Flavors Food Tours – Savannah
Flavors Food Tours – Savannah
Looking for a high-end Savannah Food Tour with some new besties? Let me introduce you to Flavors Food Tours — Savannah.
“This is about sitting down, dining, conversations, having that connection with the guests and helping the guests connect with each other,” says Flavors Food Tours’ founder Leslie Padró Wiggins.
It’s a progressive food tour visiting some of Savannah’s favorite restaurants and sweets spots, each carefully chosen with quality and experience in mind. The lunch and dinner tours feature multiple tastings served across five food locations, but the pace is relaxed and casual, letting you sit and get to know the venue and the story behind the food.
“Here in Savannah it’s not just Southern Food, it’s also Lowcountry Southern Food,” says Padró. “We talk about Shrimp and Grits! What are grits and where they come from, why are we eating them and how did they become an elevated dish? And oysters! We feature local oysters from Tybee Island. The restaurants we work with use local farmers and fishermen, we know where the food is coming from.”
Padró says that’s been key in maintaining Savannah’s fine dining quality as the local restaurant industry has exploded.
“It’s a small town feel with a big town culinary scene,” she says.
She-Crab Soup is often on the menu and Fried Green Tomatoes, as well as, Beignets, Savannah’s famous pralines and an ice cream treat with a 105-year-old history. The tour highlights the city’s beautiful architecture, her historic squares, Spanish Moss and some of her most roguish characters and stories.
The Savannah tour launched in early 2024, a dream more than a decade. It has sister tours in San Juan in 2009 and St. Thomas in 2016. The brand is highly credited, certified by Food Tours Pros and belonging to multiple local and international food and business associations. For Padró, bringing the brand back to her family roots was always the goal.
“I just want people to feel really welcome,” she says. “I mean, it’s the Hostess City of the South, right? Have a good time and just relax! Walk through the town with me and I’ll show you a few of my favorite places. Like when you’re in town visiting a friend.”
The True South Lunch Tour™ invites guests to:
“Ease Down Into Some Fried Green Tomatoes And Southern Hospitality With This Authentic Culinary Tour. Walk Your Way Through A Colonial City Dating Back To The 1700s With An Educated Guide Providing Context And Entertaining Storytelling.” Lunch tours run Monday through Friday from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Southern Traditions Dinner Tour™ boasts:
“Enjoy the transition of day to evening as you saunter through Savannah’s most historic areas, exploring bite by bite and sip by sip! We visit a handful of restaurants for quality tastings that will fill you up, but never let you down. We’ll be the butter to your biscuit and the shrimp to your grits during your time in Savannah.” Dinner tours are offered Monday through Saturday from 3 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Tours max out between 8 to 10 people. Private tours are also available and most dietary restrictions can be accommodated. Visit their website or call for pricing and booking.
By Reneé LaSalle
Flavors Food Tours – Savannah
(787) 964-2447
www.savannahfoodtours.com