Old Pasadena Food Tasting Tour

well informed and interesting guide, very hospitable vendors, and very congenial companions

This is a really fun tour. Not only do you see interesting parts of old Pasadena, you have the opportunity to sample a wonderful array of food from small local ethnic restaurants. The tour is three hours but the area covered is quite small. I highly recommend this tour.

Learned a lot about the alley restaurants, instead of just staying on the main street . Been to the area many times, but never got a chance to explore beyond Colorado. Very excited about Equator and Chocolate Mignon. Didn't care about the Mexican torta place (boring cheap sandwich) and the Soap Kitchen (not food, duh). Mike our guide was wonderful, attentive, and very knowledgeable. If you ever go, make sure to tip him generously!

We enthusiastically recommend the Old Pasadena Food Tour. Although we are from southern California, and have been to Pasadena several times, we were never exposed to some of the cool, eclectic back alley restaurants. We thoroughly enjoyed our knowledgeable tour guide and our food tasting stops. My husband only wished the restaurants could have been a little more generous in their samples as they were delicious and you left wanting more!! Great Tour! A fantastic way to start your day in Pasadena!!!

Every minute of the tour was great! Our guide, Mike, was great! He was conversant and fun, he had a good time so we had a good time. I loved the idea of having a bite to eat, then taking a walk, another bite to eat, another walk, and so on. We snaked our way through the alleys and hidden shops and learned about the old buildings and architecture styles. Hearing the back stories of the shop owners and meeting them in person was special. Entertaining from beginning to end!

We were greatly pleased with both the tour-guide and the selections of eateries that we visited. Our tour-guide was knowledgeable and interesting. You could tell that he had actually eaten in these restaruants, and many of the others that were listed in the guide, but not visited on our trip. Accompanied by our adult son from Las Vegas, we were all suprised at the scope and amount of food that was presented for sampling. Our son has friends in the Pasadena area, and had seen many of the venues, but had not eaten at any of them, now he definitely has them on his list to return to. My wife and I also look forward to making a more in depth visit to these restaraunts, and we will let them know how we found out about them. While all of the all of the tastings were enjoyed, all three of us found we have different favorite places (mine is Equator), but there are not any that do not rate a return visit by all of us. While there was no tasting (other than smell) involved, we found Soap Kitchen an interesting and enjoyable experience also. We were all interested in the tastings of oil and vinegars offered at the Beyond The Olive stop. I compared well to a wine tasting experience, and we will probably return for a more extensive visit. We enthusiasticaly recommend this tour, and while it had a definite "pace" to keep up with, the walk was not tiring, especially since you had so many frequent stops.

This tour was great! The food was delicious and diverse. The tour gave historical and architectual highlights that were fascinating. I loved it and so did my friend. It is the best tour I have ever had.

I've been on 3 Food Tours (Chicago, Farmer's Market and Old Towne) and this was my favorite yet. I learned so much about Pasadena, it's history and architecture. The hidden away restaurants were delightful and the food tastings left me very satisfied. Mike was a good tour guide, so knowledgeable and fun. There were 6 friends in our group, all from different cities , and we want to start our own dinner club. I would highly recommend this tour.

Although I thought I knew Old Town Pasadena pretty well, I was introduced to new places I had driven by many times but never tried, and learned Old Town's history and architechure. The guide was pleasant, easy going and knowledgeable. The businesses were generous with their samples. I had a very enjoyable morning and would highly recommend it, even to locals!

Spectacular sunshine and breezes as we set out on a three hour tour... Although I was not with anyone else the entire group was engaging while Mike our guide entertained and informed us. This was a fun morning with a diverse offering of food from local establishments and the inside story of old town. You will go home thinking there is no reason our city could not be like this!