Celia Brooks Gastrotours
Celia Brooks Gastrotours
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Author and TV chef Celia Brooks founded Gastrotours in 2002. Each tour is led by Celia and is a unique opportunity to experience an expert insider's view of London's vibrant culinary hotspots, such as Borough Market and Portobello. These luxury tours include generous food and wine tastings, access to hidden foodie gems, historic tales, and special meetings with producers. All diets welcome.
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Amanda W
United Kingdom101 contributions
Oct 2023 • Couples
We thoroughly enjoyed our Covent Garden Gastrotour with Celia. We thought we knew the area quite well, but certainly found out about new places and foods to try. Celia catered for everyone's needs and provided interesting information as we walked, both about food and the area itself.
Written 30 October 2023
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Fearless223978
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Oct 2023 • Family
Our tour of Borough Market with Celia was the highlight of our trip to London! Her knowledge not only of the vendors and their foods but if the history of the market made the time unforgettable. She educated us about each of the products we tried and set out of accommodate the various ages and tastes of the group. She made sure there was something for everyone. We will be talking about our tour for years!
Written 26 October 2023
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Jet402498
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Oct 2023 • Couples
The tour was a gift so we didnt know what to expect. We loved it. It is definitely a great gift for foodies with plenty of tastings from across the world, info about what we were trying or looking at and the local history. Appreciated it being a small group. Made it much more personal. .One of the best things we've done on a London trip.
Written 23 October 2023
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Mark S
Berlin, Germany5 contributions
Aug 2023 • Solo
The tour of Borough Market with Celia was thoroughly enjoyable and an eye-opener, even for someone who had visited the market a few times before. Celia's knowledge of the market, its produce and vendors is extensive and we were able to sample delicacies that would otherwise I'm sure have eluded us.
Wholly recommended!
Wholly recommended!
Written 30 August 2023
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Judith H
Edinburgh, UK16 contributions
Jun 2023 • Couples
Really great tour - good balance of interesting information, food and fun. Loved that the quantities at each stop we’re small but delicious, so we covered a lot of food territory. Learned loads, ate some amazing food and met some really nice people! Thank you Celia.
Written 22 June 2023
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Kevin
Mountain View, CA89 contributions
Apr 2023 • Solo
Celia's Borough Market taste tour is a great way to learn about the market, taste a great variety of foods, and meet different people. I was in a group of nine (two others from the US like myself, the rest local from the England), and you start off with a breakfast meet and greet at Mallow Restaurant (really good plant-based food) at 10am. You're then off to Borough Market (before the big crowds show up) where Celia gets you a lot of good food to taste and giving lots of information about the market history, the individual stalls, and the foods you eat. Since she's one of only two people who are licensed to give tours at Borough Market, she knows so many of the vendors very well. It was a nice way of trying a lot of foods that I don't think I would've bought if I visited the market by myself. I also thoroughly enjoyed getting to meet and talk to the folks in my group; as someone who is very shy, it definitely became easier to talk to everyone as the tour went on. If you can afford it, I highly recommend doing a tour with Celia.
Written 4 May 2023
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CWIN
Winslow, UK64 contributions
Feb 2023
Had a fabulous morning with Celia on Thursday, on her Covent Garden Gastrotour!
Who knew there were so many exciting and innovative food establishments in that area! Celia knows so much about the area's history too, which makes it all the more interesting. There are many places that we shall be returning to soon!
Who knew there were so many exciting and innovative food establishments in that area! Celia knows so much about the area's history too, which makes it all the more interesting. There are many places that we shall be returning to soon!
Written 28 February 2023
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Andrew M
East Molesey23 contributions
Feb 2023
Celia's comprehensive, fast-paced and well organised tour of Borough Market was a wonderful way to spend a warm, bright February morning in London. Celia is engaging and has very positive relationships with traders in the market. We sampled from about 18 different stalls and venues and were made to feel no obligation to buy, although we made our way back to some of the vendors to make purchases after the tour was over. Personal highlights were the chocolate coated cobb nuts at Food and Forest, the mushroom paté at Paté Moi, the bread at Olivier's Bakery and the crumble from Humble Crumble, all stalls we probably woudn't have bothered with if we were visiting the market without Celia's guidance. We were provided with so much food we didn't need to eat anything for the rest of the day! Highly recommended.
Written 6 February 2023
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Goldenboy2014
Surrey, UK45 contributions
Jan 2023 • Couples
Celia’s tour is magical. A superb walk weaving in and out of the amazing colourful shops in all of the three areas of Borough Market. Celia is a real character and very entertaining and guides you through about 30 different food and drink tastings - there were four of us so we were perhaps in a more privileged position as Celia usually takes up to 12. We had a most magnificent morning which was incredibly enjoyable and lasted well over three hours. We then went back to the market and bought a whole series of foods and a couple of books including a signed copy of Celia’s latest! Strongly recommended.
Written 25 January 2023
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Tim W
Oundle, UK1 contribution
Dec 2022 • Couples
I love this market but there is such a vast variety of stalls I didn't kow where start and what I was missing. Celia's description of the history and who sells what with the help of a lot of sampling was so enlightening! Thoroughly recommended!
Written 13 December 2022
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patriciaclose
Leamington Spa, UK
On what dates do the Celia Brooks gastro tour of Covent Garden take place?
Brookzita
London, UK2 contributions
Hi Patricia
These dates are currently available:
April 27, May 18, June 15
More dates through September will be added soon.
Best wishes
Celia
jouk-7
manchester uk58 contributions
hello
we would love to do the borough food market tour-
what days does it run? thanks jo
Brookzita
London, UK2 contributions
Hi Jo. It runs on Friday mornings about twice a month. Check the dates and book on my website. Can't post the url here so Google my name - Celia Brooks - and that should get you there.
I hope to see you soon!
Warm regards
Celia :)