19+ Best TV Shows Like Searching For Soul Food (2023)

Story Line: Adventurous chef, entrepreneur and global trailblazer Kristen Kish travels the world in search of the people, places, culture and traditions behind the world’s most remote restaurants.

Story Line: In her previous life, Xia Yu Bing was a villainess sentenced to death by poison by her husband, Xu Zi Yan. Now, the author of a comic has given her a chance to be reborn. She had no choice in the past but this time, she wants to be a good person.

Story Line: Some of the nation's best-loved independent takeaways battle for supremacy in a fast-food showdown that crowns a different winner each week.

Story Line: Join world-renowned chef, Analiese Gregory as she steps out of the restaurant kitchen and in to nature in Tasmania, Australia. Share her journey of discovery as she learns to hunt, fish, forage and live seasonally off the land before the wild southern winter sets in.

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Story Line: Brita Zackari and Kalle Zackari Wahlström have long dreamt of a new life, to leave all anxiety and stress of citylife behind and move to the countryside with their family. Now the dream has come true: Brita and Kalle have bought a little farm.

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Story Line: Outgoing chef Martin Juneau goes on a road trip across Quebec, on a mission to uncover the best recipes for some typical local dishes. In each episode, Martin Juneau chooses his two favourites and adds his special touch to help the contestants win the weekly prize.

Story Line: Heston's Fantastical Food is a television cookery program starring chef Heston Blumenthal which broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK during late 2012. The programme follows Blumenthal as he supersizes a variety of food for presentation to members of the public.

Story Line: Building on the success of Jamie's 30 Minute Meals, this show squeezes the cooking process even further, with each half hour episode featuring two delicious, nutritious, super-fast family meals back-to-back. So even if you're rushed off your feet at work, there's no excuse for not giving these meals a go.

Story Line: My Kitchen Rules is an Australian competitive cooking game show broadcast on the Seven Network since 2010. The series is produced by the team who created the Seven reality show My Restaurant Rules, and was put into production based on the success of Network Ten's MasterChef Australia. My Kitchen Rules has just been renewed by the Seven Network for a fifth series.

Story Line: Benefit Busters is a British documentary series, broadcast on Channel 4 during August and September 2009.

Story Line: Chefs vs. City is an American television show produced by Food Network. The show stars chefs Aarón Sanchez and Chris Cosentino who travel to different cities of the United States to challenge two local chefs to a variety of food-related challenges. Also starring is actor Ethan Erickson as the show's host. The show first aired on August 7, 2009.

Story Line: 2 Days & 1 Night is a South Korean reality-variety show with the motto "real wild road variety." Its main concept is to recommend various places of interest that viewers can visit in South Korea.

Story Line: India with Sanjeev Bhaskar is a four-part documentary from the BBC in which Sanjeev Bhaskar travels to India with director Deep Sehgal. The documentary was created as part of the BBC's series of programmes on the 60th anniversary of the independence of India and Pakistan. The series was broadcast between 30 July and 20 August 2007.

Story Line: Gardening Australia provides practical, realistic and credible horticultural and gardening advice, inspiring and entertaining Australian gardeners around the nation.

Story Line: In 2004 Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman embarked on an epic challenge to bike 20,000-miles across 12 countries and 19 time zones in just 115 days. Watch as two friends ride around the world together and, against all the odds, realize their dream.

Story Line: Road Rules is an MTV reality show spun off from the network's flagship reality show, The Real World. The series, which was only MTV's second reality show, debuted on July 19, 1995, and ended on May 9, 2007. This allowed Road Rules a total of 14 seasons and 12 years on the air. The series followed six strangers, between the ages of 18 and 24, stripped of their money and restricted to a life in an RV, traveling from location to location. The strangers were guided by a set of clues and a missions to complete at each location. It was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001. The ground-breaking series was a pioneer in travel/adventure/reward reality television. Road Rules was created by Jonathan Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim of Bunim/Murray Productions. After Bunim died of cancer in early 2004, the show went into hiatus for three years. After season 14 ended, it was confirmed that Road Rules was no longer in production. The idea of Road Rules came to mind when Real World castmates Jon, Tami and Dominic traveled in an RV across the United States to get to their The Real World: Los Angeles house in the first two episodes of the second season. Bunim-Murray began working on the show soon after the third San Francisco season, and finally debuted in 1995.

Story Line: Getaway is Australia's longest-running travel television program. Debuting on 14 May 1992, it is broadcast on the Nine Network and TLC. Its main competitor was The Great Outdoors on the Seven Network until 2009. A New Zealand version of the program, with some local content, used to be broadcast on TV One and Prime TV. The first season only looked at only Australian resorts and locations, but by 1993 had expanded to look at overseas destinations.

Story Line: Curiosity Quest is an upbeat, family, educational program that explores what viewers are curiosity about. In each show, host Joel Greene ventures on a quest to answer viewer's letters of curiosity.