Original Greenwich Village Food and Culture Tour

I took this food tour alone after finding it on line as I was planning a visit to NYC. Since I enjoyed it so much, I suggested it to friends on 2 different trips to the city. Each group trusted my judgement enough to try it, and they all loved the experience. The guides are energetic as well as knowledgable in their effort to share information about the food, culture and history of the area. It really is a great experience!

We ate (surprised at how much!) fantastic food. Our guide was so good about weaving together the type of food that we were eating,with the history of the individual restaurants. She was energetic and her pride of the Village came thru in bright colors. The historical tour of the residential area was really captivating. Made us want to come back and eat dinner and see a movie at Cherry Lane. With her description, you could just visualize what was happening all those years ago. We had already planned on coming back to the Village that nite for dinner, we decided to arrive early and walk around- felt very comfortable there after taking the earlier tour. Bravo!!

We thoroughly enjoyed this tour, the guide Cindy was great, she had a great way of imparting the information and all the local people seemed to know her and like her too. We thought all the stops on the way were good with a variety of different foods to taste. The shop owners made us feel welcome, though they were trading normally and having a group of people enter your shop could make them feel cross, but it was all smiles and tasty samples, we particularly liked the Olive Oil shop, Faicco's and Amy's. Learning the history of Greenwich Village from Cindy was great too, we took her advice anf went to the Tenement Museum, another great tour.

This was the second Food Tour we've taken and this time we brought along my sister-in-law. What a great way to learn about the City that we don't typically think of when you say "New York City" (we were stuck in mid-town whenever we visited!). We enjoyed learning about the culture, history and thriving family restaurants/food establishments that are probably NYC's best kept secrets. We enjoyed taste-testing foods from 7-8 places ... just enough to whet your appetite for more! We look forward to investigating even more restaurants in the area using the brochure we received. GV is an amazing neighborhood with tree-lined streets and beautiful architecture/brownstones. We really enjoyed meeting people in our group that came from all over the world ... a real adventure! Thanks to our tour guide, Cindy, for providing a fun and educational day ... even in the rain! We'll definitely be back again to take other tours with friends and family. The Food Tour is a "must see" for anyone visiting New York City!

Definitely an awesome tour plus the foods are amazing! The tour guide is super knowledgeable =)

Had a marvelous dayv. The guides were informative and funny . The food was amazing will take another tour for sure!

My husband and myself would highly recommend this tour to anyone interested in tasting terrific food in Greenwich Village while at the same time being provided with interesting historical info about this very cool part of NYC. We could not have had better tour guides (normally there is one guide, but one of ours was in training): they were engaging, enthusiastic, and entertaining! Our only regret is that we did not do this tour on the first day of our NYC visit, because we would have been able to enjoy the wonderful restaurants and food specialty stores that we visitied during the tour a lot more. I guess we'll just have to return soon!

The title is perfect. Great food and guide/s but got a little long about 3/4 way through.

This is a great activity to do as early in your vacation as possible. Excellent value for your money. I wish we had time to do all the tours offered during our trip.

Me, my mom and sister went to celebrate our mom's birthday. Sephra was a great and enthusiastic guide. The stops and food were delicious especially the cookies. I would definitely recommend it to others and plan to take another different tour soon!!!