Excellent tour. We had a blast. We ate great food, met interesting people and learned a lot of the history of the Lower East Side. We took our 13 year old on this tour and he loved it. The food was more than I thought so we were definitely not hungry. Our guide, John was fantastic and his knowledge and delivery of the information was outstanding. We highly recommend this tour. If we had not taken this tour we would have missed out on an important part of New York City.
I would highly recommend this tour. The original tour had 20 people scheduled but we were broken up into 2 groups of 10 which really helped being able to hear and ask questions. Our tour guide: Mary Hannah did an outstanding job. The tour was about the different immigrant groups who came in NYC where the were located in the city and a food sample from some of these groups. It was not all talking, the food samples broke this up nicely so you didn't get bored with just hearing someone speak. The places we ate were small local places with great food. Mary Hannah's knowledge of the city and her use of the ipad to show us what the city looked like during certain time frames really added to the experience. The only negative thing I have to say about the tour is that the weather did not cooperate, it was extremely cold!!