Los Angeles Food Tasting Walking Tours & Dining Events - History and Culture of LA (California, CA)

Seller:	MeltingPot
	Melting Pot Food Tours

Ratings Summary: Rating: 4.8

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	# of Reviews	Overall Rating	Positive Points	% Positive	Average Rating
Last 3 months	47	126	126	100%	4.8
Last 6 months	96	241	241	100%	4.7
Last 12 months	121	311	311	100%	4.8
All	132	337	337	100%	4.8

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	Overall Rating	% Positive	Average Rating
Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour	221	100%	4.8
Old Pasadena Food Tasting Tour	90	100%	4.7

Date Attended [v]	Reviewer	Gender	Age	Where From?	Group Type?
Want to see another side of LA- this is the tour! Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
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!
Interesting selection of sites visited Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
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.
Fun Again Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
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.
Very Good Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
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.
fantastic experience Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
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.
Interesting, but not worth the $50 Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
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.
Overpriced and LONG but good food Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
Sat, May 23 9:30 AM	AllysBeach	Female	20-29	Local	Group of Friends
Went on this tour a few weeks ago with a friend. Some of the places she took us were great and I want to go back, but the tour was 4 hours long and could have easily been 1 to 2 hours instead. I felt we wasted a great deal of time while we stood in front of the meat market or fruit stand in the Farmers Market and the host listed off prices for us (which sounded like an infomercial!) The host tells many stories, some of which are charming, but most of which just seem like filler. My friend and I found ourselves tuning her out and we missed the few good things she had to say because we were so bored early on. Also, while walking down 3rd street we stopped at some great places (Joan's and the Chado tea room were our favs) but we took a detour to talk about real estate and neighborhood prices. Waste of time. I felt the $50/person was a little steep a price to pay since Melting Pot tours gets all the food we taste as free samples from the restaurants (which is GREAT advertising for them) and so they are making 100% profit. Good for them, but $100 (plus ticketing fee) was a bit expensive for what it was. In conclusion, the places they take you are great, the food is great. The tour is a bit long-winded and boring. The price is, well, overpriced.
Great Tour Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
Sat, May 23 9:30 AM	dgardner007	Male	20-29	Local	Family Without Children
Great tour and great food. The tour guide was super informative and chose places for the food tasting excellently. I would definitely recemmond this tour to anyone interested in a unique look at Los Angeles' food and sights.
Great way to discover LA! Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
Fri, May 22 9:30 AM	deedee2277	Female	20-29	Local	Family With Children
I had a large group of family visiting me for a graduation and decided to try this tour to show people around LA. We had an awesome time! I had been to the farmer's market, but never knew the stories or which stands were the best to eat at. I would definitely go back to the restaurants on Third St as well. The tour guide was very insightful and fun. Great food, neat stories, what more could you ask for?!
Excellent tour Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
Fri, May 1 9:30 AM	bernard1	Male	70+	Local	Individual
Good tour. Lots of tastings. Highly recommended
A MUST-MUST-MUST-DO TOUR Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
Fri, Apr 3 9:30 AM	CEttlinger	Female	50-59	Local	Family With Children
Our group consisted of three moms and four 11 to 12 year-old-girls, and everyone had a fantastic time. Diane, the leader, is fun, engaging, energetic...and has organized an absolutely wonderful tasting tour--the food was fantastic at every stop, and a lot of stops there were....I strongly recommend this tour to everyone who's a foodie or wannabe foodie or who just loves to have fun and eat.
interesting and educational Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
Fri, Mar 20 9:30 AM	debstevens	Female	50-59	Domestic Tourist(s)	Unspecified
enjoyed our tour guide's enthusiasm for food and sharing her knowledge of the history of the area plenty of tasting opportunities would go again
I am so glad that I did this!!! Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
Sat, Mar 14 9:30 AM	sjanigian	Female	50-59	Local	Unspecified
This was so much fun! I have done these types of tours in other cities and am so glad that LA has one now. Diane, our guide was very knowledgable and the tastings were a good cross sections of the food at the Farmer's Market. I will definitely recommend this to family and friends, locals and out of towners!!
Time well-spent & enjoyable Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
Sat, Mar 7 9:30 AM	hanamik	Female	20-29	Domestic Tourist(s)	Couple on a Date
This activity was worth every penny and quite enjoyable and informative. Our guide was wonderful as she led us around & the places we stopped by were worth noting to come back to again. The samples were great and generous and of course, delicious. I would definitely recommend for individuals, couples, families. It's a great way to get around Farmer's Market if for the first time.
Locals and visitors take note!!!! Farmers Market & W. 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour
Fri, Feb 27 9:30 AM	MMOConnor	Male	50-59	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
Start to finish, Melting Pot Tours served up a professionally polished, extremely informative experience. Expectations were "Food Tour" and collectively the group was excited for that, then it evolved into so much more. In-depth insight into not only the famous Farmers Market and it's deep history but also The Grove, 3rd street hot spots, Beverly Center and the adjoining neighborhoods was fantastic. Impressive samplings of a wide variety of wonderfully prepared foods were coupled with passionate conversation from each presenter along the way. Locals and visitors to L.A. take note, this should be on everyone's itinerary!

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