New Orleans Cocktail and Food History Tour
Description
Combining the history of Louisiana cuisine and New Orleans-style cocktails, this event is a feast for the senses! Along with your guide you will visit up 6 locations: award-winning seafood restaurants, James Beard-nominated craft cocktail lounges, Creole restaurants, artisanal candy stores and more. Once inside you’ll sample up to 6 or more different dishes that represent the modern expressions of our culinary heritage: classic dishes like gumbo, and muffulettas, but also new interpretations like sweet fried plantains! (Vegetarian options available too!) We'll also enjoy 4 full-sized cocktails like the refreshing Pimm's Cup, the rum-heavy Hurricane, the classic Daiquiri and more! This 4 hour gastronomic odyssey is our way of showing you where we like to go now, and what we like to eat and drink once we're there. With so many dining and drinking options in New Orleans, why not try up to 6 different places in one fell swoop?! *All venues subject to change based on availability.
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Itinerary
The walking tour begins inside the award-winning Red Fish Grill in the French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans. You will begin with Alligator Sausage & Seafood Gumbo. We also kick the party off with our first cocktail here: the Cat 5 Hurricane. This part of the tour focuses historically on the pre-colonial and colonial period of Louisiana history, and usually lasts about 35 minutes.
Moving four blocks down you will enter Pepper Palace, where we begin to discuss the Cajun influence, and sample an unlimited variety of hot sauces, BBQ sauces, Buffalo Wings sauces, salsas, dry rubs and more. Customers on the tour will also receive a free bottle of Louisiana-style hot sauce.
Our fourth venue will be a seated experience at the iconic Napoleon House restaurant. Famed for their unique Muffulettas and Pimm's Cup cocktails, you'll enjoy both of those in addition to a savory Chicken and Andouille Sausage Jambalaya. At this point, the Tour Guide will not only explain these dishes, but also the 19th century immigrant patterns to New Orleans that affected Louisiana’s cuisine once again.
From there you walk past Bourbon Street and move 4 blocks up to Leah’s Pralines: a 3rd generation family-owned candy store. You will sample traditional pralines and their unique Bacon Pecan Brittle.
Next you'll head to the James Beard Award-nominated Cane & Table. With a focus on rustic colonial cuisine and playful rum drinks, you will sample their fried plantains with lime crema and salsa macha and a classic daiquiri of Caribbean white rum, fresh lime and sugar.
Pass by the iconic Jackson Square during your walking food tour.
Stroll past all the shops on Royal Street.
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Minimum age is 21 years
- Vegetarian option available (request at check-out)
- This tour does not have a gluten-free, dairy-free, or vegan option
- All venues are subject to change based on availability
- Not recommended for travelers with mobility/walking issues
Reviews(846)
Our guide Ben was amazing. He knows all about the history of New Orleans and the story behind the dishes and the cocktails. A good trip to include in the first days of your stay so you know ehat to look for during the rest of your trip. You can collect all the tips and tricks of navigating New Orleans.
My friend and I decided to do this food tour as a part of our trip to New Orleans. I was kind of hesitant at first because I do not like a lot of seafood and I knew that it was going to be on the tour. I decided to go with the vegetarian options and they did not disappoint. I’m glad that this was a choice considering that spending all that money and not being able to have anything to eat would not make me very happy. Our tour guide Meg was extremely knowledgeable, friendly and personable. The stops that we went to had either good food, good drinks, both -or- things to sample. The samples were all of quality ingredients. The tour was for up to 16 people, but we only had five people which made it small and intimate by the end. We felt like we made a lot of new friends.
This tour was complete worth it. We had good food and drinks along with learning about New Orleans history. Our tour guide was fantastic. I would absolutely do it again and recommend to others. It is worth the price to do the food and cocktail tour
Megan was AMAZING! She did a fabulous job! The food and drinks were amazing! We have been doing this tour since 2015 and it never disappoints!
11/10 would recommend this tour to people. And hope that you get Ben as a guide because he was so knowledgeable and friendly, he had excellent rapport with the staff at every single stop. The food and cocktails were excellent at every stop. There was a bit of walking but it was by no means difficult, all flat, and there was enough time between stops to recover if need be. Definitely will be recommending this tour!
Guided tour, typical new Orleans tests, our guide was phenomenal, knew a lot of what he was talking about and didn’t skimp on any data. You knew very good stories about the tour but always open to tell us about other things we wish
Our tour guide was excellent. He was very knowledgeable and accomodating. We learned a great deal about the history of the city as well as the history of the food and cocktails. The restaurants were beautiful; the food and cocktails were fantastic. The praline store and the spice store were great. We brought home some of New Orleans to enjoy and remember our trip. I would definitely take this tour again
Thank you so much! - Dylan, Doctor Gumbo Tours
Our guide,Ben, was very knowledgeable about food, culture, regional history. And their relationship to each other.
Tour and guide Ben were amazing! Food choices and cocktails were delicious. Ben was extremely knowledgeable and passionate about New Orleans and its history. Had a great time and would highly recommend!
Fantastic experience! Doctor Gumbo was very knowledgeable and his recommendations were all 💯. Definitely recommend you consider if you are in town.
