Take a guided walking tour in New York City and taste pizza at three of Manhattan’s top pizzerias along the way! Sample the pizzas of Little Italy and lower Manhattan on the Crosstown Pizza Tour. Or head to Greenwich Village to see what tasty pies they offer on the North Village or South Village Pizza Tour. Or opt for the Lower East Side Pizza Tour for a delicious journey through the eclectic neighborhood. Spend time with the owners of each pizzeria that you visit. Learn about the different types of pizza that each venue makes, hear how pizza has changed over the years and enjoy a slice at each to determine your favorite!
New York City is a hub for fantastic pizza, so how to choose where to go? On a pizza walking tour, of course! Enjoy slices of pizza from three local pizzerias and learn a little history while you walk through historical Manhattan neighborhoods such as Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side. Your pizza enthusiast guide has the insider information on where to go and what to order, so relax and enjoy an afternoon in New York! Receive a pocket pizza journal as well!
Crosstown Pizza Walking Tour (Little Italy and Greenwich Village) Visit Manhattan’s famous Little Italy, which the majority of Italian immigrants called home in the early 1900s. See the streets that once overflowed with peddlers and fruit carts and where a peasants’ meal called ‘pizza’ made its debut in America. Visit America’s oldest pizzeria, and admire the sights of these two lovely neighborhoods as you walk.
Greenwich Village Pizza Walking Tour (North Village or South Village) Discover the evolution of pizza from its humble origins in Southern Italy to its cheesy transformation in America’s industrial cities. This Manhattan district was once a thriving Little Italy and is currently in the middle of a resurgence, with new shops being opened by recent Italian immigrants. Visit pizzerias that each specialize in a different type of pizza – types that symbolize its development from a lowly Neapolitan street food to a celebrated American staple.
Lower East Side Pizza Walking Tour (Lower East Side of Manhattan) If you love pizza, welcome to one of the most pizza-dense neighborhoods, the Lower East Side. Everything from classic pizza-by-the-slice, old-fashioned Neapolitan fare to creative spins on this eponymous dish, this neighborhood has it all. Taste and discover its rich history. Learn about ancient pizza toppings and dough stretching techniques and compare the baking patterns of three different pizza ovens. This tour is for true pizza aficionados.
On your tour, you'll visit three of the following pizzerias: Lombardi’s, Joe’s Pizza, Louie & Ernie’s, Rizzo’s, Keste, Nunzio’s, Sam’s Restaurant, John’s of Bleecker St, Best Pizza, Patsy’s, Totonno’s, Luzzo’s, Arturo’s, Sac’s Place, NY Pizza Suprema, Pizza Roma, J&V Pizzeria, Ben’s of Soho, Zero Otto Nove, Pizza Box, Rose & Joe’s Italian Bakery, Parisi Bakery, Pugsley’s, Pala, Via Tribunali, Williamsburg Pizza or Two Boots
Krista did an amazing job explaining the different styles of pizza we experienced. The group was able to experience the creation of the pizza and learn about the different ingredients that made each pizzeria unique.The group had time to enjoy a drink if one is wanted at the establishments. Krista offered recommendations after the tour of other pizzerias and even recommended a cool place to get a drink after the tour. Definitely book this experience if you are a pizza lover. The tour I attended is the Lower East Side/East Village tour Sunday at 4:30PM
Review by: Jean F, March 2018
Miriam the tour guide was a pizza enthusiast, therefore a great host. We were given information on the origin of pizza and the different types of ovens used which give different base tastes. Went to three different venues and were given pizza slices at each which were yummy. Well worth doing this tour.
Review by: Nancy C, March 2018
Our pizza tour was great, Very interesting and informative. Our tour guide was more than knowledgeable about kinds of pizzas, the processes of making them ,the ingredients and where in the city to eat the best types of pizza. She was also funny and obviously enjoys guiding pizza tours. All of the pizzas were delicious, and you get plenty. The people cooking at the pizza shops were nice and generous. A really fun and fulfilling tour for New Yorkers and tourists.
Review by: Jean H, February 2018
This tour was amazing ! I didn’t know there was so much to know about making pizza !! We highly recommend this tour for all pizza lovers
Review by: Robyn C, December 2017
This has to be one of the best tours around. Our guide Joe was amazing - what he doesn't know about pizza isn't worth knowing!! We did the tour in 2015 and were so impressed when we were back in NYC this year it was one of the first things we booked to do. I can't recommend it enough!
Review by: Denise M, December 2017
Loved this. A lot of fun and very informative.
Review by: Sandy P, November 2017
It was fun and interesting until we arrived at our last pizza taste. It was just a pizza joint with very few places to sit down and one of us had to stand the entire time. Most people in our group of around 10 were not able to sit. It was so noisy, we couldnt hear what our tour guide pizza expert had to say. Very disappointing. In order to get a drink, we had to wait in line like other customers.
Review by: Gayle W, October 2017
Best tour ever! Alexis was the best tour guide. Not only was he a wealth of information but was funny and held our interest throughout the entire tour!
Review by: Lee M, September 2017
We had so much fun on this tour, and our tour guide, Ted, was very knowledgeable and funny :- We thoroughly enjoyed this tour. All 3 pizza stops were unique, so it was a great experience for us. Pizza slices were large, so we were very full at the end of the tour.
Review by: Ray L Q, September 2017
Great way to spend a few hours in Manhattan. Our guide Mike was knowledgeable,enthusiastic and very friendly. He passed along history and tidbits of information about pizza that was very interesting and enjoyable. We had a great group of people on the tour which made the experience even better. Check this one out, relax and mangia pizza.
Review by: Angela C, September 2017
Mike was a great guide. The pizza's were amazing.
Review by: Kathleen W, August 2017
I thought I was a pizza connoisseur. I was wrong. Our tour guide was outstanding. I highly recommend this tour for any and all pizza lovers!
Review by: Uvmass, August 2017
Great tour guide Alexis! He was super informative and kept us engaged the whole time! My two kids loved it and enjoyed learning and eating! Definitely full by the end! Can't wait to try many more pizza places in NYC with his recommendation! What a great way to spend some time doing something different in NYC! I highly recommend!
Review by: vwms217, July 2017
One of the best tours ever. I am in California weeks and weeks later and still thinking about that darn pizza. Our tour guide was fabulous, with lots of history and knowledge. The walking was very comfortable and at a good pace. The pizza was filling and excellent. I loved that we played little history rememberance games to win an extra piece of pizza. I thought it was a nice touch that we received little booklets to write and rate our pizza at all the famous places that we visited. If you love pizza you should not miss this tour.
Review by: Rebecca R, July 2017
Alexis, our pizza tour guide was great! He was knowledgeable, funny, and friendly. The tour itself was a lot of fun too. I would definitely recommend this to anyone visiting New York. I wish we had done it earlier in our trip, because Alexis gave us recommendations for other pizza restaurants we should try, but we didn't have enough time to visit them. Oh well. We got a lot of delicious pizza on this tour!
Review by: Eric B, June 2017
Very informative tour. Learned a lot about pizza. From the history to the types of pizza to.how to avoid burning the top of your mouth._br/_ Pizza girl was very enthusiastic about the subject of pizza._br/_ Not a tour for people with mobility issues.
Review by: Cori, June 2017
This tour is a totally lazy way to spend a day. Fun to do and tasty too.
Review by: Daryl B, May 2017
This is a bucket list type tour for me! I love pizza and learning while tasting the history, this is one tour that you would certainly not want to leave Manhattan without doing. I strongly recommend it and the tour guide was AMAZING!
Review by: Elysa W, April 2017
This tour was excellent. I want to do another one in another part of the City as soon as possible!
Review by: Michele C, February 2017
This tour was the best! Mike is funny, knowledgeable and adorable! The pizza was delicious and the history lesson was great. I will do this tour every time I am in NY.
Review by: Rob P, January 2017
Miriam, our pizza tour guide was absolutely AMAZING!!! She was so knowledgeable!!! It was like a pizza history lesson! We toured and enjoyed pizza from a wood fire oven, a coal fire oven and a gas oven. This was definitely worth it!!
Review by: chris, January 2017
brilliant. Good humoured professional guide full of information and certainly knows his Pizza history. Pizzas themselves were different but very good.
Review by: jwhale72, November 2016
I would recommend this tour. We had a fun time. Miriam was well versed in pizza history!! She kept it fun and interesting.
Review by: Stephanie R, October 2016
We really enjoyed this tour. It was 3 hours, but we were not walking the entire time. A lot of the time was spent standing or sitting. The tour guide was knowledgeable and enthusiastic. It was fun for our entire group, age 68 - 11.
Review by: magana29, October 2016
Good info on the tours. Delicious locations.
Review by: Sandra Z, October 2016
Cool to find out more about the making of pizza's, and some of the history of the pizza places we ate at. Wasn't much walking, but a nice variety of pizza
Review by: Jill P, September 2016
It was a great tour. Michael brought his knowledge and love of pizza to the Tour. Delicious
Review by: Phyllis T, September 2016
Our tour guide was Joe and he was excellent! We loved the tour and the personal touch extended to us. Not only was the pizza great as well as the company, the tour was also very educational. Our favorite stop was Luzzo's! We will book again when we are in NYC!
Review by: Robert L, September 2016
The tour was amazing! the guide really liked and knows his pizza! We learned a lot that day!!!
Review by: Paloma C, September 2016
Our guide was extremely knowledgeable and informative, he was highly entertaining and the whole tour was really great fun
Review by: Timothy L, August 2016
We had a fabulous tour. Loved our girl. Learned fun pizza facts, and loved the trying different styles of NY pizza. Coming form Chicago, we love out pizza!!
Review by: Michelle G, August 2016
My husband and I spent 5 amazing days in New York City. We took in several tours and intentionally saved this one for our final day because, quite honestly, it was the tour that excited us most. The only preconceived notion that I came into the tour with is I am going to eat delicious pizza. Thankfully, I did, in fact, eat delicious pizza which is the sole reason I rated the tour as high as I did. Otherwise, the execution of this tour left A LOT to be desired. Two hours into the three-hour tour, we had only eaten one slice of pizza. I overheard a disgruntled fellow tour participant telling his girlfriend how he would prefer less talking and more eating. My husband and I quietly concurred. For those of you who count steps, you will not be disappointed. There was plenty of walking which I love, but we walked far more than we ate. Also, beverages are NOT included in the 40/person tour price nor are toppings of any kind. Cheese pizza. The end. The idea of feeding tour participants fresh-from-the-oven pizza and not providing drinks is somewhat absurd. Also, we were only allowed to dine in the 1st of the 3 pizza venues we visited. To be fair, one of the venues we visited was walk-up only but the 3rd was simply amazing inside with quirky, graffiti-riddled benches and NYC pizzeria charm. I only found this out by ignoring the tour guide's requests for us to stand outside of the building insisting that the restaurant was too small inside. For the record, the restaurant had an abundance of open booths. It would have been wonderful to eat inside of that pizzeria. In summation, the pizza was great...the tour, not so much. It is nothing special and definitely lacks secret sauce of any kind. My suggestion is to carve out a day to stroll through Manhattan hitting all of the prominent pizzerias from a relatively basic Google search. For the 40/person that this tour costs, you can do it at your own pace, buy toppings and soda, and have PLENTY of money left over for gelato.
Review by: Myriam M, August 2016
Great opportunity to learn about the history of pizza and how to appreciate various types of pizzas.
Review by: Bob L, August 2016
Scott form Scotts pizza tour was amazing!!! I was so impressed by Scott. He was funny and told us fun and interesting information about all sorts of Pizza. So cool going to Lombardi's!!!!! such a great present for a birthday and an all around great experience that I am so glad I could be apart of
Review by: Kim G, July 2016
This tour far exceeded our expectations. Our tour guide, Emily, was enthusiastic and really taught us about pizza and pizza making. We thought we were walking around eating some pizza, but the tour is so much more than that! We would highly recommend this tour to anyone while in NYC!
Review by: Courtney T, July 2016
This was awesome. I learned a bit of pizza history and Mike was entertaining and just all around great!
Review by: Deb S, June 2016
This was a great tour. Thank you, Scott for a fun and filling time. We will be back next time we are in NYC.
Review by: Nancy L, May 2016
Miriam and other guy guide were awesome.....loved all the history we got during tour....perfect amount of time.
Review by: John P, April 2016
Very nice tour. Tour guide was very knowledgable about everything pizza. We didn't' care for standing outside the last resturant eating our slice.
Review by: Sheryl K, April 2016
Great tour! Our guide was so very knowledgable and open to all questions. We visited 3 pizza places, and had 5 slices of pizza. The first stop offered 2 types of neapolitan pizza the second stop offered a large slice of New York pizza and the final stop offered 2 types of Sicilian pizza. Fabulous! I can't imagine any pizza lover who would not enjoy this tour.
Review by: Wendy M, February 2016
Tour guide Cedrick was awesome, very knowledgable and entertaining. Pizza was amazing. Strongly recommend trying this tour. Guaranteed good time.
Review by: Richard S, December 2015
It was great as Scott knew everything about pizza. We had 15 people on the tour and we had a lot of fun and enjoyed three different styles of pizza
Review by: Michele D, October 2015
done
Review by: KENNETH T, October 2015
My husband and I enjoyed this tour very much. The weather was beautiful the pizza was great and the tour guide, Joe, was very informative. Even the pizza 'experts' and the kids that constantly interrupted him didn't throw him off his game. He was great!
Review by: Joseph D, October 2015
What a great tour. Scott gave us so much info on pizza, he's a walking Wijipedia. Lots of fun and great pizza.
Review by: Colleen R, September 2015
Joe was the best tour guild we have had. He is so enthusiastic about pizza and the history of pizza. Definitely would recommend this to families visiting the city or those who want to know the history behind all the famous pizza joints in New York.
Review by: Steve K, August 2015
Scott is a true pizza expert.From the first moment you meet him to the last bite of deep dish pepperoni pizza Scott is educating and explaining things about pizza that really make the eating experience more than just about food. You come away with an appreciation for all types of pizza cooked from a variety of oven types. Thank you Scott for the immersion experience.
Review by: Rose C, June 2015
Our tour guide Cedric was knowledgable and informative. Very nice tour.
Review by: Regina J, June 2015
Great tour for pizza lovers. Alexis was informative and entertaining. All pizza was delicious!
Review by: Wendy Olivia M, June 2015
This tour was a lot of fun. Our tour guide Marim was funny and knew A LOT about pizza which was awesome. This was our first trip to NYC and will definitely recommend this tour to any other pizza lovers.
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