Central Village/SoHo Food & Culture Tour

My 15-year old daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed Susan's tour of Central Greenwich Vilage and a small "slice" of Soho Tour. We had taken a food tour of the Lower East Side last summer and had to share very small portions with other members of the group. We were very pleasantly surprised to have very generous size portions of our sample foods on this tour. And, since it was a very warm day, it was nice to sit down in a few of the air conditioned restaurants. I especially liked the cultural and architectural aspects of the tour - Bob Dylan's residences and haunts, Club Wha?, Washington Square Park, etc. I think it would have been interesting to mention some of the Village's famous past and current residents and to include even more mentions of movie locations shot in the Village. The food choices were all very good - a little heavy on the Italian selections - but my daughter loves Italian, so that worked out. We stopped at Peanut Butter and Co. after the tour and thought it would have been a "fun" spot to include. My only complaint would be that at a few of the resturants we felt a bit pressured to return - business cards were passed out -- the stops felt more like advertisements for the establishments rather than simply a food tour stop. We did like the neighborhood guide handout - handy to have for our next visit to the Village and we will be back! Foods of New York Tours - how about a East Village or Lower East Side Food Tasting and Cultural Walking Tour?

The central village/soho food tour was just top notch. Our tour guide grew up in the area so she really knew the history and details of the streets. I revisited old haunts of my past. The food was superb. I have a whole new group of restaurants and food stores to try out. It was a thoroughly enjoyable way to spend an afternoon.

This is our second Greenwich area walking tour. This one was even better than the first. Diana was an excellent guide. I'm sure we will look at other tours in the future.

The tour was excellent. The history of nGreeenwich Village was very informative. We enjoyed the tour and found the guide to be knowledgeable, friendly and helpful.

We have been on 3 of the Foods of NY tours. They have all been fabulous. The guides are very knowledgeable and entertaining. The food quality has always been first class.

We've loved the food tours of Greenwich Village and Chelsea Meatpacking District in the past and rated those 5 stars. But this tour with Diana was too critical of NYU's expansions. It also spent too much time in Washington Square Park; by the stop at the fountain we were hungry and very thirsty! The selections of food, though, were excellent, and we learned much about the East Village which was great. We will go back to several of the restaurants!

Abosolute must is you're visiting New York. Not only do you learn about the history of the areas, but you get to visit and taste the foods of some amazing restaurants and cafes, which you will visit again and again. Tour guide was so informative and funny. We had loads of fun. Very highly recommended!

Our group was made up of 9 women. Our tour guide was Susan, she was perfectly wonderful. She not only knew alot about the resturants and food we were tasting, but she also knew about the history of the area. (the village and soho). We felt like we had a friend showing us around their home town. I can't wait to try your other tours in New York and I hope the guides are as good as Susan. Next week I will be taking a food tour in Charelston, NC. Susan said this is a fairly new tour city. I hope it lives up to Susan's standard, a hard act to follow.

This is my 4th Foodsofny.com tour--I did the original Greenwich Village one twice (once with my husband and the second time, we did it with two other couples who are friends). It is a great way to get to know a certain area of NYC and to feel comfortable finding one's way around that area. Not to mention, becoming acquainted with new restaurants and retail shops you might not find out about otherwise!! I have recommended this website and their tours to numerous other people and have already done so again several times just since Saturday. Keep up the good work. One suggestion: it would be nice if you could develop similar tours of other parts of the City and/or Boro's. The size of the group is nice and the price is appropriate. Thank you!!

This tour is the best thing we did in NY: food, culture, history, resources for future visits. The food was delicious, varied and plentiful; and we now have several quality recommendations on where to eat in the future. We had dinner at one of the restaurants featured on the tour and we were all spoiled. The history and cultural information was interesting, fun and useful. We've already encouraged our friends to do this tour. And, we will certinaly do other tours from Foods of New York Tours.