My wife and I enjoy Food Tours wherever we travel. Philadelphia is a short trip for us in Delaware so we try to take advantage of what the city offers. This was our first time on the Passyunk Food Tour. The tour was very nice and the places we stopped at sampled the cuisine was awesome. We learned a lot about the area and all the restaurants all around us. I would recommend it to others.

Our guide, Catherine was knowledgeable & friendly. The food was a sampling @ each restaurant,but large enough. I highly recommend this tour. My husband loved his birthday surprise!

Great tour!! Matt was very knowledgeable about the city and took us to places that I wasn’t expecting. Very interesting. And the food was great!

I did the tour with a group of work colleagues and our guide was Michael. He had lots of little interesting tid bits of information about the history of the Market and the food there. You can of course go to the market yourself and go around the stalls and buy/try things. However, some of the very popular items like Dinic’s pork/beef sandwiches (melt in your mouth meat), had a queue around the corner of you hadn’t pre-ordered! So doing the tour saves you time and disappointment too. We also had a little room that we were able to sit down and eat in with our big sandwiches. That was easier than walking around trying to eat amongst the lanes. After the tour officially finished you can ask all about any other food outlets and recommendations. Then go visit some more. Great food and great guide. Enjoy!

Dear Adam’s mom, your son was very informative and helpful and made us Canadians feel welcome. After a couple no shows, it ended up being a private tour for my husband and I. Actually it was a date and Adam third wheeled. You can tell he’s been a guide for a long time. The food was delicious, the places we visited were unique and full of character. We got a real sense of the city’s history and personality. We would recommend to anyone who wanted to get to know the city better. Thanks Adam for a great tour!

The experience is uniquely Philly, and Matt provided the connection to The Reading Terminal Market’s past and the current trend toward knowing and seeing where quality food comes from.

Our tour guide, Steve, was very knowledgeable and pleasant. His knowledge of Philadelphia and the Reading Terminal Market’s history was expansive. Food tastings were good and wide-ranging (from corn dogs to falafel and whoopee pies). Orders were organized ahead of time, so there was very little waiting. Walking tour proceeded thru Wanamakers to DiBruno Bros location nearby for cheese history & tastings & another dessert treat. All in all, a different experience for a small group of adult couples. We went early and stayed late after the tour.

I have done city tours and food tours all over the US. This was without a doubt the worst tour I’ve experienced. The cost is not worth either the quality or amount of the food or the experience in general.

The food tour was an amazing fun experience as our leader, Cathy, did a great job! We learned a lot about the East Passyunk area while enjoying some great food. Our favorite food item was the cheesesteak from Mike’s which went perfect with a cold beer. Highly recommend this food tour, which ended with dessert from Termini Pastries!

During this tour, I learned so many new things about Philadelphia, and heard a couple good ghost stories too. The places we visited for food/drink were all really nice and the tastings were plentiful and delicious. City Food Tours were serious in the description of the tour when they say to come with an empty stomach. Our guide, Steve, was very knowledgeable of the history of Philadelphia, and was happy to answer all of our questions along the way. My friend (who accompanied me) and I were lucky to have a very nice couple as the other two people in our tour group. It was a lot of fun and by the end of the tour, it felt as if we had spent the evening out with friends. Take this tour, you will love it.

We have done many food tours all over the world and this was my least favorite. The food wasn’t great, the guide read from a paper and it was so rushed. Everyone was leaving half of their beer so we could go to the next stop.

It was a great experience. Our tour guide was amazing, kind and knowledgeable. All the food really unique and delicious.

Learned a lot not only about food, but about the city itself. This is another thing I wished we did early on during our visit, because we not only had a fun tour and GREAT tour guide, but we saw so many different places to eat. We stayed at the Element down town, and never realized a couple blocks away was a street with several outdoor cafes and different ethnics foods restaurants. The foods we sampled were pretzel's, donut, Philly Cheese steak (whole sandwich) and "Red Pie"...basic and simple foods however our tour guide made the experience interesting.

Whether you’re visiting Philly or live here full-time this is a must do. Well worth the price excellent value. Our tour guide Cathy was A+, she knew so much history of the neighborhood and the restaurants…an all around great experience. Surprisingly I was pretty full at the end.

“Decedent & gourmet” are fine to put in your tour name, so long as you acknowledge that you’ve created a customer expectation, which in our case was woefully undeserved. (Disclosure #1: I’ve been an architectural/history tour guide & we’ve taken many food tours throughout the US & Europe, so my expectations may be a bit higher, but no higher than I’d apply to myself in a similar tour guide type of role.) We started at the Reading Market with Matt & his assistant. - and Matt was a pleasant & enthusiastic guide. The Market was a great place to start, but it’s huge & crowded. They could have reconnoitered a little more; we saw (maybe) less than half the vendors, then were shepherded outside to the oppressive heat w/o any seating (couldn’t eat inside) had our 1st food offering: a MINI-corn dog (large cocktail wiener size) on a stick & couple of fried cheese curds. Are you seeing the disconnect between “gourmet” & corn dog, fried cheese . . . Then we went back in the Market to get a Middle Eastern offering: a stuffed grape leaf, falafel, hummus & few leaves of lettuce/dressing & totally uninspiring pita bread. (Disclosure #2: we live around Dearborn Mi, home to the largest Middle East population in the US, so we’re no strangers to great Middle East food, & good out-of-the brick oven pitas are heavenly.) The flat blah pitas you can get at a convenience store - that were part of the tour offering - not so much. Finally, before we left the market, a doughnut. Kind of the KrispyKreme variety, but not as good, like they pulled the doughnut out of the frying oil too soon & got an opaque sugary ring of chewy mush. I’m actually pretty ‘live & let live’ about food, but my wife & daughter are official doughnut snobs. My wife pitched hers after a couple bites, quietly complaining, I consumed mine w/a resigned shrug, thinking “maybe they just don’t ‘do’ doughnuts in Philadelphia”. She was still complaining a couple days later about the worst doughnut she ever had. Leaving the Market, we walked through the historic Wanamaker Bldg - now a Macy’s - to a very fancy steakhouse in a refurbished bank. No food, but an interesting ‘quickie peek’ at how the rich & famous wine & dine. Then on to a neighborhood grocery w/a closed restaurant on the 2nd floor, where Matt did a very interesting presentation on cheeses - easily the (singular) highlight of the tour. Note that I can’t cite names of proprietors, because this is the only food tour I’ve ever been on in which there was no handout: map, list of vendors, brief notes about the culinary offerings or food scene in Philadelphia, etc. From here, on to the final stop at a bakery (again, the name escapes me, & without any reference document . . .), but not w/o incident. Matt’s assistant held the group (seven, six of whom were female, most age 65+) at a busy street corner (no shade) for multiple light changes, while he gave the decidedly unabridged version of the story about the height of the city hall sculpture & the curse on sports teams attributable to the subsequent construction of a couple skyscrapers. This was a guide faux pax on several levels (don’t keep seniors who’ve been on their feet for a couple hours standing in intense sun getting buffeted by pedestrians while they listen to a drawn out version of a story in which they probably have limited interest). The tour ended at the bakery - again, can’t remember the name . . . w/a chocolate chip cookie, which was good. As non-Philadelphians, we were looking forward to a cheesesteak (depending on size, maybe one cut in half or thirds). No such luck. In fact, portions were noticeably smaller & in general, the volume of food was less than any tour I’ve ever been on. I had the feeling they were bolstering their profit margin by skimping on food, a strategy I’d expect from big corporate America, but not one that’s going to get you endorsements from your customers, and a Philadelphia food tour w/o ANY cheesesteak . . . Come on man! In summary, given that there are several food tours available, there HAVE to to options that are better than this one.