us through places we never would have seen or known about otherwise. Can not recommend this tour highly enough!

A great with plenty of food - We loved the food tour with Nuket. It was just us and her, and my mother was so happy, because she doesnt speak a lot of Englisch, and Nuket speaks almost perfect French. So she made the tour in French, which was really great for my mother. We had a perfect day and I highly recommend this tour. Nuket is a very nice and interesting lady, who has been in Izmir for 40 years, and knows a lot about the history, the food, the traditions etc. Also, she seems to know a lot of people, on market stalls, in shops, in restaurants etc. We ate a lot of tasty food (we in fact had to skip a few places, because we were so full). And finished with a turkish coffee in a hidden lovely place in the bazaar. Do go hungry (dont eat breakfast at your hotel !), as the tour starts with a nice breakfast. The tour is excellent value for money !

Unprofessional and unreliable – tour cancelled twice without explanation - I booked and paid for this tour twice for two people - which is exactly the stated minimum number of participants. Both times it was cancelled without any explanation. On TripAdvisor, the dates were clearly shown as available, yet after booking everything was cancelled. Only after repeatedly asking did I receive a vague reply, still without a clear reason. Extremely unprofessional and disappointing.

Watch out - they tried to scam us! - The operator tried to scam us, saying we didn't pay the full amount. We reported them to Viator (including a screen shot of the email requesting the additional funds) and requested a refund because we now could not trust this operator. Viator assured us we would get a full refund, but it hasn't arrived yet, and we may have to go through the hassle of reporting them to our credit card company and get the refund that way. Suggest you stay far away from this company. We have used Trip Advisor tours many, many times during the last 10 years and this is the first and only time this has ever happened!