Private Sicily food tours, made for your group
Got something more personal in mind?
We have trusted connections and insider knowledge across Sicily, so we can help shape a private experience around the places, food and moments that matter to you.
Maybe you’ve only got a day or two.
Maybe you’re celebrating something special.
Or maybe you want to build a trip around a particular town, dish, producer or part of your family story.
We’ll create a private food tour around your timing, interests and appetite.
You might visit local producers, taste fresh seafood, learn a traditional recipe, explore a beautiful town, spend time at a vineyard or settle in for a long lunch somewhere worth knowing about.
Tell us what you love.
We’ll bring the local connections.
Tour profile
Duration
1 - 3 Days
price
From $200 pP
Activity
Customised
Free time
Variable
group size
Up to 10
Arrival
Custom itinerary
Departure
Custom itinerary
accomodation
Can be arranged
meals
Customised
season
JUN-OCT
Tour Highlights
- Private, small group tour
- choice of accomodation
- Bus transfers
- Food tastings
- Cooking demonstrations
- Italian Recipes
- Lunch with wine, grappa, averna & limoncello
"... this is the best way to really get immersed into Italian food culture..."
Custom made, personal cooking day tours in Sicily
Carmel can create an itinerary that is made to suit your specific tastes, timing & locations you would like to see in Sicily. This is the ultimate way to experience the best Sicily has to offer & suits couples who want a personal guide to explore Southern Italy.
Available 7 days a week.
What's Included
- English and Italian speaking tour guide
- Choice of transportation / accomodation
- Behind the scenes access
- Cooking classes and demonstrations
- Food tasting & lunch
- Plenty of free time
Reviews
Carmel’s charm, planning and “personality plus” made our group of disparate travelers aged 23-80 happy and at ease throughout a creative, comprehensive and fascinating itinerary.
If you enjoy great food and wine, and a mix of history, culture, laughter and local color, this is the tour for you.
I’d visited Sicily before, but Carmel provided a personal connection to our experience by introducing us to her family and friends, who just happen to be incredible makers of gelato, pizza, pasta and restaurateurs throughout southeastern Sicily.
Having traveled with Tauck, Rick Steves and National Trust for Historic Preservation Group tours over the years, I can honestly say that Sicilian Food Tours far exceeded my expectations and may have spoiled me for more conventional group experiences henceforth.
Can’t recommend Sicilian Food Tours highly enough. Hat tip to Valter DiCecco for adding so much to our journey with his humor and chef expertise!
The week that we spent with Carmel and her extended family was amazing! The food was incredible, the scenery spectacular, but what makes this tour a "not to miss" event is Carmel and her generous extended family.
All the Sicilians we met were warm and inclusive - I felt that we had made friends in a few short days. Having lunch at Zia Maria's place and playing handball with Sicilian teenagers that hardly spoke English, chatting to fisherman on the shore outside our hotel, meeting Carmel's numerous cousins at the bar - these are experiences that you will never get on a standard tour.
I cannot rate this tour highly enough! If you are reading these reviews then do yourself a favour and book-you won't regret it!
Carmel's Sicilian Food Tour is truly outstanding. If you want to experience all Sicily has to offer ... it's history, culture, food, family life and fun then this is the tour for you !
You will make authentic Sicilian Food and then delight in eating the fruits of your labour. The small group allows a friendly fun filled tour and Carmel and her team put their hearts and souls into making sure everyone has the greatest time.
What makes this tour so very special is how you are so warmly welcomed by Sicilian families throughout the tour and how you become immersed in their lifestyle.
We would have no hesitation in recommending Sicilian Food Tours.