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List of Walks: Cuisine

Belly of Paris

PRICE: €75 per person per person or €330 per group

In his 1873 novel Le Ventre de Paris (The Belly of Paris), Emile Zola immortalized Les Halles, Paris’s central food market from the 12th century until the late 1960s, as both the literal and... more >>

Paris Food Crawl

PRICE: €85 per person or €385 per group

Leisure time is a concept that the French take very seriously. Much of this revolves around enjoying the many splendors of French food and cuisine, making food shopping is an activity that is at the... more >>

Le Restaurant, A Parisian Invention

PRICE: €200 per person or from €530 per group

Restaurants, a defining feature of urban dining around the world today, remained a uniquely Parisian phenomenon until the late nineteenth century. Over the course of a sumptuous lunch in the classic... more >>

Chocolate Walk

PRICE: €90 per person or €410 per group

Paris is home to some of the world's best chocolate makers, chocolate sellers, and chocolate aficionados. Join one of Context's culinary docents for a delicious jaunt through chocolate shops and... more >>

Realism: The Paris of Édouard Manet and Émile Zola

PRICE: €55 per person (including ticket)

Émile Zola was a prolific novelist, the pioneer of the 19th century literary style known as naturalism. He was also a forward thinking art critic, who championed the radical art of his time. With... more >>

Grand Dining in the French Style, Four Centuries of Parisian Feasts

PRICE: From €710 per group

Dinner as spectacle, titillating all five senses, became a French specialty long before Louis XIV codified the form of royal hospitality in the seventeenth-century. This four-hour epicurean... more >>

Market Walk

PRICE: €85 per person or €385 per group

Paris is widely considered a top destination for gastronomes from around the world. In perhaps no other culture than in France is food and "terroir" (the character of the soil) such a vital aspect of... more >>

Souper Intime, Dining in the Age of Madame de Pompadour

PRICE: From €1100 per group

Pleasure-loving French aristocrats of the mid-eighteenth-century invented a new fashion in dining: the souper intime (intimate supper), a meal of supreme luxury, held privately, behind closed doors.... more >>

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Paris Food Crawl

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  • Leisure time is a concept that the French take very seriously. Much of this revolves around enjoying the many splendors of French food and cuisine, making food shopping is an activity that is at the... >>
  • 2.5 hours

Gardens of Paris

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  • The garden landscapes of the Right Bank near the Louvre count among the most important historical gardens in Paris and France at large. Sun-dappled and filled with Parisians in the spring and summer... >>
  • 2 hours