Zest Food Tours Wellington

Discover the tastes of Wellington, Greytown and Martinborough with a personally-guided Zest Food Tour®. Zest Food Tours will introduce you to their favourite food places and people for a unique food-lover’s experience.

The best way to discover any place is through its food!

Activity Options

Walking Gourmet

• Explore Wellington’s favourite food places in this compact city
• Known as New Zealand’s café capital, Wellington is ideal for our Zest Walking Gourmet tour
• Visit a boutique coffee roaster and café
• 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 café
• Minimum 2 guests per booking and a maximum of 8 guests per group

* Departs year round, Monday to Saturday from i-SITE Visitor Centre, Civic Square, 9.30 am – 1.30 pm.

Capital Tastes Tour

• A popular tour, discover fresh tastes in NZ’s café capital, as you are introduced to local tastes, products and people
• Stroll behind the scenes at some of Zest’s favourite Wellington food places with your personal guide
• Taste hidden culinary treasures, including chocolate, regional cheeses, coffee, honey and meet some of the people behind some of the city’s best food
• As an added bonus, you’ll receive a 25% discount voucher at one of Wellington’s best fine dining restaurants (Logan-Brown) or buzziest cafés (Floriditas) to enjoy in your own time, conditions apply
• Minimum 2 guests per booking and a maximum of 8 guests per group

* Departs year round, Monday to Saturday from i-SITE Visitor Centre, Civic Square, 9.30 am – 12 pm.

Chocolate Espresso

• Two favourite food groups, in a short but intense small group tour!
• Indulge the senses as you examine – and taste – traditional and contemporary chocolate and coffee
• Walking this compact city, start with an in-depth coffee tasting experience
• Then explore the adventurous edge of contemporary chocolates with amazing flavour combinations
• 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
• Minimum 4 guests per booking and a maximum of 10 guests per group

* Departs year round, Monday to Friday from i-SITE Visitor Centre, Civic Square, 9.30 am – 12 pm.

Taste Wellington

• If you prefer some driving, try the 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
• Savour a light, three course tasting lunch with matched New Zealand wines at a top Wellington restaurant, and meet the chef and/or owner
• Drive through interesting suburbs to a food writer’s home to chat and taste some delicious treats
• Minimum 2 guests per booking and a maximum of 8 guests per group

* Departs year round, Monday to Saturday by arrangement 9.30 am – 3 pm.

Tailored Tours

• Zest Food Tours will create a unique culinary experience for you
• They will tailor a tour to your special interest, for a larger group, or an area you’d like to explore.
• Just let Zest know what you want and leave the Zest team to weave its magic
• It might be a team building exercise, incentive rewards programme, a conference partner programme or a special client event. From 2 to 100 people

Location

Wellington i-SITE Visitor Centre, Civic Square. Corner Wakefield & Victoria Streets.