We were expecting a fun culinary tour of Charleston, but ended up with a less than fun guide who informed me at the start of the tour, that "I don't know food, but I know people". Our guide then proceeded to disparage a late-arriving family before they got to our starting point, and then pointed out to our group that the entire group was going to be late because of this family (who had three very small children and parking details were inadequate to help them get to our start point).
Our guide showed virtually no sense of humor and did not know much about local cuisine, restaurants or restaurant history. Instead we were lectured about the origins of corn, the Charleston earthquake of 1889 and where fried green tomatoes came from. Things that were marginally interesting but were not really germane to a 'culinary tour'.
The tour started out promisingly at Eli's Kitchen, but quickly devolved with a stop at a rather generic barbeque restaurant (where the guide deferred questions about local whiskey's to the server who then assertively tried to steer us away from sampling any South Carolina whiskeys. "I can't recommend any local whiskeys', I think you should try something from Kentucky". That doesn't speak well to local or regional pride and wasn't helpful to customers like us, who wanted to have the full South Carolina experience. The guide was rude to our servers. He physically struggled the walk to the various restaurants we toured and it was hard to hear him above the din of the street noise, unless you were standing next to him.
For a city with a rich culinary history, this tour could benefit from having a guide with stamina, culinary knowledge, a sense of humor and a more Charleston-specific restaurant selection to sample.