Local Italian hosts cooking outdoors with guests

We're not
a travel company.
We're your Italian friends.

Espresso Escapes started with a group of Italian friends who moved to New York and, on a trip back home to see family, kept watching their American friends land in the wrong trattorias. So we began planning the trips ourselves. Today our little network of hosts — a winemaker in Montalcino, a fisherman in Cetara, a pastry chef in Noto — opens their doors, their tables, and their real Italy to small groups from the States.

Every journey is tailored around you — your pace, your appetite, your curiosities — and a native Italian, fully bilingual friend is with you the whole way.

No megaphones. No matching hats. Just the country we grew up in.

Plan your trip with us