about us

Hudson Valley Food Tours was founded to offer culinary walking tours to food-loving locals and visitors alike, as a great way to get up close and personal with our beautiful towns, their culture and history, and of course, their best food. We started in the spring of 2015 in Rhinebeck Village, with more culinary crawls coming this season in Hudson, Poughkeespsie and Beacon, with crawls in other valley towns in development. Scheduled and custom tours via bus and limo around the Hudson Valley are available as well. 

HVFT Founder and President Jennifer Brizzi

Since forever Jennifer has wanted to share her love of her native Hudson Valley and its food by leading culinary walking tours of our amazing, diverse and unique towns. After a successful season leading Rhinebeck Culinary Crawls, she is currently developing walking tours in other Hudson Valley towns, as well as bus tours around the Hudson Valley. 

Jennifer teaches cooking, writes about food for magazines, newspapers and blogs, and contributed a few entries for the New York City food encyclopedia called Savoring Gotham from Oxford University Press. Her website. ​ She lives in Rhinebeck.

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rhinebeck tour guide pete ramos

Bringing his energy and enthusiasm for area food and history to Hudson Valley Food Tours, Pete Ramos introduces guests to the flavors and lore of Rhinebeck as a tour guide for Culinary Crawls.

​Pete is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, an experienced speaker and tour guide and an award-winning chef and food service manager with broad experience during his 30 years in the hospitality business. Originally from California, Pete has been a Hudson Valley resident for more than 20 years and currently lives in Hyde Park.