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Date Attended [v] |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Great value - excellant food - exceptional guides
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| Sat, Oct 3, 09 1:00 PM |
Steve_Sue |
Female |
50-59 |
Combination |
Family With Children |
| This by far one of the best tours we have been on in the D.C. area and we have tried nearly all of them. The tour guides were very knowledgeable, hospitable, friendly and kind. They really knew their subject, the area and offered additional "off the tour" advice. Like where to shop or grab a quick beer after the tour. The restaurants were fantastic. No two alike. Great choices and variety of foods. The quality was excellent and the quantity was way over the top! We expected to get "bites" and instead got whole meals at each restaurant with a final stop for dessert. The food tour is a great idea, fun for adults and young adults. Maybe not so great with young children who are not adventurous with food or into long walks with long talks. Our older children (thirty-ish) loved it! |
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Food tour of old town
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| Fri, Oct 2, 09 1:00 PM |
barbaraberma |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| I enjoyed the food tour and Robert was great. It should be called Food/Historical tour because you learn so much. |
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Interesting and fun!
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| Sun, Sep 27, 09 1:00 PM |
foodtourKC |
Female |
30-39 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| The Old Town Alexandria Food Tour is great! The tour provides the perfect mix of eating, walking, and listening to the tour guide (Dena is the best!) discuss the history of Old Town. I went to new places I'd never been before and learned things I never knew before. And, last but not least, the jelly cake is amazing! |
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Good fun
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| Sun, Sep 27, 09 1:00 PM |
megodm |
Female |
30-39 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| Great fun and tasty! Good activity for group of friends with a nice mix of history and food. |
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Good overall tour and the food was wonderful.
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| Sun, Sep 13, 09 1:00 PM |
williambowen |
Female |
60-69 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| Enjoyed the tour, food was wonderful and very filling. Good way to learn more about an area. Would recommend it to any "foodie". |
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A lot to digest
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| Sun, Sep 13, 09 1:00 PM |
nimbleape |
Female |
30-39 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| There is food for thought as well as for your stomach on the Alexandria Old Town Food Tour.
The excursion made a promising start at Bilboa Baggins, although the size of the portion left some of us worrying about pacing ourselves for two similar meals at the next two stops. The food was excellent - tasty and unusual.
Luckily, it emerged that the first stop was in fact the 'main course' as two smaller meals followed. The Union Pub offered delicious, home-cooked potato chips and a small serving of oysters and soup - perfect for a starter - and it seemed a more logical choice for the first stop of the tour.
Finally, the Lebanese sample to finish was probably the most disappointing. Sharing and passing selections of dishes is all very well among friends, but awkward between members of a tour group who have only just become acquainted. Most people were too polite to take more than a mouthful from each sample plate. Plus, the bland nature of the food didn't leave many begging for more.
This meant there was plenty of room for dessert - Jelly cake at a gorgeous tea, coffee and spice shop.
In between the food stops was an informative, amusing and friendly narrative about the history of Old Town. The stop in the Lyceum was particularly interesting and, although we live locally, we walked away with a lot more knowledge of various sites and streets in Alexandria. |
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Great time!
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| Sat, Sep 12, 09 1:00 PM |
StevenMcClan |
Male |
20-29 |
Local |
Couple on a Date |
| This was a great time and awesome experience for the both of us. Let me start off by saying that we were late due to the fact that we didn't know that there was an art fair going on in Old Town. We were worried that we would miss the tour but than Molly called my phone and let us know where we could meet up with them at and that was awesome and made our day. We than met up with the tour shortly after it began and let me tell you it was well worth the parking struggle. Molly was an great tour guide and she kept us entrained and well fed I might add. Her knowledge of the local area was impressive and even taught a couple of locals like us some new things about Old Town Alexandria. We highly recommend this tour and we will be going on the capital hill tour and eastern market tour as well. Thanks to DC food tours and a big thank you to Molly! |
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Highly Recommended!
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| Sun, Sep 6, 09 1:00 PM |
enterprises |
Male |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| This was the perfect way of getting an overall experience of the Old Town area! Molly the guide was GREAT! The food was WONDERFUL and the experience brought memories for a lifetime. I would highly recommend this tour; you won't regret it! |
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Great way to spend a a day in Old Town!
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| Sat, Sep 5, 09 1:00 PM |
vhancock |
Female |
50-59 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| The only confusion we encountered at the start of the tour, as someone else has already mentioned, was finding our Metro Tours guide. I understood that someone would be at the Old Town Visitors' Center, where I looked first, but instead, we found our guide across the street at the corner of Market Square, a simple misunderstanding (probably mine).
Natalie, our DC Metro Tours guide, was pleasant, articulate (we could understand her very clearly), and well informed. She described the tour before we began our walk, then kept us informed, not only about the sites we were visiting, but about what was coming up: how long until the next stop, whether there would be a WC available, etc. This information was very helpful for a long-ish tour (3.5 hours).
We enjoyed all of our stops, whether a historic site or a restaurant. It was especially nice to walk to the waterfront and through the Torpedo Factory, where we encountered a glass harmonica player giving a performance outside! Our favorite stops were Bilbo Baggins and Union Street Public House, as the food was hearty and flavorful at both. Pita House, our last stop before dessert, was more of a challenge for two reasons: (1) a couple of people in our party are not particularly adventurous eaters, so they tried the shwarma and falafel, etc. but weren't particularly impressed; (2) the amount of food served at this last stop was partcularly generous, and by this time, we were pretty full from the previous two restaurants.
All told, though, we had a great time in perfect weather (not too warm, and slightly overcast - great walking weather) taking a well organized tour. |
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Very nice except for one eatery
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| Sun, Aug 30, 09 1:00 PM |
DAlzubaydi |
Female |
60-69 |
Combination |
Family With Children |
| We enjoyed the tour very much. The only exception was the restaurant that served us
sushi, which only a very few people ate. The Lebanese food was the best.
It was nice to find out all about the history of Old Town, especially since our son
now lives there. I do not think we received a good value for the money. For three of us, it cost $150. We could have had several wonderful meals for that much money. |
