--- description: Find out why Wild Food Adventures is on TIME’s list of the World’s Greatest Places 2025. title: Wild Food Adventures: World's Greatest Places 2025 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14bbf521ea97df4b/6998c4c125f3ee3b096446e7/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2025-WildFoodAdventures.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Mar 13, 2025 # Wild Food Adventures Areni, Armenia by [Emily Lush](/author/emily-lush/) ## Emily Lush Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Hrant Khachatryan—Courtesy Wild Food Adventures Designed to celebrate Armenia’s culinary traditions and empower rural communities by building tourism know-how, [Wild Food Adventures](https://2492.travel/wildfood "undefined") are immersive, on-demand meals hosted in some of the Caucasus’ most spectacular locations. Created by [2492](https://2492.travel/ "undefined"), a sustainable travel platform from the nonprofit [ONEArmenia](https://www.onearmenia.org/ "undefined"), there are seven bookable experiences that range from a _khorovats_ (Armenian barbecue) smorgasbord in the Yeranos Mountains to a foraged feast in the woodlands of Dilijan. On the outskirts of Areni village, 68 miles southeast of the capital Yerevan, vintner Norayr Grigoryan and his brother Anushavan escort diners to a table set among the twisted vines of their family winery. Just five minutes up the road in a karstic cave known as Areni-1, archaeologists unearthed the world’s oldest known winepress, and Norayr is a proud torchbearer of Armenia’s 6,100-year-old vino tradition. His whites and reds made from local grapes, including the indigenous Areni, complement a three-course menu prepared by Anushavan’s wife, chef Mariam Simonyan. Guests of the [Winemaker’s Table](https://2492.travel/wfa-winemakers-table-vineyards "undefined") are welcome to leave their seats and join her in the alfresco kitchen while she makes tarragon salad with _horats panir_ (goat’s cheese aged in a clay pot), trout sheathed in paper-thin _lavash_, and _tolma_ rolled in grape leaves from the vineyard. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263132/wild-food-adventures/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263132/wild-food-adventures/"},"headline":"Wild Food Adventures","datePublished":"2025-03-13T12:33:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:44:37.151Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263132/wild-food-adventures/","keywords":["World's Greatest Places","list","franchise","Magazine","sponsorshipblock","WGP2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14bbf521ea97df4b/6998c4c125f3ee3b096446e7/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2025-WildFoodAdventures.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Emily Lush","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/emily-lush/"}],"creator":"Emily Lush","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14bbf521ea97df4b/6998c4c125f3ee3b096446e7/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2025-WildFoodAdventures.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/worlds-greatest-places/","name":"World's Greatest Places"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263132/wild-food-adventures/","name":"Wild Food Adventures"}}]}] ```