New Orleans Food and History Tour
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Trip Type: Food Tours
Duration: 3 hours
This New Orleans food tour has every culinary taste covered. With a history-savvy guide leading the way, you’ll walk from classic Creole restaurants and neighborhood sandwich shops to hot sauce bars and artisanal candy stores. Visit up to seven locations to sample diverse foods representing the breadth of Louisiana’s culinary heritage, including dishes like seafood gumbo, Creole brisket, po-boys and pralines. Learn about the historical origins of each cuisine and, when possible, hear the chefs discuss their influences. Enjoy plenty of food on this afternoon tour.
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This New Orleans food tour has every culinary taste covered. With a history-savvy guide leading the way, you’ll walk from classic Creole restaurants and neighborhood sandwich shops to hot sauce bars and artisanal candy stores. Visit up to seven locations to sample diverse foods representing the breadth of Louisiana’s culinary heritage, including dishes like seafood gumbo, Creole brisket, po-boys and pralines. Learn about the historical origins of each cuisine and, when possible, hear the chefs discuss their influences. Enjoy plenty of food on this afternoon tour.Meet your guide in the French Quarter in the afternoon and begin your food tour of New Orleans at SoBou, one of three restaurants owned by the award-winning Commander’s Palace family. Sit down and relax as you are treated to two sweet and savory dishes that showcase modern New Orleans cuisine: a Gulf shrimp and tasso pincho, and a sweet potato and duck beignet topped with a foie gras fondue.
Listen to a narrative history of Louisiana cuisine, starting with the culinary contributions of local American Indian tribes and leading to the arrival of the Europeans and West Africans who created its Creole flavors. You’ll hear about the unique geography of southern Louisiana, as well as the linguistic origins of dozens of local dishes, from beignets and étouffée to gumbo and jambalaya.
If you’d like, purchase a drink at the full bar before moving on to Leah’s Pralines, a candy shop established in 1933. After learning its history, taste a Creole praline and sample the bacon pecan brittle.
Next, bite into two New Orleans inventions: the muffuletta and the po-boy. First, walk with your guide to Little Vic’s Sicilian Trattoria and relax in the open-air courtyard (weather permitting) where you’re offered a sample of muffalino— Little Vic’s riff on the original sandwich, made fresh to order with sliced mortadella, salami, ham, provolone cheese and Sicilian olive salad all wedged between two slices of housemade ciabatta bread.
Then pop into NOLA Po-boys, a local joint with an immense menu. Discuss the history of the oyster farming industry in Louisiana as you sample the fried seafood on freshly baked New Orleans–style French bread.
Enjoy a stop at the Hot Sauce Bar, where you can sample dozens of different hot sauces and more.
The next stop is Tujague’s, the second-oldest restaurant in New Orleans, serving up classic Creole cuisine since 1856. Discover the culinary contributions of the French, Spanish, Germans and West Africans while you dig into one delicious dish: the Bavarian-style slow-cooked beef brisket.
Your final stop is Tableau where you will enjoy a savory Seafood Gumbo. Tableau is owned and operated by a distinguished local restauranteur and located in the heart of New Orleans, the historic Jackson Square. By the time the tour ends happy hour will have started at Tableau.
The walking tour, which covers about one and a half miles (2.4 km) at a leisurely pace, ends in the old French Market, the oldest continuously operating open-air market in the region.
Listen to a narrative history of Louisiana cuisine, starting with the culinary contributions of local American Indian tribes and leading to the arrival of the Europeans and West Africans who created its Creole flavors. You’ll hear about the unique geography of southern Louisiana, as well as the linguistic origins of dozens of local dishes, from beignets and étouffée to gumbo and jambalaya.
If you’d like, purchase a drink at the full bar before moving on to Leah’s Pralines, a candy shop established in 1933. After learning its history, taste a Creole praline and sample the bacon pecan brittle.
Next, bite into two New Orleans inventions: the muffuletta and the po-boy. First, walk with your guide to Little Vic’s Sicilian Trattoria and relax in the open-air courtyard (weather permitting) where you’re offered a sample of muffalino— Little Vic’s riff on the original sandwich, made fresh to order with sliced mortadella, salami, ham, provolone cheese and Sicilian olive salad all wedged between two slices of housemade ciabatta bread.
Then pop into NOLA Po-boys, a local joint with an immense menu. Discuss the history of the oyster farming industry in Louisiana as you sample the fried seafood on freshly baked New Orleans–style French bread.
Enjoy a stop at the Hot Sauce Bar, where you can sample dozens of different hot sauces and more.
The next stop is Tujague’s, the second-oldest restaurant in New Orleans, serving up classic Creole cuisine since 1856. Discover the culinary contributions of the French, Spanish, Germans and West Africans while you dig into one delicious dish: the Bavarian-style slow-cooked beef brisket.
Your final stop is Tableau where you will enjoy a savory Seafood Gumbo. Tableau is owned and operated by a distinguished local restauranteur and located in the heart of New Orleans, the historic Jackson Square. By the time the tour ends happy hour will have started at Tableau.
The walking tour, which covers about one and a half miles (2.4 km) at a leisurely pace, ends in the old French Market, the oldest continuously operating open-air market in the region.
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