Best of NYC Food Tour with Chinatown, Little Italy and LES

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About this activity

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!

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At a glance

Duration: 3 hours
Confirmation: Confirmed within 48 hours
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Up to 15 people
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: English
Operated by: Unscripted Tours

Ages: Adults (0–99 years)

What is included

Included

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

Not included

Not included: Gratuities

Itinerary

Essex Market

5 min

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

10 min

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.
Stop 3

15 min Admission 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

15 min

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.
Stop 5

15 min Admission included

Taste New York's best food hidden gem: delectable pork buns hidden in the basement of an abandoned mall.
Chinatown

15 min Admission 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.
Stop 7

15 min

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

15 min Admission 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

15 min

Walk up Mulberry Street, a green, red and white-clad extravaganza, to see Little Italy in action.
Stop 10

15 min Admission 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
Stop 11

15 min Admission 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.