Vacations Made Easy tour company offers a couple of culinary excursions. The Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour is a 4 1/2-hour guided tour to many of the best pizzerias in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The tour is a combination of motor-coach transportation to designated stops, where passengers will be able to depart the bus and engage in food tasting. Pizza venues for this tour include Grimaldi's and L&B Spumoni Gardens. You'll also visit the locations where the movies "Saturday Night Fever" and "Scent of a Woman" were filmed.
Another tour offered is the Harlem Soul Food and Jazz Experience. This five-hour tour visits historical Harlem venues and restaurants such as The Cotton Club, The Savoy and The Apollo Theater. This culinary tour includes motor-coach transportation to various venues, dinner, drinks and jazz-club entertainment. The Harlem Soul Food tour is for passengers 21 and older only and runs Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Providing local culinary tours since 1999, Foods of New York Tours offers cultural walking tours and food tasting events throughout the year. Foods of NY visits popular areas of New York City, including Greenwich Village, Chelsea and SoHo.
The Greenwich Village Food Tasting and Cultural Walking Tour visits area mom-and-pop eateries and restaurants that have been around since the 1940s. The Greenwich culinary tour stops at Faicco's Italian Specialties, Murray's Cheese Shop, Rocco's Pastry Shop and Joe's Pizza.
The Chelsea Market and Culture Tour visits six specialty food shops and one restaurant. Food tasting is available at all tour venues' including the Lobster Place, Macelleria steak house, Buon Italia, Elenis Cookies and Sarabeth's Bakery.
The Central Village Food Tasting and Cultural Walking Tour visits the historic neighborhoods of central Greenwich Village and SoHo. On this tour, passengers will partake in food tasting at old-fashioned eateries, restaurants and food shops like the Focacceria Italian Eatery, the Cuba Restaurant and the Ali Baba Middle Eastern Eatery.
On the Chinatown Food and Culture Walking Tour, you'll stop at variety of Chinese cuisine restaurants, sampling foods like roasted eggplant, Hong-Kong style dumplings, Peking duck and numerous Chinese teas.
New York Culinary tours a number of cultural neighborhoods within New York City, visiting marketplaces and restaurants. Tour reservations must be made in advance and are only for groups of eight or more. All culinary tours include food tastings and lunch but no alcoholic beverages.
Available tours include the Little Italy and Chinatown tour and the Lower East Side and Chinatown tour. These tours offer Italian and Chinese cuisine tasting at area restaurants and food shops. The Jackson Heights tour visits the heart of the city's Queens borough, where you'll find a number of Mexican, Central and South American restaurants and eateries.
On the Sunset Park neighborhood tour, food lovers will find a fusion of Latin, Asian and Italian cuisines. The Astoria neighborhood tour features traditional Greek and Mediterranean cuisine restaurants, along with a touch of Middle Eastern flair.
