Our tour was on Sept 9, 2021. I booked this tour because of the reviews i read below. This tour was the biggest dissappointment to us. I work very hard for my money and saved up for this. When i read about all of this great food people said they got i thought we were getting a great deal for $150. WRONG!!!!!!! The food we got was not that great and it was very tiny portions. We expected large food portions if you go by what people said in these reviews. WRONG AGAIN !!!!! When i called and spoke with the lady at Bulldog tours and shared my dissapointment on the food, she said they have no control over that, the restaurants do that. DO YOUR HOMEWORK PEOPLE!! ASK QUESTIONS. FIND OUT WHICH RESTAURAMTS YOUR PARTICULAR TOUR WILL BE GOING TO. Cause, i guess they must be different tours seeing how others had a great tour with lots of food. ThAT sure was not the results we got with ours. WE HAD NO SHECRAB SOUP, NO BBQ FROM POOGANS. NO HANDY AND HOT RESTAURANT, NO PIMENTO CHEESE, NO FRIED GREEN TOMATOES. This is what we had: our first stop was a tiny bowl of a crab dip and bread that we had to share with others so you didnt get much at all, at AJ Shucks we had a teeny tiny tuna taco with a tiny cup of rice, at the candy shop we had a tiny piece of praline candy and 1 pecan, at the tea and spice store we had tiny samples in like a tiny pill cup of like popcorn, oysters crackers and 2 other tiny items and the last stop, which i think was called Barbardos, had this 1 piece of fried chicken on top of a few pieces of corn and butterbeans with a little sauce over the top. This is the biggest portion of food we received on the entire tour. It was not that great. Over 1/2 the people on our tour did not eat theirs. The outside of my chicken was burnt and not completely done on the inside. My husbands was the same way. It was dissappointing. If i had to do over, i would go with either the Upper King street food tour or do the one were this one chef cooks you a whole meal in front of you for you to eat so you would get atleast a full meal with that one.
All i can say is be sure to thoroughly check where your food tour is going and see what you will be getting to eat. As you can see, our food tour was not worth $150. I would say more like $50 total for 2 adults. Hopefully my review will help others mot make the same mistake we did.
The best part of the tour was our guide Blake. He was very knowlegeable on the history of Savannah.
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Sep 2021
79starlam,
We are very sorry you were disappointed with the tour with us. You are absolutely right that we have multiple restaurant partners and it varies from tour to tour which ones we go to. The reason, as our representative pointed out, is due to the restaurants. We have very good relationships with the places we go, but most of them only allow food tours in the restaurants at certain times. In addition, some are opened/closed outside of tour times. We have stops we only go to in the morning because they close before the afternoon tours begin, and we go to restaurants in the afternoon that do not open until after the morning tour concludes. Anyone is welcomed to call our office the day of the tour to determine what stops will be made along the way.
Out tours are not just about the stops, but the history of the food along the way and the deep historical roots in the Low Country of South Carolina. We are going to share this with our Culinary Manager to determine what improvements can be made for the time of your tour. We never want anyone wanting for more after the tour, nor do we want anyone feeling like they wasted their money with us. Feel free to reach out to our Tour Guide Manager, Andrew Kuhn, at
[email protected] to discuss a full refund. Thanks for the feedback and for visiting Charleston.