7 places to put on your travel bucket list if you love wine

  • Napa Valley, California
  • Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux, France
  • Franciacorta, Italy
  • Valle de Guadelupe, Mexico
  • Oregon
  • Finger Lakes, New York
  • Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

35 food markets around the world to put on your travel bucket list

  • St. Lawrence Market - Toronto, Canada
  • Union Square Green Market - New York, NY
  • Eastern Market - Washington DC
  • North Market - Columbus, OH
    • Ice cream at Jeni's
  • West Side Market - Cleveland, OH
  • Pike Place Market - Seattle, WA
    • Gum wall
  • Ferry Building Marketplace - San Francisco, CA
  • Mercado de la Merced - Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
  • Mercado de Paloquemao - Bogotá, Colombia
  • Mercado Central - Santiago, Chile
  • Mercado Municipal - São Paulo, Brazil
  • Mercado de San Miguel - Madrid, Spain
  • La Boqueria - Barcelona, Spain
  • Cours Saleya - Nice, France
  • Marché D'Aligre - Paris, France
  • Borough Market - London, UK
  • Östermalms Saluhall - Stockholm, Sweden
  • Torvehallerne - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Kauppatori - Helsinki, Finland
  • Central Market Hall - Budapest, Hungary
  • Mercato Centrale di San Lorenzo - Florence, Italy
  • Varvakios Agora - Athens, Greece
  • Spice Bazaar - Istanbul, Turkey
  • Khan El-Khalili - Cairo, Egypt
  • Jemaa El-Fna - Marrakesh, Morocco
  • Makola Market - Accra, Ghana
  • Neighbourgoods Market - Cape Town/Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Spice Souk - Dubai, U.A.E.
    • Ride down Dubai Creek
  • Chandni Chowk - Delhi, India
  • Or Tor Kor Market - Bangkok, Thailand
  • Donghuamen Night Market - Beijing, China
  • Tsukiji Fish Market - Tokyo, Japan
  • Noryangjin Fish Market - Seoul, South Korea
  • Queen Victoria Market - Melbourne, Australia
  • Sydney Fish Market - Sydney, Australia

bucket list of 12 foodie things to do

  • Eat at The French Laundry
  • Hunt for truffles
  • Create your own cocktail
  • Make fresh pasta
  • Taste wine directly from the barrel
  • Tour a food factory
  • Create your signature dish
  • Start a herb garden
  • Collect honey from a beehive
  • Make ice cream

bucket list recipes

  • Homemade croissants with puff pastry
  • Cassoulet
  • Tiramisu
  • Sushi hand rolls
  • Bagels
  • Liege waffles

food bucket list: 101 unique travel eats

  • Eat fresh sushi Japanese-style with chopsticks in the bustling city of Tokyo.
  • Soak up a mind-numbing hangover with a hearty English breakfast in London.
  • Savour the taste of just-baked homemade pizza in the vibrant Italian city of Napoli.
  • Pig out at a Mexican fiesta party with a meal of Molo Poblano, a traditional dish made up of a sauce containing hot chillies and rich chocolate.
  • Take a tour of the Guinness Storehouse Brewery, Dublin
  • Share a traditional Thanksgiving feast with family and friends in N America, pumpkin pie included.
  • Nibble a French crepe under the Eiffel Tower.
  • Eat crispy fish ‘n chip shop chips out of paper on a windy day at Brighton beach, England.
  • Try a dish you can’t pronounce the name of from a street stall in Southeast Asia
  • Be spoilt for choice choosing a flavour of gelato at a parlour in Italy
  • Munch on an authentic New York City bagel whilst walking through the scenic Central Park, New York
  • Explore Sydney Fish Market.
  • Sip smooth-tasting bottles of beer after exploring the Heineken experience museum in European hotspot Amsterdam.
  • Lunch on backpacker favourite Pad Thai, a popular cheap-as-chips stir-fried noodle dish, on a gorgeous white-sand beach in Koh Lanta.
  • Order a colourful Greek salad with slabs of salty feta cheese whilst watching the sunset in one of Santorini’s charming white-washed villages.
  • Cool down at the Labassin Waterfall Restaurant in the Philippines where you can dine on bamboo tables and dip your feet whilst you eat, just inches away from running water from the falls.
  • Line your stomach with a paprika-rich meal of Hungarian Goulash in Budapest. Allow to settle before heading out to sample the city’s famous nightlife.
  • Finish a meal off in two different countries at the Kalin restaurant, situated bang on the border of Croatia and Slovenia.
  • Dine under the ocean with the fishes, surrounded by breathtakingly stunning views from the underwater Ithaa Restaurant in the Maldives.
  • Munch on a crumbling pasty, stuffed full of a chunky filling of vegetables along the stormy Cornish coast in England.
  • Scoff down a meaty hot-dog loaded with heaps of ketchup, mustard and a sizzling portion of onions at a baseball game in America whilst cheering on your favourite team at the top of your lungs.
  • Catch a boat to the picturesque Rock Restaurant, situated just off the shore on the island of Zanzibar.
  • Share a spread of fresh tapas and paella on Benirrás hippy beach in Ibiza.
  • Fill up with a meal of dim sum in China, eating your way through various bite-sized portions served in small steamer baskets.
  • Share a bowl of homemade Italian spaghetti topped with hearty meatballs with someone special in the stunningly romantic city of Verona, à la Lady and the Tramp.
  • Watch the world go by as you wake up with a wonderfully-flaky croissant and a café au Lait for breakfast in a tiny independent Café in France.
  • Taste a deliciously refreshing caipirinha cocktail as you dance away at the spectacularly extravagant world-famous Rio Carnival in Brazil.
  • Imperial Herbal Restaurant in Singapore.
  • Devour a meal of Turkish mezze which is a selection of hot and cold appetizers, on a tiny paved street in the enchanting capital city of Istanbul.
  • Experience a mouth-watering meal in one of the Michelin-starred restaurants dotted around the world.
  • Dare to try an Indian vindaloo curry in Goa, famous for its extremely fiery taste.
  • Take in the spectacular view of the impressive man-made city-state of Dubai whilst dining at the world’s highest restaurant, At.mosphere, towering up to a whopping 1,450 feet.
  • Sip on glühwein (mulled wine) and nibble on stollen, the traditional German fruitcake as you wander along festive German markets during the Christmas season.
  • Enjoy some very traditional ‘fast food’ at Hirobun restaurant in the cooling northern mountains of Kyoto, Japan.
  • Dip bread into bubbling cheese fondue in the delightfully quaint Aescher Restaurant, built-in solitude high up within the stunning Swiss Appenzell mountains.
  • Feast on Moroccan tagine and couscous as you absorb the colourful surroundings of Marrakech.
  • Partake in a food fight, such as the La Tomatina festival in Spain.
  • Sip on a variety of deliciously flavoured mojitos as you sit back and enjoy an eccentric cabaret show at the world-famous Tropicana club in the capital city of Havana in Cuba
  • Guzzle pints of beer at the famous Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.
  • Learn how to crack open and drain a coconut, and eat up the juice and flesh inside.
  • Attempt to bake your own colourful rainbow cake.
  • Learn how to brew your own beer, but you have to finish off at least a pint of it, even if it doesn’t taste just quite right.
  • Plan a traditional picnic for a warm summer’s day, complete with finger sandwiches, fresh strawberries and a classic red-checked woven picnic basket.
  • Collect a variety of different types of berries on a long country walk and use them to bake up some delicious cakes and muffins.
  • Get back to basics and go mushroom hunting in the woods.
  • Explore a city of your choice with a different perspective and go on a food walking tour, soaking up the sights whilst stopping off for food tastings in various different eateries.
  • Arrange a day out to a bee farm and savour the taste of fresh honey. Try eating the honeycomb wax too if you fancy it, as it’s known to have some great health benefits.
  • Put together your own personal cookbook, full of your favourite recipes as well as any you’ve created yourself and gift a copy to a fellow foodie.
  • Knead and bake your own fresh loaf of bread.
  • Throw a formal dinner party for a group of friends, complete with a starter, main and dessert (and not forgetting lots of wine). Try to cook everything from scratch.
  • Learn how to order your favourite meal in its native language.
  • Literally dine in the sky, suspended at an eye-watering height of 50 metres in various locations across the globe with quirky company ‘Dinner in the sky‘.
  • Create your own soup from scratch and give it its own name.
  • Plan an all-you-can-eat barbeque with friends in your back garden, and go ahead with it rain or shine.
  • Mix up a bowl of pancake batter and learn how to flip one in a frying pan, just like they do in the movies.
  • Attend a cooking class and learn how to serve up dishes of your favourite type of cuisine.
  • Go on a camping trip in the woods and rely solely on cooking up your own food on a back-to-basics camp stove.
  • Attend a food festival of your choice and fill yourself up with lots of small dishes of different cuisines around the world, tapas-style
  • Bake a cake for someone special’s birthday, and ice and decorate it as elaborately as you can.
  • Go on a Sabrage course to learn how to open a Champagne bottle in spectacular style – slicing through the neck with a saber.
  • The next time you’re served an outstanding meal at a restaurant, ask to compliment the chef and leave a generous tip.
  • Attend a cocktail making master class with an expert mixologist.
    • Perfect your caipirinha in Brazil
    • Get the recipe for a Singapore Sling from Raffles Hotel in Singapore, where it was invented.
  • Visit a vineyard and get grape stomping.
  • Go to an ‘all you can eat’ buffet serving cuisines from all around the globe
  • Spoil yourself to a luxury weekend away and enjoy a champagne breakfast to start each day off before a pampering session.
  • Learn how to make a beautifully decorated gingerbread house, and gift it to someone special at Christmas.
  • Use your nose to find a durian fruit, commonly sold throughout Southeast Asia.

food bucket list ideas

  • Bake a banana cake
  • Bake a cake for someone special
  • Bake a cheesecake
  • Bake a giant cookie
  • Bake a layered cake
  • Bake a lemon cake
  • Bake a pie
  • Bake a pizza from scratch
  • Bake a rainbow cake
  • Bake cinnamon rolls
  • Bake cupcakes
  • Bake my own bread
  • Cook a curry
  • Cook a holiday meal
  • Cook a meal
  • Cook an entire meal from another culture
  • Cook dinner for someone
  • Cook with my partner
  • Create my own recipe
  • Eat a bagel in NY
  • Eat Antipasto in Italy
  • Eat at the Hard Rock Cafe
  • Eat Crepes in France
  • Eat Gelato Ice-cream in Italy
  • Eat Greek Salad in Greece
  • Eat healthy and home made food
  • Eat in a Michelin Starred Restaurant
  • Eat Madeleines
  • Eat Maple Syrup Pancakes in Canada
  • Eat olives in Greece
  • Eat pasta in Italy
  • Eat pizza in Italy
  • Eat using chopsticks in Asia
  • Enter a cooking contest
  • Go for a cooking class
  • Go vegan
  • Improve my cooking abilities
  • Make a muffin cake
  • Make cheese
  • Make homemade bagels
  • Make Jello shots
  • Make more meals for myself instead of eating out
  • Make my own pizza
  • Make pancakes in the shape of hearts
  • Make pumpkin pie
  • Order Food in a Foreign Language
  • Prepare a whole meal for my family
  • Taste a fried Oreo
  • Taste Ethiopian cuisine
  • Taste an exotic fruit
  • Taste baklava
  • Taste fried ice cream
  • Taste marzipan
  • Taste Mojito
  • Taste pierogi
  • Taste pistachio ice cream
  • Taste red velvet cake
  • Taste s'mores
  • Taste stuffed grape leaves
  • Taste sushi
  • Taste truffles
  • Try 50 new recipes
  • Try a new food every month
  • Try Nutella
  • Win a cooking contest (Halloween cake competition, 2019)
  • Create community around cooking (Hone Heke)
  • Bake Halloween cookies
  • Bake a New York cheesecake
  • Bake a cake for someone for no reason
  • Cook 30 recipes from 30 different countries in 30 days
  • Cook a Full English Breakfast on a BBQ in the Sun
  • Cook a Three Course Meal For a Group of Friends
  • Cook all the Recipes in a Cookbook
  • Cook Christmas dinner
  • Cook dinner for the whole family
  • Eat a Belgium Waffle in Belgium
  • Eat a Crepe in France
  • Eat a Croissant at a Cafe in Paris
  • Eat a Gourmet Menu
  • Eat a Gyro in Greece
  • Eat a Hot Dog in New York City
  • Eat a Macaroon in Paris
  • Eat a Pastry Under the Eiffel Tower
  • Eat a Six-Course Meal That I Prepared
  • Eat a Soft Pretzel from a Cart in NYC
  • Eat Traditional Food from Every Country
  • Eat Apple Strudel in Vienna, Austria
  • Eat at a German Bakery
  • Eat at the Dans Le Noir in London
  • Eat at the French Laundry
  • Eat at the Space Needle Tower in Seattle
  • Eat Brownies in Amsterdam
  • Eat Cajun Food in New Orleans
  • Eat Chinese Food in China
  • Eat Chocolate in Belgium
  • Eat Couscous in Morocco
  • Eat Curry in India
  • Eat Fajitas in Mexico
  • Eat Fondue in Switzerland
  • Eat French Macaroons
  • Eat in a White Castle Restaurant
  • Eat Jocote
  • Eat Mexican Food in Mexico
  • Eat New York Cheesecake in New York
  • Eat Noodles in Hong Kong
  • Eat Poi in Hawaii
  • Eat Ramen in Japan
  • Eat Roasted Chestnuts on the Champs-Elysees
  • Eat Sushi in Japan
  • Grow a Culinary Herb Garden
  • Have a Signature Dish
  • Make a Tiered Cake
  • Make an ice cream cake
  • Make Caramel Apples
  • Make homemade ice-cream
  • Make homemade marshmallows
  • Make Homemade Miso
  • Make homemade pasta
  • Make Homemade Tofu
  • Make my Own BBQ Sauce
  • Make s'mores around a fire
  • Make Souffle
  • Make Vodka Gummy Bear
  • Make Whoopie Pies
  • Take a Baking Class in France
  • Take a Basic Cooking Class
  • Take a Cake Decorating Class
  • Take a French Cooking Class
  • Taste a raw sugar cane
  • Taste paella

food lovers bucket list

  • Bake a chocolate cake
  • Takeaways with posh wine
  • Fresh British asparagus
  • Baking chocolate cake with your children
  • Bread and butter pudding
  • Chocolate fondant pudding
  • Coffee and croissants in a Parisian café
  • Cooking curry from scratch
  • Cornish clotted cream
  • Chocolate éclairs
  • Woodland glade picnic
  • Blackberry picking
  • Greengages plums
  • Growing your own vegetables
  • Homemade mayonnaise
  • Baking your own bread
  • Making your own soup
  • Fresh honeycomb
  • Visiting Jemaa el Fna square, Marrakech
  • Making homemade ice cream
  • Making your own marmalade
  • Cooking a perfectly timed Sunday roast
  • Street food in Kuala Lumpur
  • Takeaway fish 'n' chips
  • Tapas in San Miguel Market, Madrid
  • Wild British strawberries
  • International wine trail (New Zealand, South Africa)

the foodies travel bucket list

  • San Francisco
  • Barcelona
  • Oaxaca, Mexico
    • La Biznaga
  • Singapore
    • Maxwell Road Hawker Center
  • Maine
  • Hangzhou, China
    • Dragon Well
  • Venice
  • Tokyo
  • Galway, Ireland
  • Montreal
  • Big Sur, California
  • Knysna, South Africa
  • Isle of Skye, Scotland
  • Belle-Île, Brittany, France
  • Paris, France
    • Président Wilson market

USA travel bucket list: food and dining musts

  • Watch the flying fish at Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle
  • Take a tour of the Tabasco Factory on Avery Island in Louisiana
  • Dine in at least one of the Michelin-starred restaurants in the USA
  • Indulge in the spicy flavours of Cajun and Creole cuisine in New Orleans
  • Enjoy authentic Cuban eats in Miami's Little Havana
  • Go on a crawl of Jewish Delis in New York City
  • Eating an authentic New York bagel is a must
  • Some of the best food in the entire nation is cooked in various cities' ethnic neighbourhoods. Some areas worth exploring for their culinary contributions include San Francisco's Chinatown; The Hill, the Italian-American neighbourhood in St. Louis, which is particularly known for its fried ravioli.
  • Bourbon whiskey is particular to the United States, and the best place to experience it is along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail
  • Visit California wine country
  • Pizza is Italian in origin, but it has its own traditions in the United States. Both New York pizza and Chicago pizza.
  • Visit coastal Georgia and South Carolina to try Lowcountry Cuisine
  • Eat New Mexico green chillies
  • Try Tex-Mex cuisine in Texas
  • Go to a luau in Hawaii
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