North End Market Tour

Michelle Topor's tour is better than I had imagined. She gave us the history of the North End and how the Italian Americans settled here, to a history of how the food of the North End evolved. The tour included great information on where to shop, and eat. Michelle was terrific with her ideas for recipes, knowlege of the North End and her energy was amazing...I would do it again.

The guide did a great job explaining a variety of things to a group that would sometimes be a bit noisy. It was a great time, great tastings, I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone visiting Boston. My date was a Boston native, and he too found it to be a great part of our weekend.

It was an excellant gift to give people who live out of town - but would like to experience all that the North End has to offer. (and it was also a great experience for someone that lives locally but did not know the ins and outs of the North End)

Our family enjoyed this tour very much! I had been on the tour a few years ago with my sister and thought it was great, so we took my mother-in-law and sister in-law this time around. The tour is very informative from the cooking perspective as well as the North End/Italian cultural perspective. Our tour guide was enthusiastic and friendly, and did a fantastic tour. We live in the North End and have been shopping at many of the tour stops since I first took the tour. We highly recommend this tour for anyone who loves cooking and baking!

I enjoyed this tour. I thought it was especially useful to local residents because of the shop/restaurant info and advice. However, it would be interesting to anyone who enjoys history and learning about the local flavor of their vacation destination. The samples are just that and really added to the trip but should not be considered snacks- bring something if you think you might get hungry (especially because you are mostly talking about food!)

We loved this tour!! We are 3 Food lovers from Ohio and this tour met all our expectations. We learned a lot and would definitely recommend this to others. One suggestion would be to have a two hour tour. Several of the areas could be shortened. Three hours was taxing for some in our group. Thanks and this will be a definite thumbs up!

It was one of the highlights of my mother and my visit to Boston. I would abolutely recommend it to any Irish person heading to the Boston area. It was lovely to see an authentic "neighbourhood". Our guide was superb, very informative and friendly. We loved the food and all the recommendations for restaurants etc.! Well done!

The tour certainly provides some interesting insighs, but I think it is overrated * Tour was not given by Michelle Topor, but by some more junior guide * Offered nothing really new to me * Tastings were rather limited * Group was very large (12+) -- at a few stores the group had to wait outside, because the store was too small for the large group

I have traveled to Italy many times and have taken a lot of cooking classes and tours. I teach cooking classes in Tulsa and it is exciting for me to know that I can get these great ingredients in the States and share this experience in my classes.

guide did a great job, despite the bad weather we all had a good time.