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Date Attended [v] |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Great walking tour!
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| Sat, Jun 27 9:30 AM |
jenlin |
Female |
30-39 |
Combination |
Other |
| My sister was visiting from out of town, and I was looking for cool walking tours when this popped up on my Yelp search. What a fantastic find! 3.5 hours of fun information and tasty samples, enough to keep you from needing breakfast beforehand or lunch afterwards. I've been to the Farmer's Market several times, and had never seen some of the places that were showcased. There's a decent amount of walking, but it's an easy pace with several stops for water and treats. Diane, a freelance chef and food stylist, was a fantastic tour guide, who obviously had great relationships with the owners/employees of all the places we visited. Great way to sample some wonderful food among the dozens, if not hundreds of food establishments, in the area! |
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Interesting, Fun, Delicious
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| Sat, Jun 27 9:30 AM |
MLLove |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| We enjoyed the tour with Diane as host. There were 11 in our group. The tour moved quickly but we had enough time to enjoy many tastes and a little bit of shopping along the way. My husband and I especially enjoyed hearing all about the various Farmer's Market merchants, and getting reviews of the 3rd Ave restaurants. Diane was a great host and had planned a wonderful morning for us. I highly recommend this tour. |
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Informative and Tasty
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| Sat, Jun 27 9:30 AM |
emptyOne |
Male |
40-49 |
Local |
Individual |
| The tour was very informative. I learned a lot about the history of the Farmer's Market. The tasting stops were all really good. They mostly were places where I ordinarily wouldn't stop on my own, but the food at these places were really good.
I kinda like the small samples here and there. You never get too full to try the next taste delight. By the end it all adds up though, and I felt quite well fed at the end of the tour.
I think my favorite sample taste was the monkey bread. (mmm, butter). |
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Good tour, learned a lot
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| Fri, Jun 26 9:30 AM |
mtgorder |
Male |
40-49 |
Local |
Family With Children |
| We had out of town family and wanted to try something out of the ordinary, tracked down the tour online after hearing about something similar back East. We live an hour out from downtown and had only a vague impression of what the Farmers' Market was, so this was a treat, as was our guide, Diane, whom we're pretty sure is acquainted with everyone in every business establishment in the Fairfax district. |
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Want to see another side of LA- this is the tour!
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| Sat, Jun 20 9:30 AM |
susannsnabb |
Female |
40-49 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| Melting Pots Tour is a 3.5 hour long food tasting, walking tour, starting inside Farmer’s Market, continuing along 3rd Street all the way to Beverly Center. The group is small and intimate (we were 9). A very knowledgeable guide (one of the two the sisters who actually own the company) leads you in a comfortable pace through various counters, stores and restaurants, with food tasting stops all along the way. Point is to really let you taste the “Melting Pot” that LA is – we have coffee from Ethiopia, Brazilian barbeque and French pastry … Think there were in all about 13 stops. Our enthusiastic and very good guide also provides a lot of useful and interesting stories and information about the area (Midtown) and it’s history. Hours went on really fast!
If you are tired of being shuttled around Beverly Hills in a bus loaded with other tourists, desperately glanzing out of the window, hoping to catch even the smallest glimpse of a tennis court maybe once owned by a now deceased movie star – take this tour instead! Makes you feel you really get to see a small piece of LA from the inside. An extra plus is of course if you are interested in, and like good food ... Only reason the tour doesn’t reach the absolute top score is that there was a little too large selection of sweets/pastries for our taste. Would have preferred more “food dishes” instead. Otherwise it was a tour I absolutely recommend – even to you living in LA! |
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Interesting selection of sites visited
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| Fri, Jun 19 9:30 AM |
MariaTover |
Female |
60-69 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Other |
| Tour leader is very professional and knowledgeable about sites visited and the history of each. The tastings were excellent. Personally, I would have preferred them not to be so heavily weighted toward the sweet side. |
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Fun Again
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| Fri, Jun 19 9:30 AM |
CBRinger |
Female |
70+ |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| Loved this tour before, and will bring other friends to experience it again. |
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Very Good
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| Sat, Jun 13 9:30 AM |
CraigPanter |
Male |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| We enjoyed this alot. It was exactly what we expected. |
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fantastic experience
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| Sat, May 30 9:30 AM |
londela |
Female |
60-69 |
Local |
Family With Children |
| Grandparents with 17 year-old grandson, so a wide spectrum of ages and we were ALL delighted. Our tour guide was so gracious to our grandson (who can be difficlult). We walked away with the feeling of money well spent. |
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Interesting, but not worth the $50
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| Sat, May 30 9:30 AM |
ameliajune |
Female |
30-39 |
Local |
Other |
| I am local to Los Angeles, and thought it would be interesting to learn more about the Farmer's Market, since I didn't go there very often but lived close by. I thought that the tour was an interesting concept, but could've been executed better. For example, we were eating sweets one minute and cheese the next, and then back to sweets. I understand that the eateries are in a certain place, but I would have lined up what I was going to sample better. Who wants to eat olives after having coffee and a doughnut? Also, I always felt rushed on the tour. I know we have a certain amount of time, but I think the guide should work on moving people along by saying, "hey, let's go get this great thing" instead of "we're on a schedule let's go." It was also strange for the guide, who is one of the owners, to ask for tips at the end of the tour. I mean, c'mon, you're the owner, you've already made $50/head, do you really need tips? Then at the end of the tour, it wasn't a shuttle bus that took us back to the beginning of the tour, it was a city bus! Strange. All in all, if you're a complete tourist and want something to do on a Saturday morning and don't want to cook breakfast and have an iron mixing stomach, this is the tour for you. Otherwise, go to a real Farmer's market, buy a week's worth of food for $50 and cook your own and then take a walk in the neighborhood. |
