Local Tastes of the City Tours
San Francisco, CA 94116
Phone: (415) 665-0480
02/15/2008 Posted by SFTripper
Tom the tour guide was late, a gaffe that was overlookable. The tour needs to be fine tuned to be better organized. The tour guide shouldn't be calling places on his cell phone to see if it's OK to stop by, that should be done in advance. We were often left alone sitting in some small shop looking at each other while Tom was off doing "something." And his "pay as you go" with the vendors seemed unpolished and amatuerish. We were really expecting more out of the foods, we expected to actually visit a restaurant or three rather than a string of small specialty shops where we often had to stand or were left sitting outside in the cold to taste small offerings of various foods. We often felt like the proprietors thought we were quite an imposition. It seemed expensive for what we got out of it, most of the information could have been easily learned by watching the food channel. Tom also needs to speak much more clearly--he is very difficult to understand at times. He also tended to become repetitive and belabored some of his points so they went from being interesting to annoyingly redundant. The good part is that the foods that we did sample--and there really wasn't much more than a sample of most of it--were very tasty and in some cases somewhat unique. Best capuccino I've ever had!
Pros: The foods we tasted were very good
Cons: Tour didn't flow well and tour guide needs better speaking skills
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