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  New Orleans Culinary History Tours
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Last 3 months 39 86 90 4 95% 4.5
Last 6 months 90 210 215 5 97% 4.6
Last 12 months 186 405   416   11 96% 4.5
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French Quarter Culinary History and Tasting Tour 397 96% 4.5
Culinary History French Quarter Tour (Private) 8 100% 4.5
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Rating: 5
Exceeded My Expectations
Fri, Oct 10  2:00 PM JBPage1 Female 60-69 Domestic Tourist(s) Other
The best tour in NOLA. Guide was knowledgeable and amusing. Based on other reviews we ate lunch before the tour, which was a big mistake. The food selection was fabulous
Rating: 5
Must take this Tour!!!
Tue, Oct 7  2:00 PM cbunyea Female 20-29 Domestic Tourist(s) Couple on a Date
my husband and I took this tour together, on a wednesday, we ended up being the only two people, which was great! our tour guide was soooo informative. we met several local business owners and learned soooo much about new orleans culture. forget the horse tour or haunted tours, this one is well worth the money!!!
Rating: 5
Glad we did it!
Sat, Sep 27  2:00 PM jstuart Male 30-39 Domestic Tourist(s) Group of Friends
We had a great tour. Our tour guide was very informative - who would have known there was so much cullinary history in one city? I would definately recommend to all of my foodie friends.
Rating: 4
Great way to see inside restaurants
Tue, Sep 23  2:00 PM lyntrobinett Female 50-59 Domestic Tourist(s) Family Without Children
This was a great way to spend a few hours. Our group was small and so was able to have an experience that a larger group could not. Have been to New Orleans many times but have not gone to the older restaurants, so got to see rooms we would not ordinarily see. It was worth the cost, even my husband enjoyed it.
Rating: 5
Definitely a winner
Fri, Sep 19  2:00 PM thomaskm52 Female 50-59 Domestic Tourist(s) Individual
Delightful, delicious and diverse. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Don't miss this tour!!!
Fri, Sep 19  2:00 PM CamilleSavit Female 60-69 Domestic Tourist(s) Family Without Children
Our tour was a full group of 16, on a rainy day, had we a wonderful time walking, talking and eating our way throught the Quarter to discover the stories and food of this great city. We learned about (and ate) all the food groups: Gumbo, muffalata, pralines, brisket, rice and beans and cake. Our tour leader was fun and well informed and took us into the back doors of some great places to eat, and we toured placed we could never see on our own. The kitchen at Antoines was impressive, as were the many dining rooms we got to see. Renee knows her way around the quarter and got us in and around some wonderful places. Don't miss this tour.
Rating: 4
entertaining and educational
Tue, Sep 16  2:00 PM arlenegoldin Male 40-49 Domestic Tourist(s) Group of Friends
I loved the tour guide Randy--he was lots of fun and very knowledgable--however, we were anticipating more actual tasting--by 4:00 in the afternoon all we had eaten was a part of a praline and a tiny dixie cup of gumbo. I came with my appetite so was dissappointed that the tour didn't offer much in the way of actual food. Finally we got a tiny muffaleta (disappointing), a piece of rum cake that I never would ordinarily have eaten, (but I was ravenous), and a small bit of roast beef (delicious). So I would recommend the tour, but have lunch first!
Rating: 4
Culinary Tour of French Qtr
Sat, Sep 13  2:00 PM EBRESKIN Female 40-49 Domestic Tourist(s) Individual
wonderful tour, interesting and educatiional, food was great and the guide was fantastic.
Rating: 2
This is for tourists, not foodies
Sat, Sep 13  2:00 PM leelwalsh Female 40-49 Domestic Tourist(s) Group of Friends
A group of four of us took this tour on Sept. 13, 2008. It lasted about three hours and visited about half a dozen sites. The tour guide was informative, but an inordinate amount of the narrative consisted of general New Orleans history rather than focusing on food. In fact, food was only marginally related to this tour, IMO. We received sample cuisine at exactly three locations, and one of those was a praline shop! Not great value for money considering what they charge for this tour, and I thought it was drastically overpriced -- $20 would be more realistic than $45. We won't take it again or recommend it to friends.
Rating: 5
amazing
Tue, Sep 9  2:00 PM malper123 Male 20-29 Local Family With Children
Ellen was amazing!
Rating: 5
Lots of Fun!
Fri, Aug 29  2:00 PM Kellyjhudson Female 30-39 Domestic Tourist(s) Couple on a Date
We had a great tour with more tastings than we anticipated. There was so much great info and the places we got to see were really neat. Our tour guide Renae was a wealth of info and could answer whatever you wanted to know.
Rating: 5
The perfect combination of history and food!
Fri, Aug 29  2:00 PM DMendelson Male 40-49 Domestic Tourist(s) Group of Friends
Our tour guide Renee did an excellent job of taking us through a whirlwind of food and history that really brought the French Quarter to life for us! Renee was Knowledgeable and made the tour fun and interesting. We will be recommending this tour to all of our friends and plan to do it again the next time we're in New Orleans.
Rating: 5
Fabulous New Orleans
Sat, Aug 23  2:00 PM klucyrealtor Female 50-59 Local Couple on a Date
I am a local traveling in my own city. This was a wonderful tour and worth every penny. Our tour guide was Randy and he is worth requesting. He was a historian and a colorful asset to the tour. Hope everyone tries this tour and enjoys our food and fabulous city. New Orleans Resident and Fan
Rating: 5
Impressive!
Sat, Aug 23  2:00 PM tjjack Female 50-59 Domestic Tourist(s) Individual
I would recomend this to anyone who enjoys history, cooking or both. Our guide, Randy, was knowledgeble, interesting, and a personable guide. It was a great way to see "behind the scenes" at several great historic resturants, plus get a few tastes along the way.
Rating: 1
Save your money for a great meal somewhere else
Tue, Aug 19  2:00 PM fmuhich Female 50-59 Domestic Tourist(s) Family Without Children
Been on these types of tours before and this one was very disappointing. Two of the places we were supposed to visit were not open! There were not very many food samples and the ones we did get were not that great. Two other places we visited seemed to just be shilling for their products--one was a bar that sold a rum cake apparently not even made in New Orleans. For a native New Orleansian, the guide did not seem particurlarly knowledgeable about the food. Among other things, she kept using the terms anisette and absinthe interchangeably. They are not the same thing! She also did not understand the difference between a food demonstration and a hands-on cooking class. The other tours I've been on also provided a list of the places we visited and the guide's other recommendations for restaurants, food shops, and attractions-it's a nice little extra that was lacking on this tour. I've been to New Orleans a number of times so this may have affected how I viewed the tour. It seemed to me we were taken to some of the major tourist traps in town. Unfortunately for our guide, we had eaten the night before at the restaurant she highly recommended (The Gumbo Shop) and found it pretty mediocre. The final blow was ending up at the Cafe du Monde (admittedly another tourist trap albeit a good one) and not getting any beignets to sample! They are so cheap, the guide wouldn't have been hurting to buy us each one. My recommendation: Go to New Orleans for the Jazz and Heritage Fest and just eat at the fest. The food is fantastic: crawfish beignets, Cuban sandwiches, Mr. Omar's pies, fried plantains, and much, much more. Outside the fest, Loretta's pralines are the best and the freshest, get a muffaletta at the Central Grocery, and for a really great meal, try the Pelican Club or Mr. John's Steakhouse (out on the St. Charles streetcar line-the ride is a treat in itself). And don't forget the beignets at Cafe du Monde!
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