Strasbourg: Alsatian Food Tasting Walk with 5 Tastings Alsatian Food Tasting Walk with 5 Tastings Private in ENG

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ID: GYG1458211-O-2225949
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Country: France

Duration: 01:30 hours


Description

Taste five Alsatian specialities with a guide, each at its own market stall or artisan shop, from Place Broglie to Petite France.
Meet your guide at Place Broglie and spend an hour and a half walking across the Grande Île, tasting five Alsatian specialities. Each stop covers a single product, bought where it is made or sold: a delicatessen, a biscuit maker, a baker, a cheesemonger and a gingerbread house.
All five tastings are included in the price.
The walk begins at a charcuterie shop, where your guide introduces Alsatian charcuterie at a producer's counter: presskopf, a set terrine of pork, or country bacon and saucisse de viande, depending on what is on offer that day. Your guide explains how these products fit into the regional table and how Alsatian charcuterie is made.
The route then reaches a biscuit maker near the cathedral for bredele, the small biscuits traditionally baked during Advent and now sold all year, and a slice of kougelhopf, the almond and raisin brioche baked in a fluted ring mould. Your guide explains the difference between the sweet and savoury versions and why the mould matters.
At a bakery on rue des Orfèvres you taste a bretzel, knotted by hand on the premises and made with organic Alsatian wheat flour, plus one variant such as gruyère or bacon. Your guide explains the shape, the brief bath in an alkaline solution that gives the crust its colour, and why the bretzel became the sign hung outside Alsatian bakeries.
The fourth stop is a cheesemonger on rue des Tonneliers, where more than two hundred cheeses are matured in the cellars. You taste an AOP munster, served with cumin as it usually is in the region, and your guide covers how the cheese is made and why it smells stronger than it tastes.
The walk ends in Petite France at a gingerbread house that has been making pain d'épices since 1933, where you taste a plain version and a filled or glazed one.

Highlights

  • Taste five Alsatian specialities, each one at a different market stall
  • Start at Place Broglie with charcuterie from a local producer
  • Try a bretzel knotted by hand and baked with organic Alsatian flour
  • Taste an AOP munster matured by a cheesemonger, served with cumin
  • Finish with gingerbread in Petite France, in a house that has made it since 1933

Guiding languages

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Your guide will wait at Place Broglie.
INCLUDED
  • Walking tour
  • Qualified Guide
  • Food Tasting (1 per guest)
NOT INCLUDED
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Gratuities
  • Entry tickets to any Museums or Monuments

When should I book?

To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.


Cancellations

This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.