Overview

Pricing: €185 per person
Group Size: 2 – 14 people
Location: Connemara, Co. Galway
Minimum Charge: Equivalent of 4 guests
Dietary Needs: Catered for with advance notice

This private Connemara Culinary Adventure is designed for small groups who want to experience the best of local food at a relaxed, personal pace. Each tour is tailored to your interests, whether that is seafood, foraging or farm to fork produce. Guided by a local food expert, you will explore Connemara’s diverse food landscape while meeting the people behind the produce.

What You Will Experience

Your day may include a mix of farm visits, tastings and gentle walking, depending on location and season. Experiences can include:

  • A visit to a vegetable farmer supplying Michelin star restaurants
  • Time at a bilingual café focused on local food and sustainability
  • Meeting a small scale food producer with cult following condiments
  • An oyster farm visit for guests based in North Connemara
  • Roadside or shoreline foraging

Your guide comes from an organic farming background, forages daily and lives on a small holding. She has been recognised as a Local Food Hero and Ambassador to Food on the Edge.

Itinerary

Every tour is bespoke. Please email info@fabletours.com with your preferred starting and finishing point, and a detailed itinerary will be created and sent to you.

Pick Up and Drop Off

  • Pick Up: At your accommodation or another agreed location
  • Drop Off: Usually the same location as pick up

What to Bring

  • Weather appropriate clothing
  • Waterproof shoes suitable for farm visits

What’s Included

  • Expert local guide for the duration of the tour
  • All entrance fees
  • All meals and tastings as outlined in your itinerary

What’s Not Included

  • Transport. Guests must provide their own transport

Additional Information

  • Tours operate in most weather conditions
  • Tours do not run during Orange or Red weather warnings
  • Dietary requirements must be advised at the time of booking
  • Children are welcome and offered child friendly drinks and tastings

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations made with a minimum of 14 days’ notice before the scheduled tour date are eligible for a full refund.

Cancellations made less than 14 days before the tour date are non-refundable.

No-shows will be charged in full.If the number of guests attending the tour is fewer than originally booked, no partial refund will be given unless Fable Tours is notified at least seven days in advance of the tour date.

Customers will receive a full refund if a tour is cancelled due to weather warnings.

Contact us at info@fabletours.com to cancel

“What I love about the Connemara Culinary Bites tour is following the stories of the land through food, from shoreline to farm gate, and sharing them at a relaxed, unhurried pace.”

More Ways to Explore

Continue Your
Food Journey

Each Fable Tours experience offers a different way to connect with the food, landscapes and people of Ireland’s west. From coastal tastings to foraging walks and full day adventures, explore our other private tours and find the journey that suits your time, interests and appetite for discovery.

We love hearing from our guests

I would definitely recommend this tour to enthusiastic food lovers who'd like to experience Ireland's unique food and drinks from land and sea.

Kevin O Brien

Margaret, and her carefully curated tours are just the best! We got an insider's view and taste of the best artisan food and experiences. I cant wait to come back for another one!

MaryJane Aboud

“Margaret is a terrific and, knowledgeable guide with a sparkling personality, and a real passion for local produce. We learned a lot on our bespoke, one day tour.”

Linette Lim
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