The Best Food Experiences in Yorkshire

Discover Yorkshire's best food and drinks experiences with our curated list of experiences, exploring independent eateries and bars in Leeds, York, Harrogate, and Sheffield.

Leeds Food Tours

Choose from guided, self-guided or private food tour. Whichever you pick, you're guaranteed a whole lot of food and plenty of interesting foodie facts!

It's a unique experience gift for fooies in Leeds. On a guided tour, you'll be expertly guided to seven hidden gems, with food included at each spot!

On a self-guided tour, you'll download the 'Indie Food Tours app' and follow a map to the best stops in town.

Find out more about Leeds Food Tours here.

Bean to Bar Chocolate Making Experience in York

Learn everything there is to know about chocolate, including industry secrets to make your very own chocolate bar. Each chocolate-maker will start with a base recipe, tailoring it to their taste, which you can then take home with you!

During the session you'll learn how to develop flavours, combine ingredients, make a personalised chocolate blend and package it up to take away with you. Even better, you'll be able to take your recipes home to replicate!

Find out more about the chocolate making experience here.

Sheffield Food Tours

A unique foodie experience that celebrates the vibrant flavours and stories of the Steel City! Sheffield Food Tours runs food and drink tours around Sheffield's best bars and restaurants.

Perfect for local foodies or tourists, you can join a group or explore independently on their self-guided food tour.

Pub Tour of Leeds

Join Tours of Leeds on their Heritage Pub Guided Tour, exploring over 300 years of pub and brewing heritage in Leeds, visiting iconic venues, hearing tales of history long gone by and enjoying drinks along the way.

With a drink included at every stop, this tour will take you around three hours in total to complete and run most Saturday's.

Indie Food Tours

Eat your way around town on a self-guided good tour! Download the app and follow the map to independent venues, with food included at every stop.

Locations included on self-guided food tours are York, Sheffield and Harrogate, keep your eyes peeled for more announced soon!

Distillery Guided Tour in Sheffield

Expect a guided tour of a distillery in the heart of the Steel City, you'll be greeted with a Locksley gin and tonic before embarking on a tour to get an insight into how they create their range of gins as well as how they're able to keep every element of the production in house.

Afterwards you'll be greeted with a tasting session, learning the origin story and botanical choices behind some of their best-selling gin.

Find out more about the gin experience here.

Cheese Making Course in the Yorkshire Dales

Calling all cheese lovers, Laceys Cheese in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales offer cheese making courses, the perfect day out for any of the cheese lovers in your life!

You'll sample a selection of soft and hard cheese, learn how to grade cheese and work as a team to make cheese by the end of your day, making a little extra to take home with you. It's a fun and rewarding day out and you'll be an expert in cheese at the end of it!

Yorkshire Heart - Signature Wine Tasting

South Africa, Italy, France, some of the wine capitals of the world - however, did you know we have a vineyard here in Yorkshire!?

Yorkshire Heart near York offer vineyard tours with nibbles, light lunches and afternoon teas, giving you the chance to sample some local wine in a gorgeous setting. As well as this, they host cellar door beer tastings, acoustic music nights and more.

Leeds Cookery School

An award winning cookery school offering high-quality, fun and exciting culinary workshops, courses and events. 

They offer events for all skill levels and are a great way to socialise, work on your cooking skills and dine out. With lots of different class options, like; Tastes of North India, Tacos and Tequila, Pasta Class, Sushi and much more, it's promised to be a fun filled afternoon learning a new skill.

Gin Making Experience

Sit back, relax and listen to a fascinating history of gin in Harrogate whilst sampling various gins throughout the session including some award-winning Slingsby Gin.

Prefer to get your hands dirty? They offer a 'Master Distiller' session, where you'll create the perfect blend to take home. You'll select your botanicals with the team and distil in one of their mini copper stills to bottle your very own gin, complete with a personalised label. Throughout the session you'll be able to sample various Slingsby gins, perhaps you'll get some flavour inspiration along the way?