French Quarter Culinary History and Tasting Tour

A nice afternoon tour, but it's more like advertizing resturants.

We had a fun and informative tour. It provided us with some background of New Orleans and its food culture and even included a mini cooking class experience. Learning about the history and behind-the-scenes of various famous restaurants was interesting and also widened our knowledge of New Orleans and its historical and cultural history. All of us would highly recommend this tour, which lasted for over three hours. When we were done, we felt as if we had learned a bit about the French Quarter and the community-at-large. George, our tour guide, was excellent.

Your reservations process seriously needs updating from what I have recently experienced. While reserving online, you have no specific section to state if you have any particular allergies or if you are vegetarian other than in the comment section. Even after spelling out that one of the participants is vegetarian, you failed to arrange to have all restaurants have a vegetarian option. Portion sizes were also quite small compared to other food tours I have been on. The tour guide however was quite knowledgeable of the history.

Chef George was the best Tour Guide. With his culinary experience, he had a great insight to the restaurants and the history of New Orleans. The tour itself was great. The food was amazing but not too much. We ended up going back to 2 of the restaurants that we toured. Thank you so much!

Chef George was awesome! We tasted some amazing food and learned a lot about the city and the history of the city and the food. It was great to see parts of the city and restaurants we would have never been able to see otherwise. I have already recommended the tour several times since I have come home!

The culinary tour was great! There's much more to,these restaurants then you can see from the main dining areas. Got a great look behind the scenes and history from our tour guide. Food was great at each stop.

The tour as a whole was very good. In particular our guide, George, was fun and very knowledgable not just on the food aspect but on the history side as well, which is very important. There was certainly one downside. One of our tour stops was a Tujaques restaurant. When the group entered, we were told by the staff at Tujaques that the restaurant was closed due to a private party. Apparently our guide was never informed, and honestly Tujaques response to George of "There are a millions bars here, go to another" was unprofessional, especially since this was an arranged and paid for tour. Personally, my reponse to them would be to drop them from the tour if that is the attitude they will take to paying customers. As a result, technically we paid for a full tour, and only got about 80% of it with the drop off of one of the stops. Thankfully the tour group as a whole took things well and we moved on, but im my opinion, we should be refunded at least partially, and that refund should come from Tujaques restaurant. At the very least, they owe the tour operator a huge apology.

Assembled group met at Antoine's (Hermes Bar), led by the wonderful Renee. She was full of stories, history-with-a-twist, sense of fun. Easy walking (rain or shine), plenty of chances to sit, ask questions, enjoy. Obvious our guide was well respected and liked by restaurant and shop folks. Food samples as described elsewhere--just right, nicely done. Love that Shrimp Arnaud! And do opt for Antoine's Sazarac, showtime included! So glad we chose this delightful afternoon. Recommend wholeheartedly!

Our guide Renee which both knowledgable and entertaining. The sites we visited were interesting and the food was great.

This was THE highlight of our vacation! The food samples were excellent and gave us a great introduction to the different food specialties. We went back after the tour to eat the panini muffuletta ! It was so good. The restaurants have a lot of history and it was fascinating to see the maze of rooms within the restaurants. Highly recommended tour.