Central Village/SoHo Food & Culture Tour

This is a wonderful tour. I can't believe I have been going to the village since 1962 and never knew how much I didn't know about the place. To have the myriad of places to visit whittled down to a choices of the "best" was just terrific! My husband and I really enjoyed finally knowing more details of the history of the area. Our guide was so knowledgeable, anything we asked, she knew the answer. She made our tour just so much fun! Her personality was great, a real "New Yorker"!! I recommend a $ raise for her! Every tour I have taken by the "Foods of New York" has been like a college class in detailed history of places and foods. Thank you so much!! Keep up the good work. I look forward to every tour in the future! Do more parts of Manhattan!

Our guide was very engaging and full of great insider information about the food scene in the Central Village and SoHo. Aside from the food, he also was very knowledgeable and had great perspective around the history of the area. There were lots of tastings and the range of tastings was also impressive in terms of variety of cuisines (both savory and sweet). My only regret was that we didn't do the tour earlier in our trip so we could go back and do some of the things he mentioned. So if you're planning on doing a tour, do it as early in your trip as possible - you'll want to go eat at some of the restaurants that you hear about on the tour. I'll do another one the next time I'm in New York for sure. New York is best seen on foot and this tour was a wonderful experience - I highly recommend it.

We had previously been on the Chelsea Market tour. After that great experience we often go to Chelsea Market when we're in NYC. The cultural aspect was terrific, there was more of it than in the Chelsea Market tour. Even the teenagers enjoyed it. We went back the next night for dinner at one of the restaurants -- we were too full to go the same night. Another great tour.

Great foods choices, some you would not think of trying like the filled rolled Indian Bread,delicious! The information about the village and Soho area was quite interesting! Wandering this area with a purpose will make future trips to the city and the Village even more fun. Many thanks to our tour guide Susan. Have gone on two tours now with the same group of friends and will definetly do more in the future! How about some greek food tours! Yummy and we want some more, Ann K, Mary D and Louise D.

This was our second tour, we did the Original Village tour two years ago. This time we (four sisters) took our husbands. We took the tour the first morning of our week long visit to New York and found ourselves back in the village to enjoy the resturants and shops many times during the week. Our husbands enjoyed the tour as much as we did. The food tours are one of our favorite activities because they are so informative and help us to feel at home in new areas of the city.

I recently experienced the Central Village/SOHO tour with a friend and we both enjoyed it immensely. Our guide, Raheem, was very friendly and he made the tour very interesting. The stops on the tour were great, as were the food tastings. We are repeat customers, as we have been on the original Greenwich tour, and we enjoyed this tour just as much. I'm sure that we will continue to book your tours until we have done them all! All in all, it was a beautiful day in New York!

Our guide Suzy knows more about New York, and the Village in particular, than do many lifelong residents. Her knowledge and presentation made information I have read about come alive. The tastings were abundant, well-chosen, and simply delicious. I will be booking a tour again next year, and spending time and money comfortably in the Village because of this superb and tasty tour.

The tour was great but it is a little long--I thought the tour guide should have kept us moving a little quicker. I know she didn't want to seem to rush us but towards the end we were tired and it would have been better if she had just hurried us along the whole time to get everything in 3 hours or less....

After ALL these years of visiting NY City, this tour gave us New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians alike, a feel of the city away from the tourist chaos. The choices for the tasting tour were invigorating and delightful (also fully satisfying) for our adventurous palates (but not Andrew Zimmern-like, mind you!). Having Rahim as our tour guide was like spending a day with a local friend - very personable, funny, very knowledgeable (someone you would want with you on the Cash Cab!). His great appreciation for international cuisines and culture was contagious. I was there for a girls-day-out with my mother, sister and sister-in-law and enjoyed it. Our group included couples, father and daughter, mother and daughters and even a lady vegetarian by herself; and we were all accommodated very well. Truly an excellent way to spend 3 hours in an arranged tour.

Tour guide was enthusiastic, knowledgable, and interesting!! Loved each place and tastings-looking forward to returning to those restaurants. Would recommend all of your tours to anyone