We visit Kauai every year. Last year we took the south shore food tour and enjoyed it very much. The quality and variety of the of the food was very good-one item was so good I couldn't wait to get back here to have it again! So I was very much looking forward to the north shore tour this year-I was greatly disappointed. I can only describe the food on this tour as junk food. It included pizza, fried chicken, one macaroon, a small slice of banana bread and some dried fruit. The guy who makes the dried fruit is very entertaining but since there was very little fruit available at this time of year the only thing he had was pineapple and coconut candy-more junk food. The poi and the kalua pork on the first stop was at least a historically hawaiin dish. I did not go to the last stop because I had an upset stomach by then- I heard it was an alcoholic beverage and more finger food-probably fried. When I wrote to complain to the owners about our experience I was told that I had not paid attention and if I had I would have known that all ingredients used were locally sourced and that is what they base their choices on-really??-locally sourced pizza dough? He also informed me that that is what "they" eat here. (He was rather rude and defensive). I would think that there are many choices of locally sourced ingredients without having to eat junk food. I have had some lovely food around the island and shopped in the local farmer's markets so I know they could do better. If you are expecting any high end tastings the north shore tour should be skipped. If you enjoy junk food, this is the one to try-but it's a lot of money for poor quality.
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Sep 2018
Aloha rflowers4 - Thank you so much for joining us on our food tours! We're glad you enjoyed the south side and super sad that you felt like our North Shore tour wasn't up to par.
I'm Dr. Addison, and I recently acquired Tasting Kauai. We are in the process of improving all of our tours and adding more tours around our island. Our mission is to provide educational tours that help our visitors learn about the amazing local food that is unique to our culture AND help support local businesses who are trying to source locally to help fight our food challenges here on the island. I know this may not be your intention, but you are helping the residents of Kauai move away from it's dependency on imported food (currently 95% of food is imported into Kauai.)
With that said, we'd be happy to extend a discount for a new tour if you decide to join us again - we are launch 3 new tours starting in 2019 that I am completely excited for. Thanks again for your review, see you on Kauai soon!