Connie Walsh

I’m often asked, “What’s culinary travel?” Many think it’s a cooking school vacation, others dining nightly in Michelin-starred restaurants. Although I can recommend excellent cooking schools and gourmet restaurants, many of my clients prefer to explore a destination through curated culinary experiences. What’s on the menu? Visits to colorful, vibrant food markets and organic farms, and a cooking lesson or two, including baking or pasta-making. Cities – and some of their unique neighborhoods - can be deliciously explored via a walking-and-tasting tour. Clients enjoy destination-specific activities like truffle hunting and oyster farming. Winery visits and tastings, as well as distillery visits, are often included. The extent of the foodie focus is up to the clients.

Dining can range from a combination of Michelin-starred and legendary landmark restaurants to seaside fish shacks, city food stalls, eateries where locals gather, and home-based meals, with families. Restaurant recommendations are always included for independent dining.

My experience includes designing U.S. based culinary group trips for the “kitchen company” Sur La Table to New York- A Taste of the Big Apple-, New Orleans -with its blend of Creole elegance and Cajun comfort food like nowhere else in America, and Sonoma with its world-class wineries and Farm-to-Table ethos. And my hometown of Boston.

I’ve built a culinary network spanning the globe and can deliver a wealth of authentic food & wine-focused experiences baked into exciting and memorable itineraries. Throughout Europe and Asia. Italy and France, of course, but so many countries are eager to share their culinary traditions: Spain, Greece, Croatia, Ireland, Scandinavia, Asia, Africa – from Cape Town to Morocco. The list goes on, just ask.