New York City Chocolate Tasting and Sampling Tours (NYC, NY)

Seller:	NYChocoTours
	Zoom Media & Productions

Ratings Summary: Rating: 4.8

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	# of Reviews	Overall Rating	Positive Points	Negative Points	% Positive	Average Rating
Last 3 months	31	83	83	0	100%	4.8
Last 6 months	60	164	164	0	100%	4.9
Last 12 months	125	332	332	0	100%	4.8
All	450	1162	1165	3	99%	4.8

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	Overall Rating	% Positive	Average Rating
The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour	166	100%	4.8
The NYC New Cuisine Chocolate Tour	133	100%	4.8
The Union Square Chocolate, Wine & Culture Tour	33	100%	4.8

Date Attended	Reviewer	Gender	Age	Where From?	Group Type? [v]
Full of tons of learning and fun The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Fri, Sep 7, 07 12:00 PM	brotsky	Male	60-69	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
The Luxuury Tour was far more worthwhile and fun than I had expected! I took this tour since the other, seemingly more my style of tour, was full. Wrong!! Our tour guide, Burt, was an added bonus.... full of salient facts, bits of interesting history, and seriously interested in giving us a fun and educational time. The guy knows his chocolate! The route of the tour was fine for a walking tour, even though the day was hot and muggy. And the chocolatiers we visited were excellent examples of fine chocolate making, and were eager to help us buy their products and answer our silliest questions!! I'm a chocolate retailer, and I learned a ton from Burt. My only suggestion to Burt was to figure out a way for his customers to buy the chocolate and not have to carry it around during the tour on a hot and muggy day. Not an easy question to answer! I thought the price was a little steep until I realized I was eating more chocolate than should be legal for one day by one person!! And the education for someone seriously interested in learning about chocolate, was worth every penny. Now I can only hope the other tour is available on my next NYC visit!!
yummy tour!!!!! The NYC New Cuisine Chocolate Tour
Sat, Aug 25, 07 3:30 PM	emisee	Female	40-49	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
Bert, Was full of information and great tips very up beat and professional. If you love chocolate or serious in starting a business, I recommend you do both tours for all around roundness in flavor and style. Tina Martinez
Good The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Sat, Aug 18, 07 12:00 PM	pooja905	Female	20-29	International Tourist(s)	Individual
I really enjoyed the tour. We got to sample two pieces of chocolate-usually our choice-from the five different chocolate shops,so you didn't get a chocolate over dose. The shops were all very different from one another,like one was English,and another was French. Different combinations too. One place had a tomato and basil based chocolate,which was interesting. Good pace,each place gave a little talk of its founder,and we learnt a bit about what to look for in a good quality chocolate.
Would do it again! The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Fri, Aug 17, 07 12:00 PM	mldalby	Female	40-49	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
Tour pace was excellent and the chocolate knowledge was great. Burt was a great and enthusiastic guide. Will take the New Cuisine next time.
As a chocoholic, I loved it. The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Sat, Jul 14, 07 12:00 PM	evelynjs1	Female	Unspecified	Local	Individual
I changed my mind about La Maison du Chocolat. I had gone there at least 20 years ago and was disppointed because there was no milk chocolate. But Saturday I found out they do, indeed, have milk chocolate, so I'll be going there (especially since Saks, my favorite department store, stopped carrying Neuhaus). La Maison was the highlight for me; Pierre Marcolini came in second. Richart came in last for me. I was disappointed we didn't visit Martine's (much better than some of our visits).
Absolutely TERRIFIC! The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Sat, Jun 23, 07 12:00 PM	GlotzbachCJ	Female	50-59	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
This was such a great experience. The tour guide (Burt) was very knowledgeable of the topic and was so very in tune with each of the our interests and needs. Burt made sure we all had a good time as well as that we learned from the experience as well. I highly recommend this tour to anyone who loves chocolates! You will learn a lot about chocolate AND get the chance to try some of the world's best chocolates. Never would I have had the chance to try these chocolates had I tried to find them on my own. I will say, though, that there was/is one draw back to having gone on this tour: Hersey just doesn't do it for me anymore. I am now a chocolate snob! Such a wonderful experience! Thanks Burt!
Midtown Chocolate tour The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Fri, Jun 22, 07 11:00 AM	adinamish	Female	50-59	International Tourist(s)	Individual
first, apologies for the very long delay in writing; this does not at all reflect ANY negative feelings about the tour. I am a born-and-bred New York who now lives in Israel and joined the tour on a recent visit to NY. The Friday tour I joined had about 6 people, as I recall, all women. The guide (can't recall his name now, apologies) was wonderful - very friendly, patient, enthusiastic and knowledgeable, and most important - a true chocoholic. Even tho I eat kosher, I found the data I received (and the chocolatiers we visited) sufficiently informative to know which items I could taste and which not - and I was able to enjoy samples in every store, so didn't feel 'left out' at all! The tour was one of the most fun parts of my visit to NY and even tho I lived there all my life till I moved to Israel, this introduced me to a fun and delicious part of NY I never would've been able to learn about or visit in such a coordinated, informative and delicious way! The price seemed a bit steep at first, but given the (generously) large number of samples we enjoy, and their retail cost, it really wasn't that painful an investment at all. Highly recommended!
Choc.tour The NYC New Cuisine Chocolate Tour
Sat, Jun 16, 07 12:00 PM	Diane55	Female	50-59	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
The tour was very interesting and I would go again in the future when I am in NYC.
Yummy Tour! The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Sat, May 19, 07 12:00 PM	yemily02	Female	20-29	Local	Individual
When I signed up for this tour, I knew it would be fun, as well as yummy! You can't go wrong with chocolate, but the tour was so much more fun than I expected! I went by myself, and the tour guide and everyone else on the tour was so much fun...I felt like I had taken the tour with friends! I learned a lot about chocolate, and now I know what chocolate shops to go back to when I want some really good chocolate!! :)
HAD A GREAT TIME! The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Fri, May 11, 07 12:00 PM	cacreger	Female	40-49	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
Our guide was very knowledgable about chocolate -- I had no idea there was so much to learn! Her interaction with the group made it more fun -- she asked questions and got us involved in conversation instead of giving a lecture. My group was small (3) and that was really nice.
Great Tour The NYC New Cuisine Chocolate Tour
Sun, Mar 11, 07 12:00 PM	ChefTanner	Male	30-39	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
For anyone who has the time, I highly suggest taking both this tour and the Luxury Tour so you can see the dichotomy of the types of places that are in NYC and the types of shops that are becoming popular. I loved three of the shops, one I was not too hot on but thats just personal snobbery preference for chocolate. The tour is much shorter than the Luxury tour, but no less interesting or flavorful. The tour guides are knowledgeable and interesting to talk to and not snobby or arogant, which you can get from the other food tours in the city. Highly suggested for anyone who is a tourist or a NYC native, it's a good break from the normal tourist junk. The area in which this tour places you at the finish can be great for spending the rest of your day as well.
Wonderful for a winter afternoon The NYC New Cuisine Chocolate Tour
Sun, Feb 25, 07 12:00 PM	beberoo	Female	40-49	Local	Individual
We had a small group, only my husband and I and another single woman, plus our guide. He was friendly, knowledgeable and professional but approachable. Obviously knows and enjoys his subject. The shops were tiny, unique and gorgeous. The chocolates were exquisite little marriages of passion, art and chemistry and we enjoyed sampling the more exotic combinations. There's a whole world of chocolate out there that most of us don't even know about. We especially enjoyed the cups of hot chocolate on our damp, cold day. The walk was easy and leisurely. Can't wait to explore the neighborhood and go back to the shops on our own and recommmended friends to this tour already. We plan to try the Luxury Chocolate tour maybe in the spring or fall !
Great tour! The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Fri, Feb 23, 07 12:00 PM	bekdavis	Female	50-59	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
This was a wonderful tour! Our guide, Bert, was very knowledgeable, articulate and infectiously enthusiastic. The samples provided by each chocolatier were delicious, artistic, and/or creative -- and they were all so passionate about their offerings. Thanks for an unusually worthwhile experience!
A Wonderful Afternoon of Chocolate! The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Fri, Jan 26, 07 12:00 PM	rhodesfilm	Female	30-39	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
It was a super cold day in NYC (9 degrees), so our group was very small. Carmen took us to five really wonderful chocolatiers. Charbonnel et Walker was our first stop inside of Saks 5th Ave. Everyone was super nice and helpful. They are a British chocolatier so the aromas and flavors are very sweet and different. I bought a box. Next was La Maison Dur Chocolat at Rockefeller Center. Great presentation and chocolates. Definitely try both the milk and dark hot chocolate. It's like nothing you've ever had! They were out of the specific bars to melt for the hot chocolate so they are shipping me all of the ingredients and recipe next week. Of course, I also bought a box. Next stop was Richart. Very clean inside, very modern feel. The chocolates are very special. There are layers inside the outer coating; basil and tarragon, lavender, saffron, vanilla and grape, lime and grapefruit (to name a few). I could not leave there without buying a box! Next was Martine's inside Bloomies. It was not one of my favorite stops because there was a very stereotypical French feel inside. It didn't feel very welcoming. However, the chocolates are amazing and they make them fresh every day right there in the shop. So, you kind of have to let the whole atmosphere part of it go and just buy a box, which I did. Our last stop was quite special. Debauve & Gallais on East 69th. They also make their chocolates fresh. D&G was started around 260 years ago by the chemist of Marie Antoinette and Napoleon. They were the only French chocolatier allowed to use the seal of the Royal Family. The seal is on every box and it's quite beautiful. Check out their website for more details. It is the most expensive I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of chocolate. Around $500 for a box of 36. I was able to get a small box of a very tasty assortment for $110. It was worth every penny. I learned a lot on this tour. Not only were the chocolatiers extremely giving but also Carmen knows what she's talking about. She is filled with knowledge and can really tell you what to look for while tasting. Most of us just eat about four pieces before we know it and don’t savor each bite. This will make you slow down a bit and see why this is such an art. I had a really great time! What about all that chocolate I bought? Well, four of my closest friends are coming over Friday night and we are having an evening of wine and chocolate by the fire. One final note. There is a bit of walking involved in the tour and Carmen is more than happy to modify the tour for your needs so don't be shy in asking. I would suggest sticking with the tour offered even if you have to grab a cab and get from one location to another. Don't miss this. It's really a wonderful afternoon!
Great tour The NYC Luxury Chocolate Tour
Sat, Jan 13, 07 12:00 PM	lauriejg	Female	40-49	Domestic Tourist(s)	Individual
Enjoyed it very much. Places and length of tour was great. Tour guide was very friendly and helpful. Liked the pace of the tour. Would recommend.

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