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Private Food Trail in Sowcarpet Market
Explore the streets of Sowcarpet, one of the oldest markets in Chennai Sample the best local street food from some of the oldest names in this business Listen to stories of local life and customs
5.0(18)
3 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
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$88
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Traditional Vegetarian Cooking Class in Chennai with Gayathri
Gayathri was raised by her grandma, who was an expert cook - she hailed from Thanjavur, which boasts of a rich and unique food culture that Thanjavureans are very proud of! It is from her grandmother that Gayathri learned to cook. Gayathri and her family are travel enthusiasts and have enjoyed hosting friends from different parts of the world. And now she is excited to meet travelers and introduce them to South Indian cuisine and culture. Learn to cook one main dish and one side dish in your 1.5-hour, hands-on cooking class in Chennai. For a meal at Gayathri’s home, you can except to try a traditional, vegetarian meal while seated on the floor, eating with your hands from banana leaves. She hails from a Tamil brahmin family and they only cook vegetarian food at home. • Traditional South Indian vegetarian cooking lesson in a local home • Introduction to South Indian cuisine and culture • Learn about medicinal herbs used in a traditional Tamil brahmin kitchen • 100% private activity
5.0(14)
3 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
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$48
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Chennai Private Tour with Female Guide
What sets my Chennai tours apart is the personal touch and insider knowledge I bring as a local. I will take you to attractions like Marina Beach, Bessy Beach, food streets, shopping bazaars, antique shopping, and nightlife spots. You can savor mouthwatering street food, discover unique shopping spots, and immerse yourself in the city's lively nightlife. My guided tours offer a truly immersive and personalized adventure. They are ideal for adventure seekers, families with children, and cultural enthusiasts. Book with me to experience Chennai through the eyes of a local expert. Gain insider knowledge, enjoy memorable encounters with local traditions, and embark on an enriching journey that highlights the best of Chennai's culture and charm!
5.0(12)
6 Hours - 8 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$86
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Chennai Dosa Making Class & Home-Dining Experience with Jyashree
Join your host Jyashree for an authentic culinary experience in her kitchen where she will teach you to prepare a variety of rices, a vegetable poriyal (sautéed vegetables with spices) and a rasam (a peppery soup that is an essential element to the South Indian Iyer sapaad) - the important basics of a typical South Indian meal! You can expect the cooking lesson to last about 1-2 hours before you share the meal you helped prepare which will also include additional dishes Jyashree prepared in advance. If you wish to learn how to make dosas, appams or anything else in particular, please let Jyashree know in advance so she can be prepared. Experience a cozy setting as you enjoy authentic South Indian life and cuisine with a welcoming local, and leave with new recipes, a new friend, and lifelong memories!
5.0(8)
3 Hours
Chennai
- Private tour
From
$122
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Neighborhood Market Tour & South Indian Cooking Class in Chennai
Join a local in Chennai for a 5-hour full culinary experience that includes a market visit, South Indian cooking lesson, and authentic in-home meal. Experience a cozy setting in this local home as you hear about South Indian life over Tamilian, vegetarian cuisine with your host. Leave with new recipes, a new friend, and lifelong memories.
5.0(7)
5 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
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$152
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Learn to cook a South Indian meal in Chennai
This is a cooking tour where you will visit a traditional cook in her home in Chennai to experience authentic south Indian cooking. The lady of the house will explain to you about the south Indian cuisine and its unique ingredients. This will be followed by a cooking demonstration session. Guests will be encouraged to participate in the cooking process as well as guided by our cook.
5.0(7)
4 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
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$125
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Vegetarian South Indian Cooking Class in Chennai with Vidhya
Enjoy a private and authentic South Indian cooking class in a local Chennai home kitchen with Vidhya. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Vidhya hails from a traditional brahmin iyer family and has been an eggless home baker for many years. She would like to teach travelers to cook a traditional South Indian meal. Her cooking is influenced by all the beautiful cities she has lived in. She is a culinary enthusiast who loves to experiment with tastes, textures, and techniques. • Private vegetarian South Indian cooking class in a local home • Introduction to South Indian culture and cuisine • Learn to cook a lentil curry like sambar or rasam and an Indian dessert • Learn tips and tricks that were passed down through generations • Lactose free, gluten free, vegetarian and vegan diets are available on request • If you select the add on market tour - you will visit a local grocery store to buy a few ingredients for your cooking class
5.0(4)
3 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
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$48
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Ayurvedic or South Indian Cooking Class in Chennai with an Author
Enjoy a private Ayurvedic meal with a food expert at her home in Chennai. Meet Pratibha, co-author of two award-winning cookbooks and a spiritual and creative cook. Pratibha lives in the Mylapore neighborhood of Chennai in a traditional home and she loves to invite travelers to learn about her healthy style of cooking. After an introduction to the spices and ingredients she uses in her balanced cooking, you will enjoy an Ayurvedic vegetarian meal together at her dining table. Learn about the balance of flavors and ingredients as you enjoy a healthy Ayurvedic meal with your host.
5.0(2)
3 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$40
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Food trail in Sowcarpet - Chennai
Put on your walking shoes and get ready to explore the streets of Sowcarpet - one of the oldest markets in Chennai for a scrumptious food trail. Walk through the market sampling the very best local street food. And that is simply for starters. Fascinating stories and great food vie for your attention on a trail that is best experienced on an empty stomach! Hear stories of men and women and their passion for food, of local food fetishes, and of jealously guarded secret recipes. Highlights • Walk through one of the oldest markets of Chennai • Sample street foods • Hear tales about people and their passion for food
5.0(1)
3 Hours - 4 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$124
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Visit Top 3 Local Restaurants of Chennai
If you are adventurous and like to try new foods, then this tour is meant for you. Spend a few hours visiting the top 3 restaurants of Chennai and tasting some authentic South Indian food. The tour is best enjoyed on an empty stomach! South Indian cuisine is based on rice preparations and is ideal for the hot weather of Chennai. Eat like a local on this tour. Highlights: • Murugan Idli Shop • Adyar Ananda Bhavan • Saravana Bhavan
5.0(1)
3 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
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$86
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Private Authentic Indian Cooking Demo in Chennai in Tara's Home
Tara is a personable and friendly host who has led an exotic life. She lives with her young children in the Shenoy Nagar neighborhood of Chennai. Tara can cook a variety of dishes so feel free to include your preferences when making your booking. This is a fun and interactive authentic experience during which you can learn how to make your favorite Indian meals. Join Tara in her kitchen and learn to cook 2-3 dishes from different regions of India. Gather at the family dining table to share the meal you helped prepare. Your menu might include dishes such as Tamil-style fish curry, lal maas, a Rajasthani-style goat dish, a Christian-style veal curry sopped up with addictive Indian bread made hot and fresh while you eat, and her signature chicken biryani served with refreshing boondhi raita. You will end your meal with payasam, a traditional South Indian dessert. If you chose a dinner experience, Tara's husband and children will join you at the table.
5.0(1)
3 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
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$76
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South Indian Vegetarian Home-Dining Near Chennai Airport
Enjoy a private and authentic home cooked meal with your host Uma. This is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy traditional South Indian cuisine with a creative twist made by a local who lives close to the airport. Uma is a South Indian vegetarian who has honed her culinary skills cooking for her extended Indian family for nearly three decades. An expert cook, she says she can convert any diehard non-vegetarian into a vegetable lover. Uma lives in the Guindy neighborhood of Chennai, about a 15-min drive from the Chennai airport as you head into the city. Her home is also close to the ITC Grand Chola, Ramada Plaza and Park Hyatt hotels. This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine either when you arrive into Chennai or on your way out!
5.0(1)
2 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$40
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Sowcarpet Street Food Walking Tour in Chennai with guide
Sowcarpet is Chennai's most famous food street and one of the greatest places to eat in India. Traders from across the country settled here generations ago and brought their food traditions with them. The result is a single street where you can eat Murukku sandwich, a uniquely Chennai invention, then Lassi made by a former wrestler, then freshly fried Jalebi from a stall serving the neighbourhood for decades. This guided street food walk takes you through Sowcarpet for two hours with a food evangelist who knows every stall and every story. You will taste signature dishes from legendary local stalls, walk through frenetic lanes brimming with spices, flowers and colour, and eat the way Chennai actually eats rather than the way tourists are usually fed. 5 Senses Tours is recognised by the Ministry of Tourism of India and a member of the Indian Association of Tour Operators. Every walk employs local guides and supports local food businesses, ensuring your food spend stays in the community.
5.0(99)
2 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
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$45
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Chennai Market Tour & Cooking Class in a Local Home with Meena
You can expect an authentic vegetarian South Indian cooking class and meal - cooked using family recipes, local spices and vegetables. Your meal will be served the traditional way on banana leaves. A few dishes that you might cook and eat together are kuzhambu (lentil curry), lemon or ginger or garlic rasam (spiced soup), kootu or avial or olan (vegetables cooked in a coconut gravy) and rice. End your meal with an Indian dessert such as payasam (milk pudding) or sakkara pongal (sweet made with jaggery and lentils) or kesari (South Indian dessert made with semolina) and filter coffee. • Private South Indian cooking class in Chennai • Learn to cook vegetarian South Indian dishes such as sambar, kootu, rasam or dosa • Experience South Indian hospitality in a residential neighborhood of Alwarpet • Vegetarian options available • If you choose the market tour option, get a guided tour of the Mylapore vegetable and fruit market
5.0(39)
3 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
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$54
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Private South Indian Tamil Cooking Class in Chennai with Srividya
Join Srividya in the kitchen for a private cooking class to learn to make two to three dishes from scratch. She will teach you about a variety of South Indian culinary traditions as you cook and eat together. You will sense her pride as she shares interesting anecdotes and stories that highlight the traditions and science behind the foods you will enjoy at her table. Srividya offers vegetarian food only.
4.9(25)
3 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
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$49
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Indian Cooking Class and Market Tours in Chennai with Sundari
Join your host Sundari and experience authentic Indian life, culture and cuisine with a welcoming local in her home. Sundari will teach you to prepare 3 dishes as part of your South Indian vegetarian meal which you will later eat the traditional way - with your hands on stainless steel plates or fresh banana leaves. Your menu may include typical Tamilian vegetarian main dishes such as rasam (tangy peppery broth), sambar (lentil and tamarind based vegetable stew), and a variety of vegetable curries, rice, raita, condiments and snacks. Alternatively you may request to learn to make a South Indian brunch of dosas, idlis and vadas with a variety of chutneys instead. Come join Sundari, and leave with new recipes, a new friend and lifelong memories!
4.9(40)
3h 30m
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$75
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Food Trail Through Sowcarpet Market: A Taste of Chennai
This is a food walk in the Sowcarpet, to introduce you to the traditional cuisine of south India.Chennai’s tourist menus won’t give you a true perspective on the everyday foods enjoyed by locals. Step forward this small-group walking tour of the Sowcarpet Market: where a multitude of stalls serve the staples that keep Chennaites sustained. Let a guide navigate the market so you don’t get lost, taste popular foods at tried-and-trusted stands, and get the full lowdown on local delicacies that you wouldn’t hear on your own. Discover Chennai’s street foods on a Sowcarpet Market food walking tour Find and hear about dishes with a guide for insight, tips, and navigation Taste snacks such as savory chaats, and hear food trivia you’d miss alone All-you-can-eat street food tour, limited to 10 for personalized feel
4.8(45)
2h 30m
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$45
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Delicious Food Trail: Explore Sowcarpet Market's Culinary Delight
This is a food walk in the Sowcarpet, to introduce you to the traditional cuisine of south India.Chennai’s tourist menus won’t give you a true perspective on the everyday foods enjoyed by locals. Step forward this small-group walking tour of the Sowcarpet Market: where a multitude of stalls serve the staples that keep Chennaites sustained. Let a guide navigate the market so you don’t get lost, taste popular foods at tried-and-trusted stands, and get the full lowdown on local delicacies that you wouldn’t hear on your own. Discover Chennai’s street foods on a Sowcarpet Market food walking tour Find and hear about dishes with a guide for insight, tips, and navigation Taste snacks such as savory chaats, and hear food trivia you’d miss alone All-you-can-eat street food tour, limited to 10 for personalized feel
4.8(20)
2h 30m
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$35
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Traditional Chettinad Cooking Class in a Local Home near Chennai
This is a special opportunity to visit a traditional South Indian Chettiar home near the Chennai seashore. Get picked up from your Chennai hotel and drive out of Chennai to reach Kamala's home located 5 minutes from the sea. Relax in her charming home and learn to cook South Indian dishes with an expert home cook. Kamala will teach you to make 2-3 dishes (including how to pour dosas) before you sit down together to enjoy a typical South Indian meal. You might try dishes such as Chettinad chicken, minced mutton nuggets, egg dosa, fish curry, jackfruit masala, and one of our favorites, piping hot dosas (roasted, rice pancakes) fresh off the griddle, all served on a fresh banana leaf. Please note that this home is a 45 minute drive from the heart of Chennai, located midway between Chennai and Mahabalipuram, a popular tourist destination. Her home is also 20 minutes away from Dakshinachitra, a beautiful open-air museum of South Indian heritage and culture.
4.7(14)
3 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$59
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Food Walk Tour Chennai
Chennai boasts a regal legacy, steeped in centuries-old traditions of delectable cuisine. Fortunately, this rich gastronomic heritage has been lovingly preserved by generations of thoughtful individuals in the form of quaint food joints. Embark on an extraordinary culinary journey with us, as we guide you through these hidden gems where you can savor the essence of Chennai's culinary treasures. Indulge your palate, revel in the flavors, and create unforgettable memories that will leave a lasting impression.
3.8(19)
2 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
From
$22
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Food Trail In Sowcarpet With Transport - Chennai
Put on your walking shoes and get ready to explore the streets of Sowcarpet - one of the oldest markets in Chennai for a scrumptious food trail. Walk through the market sampling the very best local street food. And that is simply for starters. Fascinating stories and great food vie for your attention on a trail that is best experienced on an empty stomach! Hear stories of men and women and their passion for food, of local food fetishes, and of jealously guarded secret recipes. Highlights • Walk through one of the oldest markets of Chennai • Sample street foods • Hear tales about people and their passion for food
3 Hours - 4 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$191
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Food Trail In Sowcarpet With Transport And Dinner - Chennai
Put on your walking shoes and get ready to explore the streets of Sowcarpet - one of the oldest markets in Chennai for a scrumptious food trail. Walk through the market sampling the very best local street food. And that is simply for starters. Fascinating stories and great food vie for your attention on a trail that is best experienced on an empty stomach! Hear stories of men and women and their passion for food, of local food fetishes, and of jealously guarded secret recipes. Highlights • Walk through one of the oldest markets of Chennai • Sample street foods • Hear tales about people and their passion for food
3 Hours - 4 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$200
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Guided Evening Food Tasting Tour In Chennai
Chennai is home to some world famous dishes that are truly representative of the culinary history of this city in South India. Spend an evening visiting some of the best places to eat and savor a cuisine that is rich in spicy flavors. By the end of the tour, you will be left with a distinct feeling of wanting to come back for more. Highlights • Explore the streets of Chennai • Savor popular local foods • Learn about South Indian cuisine
4 Hours
Chennai
- Free cancellation
- Private tour
From
$170
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Chennai Shopping and Food Experience with Female host
Get ready for a colourful, fun-packed day as we explore Chennai’s most iconic markets, hidden food streets and the city’s irresistible seaside charm! This experience is perfect for travellers who love discovering a city through its flavours, fashion and local culture. We’ll dive straight into the buzzing bazaars of T. Nagar and Pondy Bazaar — a paradise for saree lovers, accessory hunters and street-shopping fans. From budget-friendly fashion finds to traditional Kanchipuram weaves, you’ll discover why Chennai is one of India’s most exciting shopping hubs. Next, we’ll snack your way through authentic Tamil breakfast spots, filter coffee joints, and North-Indian-inspired chaat streets. Expect soft idlis, crispy dosas, spicy pani puris, refreshing sugarcane juice and more delicious surprises along the way!
8 Hours
Chennai
- Private tour
- New
From
$108
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