Frank is very knowledgeable and easy to listen to and learn from. His class flowed very nicely, allowing our entire family to follow along and make our own chimichurri. We highly recommend this class.
Thanks for the nice words! I also had fun showing your family how to make your own chimichurri. It was a really nice treat seeing your daughter follow along making her own chimichurri in real time.
Amazing experience and would definitely recommend to anyone visiting buenos aires. We had a great time drinking local beers and eating some delicious food. We got to see parts of the city we would have not found on our own. Frank was very friendly and shared a great recipe with us. Very personal touch! I wish we would have done his Asado adventure.
I absolutely love giving this tour and I'm so glad that you enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to the day that the pandemic is over so that I can go back to sharing some of the best local craft beers with my guests.
We booked the food tour in an effort to learn about the history of the local cuisine, while getting a walking tour of the neighborhood. Our guide had a wonderful knowledge of the local street art and neighborhood and was very willing to answer questions. She lacked the food knowledge and was not very seasoned as a guide. That said, the 6 hour tour was a very good value and we would recommend it. Especially exciting was a digital photo album of 126 photos taken by the guide along the way. It was nice not to have to take our own photos so we could be present for our day. A nice bonus!
I'm so glad that you found the tour to be a very good value and that your tour guide had wonderful knowledge of the local street art and the neighborhood. But I'm also sorry and surprised to hear that you thought she lacked food knowledge and that she wasn't very seasoned.
We picked the restaurants to visit to give a varied exposure to local foods and try to explain them all. It's not just about how yummy they are, but the why behind some of them. I'm also surprised because she also happens to be one of our most popular guides.
I will go over the information with our guides again to make sure that we are all up on the same page with our food information. But I am glad that you liked your experience enough to leave a nice review and to actually recommend this to others.
Thank you for taking the time to share this and for actually taking the tour and spending the day with us.
We've taken food tours around the world, and definitely rate this experience with Frank as one of the very best. Given the choice of rescheduling/cancelling due to constant rain, we opted to go ahead with our scheduled tour and are glad we did. Frank's knowledge and enthusiasm resulted in an enjoyable adventure that was both enriching and delicious.
I'm so glad to hear that you enjoyed the tour. This tour is so much fun that not even rain can ruin it. Thank you so much for spending the day with me!
This was my favorite activity we did in BA! Felt like such an organic, non-touristy experience. We were welcomed into Franky's super cool home in Palermo (awesome neighborhood!) where he sat with us for a bit and explained how we would spend the day. We learned about his background and then began some prep for the meal we would be having later. He led us around his neighborhood, explained the impressive street art, shared some history about Argentina and BA, and then took us to his local market to pick out the meat for the asado. We also went to a wine shop and had a glass of Malbec and learned about the wine industry in Argentina. Then we headed back to his house to enjoy the food in his courtyard! The grillmaster cooked up some incredible meat, and we got to try interesting food that I hadn't eaten before. We also enjoyed fernet and coca-cola, two kinds of wine, and we learned about (and drank) mate. Frank is informative, helpful, and fun, and this just felt like such a personal experience, to be invited into someone's home and see how the locals live. My advice...book it!!
I had a great time hosting you in my home and I'm so glad that you felt like it was non-touristy, that is exactly what I always try to make everyone feel like. I want everyone to feel like they are just visiting a friend and hopefully learning about a new culture over some great food and wine.
Thank you for spending the day with me!
