Educational food tours in Paris

School groups as clients

Culinary or Hospitality and Management students
Language schools (specifically French language schools for foreigners)
Higher Education specialties such as, “Food sales” and “Luxury management, gastronomy and wine studies”
University studies with any relation to French cuisine and culture

Our skills

La Route des Gourmets is a French leading company for food tourism in Paris. We offer activities and visits related to French cuisine and gastronomy in Paris and all over France for private, business and school groups.
Every tour and visit we offer is organized from A to Z by our internal team of multicultural food and culture experts: geographers, historians, sociologists specialized in food, experts in green tourism, polyglot collaborators experienced in the food and agriculture industry and former food sector professionals as well as chefs and pastry makers.

Everyone shares a passion for gastronomy and strives to pass on this knowledge.

Program structure

Our student programs offer a relevant and hands-on approach to curriculum enhancement through visits to companies, production sites and points of sale.
These tours are developed on a case by case basis according to the students’ profile:
- For language students in France, we offer 2 hrs, 3 hrs, or ½ day tours to “Discover French Culture and Gastronomy”
- For educational trips related to students’ professional training, we offer more in-depth activities such as professional conferences on a particular theme, the objective being to enrich the theory studied in class.

Themes

Marketing and commercial food trends (luxury products, celebrity pastry makers, the notion of terroir, street food, organic, single-product offers, and homemade, among others.)
Distribution (Rungis market, traditional markets in Paris, and food shops)
Certification labels (Certified Organic, AOC, Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), local, labels of quality, and organic standards)
Heritage tours (the French gastronomic meal, Michelin starred restaurants, restaurants classified as historic monuments)
New forms of consumption (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free)
Food and Religion (pork, beef, halal, kosher)
Biodynamic (new farms, professional ethics, production methods)
Culinary Arts (edible containers and arrangements, celebrity designers, arts of the table)
Wine and wine-growing (terroir and varietals, regional development and protection, tastings, wine shop visits)