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| New Orleans Culinary History Tours |
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| Last 3 months | 30 | 82 | 83 | 1 | 97% | 4.8 | ||
| Last 6 months | 86 | 193 | 200 | 7 | 92% | 4.5 | ||
| Last 12 months | 173 | 368 | 386 | 18 | 93% | 4.5 | ||
| All | 582 | 1280 | 1319 | 39 | 96% | 4.5 |
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(Each activity's ratings from the last 12 months)
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| French Quarter Culinary History and Tasting Tour | 358 | 93% | 4.5 |
| Culinary History French Quarter Tour (Private) | 10 | 100% | 4.8 |
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Informative
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| Sat, Oct 6, 07 2:00 PM | chefbette | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| We found the tour to be extremely informative and enjoyable. It really gave us a basis for understanding New Orleans cuisine and how it has evolved. A must for any foodie visiting the city. There is a lot of eating, so come hungry. | ||||||
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Great food and history
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| Sat, Oct 6, 07 2:00 PM | DHockaday | Female | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| The tour was great mainly due to our tour guide who was a masters level history student and a native New Orleanian. He was a wealth of knowledge. The food samples were good. The gumbo was served on the street, not a great atmosphere. Touring Antoines was worth the trip. Very interesting. The restaurants listed on the web site were not all visited. Needs updating. Would recommend to anyone. | ||||||
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Enjoyable and informative
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| Fri, Oct 5, 07 2:00 PM | photobyalan | Male | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Individual | |
| Despite some rather unseasonable heat and humidity, this was overall an enjoyable three hours with Renee, our guide. She obviously gives this tour on a daily basis, but her enthusiasm level was high and it seemed to me like she really had a good time doing it. Through her colorful narrative, I learned a lot about New Orleans food and, along with it, New Orleans history. The tastings are more illustrative than filling so, if you have more than a bird's appetite, don't skip breakfast thinking you're going to get a meal out of this tour. Overall a very nice tour, highly recommended. | ||||||
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Delicious and entertaining
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| Fri, Oct 5, 07 2:00 PM | scaryan | Female | Unspecified | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| The tour guide provided thorough information of the past, and how the differing flavors came to be in New Orleans. The food we were able to taste was excellent. We were happily surprised at the various places we were able to visit. We were stuffed by the time the tour was over. | ||||||
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Thoroughly enjoyed it! Very informative!
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| Mon, Oct 1, 07 2:00 PM | bobarniel1 | Male | 40-49 | International Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| We read about this tour before we started our trip and pre-booked it to ensure that we could do it on the first day of our trip to New Orleans. Our tour guide was excellent! He was very knowledgeable and was able to answer questions and provide great insight. All of the locales visited were great as was the food we sampled. A great introduction to a great culinary city!!!! | ||||||
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Humorous and tasty
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| Sat, Sep 29, 07 2:00 PM | Blossom72 | Female | 30-39 | International Tourist(s) | Individual | |
| I appreciated the light-hearted approach to history, as I find history as a subject very dry, but it was made entertaining as well as interesting. Not 100% factual, but 100% factual is boring. Perhaps a warning to future tour members that this tour will replace their next meal, so don't make dinner plans; you'll be full. I very much enjoyed myself. Thank you. | ||||||
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very informative
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| Sat, Sep 22, 07 2:00 PM | Aggie93 | Female | 30-39 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| We enjoyed the history and the food. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable about NOLA history. He answered every question. The only thing he should have done is hang around for a few more minutes after the tour was over. If he had lingered a few minutes longer, he would have gotten an least 2 more tips! | ||||||
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The Great Disappointment
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| Sat, Sep 22, 07 2:00 PM | tenpro1 | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| While our guide was a nice young man, he was not up on culinary history. When asked the most basic culinary history questions (what was the origin of gumbo and jambalaya), he could define the names but not the origin. The tour was primarily conducted on the street, in the middle of the block, between bags of garbage. Being given food to taste in those conditions (90 degree heat amidst vomit, urine, and who knows what else with drunks staggering inbetween us) led us to want to provide our own mess into the mix. The walk through the kitchen at Antoine's was just that - a walk through. The only professional part of the tour was at the New Orleans School of Cooking. Their presentation was done in air-conditioning with seating and water and tea to drink as well as wonderful jambalaya. We did learn about the mayor's house being home to Napolean and were taken in there (it's now a bar) and were given mini-muffalatas. However, there was a poor explanation about the sandwich and its origin on the sidewalk outside the bar. We went to a pastry shop, but we were never given the reasoning behind that visit. There are many more examples of the poor quality, but they are all in the same vein. The tour ended behind Cafe du Monde with the comment, "All countries have some form of fried dough. That concludes our tour." We took this tour as a prelude for recommendations to the 2,000 visitors to New Orleans next year for a sporting event. This tour will not be on our list of recommendations. | ||||||
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Some very good, some very bad
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| Sat, Sep 15, 07 2:00 PM | AdamReed | Male | 60-69 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| Antoine's tour, and the culinary school, were very good. Pastries in the pastry shop were routine (canollis and chocolate croissants) and very stale, nearly spoiled. The Sazerac, shrimp remoulade, and brisket with horseradish sauce were served in a smoke filled bar - bad enough to bring me close to an asthma attack - even though a clean room was available, and the guide's talk was delivered in that room. Why not a brief view of the bar room, and then the drink and food in the clean room next door? I can't say the good parts were enough to outweigh the bad. | ||||||
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WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE!. WOULD DO IT AGAIN!!!
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| Fri, Sep 14, 07 2:00 PM | rhondaminton | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| A group of 8 ladies flew from Madisonville Ky to spend the weekend in New Orleans and tour plantations. Before leaving home one of us went online to find other things of interest and discovered the culinary tour. We all decided it would be something to fill time on Friday afternoon. Were we right!!! It was wonderful. I would do it again in a heart beat and would recommend the tour to anyone going to New Orleans. We toured several of the historic restuarants in the French Quarter, Antoine's, Tu'Jaques, Petunia's, New Orleans School of Cooking just to name a few. We sampled great food including Seafood Gumbo, Shrimp Etoufee, Beef Brisket, Shrimp Remolaude, fresh croissants, and a licorice liquer drink prepared as we watched, at Tu'Jaques! It was a wonderful 3 hours of entertainment and great food! | ||||||
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very informative and fun!
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| Fri, Sep 14, 07 2:00 PM | latarte | Female | 60-69 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Individual | |
| Our guide was very well informed and entertaining. Tour gave us a great start to our weekend in NOLA. Hope to come back soon and take cooking classes at the Cooking School! | ||||||
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Fun and Informative Tour
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| Fri, Sep 7, 07 2:00 PM | jsbrown | Male | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| My wife, her friend, and I all had a wonderful time on the Culinary Tour of the French Quarter. The tour guide was informative and entertaining, the locations were interesting, and the food samples were well timed and tasty. The food history of New Orleans is facinating, and the tour included some cultural history "on the side". I would consider repeating this tour at some point and enthusiasitically recommend it to anyone who appreciates all the fine food New Orleans has to offer. | ||||||
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Great guide with obvious local connections.
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| Tue, Sep 4, 07 2:00 PM | jayema2002 | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| My husband and I were very pleased with the expertise of our guide. She was well known in the area and obviously well liked. The restaurants were varied and interesting. The tastings were plentiful and yummy. There was plenty of time to ask questions, rest and use facilities as needed. Highly recommended. | ||||||
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awesome
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| Tue, Sep 4, 07 2:00 PM | DDUCK11 | Female | 30-39 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| This tour was well worth the money. You get to sample great food and get a real feel for New Orleans cuisine and how it originated. The restraurants are full of history and the tour guide was very knowledgeable about the city. In addition, you will come home with some great souvenirs from your trip. | ||||||
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Fun and delicious
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| Fri, Aug 31, 07 2:00 PM | hollyboyer | Female | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| Thoroughly enjoyed the tour - learned a lot of interesting tidbits about the history of the city as well as its culinary roots - tastings were delicious | ||||||
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