Downtown Santa Barbara Food Tour in Santa Barbara booking from $150.00

Downtown Santa Barbara Food Tour

Overview

Eat delicious lunch food, drink great drinks and learn about downtown Santa Barbara on this 3.5ish-hour walking tour. Indulge your palate for a few hours with sipping, sampling, and savoring. You will enjoy food from 5-6+ local eateries, 1-2 wine tastings or 1 wine tasting plus another alcoholic beverage (depends on the day, it could be wine, beer or a cocktail). Go where locals like to go. This fun, informative and local walking lunch tour is sure to pleasantly fill you up and entertain the whole family. Great for a daytime activity and awesome way to learn about other places to eat and drink on your visit!

IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE WALKING OR HEALTH ISSUES, please consider a private experience for your group.

TOURS CAN EASILY BE MADE PRIVATE - please email, call or text us for more information regarding private experiences.

City: Santa Barbara

Fri 25 Oct

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What's Included

Beverages (water and one non alcoholic drink)

Local guide

Additional alcohol tasting (including wine or beer)

Food and wine tasting

Guaranteed to mostly skip the long lines

Local taxes

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Specialized infant seats are available
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Minimum drinking age is 21 years old
Please note: restaurants and tastings are subject to change
Walking is involved
Most restaurants are wheelchair accessible
Kids - parents you know your kids best, kids are welcome, if you think they will have fun with the groups.
NOT recommended for toddlers
FOOD ALLERGIES/AVERSIONS: Vegetarian, dairy free and gluten free (not celiac) option are available, we will do our very best to accommodate you BUT if we don't know about your food allergies/aversions ahead of time, we cannot accommodate them. Please advise at time of booking if required - add your food requirements in the Special Requirements field upon booking.
Special requirements other than food i.e. wheelchair or stroller - please add your requirements in the Special Requirements field upon booking.
A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons
Currently, masks are not required in CA. If you would like to wear a mask, please feel free. If you do not feel well please do not come. Private tours available.

What To Expect

El Paseo Building

Wine tasting at one of the wonderful tasting rooms in El Paseo! During COVID-19 we visit 5-6 different tasting locations (food from 6-7 local spots), which also includes 1 wine tasting room and an alcoholic beverage l at another location. Tastings and tasting locations are subject to change.

Santa Barbara County Courthouse

Visit the outside of the Courthouse and if there is time, The Sunken Gardens

Arlington Theatre

Learn about the history the The Arlington Theatre. We do NOT go inside the theatre.

The Granada Theatre

Learn about the history of The Granada Theatre. We do NOT go into the theatre.

The Historic La Arcada Courtyard

See and sometimes walk through the Plaza designed by famous Architect Myron Hunt.

Casa de la Guerra

If there is time, hear some interesting history about Casa De La Guerra and possibly De La Guerra Plaza

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Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (479)

Alissa H

Feb 2017

I highly recommend this tour for anyone visiting Santa Barbara as well as locals who have been here for years! I have been on this tour twice and both times had a blast! If you are a foodie like me and also enjoy walking around downtown, meeting new people then this tour will be right up your alley! I was born and raised in Santa Barbara and learned so many fun facts about the town that I had no idea about prior to the tour. I went on this tour toting my 4 month old baby with a bunch of my friends who also had babies. After making our reservation, the owner Evan, tailored the tour just for us to make sure that we weren't on our feet too much, but still got a little bit of exercise between stops. The amount of food that is you sample at each restaurant is the perfect size, not too big and not too small. The price for the tour was very reasonable compared to other food and drinking tours in the area. Every place we went to except for Persona pizza was somewhere that I hadn't been to before and were all delicious. Even at Persona we had two pizza's that were amazing and that I hadn't thought of trying before but am definitely hooked now. Grassini winery was one of my favorite stops and both times the customer service was outstanding and the wine pairing was on point. Our guide was very knowledgeable, funny and energetic which made the tour that much better. At each stop she would give the group some alone time to enjoy the food/drinks and come back and check in periodically in case you had any questions. It's nice to see a local business in town that is also promoting other small local businesses!

Lovetravel G

Jan 2017

We had three couples doing the food tour and had a blast. There was a good variety of stops along the way. Our first stop was Renauds which was great-perhaps not on the first stop however because the treats were sweet. I loved the atmosphere of the Market, the noodle dish was super. There was some history (mainly at the beginning of the tour) and a small amount of walking. There was some fabulous popcorn (Santa Barbara Popcorn Company) at the first winery that was the best popcorn we've ever had. It was a jalapeño jack-so so good! Fun tour! We all left with full but not stuffed bellies.

Andrea P

Jan 2017

It was my first time in Santa Barbara and my husband surprised me with a tour for our anniversary on our first day. We were only there for the weekend and I thought this tour covered enough of the downtown and surrounding area to where I felt I got to learn, see and/or taste a lot of the historical features, food and wine of Santa Barbara, It was just me and my husband so we got to know our guide very well. She was great. She has a great spirit to her and was very well informed about the area. Make sure you bring extra cash to tip...something my husband didn't prepare for :-/ Overall we had a great time, even in the rain. We even signed up for a wine club and look forward to receiving our first bottles of wine from the area in the Spring.

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