Rupesh puts on a awesome tour. Learning about the history of South African cuisine from someone who clearly is very passionate about food was amazing. We went to six different places that were all unique in their own way and Rupesh provided a depth of knowledge about each spot that enhanced the experience. We were able to meet many of the local shop owners and everyone was incredibly welcoming. The food was exquisite and the drinks were spot on the whole tour. If you are looking to gain a better understanding and appreciation of the intersection between food and history, then this the only way to go. I highly recommend this if you are in Cape Town and am sure you will have a great time!!!

We love doing food tours when visiting a new place to learn about local culture and history and also eat good food. The tour with Rupesh was the best we’ve done. He makes it feel like such a local experience and does a great job mixing in the history of Cape Town. All of the food we ate was delicious. The bonus is that Rupesh is a super cool guy and fun to spend the day with. It feels like you are hanging out with your friend who is showing you around the city. Could not recommend it any more highly.

Rupesh provided us with a brilliant trip around the city’s centre, providing a lot of information on the history behind the multilingual progression of the land. He has strong ties throughout the city and his history of being a food critic really shined with the choices of food and drinks we were tasting. I would recommend going on one of Rupesh’s tours early on your stay in Cape Town as it not only helps you get your bearings on where to go, but will help you plan your stay in other areas of the country as his knowledge extends well beyond the Cape! The trip was very insightful and really helps the vibrant local culture become addictive. No question went unanswered and he was not shy to give an honest unbiased opinion on how we can better our trip. Rupesh is great company and we befriended him by the time we finished our first coffee, it is a shame we don’t have more time to spend together. You will not be disappointed!

Eat Like a Local is a food Tour Agency run by Rupesh, these tours take you through the Mother City where you can explore unique and interesting food places you may not see or hear about easily. Rupesh also gives you the history of some of the places and what they were used for in the past such restaurants that were previously prisons in the Apartheid Era. Contact Rupesh to arrange your tour where you’ll taste some really awesome food 😁

What an awesome day with Rapesh tasting the best of Cape Town! The length of the tour was perfect and the food super tasty and more than enough. Rapesh is very knowledgeable on Cape Town history and the origin of all the traditional dishes. A truly memorable day that I would strongly recommended for tourists and locals alike.

My husband and I were in Cape Town for our honeymoon and this tour was one of our favorite parts. Rupesh was an amazing guide and showed us parts of the city and local restaurants we wouldn’t have found on our own. He is also so knowledgeable and we learned so much, you can’t visit Cape Town without going on this tour!

My husband and I found this food tour to be absolutely amazing! Rupesh is an excellent and friendly guide. We highly recommend this to anyone, tourist or local. Will definitively do the tour again!

Rupesh was amazing. We had an excellent day of food, history, and good company. Would highly recommend to anyone visiting Cape Town. It’s a must!

LOCAL IS LEKKER ! Where to start…..our local “Blomme Bus” from Robertson/Montagu/Barrydale ended up in Cape Town this year and we decided to go “Eat like a Local” with Rupesh, all i can say is WOUW!!! Above and beyond our wildest expectations!! Rupesh was such an amazing ambassador of South Africa, not only did we eat like a local (which was SUPER lekker ) we met locals, supported local small businesses , learned some history along the way but most of all we had FUN !!! A day the blomme bus girls will never forget. All locals looking for a fun day out with your friends, THIS IS IT!

Wow wow wow. Cape Town's been my mother city for 44 years but this was a total new take on our lovely city and it's awesome people. The food was amazing and our tour guide, Rupesh was really professional and just GREAT. Will recommend this tour. Great value for money.

Awesome experience with Rupesh and Andrew who showed us around Cape Town and took us to some of the most amazing small family run establishments serving the freshest food. Along the way we stopped at historucally significant spots to hear more about the history of Cape town. It was a beautiful experience tasting all the different cultures foods, I highly recommend them for locals and tourists alike.

Rupesh and Andrew were incredible hosts to our large family! They were hospitable and well equipped to entertain us through a full day tour of food and sites. They were able to quickly accommodate family that were last minute additions to the tour and made sure to also ensure kid friendly food and sites that made every single part of this tour memorable. This was one of the best parts of our entire South Africa trip!

Any tourists dream. This experience is a must for anyone that is interested in an authentic Cape Town food experience. The host, Rupesh, is extremely knowledgeable and great fun. Be sure to book this!

Had an amazing time on the Vegan Food Tour! The food, journey and narrative were beautifully put together and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Went to a few places that I will definitely be returning to in the near future. Thanks!

Wonderful day exploring the city by foot with Rupesh. Well thought out, great food options! I really liked the relaxed feel about the day... Will definitely recommend to others. Thank you!

Excellent dine and dash tour! Filled with good food, pleasant company and sprinkled with some very relevant history. A delight for locals and overseas tourists!

Exploring a new city with the help of a knowledgable guide and delicious food is one of the best things to do on holiday. Doing that in your own home town is simply priceless! Rupesh's interactive walking food tour of the Cape Town city centre was an adventure and a trip down memory lane for my tastebuds. I loved every moment of it. Over the more than four hours, he took us through beautiful and interesting parts of the city, and showed us beautiful and interesting food and drinks – from freshly-baked pastries and peppermint crisp tart, to fynbos salt and vetkoeke. The craft gin and bobotie samoosas were my highlights! I can't recommend this tour enough. Book immediately!

Eat Like a Local City Bowl Food Tour is a great experience - Don't miss out Book it !!! We had Rupesh to ourselves for this walking food tour and it was amazing. Rupesh is so knowledgeable and passionate about not only food but also the neighborhoods and their histories. There was a great variety of foods and beverages which were much enjoyed. Rupesh also gave us great tips for restaurants and shopping. His one rule: you must try everything but you don't have to like everything. We highly recommend this food tour. GREAT experience. Thanks Rupesh for a great day in Cape Town.

Our family loved this tour, as did another family with 9-11 year olds (who recommended it to us). Great mix of food, cultural, and historical information. Came away understanding Cape Town and it’s food landscape much better. Rupesh is a fun, nice, thoughtful, and well-informed guy.

Fabulous food tour and history lesson from Rupesh. Having tried food tours all over the world this is in the top 3. A true cultural experience

Really good food tour. The 4 hours city bowl tour was relaxed, very diverse and delicious! In between you get to know a lot about the different cultures and the history of Cape Town. Our guide Rupesh did a great job!

Awesome being a tourist in my own city. I am a foodie and Eat Like a Local managed to show me parts of CT that surprised and impressed. What a fabulous way to experience the city and enjoy locally inspired dishes. The team were incredible with interesting and unique stories about food and people. Loved every minute.

I have been a Capetonian for more than 15 years... This has been the best ever introduction to our South African culinary history! This tour is a must for all South Africans that love food. Our tour host, Rupesh is an amazing individual, his knowledge and personality made this tour unforgetable! (He is also a qualified chef!) I highly recommend Eat Like a Local! Best experience I have had in a very long time! Thanks Rupesh! Can't wait for thr next experience!

I enjoy food tours and have done them in Los Angeles and New York City. The tour in Cape Town, led by Rupesh, was the best tour I have done so far. The selection of foods was delicious and portions generous. We sampled bobotie, rooibos and other teas, the Gatsby, samoosa, koesisester, various chutneys, and other dishes I can’t pronounce. All yummy! Rupesh is easy to understand, a naturally at ease speaker, and has an engaging style. He presented both traditional and modern local specialties, and all done with interesting sprinklings of the history of Cape Town. So knowledgeable. The nearly 5-hour walking tour with Rupesh was totally worth it!!! It was an absolutely delightful day spent chatting, laughing and tasting with him. Highly recommend!

This food tour was one of the highlights of a very special trip for my son and I. Rupesh was so knowledgeable, engaging, and welcoming. The experience was something that my son and I will never forget. I highly recommend this tour for anyone visiting Cape Town. You will not be disappointed and your taste buds will experience unforgettably robust flavors.

This was the best yearend function! The food tour is an awesome way to see Cape Town on foot and to learn about the culture and evolving of food and tastes. Rupesh and his team are very friendly, fun and well planned. Loved the new tastes and food we were introduced to. This is a MUST for everyone! Loved it! And will make a booking soon! Well done !

We love to start any trip to a new city with a walking tour to familiarise ourselves with where the locals go, the history and especially where to eat! The great news about Eat Like a Local Cape Town is that we got all of this in one tour! Plus it’s just a small group so you get to know your fellow travellers as well as having time to ask heaps of questions, get recommendations and experience a really personalised food journey. Rupesh is awesome, friendly and fun - so many tasty bites, unique locations and interesting stories along the way - plus you can really see the passion in their team of tour guides supporting their fellow small businesses in the Cape Town community. Thanks for a fantastic day out! Highly recommend.

Fantastic tour! Delicious food plus a little lesson on the history and culture of CapeTown. Highly recommend!

Wow! Words cannot express how amazing an experience this food tour is, Eat like a Local, is a fun and interactive experience that flies by, it's fun for locals, travellers or foodies alike. Filled with tons of tasty bits of information as well as delicious food! You can see how hand crafted the tour is with the relationships built between all the restaurants and establishments alongside Eat like a Local, the care and consideration between each tasting and experiencing all areas of Cape Town. It's really a wonderful experience, and will highly recommend it to anyone! What are you waiting for? Book it!

Rupesh led us on a friendly, informative taste journey though a part of Cape Town yesterday that will stay with us forever. We met some of the passionate individuals of the culinary landscape. People with integrity. Hard working and imaginative. I for one will never think of a cup of coffee the same again. The food was delicious. The history of the city came to life through the tastes. I highly recommend the Eat Like a Local tour!

Being a local, I was amazed at what this city has to offer! I thoroughly enjoyed the tour with Rupesh. It was an absolute treat to the senses! He knows the city, its history and its gems very well and makes the tour really fun. I highly recommend this for locals as well! Best day in Cape Town so far!

Wow! What a fun experience! It was amazing to see the hidden gems Cape Town has to offer - and some of them are quite literally right outside my door and I barely new about it! On top of getting to explore the city AND having great food, it was just so much fun! Thanks Rupesh and the Eat-Like-a-Local team.

I'm not usually a big fan of tours but I thoroughly enjoyed Eat Like a Local with Rupesh! It was a great way to get to know the different neighborhoods, the city's history and of course the local flavors. The 4.5 hours flew by. You really get a good taste of all the different flavors cape Town has to offer, and, even more importantly, through local businesses that support the community. Loved Rupesh's passion for food and Cape Town. We left with our minds and bellies very full! Highly recommend Eat Like a Local!

What a great experience. As a local Cape Townian, there was so much that learnt about this city on the tour that I never knew before. I’ve lived in Cape Town for the past 10 years, and we visited so many places I had never gone to and got a really good taste of the variety of flavours in the city. It is for tourists and locals alike, and it was very interesting getting to know the other people in the group, and hearing stories from far away places. Beautiful spots, delicious food and an awesome guide.

My husband and I both loved this tour. Rupesh is an engaging and welcoming guide. He is extremely knowledgable about the Cape Town food scene, and you will leave with a list of restaurants, bars, and other places to visit. You will also learn about the city and some of its neighborhoods. The food and drink on this tour was excellent. I cannot recommend this tour highly enough.

Fantastic to experience parts of your own city you didn’t know about! Delicious food, and Rupesh was super engaging and entertaining, while managing to herd our group through the city. Highly recommend!

I was recommended to this tour by a work colleague who was visiting South Africa for the first time with his family. He raved about it. I grew up in Cape Town and thrived on experiencing local culture and food. I would regularly seek out new interesting places and share my love for this with others. So although I was in no need for a packaged tour like this it sounded like a great activity idea for an upcoming holiday. My wife and I were not disappointed. What a wonderful day we had. Rupesh was infectiously energetic and enthusiastic, sharing his love for food and the communities. There were 8 of us on the tour. We visited 9 different venues enjoying each other's company, the stories behind the food and being introduced to those serving us who Rupesh counts as his friends. The food and drink was delicious. The tour is approximately 4 hours. We were having such a great time that we took 7 hours! I cannot recommend this highly enough.

I have just attended this tour with Rupesh and it was awesome. All the food was fantastic, The locations lovely, and the whole thing well structured and organised. Rupesh was a great host and really knew everything about Cape Town and shared his knowledge on the way. I'd recommend anyone to do this tour. We had ourselves, an older couple, and a family with two teenagers and there was something for everyone. Rupesh even made sure there was alternative drinks when required and two of the tour were vegetarians and well catered for. Basically, great tour, book it.

My boyfriend and I, both lovers of food and wine, absolutely loved our local food tour with Rupesh. We were part of a group 8 guests and started at 9:15am with a coffee and a warm and friendly introduction on how the day was going to go. We stopped at 8 stops throughout the day and I couldn’t even tell you which one was my favourite--- they all were! From local pastries, traditional meals, fynbos and local wine tasting to gin and biltong tasting. Everything was extremely interesting, informative yet also relaxed and enjoyable. I feel going on a walking food tour of any city is the best way of getting to know the space as you learn so much about the history and culture of the people at the same time. I would recommend this tour with Rupesh to anyone who is visiting Cape Town! Thanks Rupesh, we hope to see you again soon..

This has been an eye-opening experience. Even though I’m a local, Rupesh has showed us more authentic spots than I could ever possibly dream of discovering on my own. Rupesh has a thorough understanding of the local traditions, flavours and recipes, and how this is intimately intertwined with the cultures in Cape Town. I can highly recommend Rupesh as an expert guide but also as a very friendly person to engage with. He has truly shifted our paradigms.

Rupesh was an amazing guide and seemed genuinely excited to share his city and its amazing food with us. The many stops were all unique and I loved that we got to taste many different types of food and drinks. Every stop along the way was tasty, interesting and had to do with the culture and history of Cape Town. He went out of the way to give very personalized, high-quality recommendations. I appreciate the thought and care he took in creating this awesome experience. This was a highlight of my trip to South Africa and will definitely recommend this tour to my friends.

I am in Africa for a family wedding and there were 17 people that I was trying to organize something for. I emailed quite a few companies because I thought either a cooking class or a food tour would be a lot of fun for us. (of course if you've ever organized something for a lot of people you know that making that many people happy can be very difficult).((Especially a large group of crazy Italians from America! )) My emails were responded to so quickly and so courteously that I was very excited to book with this company and boy am I happy I did!! We went yesterday, and all night last night and all day today the food tour was the talk of or group how fun it was, how entertaining, how educational, and how delicious! And I would say that the most important thing was how completely well organized everything was. Every restaurant that we visited they were expecting us and we were in perfect time but never felt rushed. We walked to all different neighborhoods but never felt exhausted from the walk and I was traveling with 70 year olds down to 30 year olds many of us not in very good shape lol! We learned so much about the changing neighborhoods the history and what is being proposed for the future, We also words hold about some awesome hotspots that we would have liked to visit if we were here longer. You can see from my profile that I am a Trip Advisor reviewer and also a Google reviewer I review good and bad, this one I had to make sure to do because he was outstanding. I can't think this company enough for making my whole group think I'm a hero! lol! highly highly highly recommended!! Doree

We did the tour yesterday and had a very nice experience. It is a premium way to get to know the city. Our guide Rupesh was friendly and took good care about us. There where 2 stops at the beginning which felt a bit of a slow start (our meeting place was a cafe, but we did not eat or drink anything there but walked to the next place.). But later on, the tour became amazing. Different stops included a tasting in an Art gallery and the final was faboulos fair-produced choclate. We went home with a full belly and a happy smile.

(Translated by Google) One of the best tour you can do in Cape Town. Very authentic guide and the food and drinks are excellent. Highly recommended. (Original) Eines der besten Tour die man in Kapstadt machen kann. Sehr authentischer guide und das Essen und die Geteänke sind ausgezeichnet. Sehr empfehlenswert.

I finally took the tour with Rupesh - Eat like a local and had a fabulous day discovering very diverse places in the city bowl: from small family eateries hidden from main roads to spice shops, lovely gem in the heritage square, trendy tea shops traditional Afrikaans dishes and an incredible chocolate shop. We visited 8 place, had delicious food and drinks, but the tour is way more than about food ! Rupesh is very knowledgeable about the history of the places and cape town, has close relations with the owners and therefore is full of passionating stories about the places you visit. He is a fabulous guide, easy going yet very professional, and vibrant personality: we were 4 people in the tour, didn't know each other before but felt pretty close by the end of the day thanks to such an enriching day we shared together. I highly recommend to anyone, from visitors to Capetonians !

This was a fantastic experience will definitely recommend all visitors to add this to you're itinerary what a fantastic foodie experience.Rupesh is very knowledgeable warm and friendly.If it's unique you are looking for this is it...

I know Rupesh as a friend so decided to join him this past Friday for a a cape town food and heritage tour. Wow. Rupesh is so insightful fun and knowledgeable about the tour the people and you can see the love and passion he puts in too the tour. This is a guy that has merged his love of food wine and history and just plain fun into a tour that can not be missed. If you do one thing in cape town go on one of his tours. Thank you

This was a great tour that I shared with my daughter. The food and drinks were great, the places were unique and we got history,architecture and fun and friendship on this tour. It was also great sharing it with new friends from the French Island of Reunion. Rupesh is a fun and knowledgeable person and I cannot say enough great things about this tour. Don’t miss it.

This experience is an incredible way to explore Cape Town. Rupesh is professional, wonderful and has created an unforgettable food experience in Cape Town. Recommended for tourists, locals, families, couples..anyone who likes food! Super experience

Rupesh is an extraordinary guide who took us on a wonderful gustatory tour of Cape Town. Steeped in flavour, history and local knowledge, the city has so much to offer and Rupesh showed us the best of it! He wined, dined and beered us until we were more than content. From puffy, caramelised sweets to smoky, pull-apart beef, Rupesh has obviously formed great relationships with local vendors and small businesses who go out of their way to serve up dishes they’re proud of. We left feeling like he was a mate rather than a tour guide. You won’t regret letting Rupesh take you around Cape Town!

Highly recommended and definitely a highlight of our trip back home. We were a mixture of young and old, locals and old Capetonians and it was a great experience for all. Loved it!

We had an awesome time on this food tour! There was only two of us, and we appreciated that he still provided the tour with a low attendance. We tried a variety of new foods that are specific to Cape Town while learning a bit of history along the way.

This was a superb food tour! Rupesh guided us through a fascinating day, full of laughter, delicious small bites from restaurants and food vendors, all the while sneaking in a comprehensive introduction to Cape Town and it’s history. I consider Cape Town my second home, and simply can’t believe I had never sampled the delights of a Koesister, a sweet and aromatic doughnut type confection, related, but far more exotic than the better known koeksister. We visited a building which I have seen many times, but had no idea was built as a mansion by a wealthy slave trader, nor that housed within its courtyard is the oldest grape vine on the continent, which continues to flourish. We ate an ‘off the menu’ malay curry out of bone china teacups at the smallest coffee shop in Cape Town, and learned from the chef how locals use our native fynbos herbs as aromatics and flavour enhancers, another thing I’ve never done. We followed Rupesh through the picturesque little streets of the Bo Kaap, where he made sure we got the best photo ops, into a visually stunning contemporary art gallery where we ate some more. Later he took us onto a rooftop somewhere near Bree street with best view of the city, and made a stop at the celebrated Jason Bakery for pastéis de nata, something I had never ordered there, but have already returned for. I will take this tour again, it’s a wonderful way to get a feel for the city. Rupesh is an extremely engaged guide, from the moment you meet him you feel looked after, and ready to follow and learn, and of course to eat very, very well.