Chelsea Market/Meatpacking Dist Food Tasting Tour

Our guide Curt was a comic wonder! We thoroughly enjoyed following him through the Chelsea Market eating and learning.

Great food, plenty of it. Great fun, enjoyed by all in the group.

My husband, 19 year old college daughter, and I signed up for the Chelsea Market Food Tour wondering if we'd just be told about different food providers in the market. This was true, but the tour turned out to be so much more than we expected. Bob, our tour guide, is involved in so many activities in New York City which gave him incredible background to share. We loved the tour, and this would be one of the first things we would recommend to any of our friends going to the city. There are all the usual New York City sites to see, but this, by far was one of the neatest things we did!

This food tour was my 3rd location and it was equally as wonderful as the last two. Our tour guide, Diana was full of life and such a pleasure to be with. She was very knowledgeable about Chelsea Market and the meat district and had a great sense of humor!

My adult daughter and I wanted to explore the Meatpacking District and because we took the Original Greenwich Village tour with Foods of NY Tours in November 2011 and had a great time we decided to take the Chelsea Market tour. Our tour guide Diana was great she not only told us about the food but gave us history of the Market, Meatpacking District and the Highline. We are already planning our next Foods of NY Tour. Sally & Sarah Bleeker

We really enjoyed the tour, our guide did an excellant job. There was a lot of interesting information and it was very well presented. The food samples were very good.

My husband and I, foodies from Australia, had a great time as our guide Gerald took us through the Chelsea Markets and the Meatpacking District. An enthusiastic, knowledgeable and hugely entertaining local, Gerald ( a cross between a tour guide and a stand-up comic) took us from bakery to bordello in this very reasonably priced, 3 hour long tour. The Market itself was amazing; the original Nabisco Biscuit Factory, it has been lovingly restored with great artistic vision. Art works, artisanal shops with the innovative, very beautiful Highline above. There were tourists, but our feeling was this area is much loved and used, by New Yorkers. Tastings were generous. Our group was made welcome at Eleni's, Ronny Brook's, the Lobster Place (deliciously velvety lobster bisque!), Buon Italia (fantastic antipasta), the Fruit Exchange, Jaques Torres Choc. Shop, the Tuckshop, Sarahbeth's (scones that tasted like home) and finally, in the Meatpacking District itself, lunch at an old meatpacking factory now known as Macellaria where we had home-made pasta with an oxtail and heritage tomato sauce. The Meatpacking District provided a great contrast. Cobbled streets, the bar made famous in Coyote Ugly, a certain 'rank' smell, that bordello I mentioned earlier and Gerald's commentary made it easy to imagine the District as it was in its heyday; a decidedly dangerous, dirty place to be. Thanks, Zerve for putting these tours together. NYC is a huge place and in a week we couldn't hope to do everything. Your tour gave us a bird's- eye of a wonderfully historical district. Next time...Greenwich Village!

It was a Great, informative tour. The food was yummy! Best Chocolate Milk I have ever drank! Love the Chelsey Market!

We took the food tour on my husband's birthday. We loved every part of the tour, from all of the delicious tastings, to the fascinating history, and our fabulous guide, Bob! We highly recommend this tour!

It was a ball. They should put a header on the web site that says - DO NOT EAT ANY FOOD BEFORE TOUR. The tour guide was enthusiastic and knowledgeable. Went back and roamed amid the marketplace again after the tour.