Off The Eaten Track grew from an 18-year friendship fuelled by an appetite for travel and food. My co-founder Beth and I met in Japan in 2007 while teaching English and haven't lived in the same country since (except for an accidental two weeks in Hobart thanks to COVID). The world became our shared address, and we became travel companions who found the sweet spot between organisation and serendipity. We've danced with Vishnu at temple festivals in Kerala, been whisked into whisky dens in Tasmania, sung karaoke on a boat in frozen Hokkaido seas, dined at secret Shanghai supper clubs, and shared meals in homes where the language was foreign but the welcome unmistakable.
We're not led by guidebooks or TikTok trends but curiosity, conversation and the ultimate window into someone's culture - food. This is how we believe the world should be experienced. Not at a distance, but at the table.
Beth is Festival Director of Visa Wellington On a Plate, the Southern Hemisphere's largest food festival, and a cookbook author. She's built her career proving that food is story, connection, and identity. I'm a polyglot with fluency in Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, and conversational skills in many more. My real fluency though is in connection and finding those perfect, un-Googleable moments.
For years, friends and followers have asked, "When's the next trip?" and "Can we come?" So we decided: why wait? We create deeply personal itineraries for people who believe a good meal with locals beats a hundred rushed photo ops. We'll send you to meet the makers, sit at their tables, and experience places not as a visitor, but as part of them.
Because travel isn't a checklist - it's a shared plate. And there's always room for more, so we're pulling out the chair and inviting you to join us.
Off The Eaten Track grew from an 18-year friendship fuelled by an appetite for travel and food. My co-founder Beth and I met in Japan in 2007 while teaching English and haven't lived in the same country since (except for an accidental two weeks in Hobart thanks to COVID). The world became our shared address, and we became travel companions who found the sweet spot between organisation and serendipity. We've danced with Vishnu at temple festivals in Kerala, been whisked into whisky dens in Tasmania, sung karaoke on a boat in frozen Hokkaido seas, dined at secret Shanghai supper clubs, and shared meals in homes where the language was foreign but the welcome unmistakable.
We're not led by guidebooks or TikTok trends but curiosity, conversation and the ultimate window into someone's culture - food. This is how we believe the world should be experienced. Not at a distance, but at the table.
Beth is Festival Director of Visa Wellington On a Plate, the Southern Hemisphere's largest food festival, and a cookbook author. She's built her career proving that food is story, connection, and identity. I'm a polyglot with fluency in Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, and conversational skills in many more. My real fluency though is in connection and finding those perfect, un-Googleable moments.
For years, friends and followers have asked, "When's the next trip?" and "Can we come?" So we decided: why wait? We create deeply personal itineraries for people who believe a good meal with locals beats a hundred rushed photo ops. We'll send you to meet the makers, sit at their tables, and experience places not as a visitor, but as part of them.
Because travel isn't a checklist - it's a shared plate. And there's always room for more, so we're pulling out the chair and inviting you to join us.
