Top Famagusta Dining Experiences

Amazing day, loved every minute of it. Very informative and also great fun. Georgina was a brilliant guide

We signed up for the tour after a friend’s recommendation and had the best time making halloumi, tasting Cypriot delicacies, exploring Lefkara’s famous lace shops and more! The staff were incredible. Thank you Cyprus Taste Tours for this amazing day!

Just got back from our food tour! It was fantastic! Georgina is an awesome guide! From making Halloumi, to visiting a very cool olive oil shop, seeing olive trees thousands of years old, visiting a donkey farm and feeding them! Literally the highlight of the holiday! We also got pretty lucky with it being just me and my wife on the tour!Highly recommend!

We enjoyed the small group halloumi heaven tour. Our guide Helena was very friendly, professional and informative. It was good to have a hands on experience with the halloumi making experience. The brunch after was delicious and there was plenty of food. The additional stops were a bonus and added to teh day and gaining an insight into Cypriot food culture.

We went on the halloumi making tour in October. Our tour guide, Helena, was excellent company. She was very knowledgable about Cypriot history and culture. She is very warm and friendly and really cared that we all had a great experience. We managed to pack so many activities and learnings into one trip. We visited a family in the mountains who product their own halloumi and had a chance to give some hands-on help. We also visited a donkey sanctuary, an olive farm, and Lefkara. At each stop we got to try some local treats and learn some history about Cyprus. Helena drove us to each place in a comfortable and air conditioned vehicle. We have been to Cyprus many many times but never have been on a trip like this - it was very good value for money. Next time we're back, we will check out the other tours offered by Cyprus Taste Tours.

My friend and I booked the Halloumi Heaven tour with Cyprus Taste Tours while staying in Protaras, and it turned out to be one of the highlights of our trip! Big thanks to the team for arranging transport to Larnaca – it made joining the tour effortless. With just six of us including our lovely host, it was a fun and intimate experience from start to finish. Georgina was the perfect blend of friendly guide and storyteller – knowledgeable, chatty, and hilarious! She shared insider tales and snapped photos throughout the day. You could tell she really loves what she does and considers the group she works with as her family during the time she’s with them. This experience was WAY more than just making some cheese. Like, seriously. We did weeks’ worth of stuff in one day. Highlights in a nutshell: - A visit to a traditional halloumi maker, where we helped make some cheese and later got to taste it warm and fresh during a lovely Cypriot brunch. It was everything. Salty, squeaky, melt-in-your-mouth perfection. - A change to milk some goats and cuddle a baby one. CUTE. - A walk through a peaceful olive grove, complete with tasting rich olive oils, dips, and other olive products, and admiring an ancient ~800-year-old olive tree. The green olive paste was to die for. - Time at a donkey sanctuary, where we got to feed and meet the animals (yes, even baby donkeys!) and sample some quirky donkey milk products. Don’t knock it ‘til you try it lol - A stop at a local honey producer, where we learned all about bees and beekeeping and sampled a variety of honeys and bee pollen. No hive visit, but plenty of golden goodness! - A short stroll through Lefkara village, famous for its lace and silver, with time to browse the little shops and enjoy the mountain scenery. Every stop felt intimate and genuine. No tourist traps. By the end of the day we were full, happy, and thoroughly impressed by how much we learned. Not just about food, but about Cyprus itself. Highly recommend this tour to any foodies, cheese lovers, or anyone who wants a break from the beach and a chance to connect with authentic Cypriot culture.

We had a fantastic day on the halloumi and Troodos villages tour. Our guide, Georgina, was lovely! She was really knowledgeable and clearly had great connections with the locals, which made each stop more interesting.Making the halloumi was definitely the highlight. We also got to taste the halloumi that we made, freshly formed and still warm, which was even more delicious! Would definitely recommend!

A must-do! Panicos was an excellent guide. My grandparents were from Cyprus, and this was like a homecoming for me and my family. If you have never had fresh halloumi or anari, you don’t know what you’re missing Halloumi-making was only one highlight of the tour.

Great tour experience. Especially Loulla’s home haloumi making. Our tour guide Demi was so well informed and very friendly. We really enjoyed the day. Thanks in no small part to Demi. What lovely young lady!

We were very lucky as my wife and I had the lovely Demi all to ourselves, no doubt because of the trip being in late November. After being picked up from our hotel by Mr Mamos, a true gentlemen, who was spot on time, we travelled to Larnaca to meet up with Demi who took us on our excursion. We had an amazing time meeting local people who were so friendly, Demi was very knowledgeable and at no time did we feel pressurised as she moved from location to location at a nice steady relaxing pace. We would definitely recommend to anyone as you see so much of the real life of the lovely Cypriot people in their lovely homes.

This was a great trip from start to finish - the halloumi making was great fun and we very much enjoyed sampling the halloumi and anari cheeses (and multiple other foods - don't eat beforehand!). I won't spoil the rest of the tour as there are some lovely surprises in there - it is a full day and a busy one, but we found that the time absolutely flew by. We had a great group of just 6 of us and Panicos was our guide - he was good fun and very passionate about Cypriot food and wine. You could tell he enjoys his job and enjoys sharing information with the tour groups. The booking, pickup and entire process was very smooth and well organised. If we return to Cyprus we will take in a wine tour or another offered by CTT - I recommend them for any such type of trip.

A wonderful authentic experience! Anyone visiting Cyprus should have seen this tour! Our tour guide Demi did a fantastic job!

Absolutely amazing, our tour guide georgina was such a ray of sunshine. We had so much fun and learned so much. Would really recommend if you're going to Cyprus

It was a really fun day with our wonderful guide Georgina. We had a lot of fun helping with the Halloumi and all the other stops were brillant as well. It wasjust as great as our tour 2 years ago and we'd highly recommend them for anyone who wants to experience Cyprus trough food and with knowledgeable und just generally extremely lovely guides.

Absolutely amazing, our tour guide Gabriella was such a ray of sunshine. We had so much fun and learned so much. Would really recommend if you're going to Cyprus.

Incredible Halloumi cooking class today! We spent the morning on a goat and sheep farm making fresh halloumi from a 50/50 blend of goat and sheep’s milk that we saw come off the truck. First there was the traditional halloumi and then a farmers cheese was the second set of curds that came from the boiled milk. Afterwards we ate it fresh with traditional Cypriot delicacies kibbeh, olive bread, spinach boreks, cucumber and tomato. I always thought you fried halloumi but learned you eat it fresh. The older cheese is grilled. But the fresh is a million times better. Omg. It was so good. After the Halloumi making class on the farm, we drove through Troodos mountains to find more agricultural delicacies including honey at a very cool bee farm and education center. Then we headed to an olive farm were we tasted more olives and oil. I discovered the very small black ones are used in oil making, and to me they were the most delicious. Others in my group did not like them but the tour guide said I had good taste! The large green ones are often flavored with coriander seeds and sometimes cut up bits of fresh lemon, which I loved. I never had either of these types olives so some of them are coming home. We then headed to Lefkara, a very famous city where the lace work is made that Da Vinci once bought and many royal families, Lefkara was absolutely beautiful and I would stay there for a few days as it was so picturesque. Then we headed to a donkey farm where we fed donkeys carob pods. They grow lots of carob here which is used in sweetner for baking or on mild cheeses. It was much better than I remember from the carob of the 1980s we had growing up. They use carob pods in feed for animals in this region too. Also we discovered that capers are just weeds on the sides of roads here, making me rethink where my favorite sandwich (lox bagel with tomato, cucumbers, red onion and capers) components come from. Overall, it was truly an awesome foodie day and would have to rank this in my top 3 best cooking classes and culinary tours in the world. Georgina was the best tour guide ever! She was authentic, fun and a great person to be around. Additionally, she took pictures of us in action making cheese which were sent to the entire group after the tour. Excellent touch!