Guided food tours in Parma worth your time, with operators we’d actually book.
Guided food tours in Parma worth your time and money. operators we would actually book.
Route: Full Experience dairy visit: milk to wheel, ageing rooms, guided tasting
Caseificio San Pier Damiani, a family dairy since 1846, runs the Full Experience: cheesemaking at the vats from 09:00, the ageing rooms, then a guided tasting.
Route: Parmigiano Reggiano Experience at the Collecchio dairy: production, ageing warehouse, tasting
Caseificio Gennari has made Parmigiano at Collecchio near Parma since 1953 and walks visitors from the morning vats to a tasting across long ageings.
Route: Prosciutto di Parma factory tour in Langhirano: salting rooms to cellars, then a tasting
Salumificio Conti runs daily tours of its Langhirano curing house in the Parma hills, ending with 24-month prosciutto, culatta and fiocco at the table.
Route: Culatello cellar visit at the Spigaroli estate: 14th-century cellars and the Culatello Museum
Antica Corte Pallavicina opens the culatello cellars beneath Massimo Spigaroli's Michelin-starred castle farm on the Po near Parma, museum included.
Route: Half-day: Parmigiano dairy at work, prosciutto producer in the hills, Torrechiara views, full lunch
Food Valley Travel's Gourmet Tour The Original packs a working Parmigiano dairy, a hillside prosciutto house and a full lunch into five hours out of Parma.
Route: 3-hour walking tour of Parma's historic delis with tastings: Parmigiano, prosciutto, tortelli, gelato
The Almost Local foodie walk threads Parma's historic delis in three hours: Parmigiano and prosciutto tastings, fresh pasta, sparkling wine and gelato.
Route: Tour and tasting: a Langhirano prosciutto factory walk-through with a Parma home-cook host
Cesarine's Tour and Tasting pairs a working Prosciutto di Parma factory in Langhirano with host Catia's table, the home-cook network's Parma flagship.
Route: Parma Tasty Food Walk: guided centre stroll with deli stops, hosted by a local Cesarine
The Parma Tasty Food Walk sends you through the city's food shops with Davide, a Cesarine host, a two-hour stroll at 92 euro with tastings along the way.
TableJourney covers 8 editor-picked food tours in Parma, with what each shows you and how much to budget.