Lower East Side NY Artisan Food Tour

Our group had so much fun! We loved visiting each shop and enjoying the fare--and our guide, Matt! At the outset, it turned out our bus would be arriving later than we expected. Joyce was SO helpful to calm our fears and assure us that we could be part of the tour as soon as we arrived. We, being not so savvy in NY, she helped us navigate with clear instructions. Our guide, Matt, also was so kind(as we did arrive late and missed a stop) and understanding (fun too!) and even brought us a sampling from the first stop! (which he did not have to as the info stated clearly you should be on time and even early which was totally understandable) We were expecting a tasting, but instead had an abundance of delicious food! We enjoyed delicious doughnuts, coffee, wonderful guacamole, brick oven pizza, and a large serving of Greek fries and skewers of seasoned pork and chicken with a tasty dip. There was ample water and time given for restroom breaks. We ended at a unique candy shop with candy from today and yesteryear. We also listened to interesting histories of many of the shop's beginnings as well as local history. We visited a farmer's market and had a few minutes to walk there also. All in all, I would highly recommend this tour to others. It was fun meeting the others from our group and enjoying the food in a relaxed atmosphere! It was a part of NY we had never explored before! Thanks, City Food Tours!!!

Matt was our guide, and he was excellent. He not only took us to different establishments to sample the food but he also gave us a history of the Lower East Side, telling us about each food place when we went there. The small group was a good size and we had the opportunity to talk with others in the group about the food and about other places to visit in New York. I plan to do this tour again the next time I visit New York City.

This was a great activity to experience NYC's culture and food. We walked the lower East Side neighborhoods and sampled various foods from the area. Matt our guide was extremely knowledgeable and friendly. He spoke about the changes to the neighborhood and answered all of the groups questions. If you want to try something a little different in NYC, I would highly recommend this tour or any of the others.

We took our best friend on the Lowest East Side Artisan Food Tour for her 30th Birthday. Our tour guide Matt tailored the tour to meet our dietary needs (all three of us are vegetarian) and beyond that was the perfect guide: knowledgeable with a sense of humor. All three of us have lived in the city for 5+ years and we still learned a thing or two. I would definitely recommend this tour to locals and tourists alike.

Our tour guide Matt was a lot of fun. The food was great! I can't wait to go back to some of the places we visited.

We took the Artisan Food Tour and walked through the older Jewish neighborhood and saw many old buildings and tasted some really great food. Matt was really knowledgeable about the area and the foods that we tasted.

This was not our first food tour - and we'd do it again. It is an opportunity to get to know a part of the city that you might not otherwise visit - knowledgable native guides give you hisitory and local information and are open to questions. You get to try out local delicacies in selected artisinal food places that you would usually walk past - and it is a good amount of food. Our guide this time was Matt. He was friendly, interesting and full of interesting information.

Matt, the tour guide, was great!!

Love the location of the tour. It is in a neighborhood where it seems not to touristy but things to see and do as a tourist. The tour guide informative spoke well not one humm or oh but spoke from the mind did not seem like he was giving the same speech over and over again. We did not go to the pickle or bagel place as the guide said closed on Sat. Very non blamming on reason. David and I being Jewish knew what the guide was getting at which is there are owned by Jews and closed on the Sabbath. We enjoyed walking all over the area and learning new things and after the tour we walked more around at our pace. Food we liked the donut so enjoyable not sweet sugary but sweet, the market place the gac loved it and the narchos with the feta a sure hit. For our main meal went to a Greek rest where they served us great many foods and on our tour the other family had a vegertain which made no big deal but the tour guide and the rest was able to give the mom a veggie dish not just veggies but some sort of oh no forgot but a great accomodation for some one who was fine with a non-veggie meal. We all had plenty to eat. Later one we did eat a meal. Tour plenty of food not a whole big meal but not just a snack. The description even said it is not a whole meal but more than a snack. Would definelty take another tour. By the way last year in 2012 in Miami we took a food tour which was longer than the one in NYC and loved that to alos noticed that the ticket agent for NYC and Miami are the same which means one thing take a food tour with this co great value, tour guides speak wonderfully you can understand them and they also speak read and understand English. See you soon on another food tour. Thank you again from David and Andrea.

Interesting look into parts of New York we might have missed! Food tasting was fun, delicious variety. Our guide was very knowledgeable about not only the stops on the tour but had many great suggestions of places to go! Best donuts ever!