Local Tastes of the City Tours
San Francisco, CA 94116
Phone: (415) 665-0480
09/03/2007 Posted by carrieferro
My husband and I went on this tour as we visited SF for our one-year anniversary. I was so excited since we love food and enjoy seeing the "behind the scenes." For $60 a person we got a cappuccino, a few pieces of bread, half a maccaroon, half a brioche, a taste of olive oil and deli meats, some truffles, and half a chocolate eclair. Warm tap water was our only other refreshment. The woman tour guide was somewhat knowledgeable of the city, but it seemed memorized and boring. Most of the information could be read from a textbook or city guidebook. Seeing the brick-ovens was cool, but that's all we did. Looked at the ovens. Our guide also seemed like she was filling time at the end by taking us to random locations where there were no tastings of any food, and through Chinatown to see a place where they make fortune cookies, but since we were on on the Little Italy tour, they weren't expecting us, so there was nothing to see. Where is the money going? I can't imagine that the businesses we visited would charge for the small amounts of food we got. We were bored, disinterested and annoyed. We kept looking at our watches wondering when it would end. I would recommend ot the company to do food and drink pairings at the various places. When we taste coffee, also have a pastry. Where's the pizza, pasta and wine that makes Italy so amazing?
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