Our tour guide was Mary Hannah and she was awesome. Very knowledgeable, very amiable, she set a decent pace though we were not race-walking down the streets that I've seen in other groups. She brought us ALL over the Lower East Side...Had some interesting insights to unusual historical events. If it was based just on that I would give it a 5, but food was to be included...and though it was, it was just okay. We were given a dry, bland waffle cookie at the start of the tour....to represent the Dutch settlers...umm? The next stop was Chinese dumpling, and they were okay...bland, doughy.. Italy was next and the fried ball of cheese and prosciutto was so dry that no one of my group finished it. It could have used some sauce for sure,,,maybe that was extra?? The next stop was at a knishery which had the best food of the day...though that was dry, too. Sour cream would have been a nice touch! The last stop was at a German beer garden where you could get a pretzel or a 2 oz. beer tasting. The pretzel was good but everything we had that day was bland and doughy so, not wild about the food part.