Home Cooked Bucharest

Food and drink, Local neighbourhood, Home Cooked

• Try delicious local food
• Meet a local person and chat about their life
• Have the privilege to spend time in a local home
• Help with the food preparation (if you like!)
• Be treated like one of the family
• See some famous Bucharest sights as you walk from your meeting point to the locals’ home

This tour is a part of the Urban Adventures Home Cooked series and aims to give you one of the richest travelling experiences you can ever have – the opportunity to enjoy a meal with a family in a local home.

 

Stefan and Alina, your local hosts, speak English well, so you won’t need sign language to understand each other! The aim is for you to experience life exactly how it is in Bucharest. It is the chance for you to hang out with everyday locals, and get to know Romanian culture through their eyes, and their food. Could there be a more perfect way to get to know local life in Bucharest?! We don’t think so.

 

You will be met at the meeting point by one of the family who speaks English, and no doubt swing by the market or shops on the way home to pick up some last minute ingredients for your delicious Romanian meal.

 

On the way home, we will show you some interesting parts of Bucharest, including Victory Square, Romanian Government, Grigore Antipa Bucharest Natural History Museum, and Bucharest Tower Centre (the tallest building in Romania – 26 floors and 106.3m high!). We’ll give you a few local tips here so that you can come back later on in your trip.

 

Next, we’ll head back to your hosts’ home, and after you’re introduced to the family, it’s time to get our chef hats on! In terms of the cooking, you can do as much or as little as you like. If you want to learn some Romanian cooking techniques and recipes, this is your chance to learn from a local. Alina will be happy to show you the ropes. But if you want to just sit back, chat, and relax, that’s cool too.

 

When the food is ready you will all sit down together and share the meal prepared, enjoy the conversation, or maybe you’ll even look at each other’s photographs and maybe take some more all together.

 

This experience is real. Our families come from all walks of life. Some you might find have a similar lifestyle to your own, whereas others might come from a very different background. This is your chance to get to know the people of Romania in their own homes – something that you certainly won’t find on every tour in Bucharest! The beauty of this project is that everyone involved in our Home Cooked Series is someone who wants to meet travellers and share experiences with them.

Everyone welcome. Children under 6 are FOC as long as they eat from their parents meals. A special meal will not be prepared for them. Some hosts might provide tea or soft drink or even alcohol with meals as per the local custom. It should not be expected and does not form part of the fundamentals of the Home Cooked experience. We recommend you bring drinking water with you for the duration of this experience. If you wish to catch a taxi back to your accommodation after the experience this is at your own expense. No gratuity is included.

For cancellation up to 3 days, a full refund will be given. For cancellation up to 1 days, 50% refund will be given.