Food Trail Through Sowcarpet Market: A Taste of Chennai

Fantastic trip to experience the real Chennai as a local ! I was staying at the ITC Grand Chola and had a departing flight at 2am to return home. This tour was available in the evening, so booked a trip that included the hotel transfer to kill some time. Great communication from Rajesh, and he met me at the hotel on time. He coordinated the Tuk Tuk and had a wild ride zooming through the streets of Chennai to get to Sowcarpet. Rajesh was a great host bringing me to different areas in the market and tasting some local food. Come hungry, because there is a lot of food. All of it was incredibly delicious. I also did a little bit of shopping, and Rajesh was able to help negotiate with some of the pricing. Highly recommend this trip.

I had some time to kill before my 2am flight back home to the US. Searching through Viator, this tour was one of the later ones and also had a hotel pick up. Rajesh sent me a WhatsApp message in the morning and let me know when he was in the lobby. We ordered the TukTuk and off we went to the market. Honestly, the ride there was one of the best parts of the tour. Weaving in and between all the traffic and congestion, while seeing the city at ground level was amazing. I am staying at the ITC Grand Chola, so it was a long ride. We eventually got to the market, and Rajesh did a great job explain the area and ordered a variety of food at several places. Come hungry, because there is a lot of food ! He helped with pointing me to the ATM, buying souvenirs and overall a great guide for this bustling, crazy, loud, and authentic part of Chennai. I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone, especially with the Tuk Tuk hotel pick up to get an extra experience of Chennai daily life.

Great evening food tour with our friendly guide rajesh.

Best food tour in Chennai.Our guide rajesh done great job.I love the lassi and puri.

This is the continuous tour with our guide from Bazaar tour. We visited lots of small food restaurants and food also tasty. Great day.

Incredible India…we enjoyed this very yummy foodtour . Shows us non touristic side of chennai. Very interesting and very delicious !

I was the only guest and thus had a private tour. I showed Rajesh the food I had tried on a Delhi food walk and so he made changes for me to try something different.

Really a wonderful food tour with our guide rajesh.We had more food in this tour.Its definitely a great tour in Chennai.

In the tour they offered both South Indian and North Indian snacks.our guide Rajesh done great job and arranged cab for us!

I’ve done loads of these food tours and found this one to be quite disappointing and very expensive - had 3 small savoury snacks, 1 sweet snack and a cup of tea. Maybe 3 or 400 rupees in total. Yet the cost was close to 5000. Which would have been fine if the guide had been more engaged or attentive. The Tour lasted only just over 1 hour - so I feel like only for half the experience? Guide seemed to in a real rush to finish and didnt really explain where we were going or what the options were. He spent more trying to sell me another Tour than explaining this one! The food itself was all superb btw!