Description
Explore Odessa, a great and dynamic city on the Black Sea, in Ukraine, and discover the local food with this 3 hours food tour. Little known, the city center of Odessa did not experience the horrors of the Second World War and offers an architectural eclecticism that symbolizes the past of the city: pre-Soviet buildings, Art-Nouveau facades, bulbous bell towers, eccentric balconies… With this patina of history that makes its decor most authentic, far from the more polished decor of some “museum cities”.
Odessa Food Tour – the details
Price:€52 per person
Duration: 3 hours
Starts at Prymorskyi Blvd, 7, Odesa, Odes’ka oblast. The guide will be with the Odessa Walks sign. Departure at 11:00 AM. The tour ends at Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.
You will eat your way through Odessa’s historic quarter on this tour. You’ll enjoy a variety of Odessa’s traditional appetizers, Ukrainian dumplings (aka Pirogi) and delicious local desserts while exploring Odessa’s history and culture. All tastings are done seated in local restaurants each with a different flavor. To walk off some calories we’ll do sightseeing in between the tastings. Odessa offers a unique cuisine – a mix of Greek, Bulgarian, Jewish, French, Russian and Ukrainian. During this tour you will enjoy a variety of food specialties that has secured Odessa’s reputation as being one of the greatest culinary and cultural centers of Ukraine and the former USSR. You will explore the history, culture and lifestyle that make Odessa so unique and set it apart from other Ukrainian cities. We are happy to do this tour for 1 person. If group size matters for you, please contact us prior to coming to the tour regards the group size.
Odessa Food Tour – the itinerary
Start at Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater
We’ll see the theater’s exteriors and hear the story of its construction
Potemkin Stairs
Uncover the secrets of Odessa’s legendary sight
Vorontsov Palace
Odessa was very fortunate with its first governors, who very quickly brought it to economic prominence and made it a beautiful cultured city port of the South. Vorontsov was one of them. His story in Odessa and the story of his private mansion. Exterior only.
Monument to Catherine the Great and Founders of Odessa
The city’s foundation and early days. The story of the square and the monument.
Deribasovskaya Street
Odessa’s most popular and touristy street. What made it so popular? Why is it called so? How did it get its current look and how it changed during the Soviet period.
City Garden
Odessa was founded on a sandy rocky cliff. The city lore goes that there were only 3 pear trees growing in the old town. Ready to explore the secrets of this little park right in the heart of the old town?
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Odessa Food Tour
To travelers in search of a new East, Odessa makes an obstinate call. First of all, to discover a territory that has long ensured a transition between the lands of the Cossacks and those of the Crimean Tatars, and whose strategic location has allowed the development of trade and the settlement of many Slavic, Russian, but also Mediterranean (Greek and Italian) or Swedish peoples. This mix of cultures also explains the cosmopolitanism and energy that define Odessa today, just like the informal atmosphere that can be found along its sandy beaches and in its intense nightlife.
