Everyone knows how culinary excursions normally work. It’s exhausting to search out the proper tour on the proper time on your schedule, and while you do, they’re typically too lengthy, or too brief, or not precisely what you might be searching for. You shuffle round in a pack along with a gaggle of strangers, attempting to slot in, culinarily and in any other case, feeling vaguely dissatisfied, whereas, lastly, experiencing the native meals tradition via the middleman of the information, who mediates between you, the meals you might be consuming and the individuals who ready them for you.
If you’re searching for a culinary tour based mostly in your private preferences, one which you are able to do your self, at your personal time and tempo, and that permits you to work together straight with the native foodies, you may be focused on a brand new culinary begin up set to launch July 2016 in Berlin, Germany. To seek out out extra about it, Journey and Journey Weblog sat down for a primary behind-the-scenes dialog with founders Yael and Michael Weiss.
There are dozens of culinary apps on the market – what makes bitemojo completely different?
Bitemojo is a culinary-travel product, not one other supply of content material. Meant for foodies, vacationers, and, really, anybody in reality who’s focused on studying about locations from a culinary perspective, we offer custom-made biteTours that allow you to expertise first-hand the meals, the folks, and the vibe of the native culinary scene. Proper now something tailored is obtainable solely within the format of personal guided excursions, which, beginning at 250 Euros, are sometimes out of attain for a lot of, who then should make do with group choices. Bitemojo’s imaginative and prescient is to make customized culinary excursions inexpensive to everybody.
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We perceive you place numerous concentrate on the “chew” ingredient in your product, why?
Chunk is certainly fundamental to the DNA of bitemojo. It’s not simply the way in which we developed our product, it’s how we imagine we should always discover the world we stay in. Taking bites permits you to study extra about a spot than you possibly can by going to a 3 star Michelin restaurant. Whenever you go on a biteTour of six bites, you eat at six completely different locations, style six completely different variations of native delicacies, meet six completely different individuals who share with you their distinctive sense of their neighborhood or metropolis, and brought as a complete have a wider sense of place than you’d get sitting all the way down to a single three or 4 course meal. And there’s a philosophical ingredient to it as properly. Small and compact, bites help sustainability; a perfect of consuming some and leaving for others that’s a part of being a accountable traveler. Bites additionally help small companies – the street-food, food-market distributors and small particular meals boutique shops that we really feel present all of the appeal, curiosity and authenticity of a given neighborhood.
What would a biteTour expertise appear to be for vacationers? Something particular beside the bites?
When you obtain the app we’ll current you with all of the biteTours we’re providing at your vacation spot. In addition to a strolling biteTour, we additionally provide Bike & biteTour and Bus & biteTour choices, which let you mix a biteTour with different sightseeing actions equivalent to a motorbike tour or the hop-on-hop-off metropolis tour and revel in thrilling bites alongside the way in which. The biteTour itself is a very enjoyable exercise, wherein you go on a quest to find scrumptious bites and benefit from the thrill of reaching the crimson flag on the finish. Prospects may acquire biteCredits alongside the course of the tour and obtain free bites based mostly on sharing and gifting alternatives. Whenever you end the biteTour, an achievement display will congrats you and summarize your expertise.
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You’re launching in Berlin this July, what are you able to provide our readers at Journey and Journey Weblog?
Readers of your weblog will most likely agree with us, discovering the world via meals is a extremely social and interesting activity- meals pleasure apart. We took it upon ourselves to make these experiences extra accessible for all vacationers on the market and we wish to hear what you assume.
Your involvement is vital to us as we purpose at launching new cities, new itineraries and new merchandise over the following months and this may occur based totally in your suggestions. If the idea sounds interesting to you, that is your alternative to be a part of it!
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