Food plays significant role in tourism promotion. Tourist visit a great number of destination in the world but we observed that some places are prominent because of the peculiar local cuisine as we know that Punjab is famous for Makke di Roti or Sarso ka saag, Rajisthan for Daal baati churma, Bihar for Litti Chhokha etc. These all example shows that if we focus in our local food it's may definitely increase the tourist influx. Uttarakhand 27 th state of India situated in the mesmerizing environment of the oak and deodar canopy, snow filled mountains and chilly wind always attract thousands of tourist from the globe but local cuisine neglected till the present. Almora, an ancient hill station in Kumaun, lesser Himalaya and known as a cultural capital of Kumaun. It is not only rich in cultural heritage but also enriched with delicisious and healthy cuisine. Varieties of food are well known here at local level but the special cuisine is not popular as other Indian State cuisine. So the paper attempt to study about various famous cuisine of Almora and its surrounding through the which government develop and promote culinary tourism concept likewise other form of tourism. Culinary tourism paves the way for exploring the antique food which are hidden as the treasure. The present study is based on the survey of 300 purposely and randomly selected tourists from different tourist destination of Almora district.