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A dumpling held by chopsticks. 1
A multi-story brick building with fire escapes, storefronts, and a street intersection. 2
A church with a cross on top, arched windows, and wooden doors. 3
A busy urban intersection with a large red truck, traffic lights, and a bridge in the background. 4
A narrow alley with shops, yellow lanterns, and outdoor seating areas. 5
By Unscripted Tours

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Free cancellation available
Price is P 5,581 per adult
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Overview

  • Eat your way through the best food neighborhoods NYC has to offer on this small group 3-hour walking food tour through Chinatown, Little Italy and the Lower East Side. Explore the spots New Yorkers love with six filling tastings as you learn the area's diverse immigrant stories.

    • Feast at local hidden gems, like an abandoned mall home to award winning hand steamed pork buns

    • Avoid the typical tourist traps in Little Italy — munch on slices from hipster pizzerias and homemade cheese at Di Palo's Fine Foods, a 100-year old grocery

    • Enjoy a historic pickle sampler and a pastry made in the old Jewish NYC style while absorbing immigrant stories

    • Visit with a small group, ensuring a personal experience

    • Skip the line like a local at the area's most popular restaurants, including beloved noodle spot Shu Jiao Fu Zhou

    • Come hungry — with six substantial tastings, you'll get plenty of food to fill you up

    • We can accommodate dietary restrictions — just let us know beforehand!

Activity location

  • Essex Street Market
    • 88 Essex St
    • 10002-3809, New York City, New York, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Essex Market
    • 88 Essex Street
    • 10002, New York, New York, United States

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Best of NYC Food Tour

  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
P 5,581.10 x 1 AdultP 5,581.10
Total
Price is P 5,581.10

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Pizza from a New York top slice shops
  • Inclusions
    Skip-the-line for the city's most popular noodles
  • Inclusions
    Historical tour led by a local expert foodie
  • Inclusions
    An only-in-NYC baked good
  • Inclusions
    Mozzarella from a 100-year old cheese store
  • Inclusions
    Award-winning hand steamed pork buns
  • Inclusions
    Small group capped at 10 to ensure a personalized experience
  • Inclusions
    Historic pickle sampler
  • Inclusions
    Six diverse tastings in three delicious neighborhoods: Chinatown, Little Italy and Lower East Side
  • Exclusions
    Gratuities

Know before you book

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transportation options are available nearby
    • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
    • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • Please inform us of an allergies

Activity itinerary

Essex Street Market

  • 5m
Meet your guide on the second floor of Essex Market at 88 Essex Street. This historic food hall has been at the center of Lower East Side life for centuries, from its days as a series of pushcarts to its present uber modern aesthetic. Take some time to browse around the many diverse stalls as you arrive.

The Pickle Guys

  • 10m
Only one store in New York still makes pickles the old fashioned way — we'll be going there to try a whole historic sampler of their pickled goods. Learn about how pickles are essential to Lower East Side history as you munch down on these briny bites.

Kossar's Bagels & Bialys

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
Next, stop by a near-century old bakery for an only-in-New York experience: a bialy, made with New York City's own tap water. And if you don't know what a bialy is, your guide will tell you all about the backstory of this historic baked good.

Lower East Side

  • 15m
Maybe no neighborhood has changed more in the past century than the Lower East Side, going from the heart of Jewish New York to a cross-cultural and cross-age blend of residents. Thankfully, you'll have a guide ready to take you through the neighborhood's full history.

East Broadway Mall

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
Taste New York's best food hidden gem: delectable pork buns hidden in the basement of an abandoned mall.

Chinatown

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
Delve into the authentic history of Chinatown: rather than taking you to tourist traps, we'll go to local institutions, talk about the area's social movements, and show off what the neighborhood is truly like.

Historic Five Points

  • 15m
You've probably seen Lower Manhattan in a gangster movie before — now, you'll get to see the actual locations the films were based on. Explore the Five Points, the one-time heart of mobster New York, as your guide unfurls tales of the bloody battles, political corruption, and ultimate social uprisings that defined New York's gangster era.

Di Palo's

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
No food tour would be complete with a visit to Di Palo's, an over 100 year old Italian grocery store. The shop is home to food from 20 different regions of Italy, and the owners make delectably soft and salty mozzarella in-house every single day — mozzarella that we'll be biting in when we visit.

Little Italy

  • 15m
Walk up Mulberry Street, a green, red and white-clad extravaganza, to see Little Italy in action.

Williamsburg Pizza

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
If there's one thing New Yorkers adore, it's their pizza. See why as you visit Williamsburg Pizza, a shop renowned for their "grandma slice," and enjoy a crispy, doughy, saucy delight

Shu Jiao Fu Zhou

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
New York is a city of lines, and that's certainly the case at this Chinatown staple. But fear not: we'll skip the line as we wrap up our tour with one of the tastiest dishes in the whole city, world-renowned peanut butter noodles.

Location

Activity location

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    Essex Street Market
    • 88 Essex St
    • 10002-3809, New York City, New York, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Essex Market
    • 88 Essex Street
    • 10002, New York, New York, United States

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