Vegetarian & Vegan Food Tour
A Curated Culinary Walk Through Charlottesville
You don’t have to be vegetarian to fall in love with this tour.
Join us for a thoughtfully curated exploration of Charlottesville’s plant-forward food scene — where seasonal ingredients, creative chefs, and local stories come together over five delicious stops.
This guided walking tour blends tastings with storytelling, offering insight into the people, neighborhoods, and culinary creativity shaping our local food culture.
Along the way, you’ll enjoy:
• Four savory tasting experiences
• A vegan scoop at Chaps Ice Cream
• Stories that connect food to place
• A relaxed, small-group atmosphere
This is not a rush-through food tour.
It’s a paced, personal culinary experience.
📅 Date & Time
Saturday, June 13
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
💵 Price
$115 per person
Includes all tastings and gratuities at each stop.
👥 Group Size
Limited to 10 guests to ensure comfort and meaningful interaction at every location.
Whether you’re local or visiting, this tour offers a fresh way to experience Charlottesville — one plate at a time.
👉 Advance registration required.
Biscuits, Wine & the Story of Place
A Hands-On Culinary Experience in Belmont, Charlottesville
Food tells the truth about a place.
Long before Charlottesville became known for award-winning restaurants and celebrated
vineyards, it was sustained by grain, butter, fire, and community tables. The Southern biscuit is
humble, but it carries centuries of agricultural history, labor, tradition, and hospitality within its
layers.
This hands-on experience begins with that story.
Guests will learn traditional Southern biscuit technique from a local chef in a women-owned
Downtown kitchen while exploring the regional foodways that shaped Virginia’s tables. We
discuss wheat cultivation, milling traditions, evolving cooking technologies, and why biscuits
became both everyday sustenance and a symbol of welcome throughout the South.
After the class, guests gather for a thoughtfully prepared three-course lunch, each course paired
with Virginia wines from a women-led winery. The experience reflects a through-line of women’s
leadership in Charlottesville’s culinary and wine community, from kitchen to vineyard, past to
present.
This is not simply a cooking class.
It is an exploration of how Charlottesville’s history and modern hospitality meet at the table.
Experience Includes:
• Guided, hands-on biscuit instruction
• Cultural and historical context woven throughout
• Three-course seated lunch
• Curated Virginia wine pairings
• Printed recipe and regional resource guide
Date: July 5th, 2026 11:30 am to 2:00 pm
Duration: Approximately 3 hours
Location: Mockingbird, Belmont, Charlottesville, VA
Limited seating to maintain an intimate, discussion-rich experience
$120 per person
A Small-Group Seafood Experience with Chef Mick Markley
There’s something about fish that makes even confident home cooks hesitate.
We overcook it.
We under-season it.
Or we avoid it entirely.
In this intimate seafood experience, Chef Mick Markley brings decades of culinary experience — from oyster shucking at Awful Arthur's to cooking at Mas, Mangione’s on Main, and Woodberry Kitchen in Baltimore — into his working kitchen at Crozet Seafood Supply, where he now serves as fishmonger and seafood authority.
A graduate of the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan, Mick pairs formal training with years of hands-on restaurant experience and personal fishing knowledge, bringing both technical precision and practical confidence to every demonstration.
With professional technique and the steady confidence of someone who knows his way around a fish knife, Mick will demonstrate the preparation of multiple seasonal fish and scallops, sharing sourcing insight, cooking methods, and the small details that make all the difference.
Guests will gain practical tools for selecting, seasoning, and cooking seafood at home — and finally understand the visual and tactile cues that separate perfectly cooked fish from the rest.
Along the way, you’ll enjoy thoughtful tasting portions and paired wines in a setting limited to just eight participants.
This is not a performance.
It’s the class we meant to take years ago.
📅 Dates & Time
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Saturday, August 15, 2026
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Location
Crozet Seafood Supply
375 Four Leaf Lane, Unit 101
Crozet, Virginia
💵 Price
$175 per person
Includes instruction, seafood tastings, and wine pairings.
👩🍳 Class Size
Limited to 8 guests to ensure personal attention in an intimate working kitchen.
Whether you’ve avoided cooking fish for years or simply want to refine your technique, you’ll leave with confidence, skill, and the desire to do it again.
👉 Reserve your seat through the booking link below.
At Mili on the Move, we are passionate about offering unforgettable Charlottesville VA tours that highlight the area's rich local history. With our knowledgeable Charlottesville local guide, every journey is a chance to explore cultural experiences, including delightful food and wine experiences that truly showcase the essence of this vibrant region.