| Rating |
Date Attended |
Reviewer |
Gender [v] |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Excellent Tour
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| Tue, Sep 8 11:00 AM |
rabsab |
Male |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| My wife and I had a great time on the food tour. The guide was delightful. The 7 food stops were excellent choices - places that we would not otherwise have discovered. Highly recommended. |
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Great Experience for Chicago Visitor
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| Sun, Sep 6 12:00 PM |
jrichards |
Male |
60-69 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| This was a very worthwhile experience. The amount of walking was reasonable, unexpected information about the city and the neighborhoods was well received, and the guide was very enthusiatic and capable.
My one criticism, and not a major one, is that the promotion of the sights visited needs to be toned down. The tour itself promotes the locations visited, and talking about coming back to patronize the merchants is unnecessary and distracting. |
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one of the best tours i've been on
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| Sun, Sep 6 11:00 AM |
carlisp |
Male |
50-59 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| Loved this tour.....great fun and very informative......our tour guide Jen was a gem !!!
Best guide we've ever had. |
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unique feel for Chicago food and neighborhoods
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| Sun, Sep 6 11:00 AM |
frankangus |
Male |
60-69 |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
| Loved our guide, Jennifer, who was both informative and entertaining. I had always heard about what a great food town that Chicago was, but would not have really known if we had not taken this tour! The variety of shops and restaurants was excellent and the tour of local neighborhoods on foot gave us a unique perspective. Looking forward to our next visit and another area. |
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Great tour guide on Sat 09/5/2009
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| Sat, Sep 5 1:00 PM |
tharmon9 |
Male |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| This was recommended by trip advisor and as always was a home run. The tour guide was very informative and engaging. You won't gain weight on this tour because there is a lot of walking. You will not get full on the tour, the food is more like tastings. And a lot of the tour was to a spice shop and an oil shop with no food at all. But there were great products and very unique items I had never seen before. So there are plenty of shopping opportunities. The tour is a great way to visit a side of Chicago many visitors rarely get to see(Gold Coast). I highly recommend it for visitors and locals alike. Also, the folks on the tour were great. We had some funny folks that kept me laughing. Don't miss on seeing the 25 million dollar house near Oz park. The house is so big it looks like a school. By the way there is a Mexican restaurant that is not a part of the tour, but the food looks great, they make the guacamole' fresh at your table. Plan on eating there! |
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Makes you want to move to Chicago!!!
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| Sat, Sep 5 1:00 PM |
rpsheltz |
Male |
60-69 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| First, we couldn't have gotten a better guide, Shane. He was very informative and had the right sense for humor. He is a keeper.
Second, the tour was fantastic. My wife and I learned thing about tea, spices and oils that we never knew. My wife was thrilled with the garlic olive oil, will be ordering via the web. The other aspect of the tour was totally unexpected. The neighorhoods we walked through were absolutely wonderful. The architecture was interesting and the neighorhoods looked like the kind of place that we would like to live in. Between the food and homes you get to see a side of Chicago that is impossible to experience by any other means. |
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A great way to discover Chicago's neighborhoods
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| Sat, Sep 5 11:30 AM |
yjuneau |
Male |
40-49 |
International Tourist(s) |
Couple on a Date |
| We wanted to try something different than the usual Gray Line Tours. Wow, we had a great time doing the Old Town tour with CFPFT. Our guide, Caroline ,give us good insights of the various neigborhoords we visited, the architecture, had great stories about Hugh Efner's mansion and simply made us at ease to visit the various shops part of the tour. We really enjoyed the tea shop, Old town oil, the spice house and the fudge shop (almost "all you can eat"!). Catering Chocolat has little interest and I'm glad we did not end up in the basement of the pizza joint like the group before us - that would have been a disappointment!
Plan enough time in your agenda, the tour is at least 3 hours and may go beyond shedule - and you'll need a bit of time to rest afterwords!
A great experience overall! |
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Excellent Tour
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| Sat, Sep 5 11:00 AM |
cceja78 |
Male |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Couple on a Date |
| I have to say that this tour was EXCELLENT. My girlfriend and I took this Near North tour and had a great time. Our tour guide was very knowledgable about the whole area and not only took us to great spots for food but also talked about a lot of the architecture and history. I would recommend this to anyone visiting Chicago and even the locals. The tour recommends all users NOT to buy items from the stores while on the tour to make sure we can complete the tour in a 3 hour time frame however this also really creates a "NO PRESSURE" atmosphere. In no way shape or form does this tour try to promote items in any store but rather gives you different experiences in the area. I look forward to going back to Chicago and taking the Bucktown / Wicker Park tour. |
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One of the best things I did on my week in chicago
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| Tue, Sep 1 11:30 AM |
rsmcelroy |
Male |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| Overall good. Recommended transportation options would be nice to include in the post registration information. |
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Tremendous fun
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| Mon, Aug 31 11:00 AM |
soprano30 |
Male |
40-49 |
International Tourist(s) |
Couple on a Date |
| An excellent activity. My Wife and I had a fabulous time. A truly unique way of discovering a new city while sampling different foods etc. The woman that took the tour was tremendous, friendly and with many interesting things to point out about the city. We strongly encourage you to try this out. Nigel & Kim, Wales, UK. |
