All things considered, I would recommend this tour, our tour guide and the tour company to anyone visiting this extrovert city for the first time. From the time you arrive to a colonial home, the home base of the tour company, you begin to dive into the history of the city. Our tour guide, a historian, gave our culinary tour a well seasoned history touch. My only disappointment of the tour was the anticlimactic ending in the side walk standing next to a candy store with a baggy-to-go containing a traditional praline. The candy is amazing, so don’t misunderstand me, the downside comes from ending on the side of the road, bag in your hands w a praline that a day before we had gotten several free samples. In my opinion the tour started in high notes and should’ve ended in a high note, with maybe a traditional desert place you could sit down maybe in an picturesque alley or gorgeous patio where the tour participants could stay for drinks and more conversation.