Foodie travel is huge in 2025. More cuisine aficionados than ever are taking to the skies, seas, and roads in search of the perfect meal. From bold Mexican flavors to the freshest seafood in all of Greece, foodie travel is a way for food lovers to get to know the cultures of different destinations through their unique cuisine. There are a few foodie destinations that are a can't-miss on any gastronomic journey; here are our top choices and the easiest, most comfortable (or most uniquely local) ways to get to and around your new favorite foodie hot spots.
2025’s Foodie Hotspots
Travel to: Oaxaca International Airport
Travel around: Hire a luxury vehicle or a car service, as Oaxaca includes many rural spaces where other forms of transportation aren't readily available.
Recommended eateries: Levadura de Olla, Los Danzantes, Cobarde, and Labo Fermento.
Oaxaca in southern Mexico is a vibrant place, from the unspoiled views to the colorful local dress and the rich diversity in Oaxacan cuisine. This is an ancient place, overflowing with vivid places, people, and dishes that are rooted in all the ingredients the region has to offer, as well as unique cultural influences, including pre-Columbian traditions and Spanish colonial influences.
Oaxaca is very well known for its “seven moles”: Mole Oaxaqueño, Mole Negro, Mole Rojo, Mole Verde, Mole Amarillo, Mole Chichilo, and Mole Coloradito. Moles (like guacamole) are essentially very thick “sauces” overflowing with flavor. Each mole is completely unique and served with different dishes. These aren't just dips made of avocado, cilantro, and lemon juice; each mole contains around 20 ingredients, including chiles, guajillo, rich chocolate, ground nuts, pumpkin seeds, and spices like aniseed and cinnamon, and more. Other than zesty loles, you’ll want to try dishes like chapulins (grasshoppers) cooked until crisp with garlic, chilli, and onions. Nieves is a classic Oaxacan dessert: a sorbet-type ice cream flavored with walnut, horchata, and tuna (the cactus flower, not the fish!).
Travel to: Haneda Airport. This offers more access to Tokyo restaurants and locales than alternative airports.
Travel around: Book a car service as the city is crowded and can be confusing if you can't read kanji or speak Japanese. If you’re up for traveling like a local, the train services are flawless and very clean.
Recommended eateries: Niigata Katsudon Tarekatsu, Tsukiji Unitora Nakadori, Kiwamiya (Shibuya Parco Mall), and Tsukiji Outer Market.
When it comes to food in Japan, Tokyo is the place to be. Don’t expect to sit in gorgeous restaurants for your entire visit, though (there are plenty of those to choose from, don’t worry!), and be ready to embrace the street food culture that brings people here from all over the world. At all hours, the city is abuzz and ready with a distraction or an exciting adventure.
The flavors you’ll find in swanky restaurants and the ones you’ll find at street food markets are of the same stock, but presented very differently. Japanese flavors are bold and diverse, and often more than a little surprising. This is the land of the freshest, most expertly made sushi and sashimi in the world. This is the home of hearty, piping hot ramen, okonomiyaki savory pancakes, perfectly marbled wagyu, soft and sweet mochi, and hot or cold sake to accompany all of it.
Travel to: Bordeaux International Airport or any of the following, depending on your final destination: Atrigues De Lussac Airport, La Teste De Buch Airport, and Cazaux Airport.
Travel around: Bordeaux is so gorgeous that you may want to rent a bicycle for short distances. Car services are readily available for longer distances.
Recommended eateries: L'avant Comptoir du Palais, L'Observatoire du Gabriel, Tentazioni, and ComplanTerra.
France is hardly unknown in the foodie scene. This one country has shaped food and restaurants all over the world, and Bordeaux is a region that produces some of the best wines on the planet, making it an incredible culinary destination overall. Regional specialties vary from place to place in France, and while there are classics like escargot, bouillabaisse, bourguignon, and pasties that you can try all over, Bordeaux has some unique flavors to offer. Garbure has been eaten here for centuries: a hearty meat and cabbage stew served with fresh Gascon bread. There’s also an escalade: an apero made from fresh mussels smoked to perfection with pine needles.
● Da Nang, Vietnam
● New Orleans, USA
● Lima, Peru
● Bologna, Italy
● Marrakech, Morocco
How To Travel Well
Travel should be a seamless experience that enhances the enjoyment of getting to your destination, but it can often add stress rather than relaxation to the entire process. This is particularly true if the destination you’re heading off to is either very tourist-driven or extremely remote and rural. The simplest way to solve these problems is to choose private travel for your next foodie adventure. A private jet charter for you and your party will start and end the trip on the right note and make the destination itself more enjoyable, since you’ll arrive well-rested, well-fed (but always ready for more!), excellently looked after, with all of your luggage and ready to embrace everything the destination has to offer. A private jet charter is the height of luxury and privacy, and it means fewer luggage limitations, so bringing back precious clay bottles of olive oil and seaweed salt flakes for your kitchen won't be a problem.
Since private jets are usually smaller than commercial ones, more remote destinations are easily accessible via landing strips and even private airports. Luxury hotels will have airport transfers and local car services available through their concierge service, and likely an option to book a rental car too, so even the most remote destinations become easily traversable with the right preparations.
A Culinary Adventure
Wherever you travel on your foodie pilgrimage, do it in style. From Michelin-starred restaurants to windows serving broth and noodles, foodie travel has a lot to offer intrepid explorers…even more if you know how to make it a seamless experience.