Mission District Culinary Experience with Alcohol Pairing
San Francisco, United States of America
Taste your way through San Francisco’s historic Latin neighborhood, the Mission District, a colorful, cultural, trendy area brimming with great local eats. Following your knowledgeable guide on this tour rated 5-stars on Yelp, enjoy artisanal food tastings at four restaurants while meeting chefs and restaurant owners. You’ll also enjoy a specially crafted cocktail and Belgian beer paired with cheese. Be sure to bring your appetite!
Meet at the Women’s Building in San Francisco’s Mission District to begin your mouthwatering food tour. This tour will start with appetizers, then move onto entree, and finish with dessert. Following your knowledgeable local guide, pass trendy shops, admire mural-covered Mission Dolores, and learn about the neighborhood’s rich Latin history and culture.
You’ll indulge in artisanal treats at four different local eateries, may include: a ham and oyster bar, a chic cheese café, an iconic grocery store and San Francisco’s most acclaimed ice cream shop.
You'll enjoy a specially crafted seasonal cocktail and a dark Belgian Style beer paired with yummy cheeses. Your progressive meal ends near Dolores Park with a mouthwatering dessert from San Francisco's most acclaimed ice cream shop.
Great tour; good group and tour guide. Truly enjoyed getting to know the Mission District and the many new food and drink spots changing the culinary flavor of the area. Kevin was very personable and knowledgeable re: the theme of the tour. Would definitely recommend this to anyone.
Review by: flypuppy, October 2017
Our guide gave us a great experience! Highly recommended.
Review by: Shanthi P, August 2017
Had a great time! Daniel was an excellent tour guide, and very knowledgeable about the Mission District. Unique experience, wonderful food -- recommend the drinks/alcohol pairings. Enjoy!
Review by: Clifford B, August 2017
Good history, food, and company!
Review by: Ellen B, August 2017
We had an excellent time touring the Mission District in San Francisco with our tour guide Daniel. He told us the history of many of the murals and also provided interesting information about the artists. We began our tour with a cheese/beer tasting at Mission Cheese. Next stop was Tacolicious where we enjoyed an excellent fish taco and two samples of margaritas, one of which was prepared with a habanero tequila Oh my God!. We then proceeded on to Gracias Madre where we were served a sweet potato enchilada-like dish. Our last stop was an ice cream shop where we had salted caramel ice cream. Thoroughly enjoyed our tour of the Mission District and highly recommend it to others!
Review by: Maria S, July 2016
This was a great and unique tour. We went to unique restaurants and we sampled cheese. The ice cream was the best! Loved it!
Review by: Frieda Z, July 2016
So happy to take this tour. The tour guide, Ida, is super enthusiastic and knowledgable. Seemed that the tour company and the restaurants were in constant communication, they were always prepare and received us right away. Last but not least, food choices were delicious and very interesting.
Review by: Andrea V, July 2016
The guide was fantastic. Very knowledgeable about the area and the food.
Review by: wrx.mendoza, May 2016
great experience, tour guide was great as well, had to leave early due to sunset cruise but everything was delicious and very educational!
Review by: Megan C, April 2016
The food was incredible. The guide was very friendly. The murals around the neighborhood are beautiful and the guide stopped to explain their history. Very cool experience.
Review by: Jessica T, February 2016
This was my absolute favorite adventure in San Fran. I'm a huge foodie and love my drinks. It was delicious and so much fun! Madeline was so enthusiastic and really seemed to enjoy herself right along with the group. Fantastic time.
Review by: Thomas D, September 2015
This was so much fun, great food, no lines, nice people, great guide. What more do u want
Review by: Guy M, September 2015
Kayla was excellent, knew about everything and how to add interest to even a walk down the street.
Review by: Jeffrey W C, September 2015
4.5 stars. Our guide, Kayla, was very friendly, informative, entertaining and kept us on schedule without making us feel hurried. She obviously had great relationships with the various restaurants and vendors/chefs/managers. We await receipt of her notes from our great tour.
Review by: Nicola M, August 2015
Kayleigh was an excellent guide. We did the morning tour starting with smoked pork tacos and the most amazing bloody Mary's. This was followed by Cheese and Beer pairing, a vegan entree and the best ice cream we've ever tasted. Our guide was informative, entertaining and completely changed our view of The Mission district. We had no idea of its culinary heritage and this tour really brought that to life. We definitely recommend this tour.
Review by: John P, July 2015
Great experience. Kayla was a great guide and host. Learned more about the Mission district. Food was interesting and had multiple stops to sample. Learned a little history of each food stop and in moist cases met the owner who explained the food we ate.
Review by: A F C, July 2015
Most enjoyable -friendly guide and group-. interesting and delicious!!
Review by: lanyafent, May 2015
Absolutely fabulous. Got into local eateries without having to stand hours in line. Restaurant choices were outside the box.
Review by: Shelba m, May 2015
Kelia was an exceptionally well informed guide! We loved the tour and it was the highlight of our trip to San Francisco!
Review by: Alyssa G, October 2014
One of the highlights of my SF trip! Avital was super energetic and interesting. We went to some great places and tried some great food. I wish I went earlier in my trip, so I could have gone back later to some of the places and gone on one of the other tours. Highly recommend to tourists or locals.
Review by: Eleonora P, October 2014
Very well organized, fun and informative tour. Our tour guide, Zev, had a great sense of humor and made the whole experience incredibly enjoyable while guiding us through the Mission district - a truly culinary gem in the city. Highly recommended!
Review by: jimmy_e8, September 2014
As a tour with food around the Mission district, this worked well. our guide, Corinne, was very passionate and knowledgeable about her subject and interested in her tour group. Starting off at the Cheese Bar was very good as this is a hugely different concept - we had a great talk by the proprietor whose knowledge is formidable. For me it went downhill from there - on to 2 very noisy restaurants : Hog and Rocks and Tacalicious. The oyster, ham and cocktail in Hog and Rocks were good, no getting past that, very good but then followed up by 2 tacos didn't make it stand out as special or different. The advertised blurb said "make your own empanadas" for example but there was nothing like that and really and although in the market, where an employee talked to us about seasonal produce, there was no interaction with any of the staff. As a committed foodie with a huge interest in locally produced / sourced and seasonal food, I think that this tour could probably be expanded but I really do appreciate the significant amount of work involved in putting this together. Just for me, against what was advertised and the price, unfortunately it didn't work.
Review by: Anita C. A, August 2014
My son (11 years old) and I had a fantastic time with this. We have done other "foodie tours" in other cities but this was one of the best. Corinne was a wonderful young lady with lots of energy and a great attitude. She was very personable with everyone in the group and even a stray we picked up at one point. The restaurants we visited we prepared for us, very liberal with their portions (we were stuffed beyond any of our prior food tours) and staff was very fun to chat with. I have actually already recommended this to some friends that will be in the area in two months!
Review by: ELISABETH C, August 2014
The food tour guide, Zev, was very knowledgeable about the various places we visited, the owners and the different types of food we tasted. He made the tour entertaining and and provided interesting information about the murals which we wouldn't have found in a guide book.
Review by: Connie C, July 2014
Our guide was very interesting and knowledgable. The food was so wonderful that after the tour we went back to the local vendors and bought more to take back to our hotel!
Review by: dudley92, July 2014
it was more than we expected didn't know that the mission district had that much to offer. I have to say I tried some things that I probably wouldn't have tried, like oysters vegan Mexican food goat cheese we had a great time recommending it to all our friends. We would like to try the other food tour on our next visit Corrinne was awesome she was very enthused which made us excited to see. great job money well spent
Review by: Francisco M, May 2014
This is a wonderful tour that makes one feel like a local. Even if I lived in San Francisco, I would go on it. The food sampled was delicious; the insight obtained into the city and its diversity was invaluable; the tour leader could not have been better. A must do when in San Francisco!!
Review by: Grandville B, April 2014
Absolutely worthwhile! _br/_
What a great way to see some of the city you would not normally experience._br/_
Our guide Zev, was the reason the tour was so enjoyable. His knowledge and enthusiasm was sensational... Go do it!
Review by: Bob B, April 2014
Absolutely worthwhile! _br/_ What a great way to see some of the city you would not normally experience._br/_ Our guide Zev, was the reason the tour was so enjoyable. His knowledge and enthusiasm was sensational... Go do it!
Review by: Debbie N, February 2014
Lots of fun! Informative and great food! Had a blast! Even in the pouring rain and wind!!
Review by: Marlo M, December 2013
The experience was outstanding. Highly recommended. Zev our tour guide was great. He made it alot of fun.
Review by: Siobhan G, July 2013
Fabulous tour. Very knowledgeable tour guide. Variety of food and stops was well planned and worked together well. Perfect way to orientate yourself to San Fran food! Recommend doing it on your arrival to San Fran so you can go back and check out all of the places after!
Review by: Melanie D, April 2013
What a way to get to know a town!!! Highly recommend. Thank you Avital. Your tour was informative, enjoyable not to mention delicious. Loved that the tour size was nice and small allowed for easy hearing/ seeing/ moving around. Great choice had been made of our food stops. Loved the information provided about the mission and murals as well and you really knew your stuff when if came to food. Thank you. Would highly recommend and if we were in town we'd even do this tour again!!!
Review by: O S T, January 2013
Great food tour - Avital is so knowledgeable! She has such awesome enthusiasm for food and the Mission District! Next time we go back to San Francisco, we will definitely be taking another one of Avital's tours!
Review by: Blondie, January 2013
We thoroughly enjoyed this tour of the mission district. We chose to include the cocktail pairing. The cheese place we visited was our personal favourite and as new residents of San Francisco a place we are looking forward to returning to. Avital was very friendly and knowledgeable. Definitely recommend
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