Zest Food Tours™ offers unique access to some of New Zealand's top food professionals. You'll visit with friendly experts in many culinary fields: on full sensory alert as you see, sniff, sip or even slurp to your taste's content.

With such an intimate group, this is a very personal experience. Where possible, we will tailor tours to your particular interests.

Zest Food Tour's expert culinary partners are all passionate food lovers and down-to-earth New Zealanders. Owning and running their own businesses, they're dedicated to great food experiences. It's personal.

You'll get to know and interact with them. You'll taste a piece of this and a handful of that. Hear their stories, in their own special places: at home, in their kitchen or behind the scenes at their store. By invitation only.

Logan Brown Restaurant

An award-winning and consistently well-reviewed restaurant, Logan Brown creates a stylish ambiance of outstanding food, wines and service. Its distinctively relaxed friendly professionalism for all staff is very New Zealand, and reflects the style of owners Steve Logan and Alister Brown.

The food is generous, full-flavoured and innovative, featuring the best local ingredients. The wine list is extensive, with many top local and imported wines. Find out more at www.loganbrown.co.nz

In-house Specialists

Sometimes it's a country's home cooking that reveals its true personality more than restaurant food. Food writers are adept at identifying trends in how people eat and how their food interests change over time.

Zest's stable of food writers, cook book authors and professional cooks will open their kitchens to you, to taste home-made baking or special dishes that say "Wellington, New Zealand" to them.

• Alister Brown
• Ruth Pretty

Speciality food purveyors

Each tour is slightly different. We select from our partner range of speciality stores and food purveyors so we can present what's best, freshest and most appropriate on the day.

Our coffee roasting house might be the family-owned Mojo Coffee Cartel, with its Greek connections to Wellington's early culinary heritage. Or maybe boutique artisan-style of Emporio, reminiscent of Italy with its sleek espresso bar. Whichever, the coffee will be great, in a city of great coffee or Coffee Supreme, one of Wellington's most well known coffee roasters.

Become fluent with local coffee terms so that long black and flat white are no longer mysteries.

At Wellington's leading food purveyor, Moore Wilson Fresh, you can examine local variations on familiar fruits and vegetables or discover the delights of new varieties. What's a feijoa or a kumara? Have you tried fresh passionfruit or a golden kiwi?

Try some of the outstanding array of speciality foods crammed with flavour and culinary imagination. Maybe meet the cheese-maker or the wine-maker whose local product you've just tasted.