2023

Our answer:A wonderful day with great guests like you. Time flies every time I see the enthusiasm and the smiles of my visitors who really enjoy the amazing things we do together: Tell jokes, learn a lot, meet and interact together with the locals, eat endless food, explore the city and its culture but the most important for us is that you recognized the strong love and our passion behind them..
A great thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your great kindness!

Our answer:Thank you so much for your nice words! It is our philosophy to organize only private experiences in order to keep the quality high for our guests. My partners and I love to share our knowledge and passion with you and your smiles at the end say it all!

Our answer:You were also great people, Dominic and Josephine and I feel really happy you enjoyed the experience with me and met my trusted partners. But we feel deeply grateful for the wonderful article that you wrote in your food travel blog @RedWhiteAdventures for Mama’s flavours! It is one of the best that we have read and that made us not only proud but also gave us more strength to continue the hard work! Until next time!!

Our answer:You are welcome! I also enjoyed the day with you and we would love to see you again and try some more local food together!

Our answer:A thank you is not enough also from us to show you our appreciation and happiness for your wonderful words and your great review! Especially during the lunch time, we had such a great fun all together; We feel so great that you loved the local food we selected for you! We are looking forward to see you again and enjoy another beautiful experience together!

Our answer:When our guests say and write that we exceeded their expectations, then our happiness cannot be described with words…A private experience but a very carefully organized one with emphasis on the personal contact and on the details, always creates unique emotions and memories to the visitors. We feel so happy and proud that you we made you feel it and we thank you once again for joining us!

Our answer:Another fantastic experience with you Karen and Phil! You are absolutely right: There are no differences and boarders when people have kindness and love in their hearts and when these 2 main ingredients are shared through a culinary food experience! Thank you so much for your amazing company and your smiles!!

Our answer:Karen, we also thank you very much for the lovely day! Autumn is an ideal season for an olive oil tour experience since you can see the green ''baby'' olives on the beautiful olive trees...
Olive oil harvesting has already started in Greece and the olive farmers are now quite busy with the new year's harvesting. Your company was wonderful; we would love to see both of you again in Kalamata!

Our answer:You are welcome my dear Carl and Peta! I always try to do my best so as you, my fantastic guests to enjoy and deeply feel the experience with me and all my trusted partners. Thank you so much for your kind words; they really encourage me especially when they come from nice and kind people like you!

Our answer:What a wonderful couple you were! So kind and warm, a feeling of friendship throughout the experience, the main ingredients of an unforgettable experience with our guests.
Christos and I we send you our warmest hug and cannot wait to see you soon and enjoy together another culinary experience!!

Our answer:What a fabulous experience we had with all of you..! Choosing to do a combination of two gastronomic experiences, gave us the change to provide you with a holistic icon of our liquid gold, the olive oil and with a small but a strong taste of our Greek gastronomy which counts 4.000 years of history..
Come again soon, we will enjoy it even more!

Our answer:Janna, you and Seith were fantastic and so kind! We hope your daughter, Allie to be able to come to our next gastronomic experience; we are absolutely sure she will love it!

Our answer:Meera, we also thank you so much for selecting one of the most immersive experiences of Mama’s flavours. A beautiful olive grove only for two wonderful ladies: you and your sweet girl!
A complete private, culinary experience that me and my trusted partners really wished to enjoy it and we did it…Next time we will also welcome the Dad; he missed a mouthwatering, Greek, homemade lunch but we are absolutely sure you shared everything with him later!

Our answer:The pleasure was also for me! I love immersing my guests into the Ancient Greek and Modern history and culture but especially about the Greek Gastronomy. I really enjoyed the food tour experience with both of you and with great pleasure I will welcome your beloved ones!

Our answer:You are welcome George! We also thank you for visiting Messinia, Kalamata again but this time, we feel so proud for selecting Mama’s flavours for your project about the climate change and the effects in the olive grove sector.
We hope our voice to be heard from people, who really care about the environment and share it with other professionals who deal with environmental and sustainable practices and matters.

Our answer:My dear Geraldine and Jeremmie, it was also a great pleasure meeting you! Everything in our work is based on the respect and the love we have for our country, our region and of course nature and the Olive trees. We would love to see each other again!

Our answer:It was a great day spent with you, you were all so kind and we thank you so much for joining. Your interest about olive trees and olive oil was very obvious and along with your excitement during the olive oil tasting experience, these two were the basic ingredients of a perfect experience!

Our answer:We also thank you Catherine so much for your nice words; we really enjoyed the time and the olive oil tasting experience with you and your wonderful family! We were so impressed seeing your lovely daughter participating in the whole experience with such enthusiasm and engaging way!
You were all so kind and please send me your impressions about the cookie recipe when you make them; and remember: instead of butter or margarine use only extra virgin olive oil!

Our answer:We really thank you for your kind words and for your great review! Every experience we organize is a very serious theme and no matter how many times we did it before, we always try and do the best we can in order to create for you something very special and unique which will exceed your expectations. And based on your review, that happened!
Well, about the food, we "apologize", :) we forgot to…warn you that you will feel so full that you won’t need dinner! Thank you so much Michelle and Scott, I really appreciated your ideas and suggestions on how to develop more Mama’s flavours project!!

Our answer:The truth is that organizing an olive oil tour experience along with the locals and under the shade of the perennial olive trees and the pure sounds of nature is something we also love to do! .
Your smiles and the enthusiasm you had during the whole experience gave us and our trusted partner so much strength and happiness. And the food was just a light lunch; I can imagine your surprise and your impressions the next time for the full lunch! A great thank you from our hearts, Jonathan and Linda, we are looking forward to your next visit in Messinia, Greece!

Our answer:3 new friends also for us my dear Laurie! What a nice experience that day with all of you! When my guests ask me to share with them the whole concept, the true story of Mama’s flavours and how I started, makes me so proud and happy narrating it.
As we always say to you, our wonderful guests: "Mama’s flavours does not have clients; we welcome visitors and guests and at the end they turn into friends for us, and we for them.." Thank you so much!!

Our answer:The truth is that is when Greeks start talking about olive oil they can do that for...days! We really try to impart our guests the best of knowledge we have and not just give them an icon or showing them only the stages of olive oil production.
We feel very excited you enjoyed it and in the same time you learned a lot with us! Thank you so much for joining us!!

Our answer:Jennifer & Steve, we feel so happy you loved our Food tour experience with us! The truth is we were a little bit worried about the heat (fortunately we did the experience before the extreme heat wave hit Greece), nevertheless since our priority is our guests to feel nice and comfortable, we adjusted your experience accordingly.
We thank you so much for your time and for coming to our experience! You are both wonderful and we loved every minute with you!

Our answer:It was so great meeting you all on Sunday morning! We also had a lovely time with you and we really did our best to create you wonderful memories and of course obtain more knowledge about Olive oil.
For Mama’s flavours and its partners it is of high importance to educate you among other things we do during an experience we organize. For next time? A fascinating wine tasting in a Greek vineyard is waiting for you with a second full and delicious Greek lunch!

Our answer:Claire, it was such an exciting cooking class, with two great families, 10 guests total!! I and our Head Chef also enjoyed it from the cooking preparations to the dinner afterwards, where we all ate together at the same table like old friends; discussing and having fun! We also thank you so much for coming to Kalamata and joining us and we send a big hug to all of you!!

Our answer:A lovely and a beautiful family with the greatest smiles: And this is You!! Kirk, we thank all of you very much for your time and for your kind words for us. We feel so great when we meet people like you, eager to learn the Greek and the local history, the traditions and showing their true interest during the whole experience. And keep in mind: When travelling to Greece, wherever you go, ask for the local recipes and dishes!! And next time you visit us we have a unique food surprise for you...

Our answer:Katarina, the day started with the best way: Your smiles when we first saw each other! Thanks to our common friend Libby, we felt so happy to organize for a second time for her and her husband but for the first time for you, the same culinary experience in this olive grove!
It means so much to us when guests contact us again to create unique experiences for them and their friends! Your enthusiasm to participate in all culinary preparations was so great!
Now your next food experience? A traditional food tour in Kalamata or a 2 Day gastronomic and cultural adventure in Arcadia! Thank you so much, all of you!

Our answer:Leslie and Steve, we also thank you for joining us in this wonderful food tasting experience! Learning along with us the locals, the food treasures, the history, traditions and the beneficial benefits behind every treat has nothing to do about taking a tour: it is a holistic approach and an authentic way of immersing yourself into local gastronomy, culinary traditions and culture.
We feel so proud that we have guests like you who really appreciate it and share this unique experience with other travelers. Looking forward to seeing each other soon!!

Our answer:Time flew so quickly in the greatest way since we had guests like you Pam! For Mama's flavours it is not so important how many experiences we have organized but the people we meet each time; and believe me, the three of you were unique and wonderful! Especially at the end while enjoying our light lunch, it became so emotional also for me and I really appreciate your time listening to my true story about how Mama's flavours was born. And do not forget the promise: Next year we will enjoy an authentic Greek cooking class together and make Greek pitas!! A thank you is not enough but it is true and comes from our hearts; would love to visit us again!!

Our answer:The day was wonderful because YOU were fantastic people!! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and your kind comments! Your warm hug at the end of our unique experience said it all; please come again soon!!

Our answer:You are welcome Christine! Solo travelers like you, are really lucky to travel to lesser known destinations like Kalamata. And this is because you went off the beaten path and we are so proud we were the people you met for the first time here and those who guided you to the beauty of this unexplored region through this olive oil tasting experience! Looking forward to seeing you again!

Our answer:A walking tour in Kalamata is definitely also for us a relaxing stroll through the beautiful paved streets..Since it was your first time here we wanted to discover together some of its highlights of our city but especially the local tastes! We believe we achieved it and please come again!!

Our answer:Andrea, we also loved your beautiful family! As a mum of two kids, I can totally understand their feelings and their needs and I always try to find ways to make them feel happy and comfortable; I am so glad I achieved the same with yours!
Thank you so much for joining us and for your great review! You just gave us additional reasons to create some special activities for them during our experiences! We would love to see you again next year!!

Our answer:You were all fantastic that day and we thank you so much for your kind reviews! Next time you come to Kalamata and have more time, we will do the Full Food tour experience and we are absolutely sure you will be excited for a second time! Take care!

Our answer:George, thank you very much! It was also a great pleasure meeting you and enjoying together not only a wonderful olive oil tour experience but also a gastronomic one since you got a small taste of our unique, local delicacies during your light lunch! We would love to welcome your friends from Australia to our region and organize unforgettable experiences for them; We would love to see you again soon!

Our answer:Jojo and Linda, you were such great people! When we receive so much interest and so many questions about olive oil it makes us very happy since we love sharing our knowledge with everyone! The theme is to be an educated customer and not just buying any bottle which writes Olive oil on the label.. We hope this scope was achieved also with you; we really wish to see you again soon in another gastronomic adventure!! Thank you for coming!

Our answer:Michele and Havier, it was a great pleasure meeting you! Sharing with you our knowledge about Messinia and Kalamata’s culture and Greek local traditions is something that we always enjoy and we consider it an integral part in the whole experience for our guests.
Our selected trusted partners respect and love what they do despite the everyday difficulties; this is one of the things we have in mind: cooperate and support each other and the local economy with every good way we can! We are extremely happy that you also enjoyed it with us and we would love to see you again; thank you so much!!

Our answer:Lahna we also thank you and your kind friends very much for visiting Kalamata and joining us to the Olive oil experience on Sunday. Even though on weekends the Olive oil mill is closed we feel very happy that you got a holistic approach of this unique gift of our nature: Olive oil…
And remember: Whenever you travel and especially when travelling around Greece, ask for the local dishes from the restaurant owners, not just the usual and ‘’typical’’ Greek ones; it is the most ‘’smart’’ way to discover new tastes!!

Our answer:Gabriel and Robert, it was so great meeting both of you! While reading your review, I felt so excited and happy and I thank you so much for your nice words. What you tasted with us during your lunch, indeed, it was just a slice of the ‘’hidden’’ food treasures you can find all over our wonderful country! Travelling around Greece there are endless things to explore and the "key" is to go…Local!!
Whenever you wish to come again with your friends and your beloved ones, we will be here waiting for you to discover more together…A great thank you to our new friends one more time!

Our answer:My dear Alexia, we also thank you very much for joining us that day! This was just a little taste of what you can experience with us and we feel extremely happy when we see the smiles of our guests at the end. Next time, we will spend more time together doing even more exciting things!

Our answer:My dear Danai it was also a great pleasure meeting you in Kalamata! You and Carole are amazing personalities and I really enjoyed the day with you. We have so much in common that the feeling of friendship comes on its own…
We would love to meet again and spend more time together!! Thank you sooo much for coming to our wonderful region!