I went on the tour because of the great reviews it had on trip advisor, however was extremely disappointed as to what I experienced, I believe others don't write terrible reviews because the company says they will follow up on bad reviews in a professional manner etc... this is not a terrible review but an HONEST review.
To begin with I read all the instructions and I did eat breakfast, a heavy one matter of fact, the tour states that tasting at the different restaurants is equivalent to lunch. Ice Cream to start off with is actually not the best place in my opinion, however I enjoyed the ice cream served and we moved onto the next place. We also went for lunch on Saturday 28th June at 11:30am. We arrived at the Haitian restaurant where we sat down and were served appetizers and a mojito. All this was fine, at the American restaurant we were told we would be served cheesecake as well and we did not receive the cheesecake just a poor excuse for bruschetta, I have had much much better.
The bit on the tour that really got to me and what I found disappointing was the ending which was the French restaurant, the tour guide, kept emphasizing that we had to share the food, clearly if there are just a few cheese boards with selected meats, it was quite annoying and irritating that you were not able to take enough on your plate before he grabbed the board and passed it to the other party, it would have been nicer if they had waited for each person to take a decent amount, (I had one slice of salami, could not get the caramelized onions passed over or the mustard and a cube of cheese) Food Tours if they do respond should not tell me about what I had and what I did not have. The quiche was a decent portion but the cheese and meat board disappointing. Lastly the dessert board came out and I was extremely offend when the tour guide came out to me and told me off for not sharing the desserts. Now, he did not mention anything about sharing desserts, six desserts on each board and there are 15 people, I saw about four people take one for themselves and followed, there was no knife to cut or share anything at first and to pay $45 for this was ridiculous and if anyone paid the $85 value they truly got ripped off. At least three dessert boards could have been ordered and not just two if this is meant to be a tasting. He was telling me off for taking one dessert, I mean its a bit ridiculous if me and my partner are sharing the one dessert, which was a small cream puff.
After that I was truly fed up with the deceptive tour and left early and went to find a pizza store because this does not fill you up. BEWARE, you will be hungry after, it says eat a light breakfast, please eat a heavy one. Also the restaurants that we went to on the tour were all low class restaurants, most of the food was bland, and not that enjoyable. Its best to just research good restaurants in Miami and go and taste a different on each day rather than the tour. Its a bit expensive for the tiny amount of food received, and there is hardly any meats involved, mostly breads, if thats not your thing, forget it.
