Community Highlights: Meet Megan Bucholz of Local Table Tours

Today we’d like to introduce you to Megan Bucholz.

Hi Megan, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
It all started with a conversation with a friend who had just come back from a family vacation in 2009. Her mother had scheduled a food tour for the family and she was telling me how much fun it was. She stopped mid-sentence and said, “you should do that here. Nobody is doing that.”

Articles of incorporation were filed in January 2010 and the first tour launched that spring in Boulder, Colorado, featuring five local places.

More independent eateries started inquiring about joining my lineup, and then someone suggested including a coffee tour. Guided coffee tasting tours entered the lineup and then a trip to New Orleans inspired me to launch a cocktail tour in Boulder. next thing you know, we had 15 or so places in downtown Boulder we were working with.

Cocktail tours expanded to Denver in 2012 followed by food tours. Finally coffee tours and food tours entered the Fort Collins market in 2016 and Local Table Tours became experts in the food scene across the Front Range of Colorado.

We do not offer the same tour every day as most food tour operators do. As of October 2025 we work with more than 75 places across Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins which enables us to custom curate a unique lineup for every tour.

Local Table Tours offers public tours at a set price point and private tours for large and small groups at custom price points that reflect the interests and budgets for each group. We’re the longest running food tour in the state of Colorado and one of the oldest in the United States. We eat, drink, walk, and repeat year-round for signature tastes of the local food and beverage scene.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
The biggest struggle for the entirety of this business is keeping up with restaurant managers who move to new places. Sometimes you get comfortable with a groove of shooting a text to a manager the day before saying, hey, can we come in at 3pm tomorrow? When the response is, oh, I’m not there any longer, it’s dreaded moment of having to reintroduce yourself to the new manager and maintain the relationship. The pandemic was the biggest struggle as 45 of the 90 places we worked with closed permanently, and Local Table Tours was closed for a year.

As you know, we’re big fans of Local Table Tours. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
Local Table Tours specializes in walking food and drink tours in Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins Colorado featuring independently owned restaurants, bars, cafes, bakeries, wineries, breweries, and food specialty shops for a signature taste of the town. What sets Local Table Tours apart from other food tours is that we do not work with just a handful of places that are willing to let us in every day for a small taste at the lowest price point possible to maximize our profits. We genuinely curate unique foodie experiences with the more than 70 locally owned places we have developed relationships with over the years. We contribute many tens of thousands of dollars to the local restaurant community every year and support the folks who are doing a great job making the highest quality food and drinks from scratch. I’m most proud of the excellent places that host our groups, the friendships we’ve made, the repeat guests who come back for multiple experiences, and my exceptional tour guides who have developed careers in food and beverage on their own, prior to joining our small team.

What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
Don’t talk about politics!

Pricing:

• Coffee Tasting Tours $55 per person
• Food Tours $95 per person
• Progressive Dinner Tours $125+

Contact Info:

• Website: http://www.localtabletours.com
• Instagram: @localtabletours
• Facebook: @localtabletours