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<p>Kingston earned its title as the Feast On® Capital of Ontario the hard way, by having more locally sourced, certified kitchens than any other city in the province. This is a limestone city built where Lake Ontario meets the St. Lawrence, and the food follows the water: perch and pickerel from the lake, cheese and produce from the Frontenac County farms that ring the town.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Start at Springer Market Square, home to Ontario's oldest public market, and the way Kingston eats comes into focus. Bakeries here still pull butter tarts and sticky buns from the oven each morning. Nineteenth-century shopfronts along Princess Street sell Canadian cheddar and coffee roasted on site. The small-plate kitchens lean on whatever local growers bring in that week.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A Kingston food tour is the quickest way to taste all of it in an afternoon. Our guides live here, know which counter does the best version of each dish, and walk you between them. The best food tours in Kingston are built by people who eat this way every day.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</p>

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<div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><p>Six kitchens from four continents inside six blocks of limestone. A Montreal-style bagel, Himalayan dumplings, South Indian vada sambar, an olive oil tasting and ice cream at the harbour, plus one stop we keep secret. Kingston the way the people cooking here eat.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Six kitchens from four continents inside six blocks of limestone. A Montreal-style bagel, Himalayan dumplings, South Indian vada sambar, an olive oil tasting and ice cream at the harbour, plus one stop we keep secret. Kingston the way the people cooking here eat.

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<p>Your guide will meet you outside the Kingston Grand Theatre.<strong> </strong>If you have any questions. Please <a href="mailto:kingston@secrettours.com">email us</a>.</p>

<p>If a tour is fully booked, please email us about <a href="/private-bookings">Group &amp; Private Tours</a> options.</p>

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<p style="margin-left:0px;">Kingston was built as a garrison town and the downtown still looks the part. Grey limestone walls, 1840s shopfronts, a working harbour at the bottom of the hill. Step through the doors and the story shifts.</p><p><br>Six stops, six kitchens, four continents, and about 1.3 kilometres of walking. You'll eat a Montreal-style bagel, hand-rolled and honey-boiled before it meets the oven, from a bakery open a few hours a day. Steamed Himalayan dumplings, half vegetable and half chicken, from a family kitchen on Princess Street. A fried lentil doughnut sunk in South Indian sambar. Extra virgin olive oil and small-batch balsamic, poured side by side so you taste the difference between them. Ice cream from a counter making it in-house since 1986. And one stop we keep to ourselves until you're standing outside it.</p><p><br>Your guide lives in Kingston. They know which owner will talk your ear off about a grandmother's recipe, which door looks shut when the kitchen is wide open, and why a city of 130,000 supports this much cooking from this many places. Along the way you'll hear how Queen's University reshaped the streets around it, why Kingston holds more Feast On certified restaurants than any other city in Ontario, and what a 19th-century market square still does for the people who cook here.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div class=""><div class="relative card-elevated p-5"><div class="markdown-body text-sm"><p style="margin-left:0px;">On your own, you'd walk past three of these six doors. Two of them barely read as restaurants from the pavement. Going with someone who eats here is the whole difference.</p></div></div></div>

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Due to the nature of creating a well balanced and thoughtful gastronomy experience, many of our tours are unable to accommodate certain dietary restrictions. Please <a href="mailto:paris@secrettours.com">contact us</a> prior to booking your tour to see if we are able to accommodate your dietary needs.

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<p style="margin-left:0px;">Downtown Kingston is a grid you cross in twenty minutes, which makes it unusually good for eating on foot. Princess Street runs from the waterfront straight up through the retail core, and it was called Store Street before 1842 for the obvious reason. The limestone buildings along it have held shops for two centuries.</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left:0px;">What makes the area right for this tour is the density. Within a few blocks you have a Montreal-style bagel bakery, a Himalayan kitchen, a South Indian kitchen, an olive oil tasting room, and an ice cream counter at the water, plus the oldest continuously running public market in Ontario sitting behind City Hall. None of it was planned as a food district. It accumulated, the way real ones do, around a university, a port, and a market square still trading three days a week.</p>

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Kingston was built as a garrison town and the downtown still looks the part. Grey limestone walls, 1840s shopfronts, a working harbour at the bottom of the hill. Step through the doors and the story shifts.Six stops, six kitchens, four continents, and about 1.3 kilometres of walking. You'll eat a Montreal-style bagel, hand-rolled and honey-boiled before it meets the oven, from a bakery open a few hours a day. Steamed Himalayan dumplings, half vegetable and half chicken, from a family kitchen on Princess Street. A fried lentil doughnut sunk in South Indian sambar. Extra virgin olive oil and small-batch balsamic, poured side by side so you taste the difference between them. Ice cream from a counter making it in-house since 1986. And one stop we keep to ourselves until you're standing outside it.Your guide lives in Kingston. They know which owner will talk your ear off about a grandmother's recipe, which door looks shut when the kitchen is wide open, and why a city of 130,000 supports this much cooking from this many places. Along the way you'll hear how Queen's University reshaped the streets around it, why Kingston holds more Feast On certified restaurants than any other city in Ontario, and what a 19th-century market square still does for the people who cook here. On your own, you'd walk past three of these six doors. Two of them barely read as restaurants from the pavement. Going with someone who eats here is the whole difference.

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