Food helps us connect with people and places. Whatever your culinary tastes, our excellent range of cuisine tours for solo travellers from the UK are sure to whet your appetite.

Escorted culinary holidays in Italy for singles introduce you to regional foods, wines and dishes. In the Emilia Romagna region, you can explore the home of Bolognese sauce, Parmesan cheese and Lambrusco wines. You might head to Sicily to feast on seafood and cannoli, or to Rome for classic pasta dishes, made the proper way. Walking tours in Tuscany are best served with delicious regional wines, such as Chianti and Montepulciano.

Cultural tours in Portugal often go to Lisbon, where grilled sardines are a popular street food in the summer months. Lovers of shellfish dishes will be in heaven there, while the sweet-toothed will gravitate to the many bakeries, where they will find the pastéis de nata (custard tart), a Lisbon classic. Tours in the Douro Valley, meanwhile, are ideal for sampling Portuguese wines and ports.

Wine enthusiasts can follow their passion in extraordinary locations throughout the world, from the picturesque Cape winelands of South Africa, home of the unique Pinotage, to the Mendoza region of Argentina, where you can sample Malbecs with the mighty Andes as your backdrop.

Gastronomic holidays in France are highly popular with foodies, with so many regional cuisines and wines to enjoy, from beef bourguignon and coq au vin in Burgundy to ratatouille and bouillabaisse in Provence, and from the clarets of Bordeaux to the crisp whites of Alsace. Cuisine tours in Spain likewise reveal a patchwork of gastronomic traditions, each region having its own signature dishes, tapas and wines.

Sharing wonderful meals with fellow travellers is part and parcel of all our singles tours. Browse them now and start planning a holiday to savour.

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