10 Unique Food Experiences Around The World in 2025

In 2023, the global culinary tourism market was estimated at $11.5 billion. By 2030, it’s expected to be a $40 billion dollar industry. So it comes as no surprise that one in five travelers angle their entire trip around delectable cuisines, food tours, tasting experiences at restaurants, and more. With all this in mind, we gathered some of the most amazing 2025 culinary experiences around the world. Keep reading to see where you might experience the taste of your life. 

Traditional Fijian Cooking on the Beach

Nanuku Resort Fiji offers a plethora of unique culinary experiences in a beautiful location on a Fijian beach. At least once per week, the entire resort can witness the making of a Lovo dinner – a dinner cooked in a traditional Fijian earth oven. The food alone will convince you to engage in other culinary experiences, like a hands-on experience on the beach where you’ll be taught how to cook prawns in bamboo on a bonfire. You can take it a step further and catch your own food, too, as the resort takes guests on deep-sea fishing trips for tuna, mahi mahi, or marlin, as well as mangrove crabbing. Nanuku chefs will teach you how to make Lovo Crab. There are also opportunities to go on a medicine walk for native herbs and spices, a trip to the local market to buy fresh Fijian produce for a meal, and instructional experiences on how to husk coconut and scrape the meat for a delicious treat. Foodies will leave Nanuku with a full stomach and some ancestral Fijian knowledge of how the natural environment can feed you well.

A 25-Course Tasting Menu in Fort Worth

If you’ve never done a multi-course tasting menu, you might as well go big – in the way only Texas can offer. From May 2-6, you can dine on a 25-course tasting dinner at Lonesome Dove Bistro in Fort Worth, Texas. This limited-time tasting menu is in celebration of the restaurant’s 25^th anniversary and will be hosted and cooked by the owner, Chef Tim Love, who has appeared on TV shows like Food Network's Tournament of Champions, Top Chef Masters, The Next Iron Chef, and Iron Chef Eats. The meal, which will feature dishes from the restaurant’s 25 years, is priced at $250 per person with supplemental wine pairings. Seats are limited, so trust us when we say you’ll want to book your spot to try this delightful menu that will feature exciting meats and bites like a rabbit and rattlesnake sausage dumpling and kangaroo larb tacos. 

Moroccan Real Food Adventure with Intrepid Travel

Intrepid Travel offers some truly immersive culinary tours – like the Moroccan Real Food Adventure in Morrocco. It’s a 12-day tour through the region’s Amazigh, Arabic, and European culinary influences in destinations along a route from Casablanca to Marrakech. In addition to a home-cooked meal in Chefchaouen and at a desert camp, you’ll take cooking classes where you’ll learn how to make cous cous, pastilla, stuffed medfouna, and local salads. Expect visits to Fes’ and Marrakech’s medinas, a women’s cooperative that produces Argan oil, and goat cheese producers. This is the ultimate food-cation, one that you’ll never forget.

Picnic in The Flower Fields

Every year between early March and early May, 55 acres of Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flowers bloom at The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch in Carlsbad, California. The blooms draw travelers from all over the world who want to be surrounded by colorful flowers. Elevate your experience at The Flower Fields with a luxury picnic lunch overlooking the flowers in the Upper Terrace. These PICNICS + FLOWERS pop-ups are held on Saturdays and Sundays from May 23 and feature tea sandwiches, salads, mini charcuterie, and mini fruit pies. 

You Bring the Farm to Table in Mexico

Four Seasons Resort Tamarindo is the perfect place for travelers who want to learn to cook their meals with the ingredients they've harvested. The resort tends to a 35-acre sustainable farm called Rancho Lola on a 3,000-acre protected nature resort in Mexico. Beyond planting a tree on the farm and learning about the honey bees on-site, you can tour the ranch, feed the farm animals, and collect fresh eggs. Best yet, you’ll utilize ingredients from the farm in a culinary experience that will teach you to make a traditional Mexican stew called Birria de Chivo Estilo Jalisco. To round out your culinary experience, join the chef's table breakfast at Rancho Lola, full of fresh veggies, tortillas, and traditional coffee, much of which is sourced on-site. 

Taste the Sea at Kodiak Crab Festival

This May 22-26, fly into Kodiak, Alaska, for the outstanding Kodiak Crab Festival. Kodiak has held this festival since 1958, so it’s a big to-do full of fun activities like a cold swim in the icy waters, a parade, live music, a fish toss, and all the fresh crab you can fit in your stomach. To help travelers enjoy this special crab festival, Alaska Airlines provides a discount of 10 percent to anyone flying on Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air from their U.S. city to Kodiak. Just use the code ECMO162. 

Dine with Strangers on a Rooftop in Copenhagen

Gro Spiseri is an organic restaurant located on a rooftop farm in Copenhagen, Denmark. There is one long table in the Gro Spiseri greenhouse, which means that you'll be enjoying a communal dining experience with total strangers during breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Of course, you don't have to be a solo traveler to join, but the idea is that 25 people gather together for a seasonal multi-course meal featuring local produce sourced from Danish farmers and low-impact fishermen. It's a magical experience that brings lovers of food and conversation together. 

Take an Illuminating Food Route at MIL Centro

There are very few places like MIL Centro that exist in the world. For one, it’s located next to the archeological Inca site of Moray in the Peruvian Highlands. MIL Centro works with the Mullak’as Misminiay and the K’acllaraccay communities to learn their ancestral foodways ways and give visitors a chance to learn about them. Those visiting MIL Centro can book three different experiences, including visits to the archeological site and the farmlands and expert-guided walks to learn about which plants are used for food and medicine. Each experience culminates in a lovely tasting menu by the end of the day. You’ll leave MIL Centro feeling more fully grounded and knowledgeable about the importance of ecosystems and Indigenous knowledge to sustainable food systems. 

$6 Bowls of Ramen at the Tokyo Ramen Festival

From late October to early November, ramen lovers can descend on Komazawa Olympic Park in Tokyo, Japan, for the Tokyo Ramen Festival. Spend the day roaming among stalls chowing down on shoyu, tonkotsu, and shio bowls. The festival will host about 40 different vendors, each showcasing Japan's regional differences in ramen. Pricing per bowl is affordable, too, starting at about USD $5.87. 

Go on a Food Trail Adventure

If you're a fan of road trips, then a food trail adventure is for you. A number of states in the U.S. have food trails, some of which make sense, such as the Mississippi Barbecue Trail and the New Jersey Pizza Trail. Others are a little quirkier in nature, focusing on favorite regional bites like the Pennsylvania Fermented Foods Trail, South Carolina’s Pimento Cheese Trail, and the Arizona Sonoran Hot Dog Trail. Next time you’re traveling by car through a state, be sure to look up their food trailways so you can try a lot of different regional bites at a bunch of other places. 

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