Join a small-group food tour of Sicily with Magari Tours. Discover the Island’s award-winning cuisine, exquisite local wines, and hidden gem locations…
Quite rightly, Sicily has been named the European Region of Gastronomy for 2025*; a title well deserved as the island offers a wealth of local sustainable culinary experiences, allowing visitors to truly immerse themselves in authentic centuries-old traditions and culture.
Magari Tours’ immersive Italian small group tours include local sustainable culinary experiences with innovative itineraries to discover the heart of a destination and make wonderful holiday memories.
Specialising in off-the-beaten-track holidays, Magari handpicks hotels where food, authenticity and sustainability are at the heart of the experience.
Look forward to eating fresh seafood and home-made pasta at local trattorias and agritourism farms, sampling home-grown wines and produce throughout the tour.
Travelling with Magari Tours in the spring or autumn means perfect sightseeing weather, fewer crowds, and the chance to join in with traditional food and wine festivals.
Magari’s Heart & Soul of Sicily tour
Magari Tours’ 9-night Heart & Soul itinerary explores Sicily’s north and south at a gentle pace, combining iconic sights and hidden gems with the opportunity to relax and enjoy the abundance of local culinary experiences on offer.
All of the authentic adventures on the Heart & Soul tour help to strengthen the island’s local circular economy, which is just one of the reasons the island was named Europe’s top food region for 2025.
From age-old agriculture to Sicily’s best food, here’s what to expect from Magari Tours:
Visit Sicily: From historic sightseeing to today’s best street food
Discover world-famous sights such as Agrigento’s UNESCO-listed Valley of the Temples, baroque Ortigia and gritty Palermo with hidden gems like the striking baroque towns of Naro and Scicli.
Voted in the top 5 cities for the best street food in the past, explore Palermo’s bustling streets, including a lively street market selling the freshest local produce and just-caught fish.
Later, savour a local wine tasting followed by a traditional Sicilian meal at the Baglio Fontana. At this 19th-century agritourism farm, you’ll get the opportunity to hear about the island’s age-old tuna fishing industry, against the estate’s backdrop of sprawling lemon orchards.
Selinunte: From ancient temples to handmade chocolate
On another day, you’ll set off for Selinunte, one of the Mediterranean’s greatest archaeological parks. Here, enjoy a leisurely lunch at the fabulous Da Vitorria ristorante, famed for its fresh-caught seafood and featured on BBC’s Sicily Unpacked TV series.
From Modica, visit one of Sicily’s eight Val di Noto towns rebuilt in Baroque style after a 1693 earthquake.
Enjoy supper at a local traditional family-run restaurant, Osteria dei Sapori Perduti, meaning ‘forgotten flavours’, in a beautiful setting on one of Modica’s ancient streets.
Chocolate lovers are in for a treat, too. Sicily, and the town of Modica in particular, prides itself on producing some of the finest chocolate, including beautifully created Easter Eggs.
Magari Tours visits the oldest chocolate factory in Sicily, the Antica Dolceria Bonajuto. At over 150 years old, this factory has been handcrafting chocolate for six generations, using the ancient cold-working process used by Mesoamerican populations.
Where you’ll eat: from agritourism estates to family trattorias
The UNESCO-protected Baroque gem of Ibla di Ragusa boasts elegant palaces and churches, including the magnificent Cathedral of San Giorgio.
In the evening, dine at the prestigious Relais Torre Marabino, a secluded oasis set in a historic Norman fortress.
Surrounded by the peaceful Hyblean countryside, this agritourism estate produces its own organic fare and wines from crops grown with eco-sustainability in mind.
There’s no formal restaurant experience here, just a warm Sicilian welcome from Francesco and his team.
Savour refreshing aperitifs and mouth-watering canapés before enjoying delicious fresh fish or home-made pasta in the beautiful setting of the hotel restaurant.
Finally, explore Ortigia, the island-based old quarter of the ancient city of Syracuse.
A guided walk reveals its quaint alleys and Baroque piazzas before a delicious lunch at the Taberna Sveva restaurant.
Here, the menu features mouth-watering seafood, including the freshest clams and tuna in Italy, and a Sicilian-style tiramisu made with orange – pure bliss!
Hungry to explore Sicily? Book Magari Tours’ 9-night Heart & Soul tour here
*European Regions of Gastronomy
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