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We’ve been hosting the NYC Food Tours since 2019. Check them all out!
Chinatown & Little Italy Food Tour
🎉 Experience two of NYC’s best neighborhoods with rich culinary traditions
🥟 Five stops including dumplings, noodles, pasta, cannolis, and more
✨ Great for people who want to know Chinatown and Little Italy through a local’s eye
GREENWICH VILLAGE
FOOD TOUR
🎉 Learn about one of NYC’s most fascinating neighborhoods of artists and immigrants
🥟 Five stops including bagels, falafals, tacos, pizza, cupcakes, and more
✨ Great for people who want iconic NYC foods in a historic neighborhood
Lower East Side
Food Tour
🎉 Learn how immigrants created New York City’s famous cuisine
🥟 Five stops including pizza, bagels, dumplings, cheesecake, and more
✨ Great for people who want to try all of NYC’s famous food in just a few hours
Midtown Food Tour
🎉 See NYC’s most famous sights including Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Fifth Ave, and the Diamond District
🥟 Four stops including Pizza, BEC sandwich, hot dogs, and rugelach
✨ Great for people who want to see all of Midtown’s sights in one afternoon
Soho dessert tour
🎉 Learn the evolution of dessert in New York City from the cutting edge to the classic
🥟 Five stops including cheesecake, cronuts, chocolate, cookies, and more
✨ Great for bachelorette parties and folks who have a sweet tooth
Jewish Food Tour
🎉 Learn how New Yorkers created contemporary Jewish Food
🥟 Four stops including bagels, hot dogs, pastrami, and cookies
✨ Great for people who want an only in New York experience and want a deep dive into one of NYC’s most famous cultures
Meet the founder of Ultimate food tours
I started Ultimate Food Tours in 2019 as a way to show people my favorite activity, eating my way through New York City’s coolest neighborhoods, meeting cool people, and learning about their history. What started as one Chinatown tour has grown to six NYC Food Tours and four Cooking Classes. My favorite part of running Ultimate Food Tours is meeting new people. I have met amazing restaurant owners and workers, guests, and guides and love introducing them to you!
My background is in tech and marketing and while I had a great time in the corporate world, I am really enjoying helping people eat their way through New York City. For more information on me or on our NYC food tours, Tours, feel free to shoot me an email. You can also check out our media coverage on CNBC, Entrepreneur Magazine, and NBC News by clicking the icons above and below. Thanks for reading this far and we’re looking forward to showing you New York City through our amazing food tours.
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FAQ About our NYC Food Tours
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A walking food tour is an immersive food experience where guests walk to restaurants and eat a variety of foods. Each NYC food tour is led by a local guide who tells stories about the neighborhood, provides information on the food itself, and makes sure the food is ready on time for guests to enjoy.
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To book a NYC food tour, simply navigate to the Ultimate Food Tours tours page, pick your tour, and let us take care of the rest!
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The easiest way to participate in a food tour is by checking out a tour on our tours page. You will find a variety of tours that suit any taste and if you want a custom tour, you can simply send us an email and we will plan a custom tour just for you.
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The easiest way to plan a food tour is by simply booking one on our tours page. While you could make a Google Map, it takes a lot of time and is stressful to do on your own. If you book an Ultimate Food Tour, you simply show up and let our expertly-trained guides take care of the rest.
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The best food tour in NYC is the Chinatown Food Tour by Ultimate Food Tours because it features the most food of any Chinatown Food Tour and offers the most exclusive access to the neighborhood. On the food tour, guests will be introduced to China’s eight regional cuisines and eat at many of them. Guests will learn about the history of Chinatown, the people who live there, and the history of the food. We are friends with all of the owners, giving guests an exclusive opportunity to meet the people who make Manhattan’s Chinatown the best neighborhood in the world.
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All of our food tours stop at ONLY locally owned establishments. These are not touristy places so when you book an Ultimate Food Tour, you can be assured that you will eat where the locals eat.
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A food tour guide is a specially-trained tour guide who provides guests with the information they expect from a walking tour and makes sure the food is ready in a timely manner. It is a very hard position since it combines elements of guiding guests throughout specific neighborhoods, being able to present a vast variety of knowledge about specialized topics, and serving customers with the timing of a waiter. It is a challenging position that is very hard to obtain at Ultimate Food Tours, so you can rest assured that any guide that you have is one of the best guides in New York City.
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To become a food tour guide, you need a NYC Sightseeing Guide license and experience leading tours. We are always looking for talented folks to join the team so if you are interested, please send us an email.
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NYC Food Tours are definitely worth it! A few of the top reasons are:
You have a local guide to show you hidden gems
You get to cut the lines
It costs less money then if you were going to visit each place on its own, and it’s much easier to plan!
You can check out a deeper dive here.
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The best hidden gem tour in New York is the Chinatown Food Tour. You’ll go to five hidden, local, and delicious establishments and meet some of the greatest people on the planet. This is an experience you can only get in NYC with a local guide.
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The best tours to take in NYC are food tours, walking tours, and pub crawls. When you walk through New York City, you get to experience its culture in a way that you can’t get from a bus?
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The Rockefeller Tour is the Midtown Food Tour. Not only will you experience Rockefeller center, you will also explore Times Square and Fifth Avenue.
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