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Charleston Food Tour

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Charleston Food Tour
  • 2 hours
  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English

Overview

Pair compelling captures with mouthwatering treats on this foodie walking tour of Charleston’s historic district, which includes sit-down stops at some of the city’s top restaurants. Skip past the lines with VIP access and savor enough samples to make up a full lunch. You’ll also learn about everything from African and French influences on the city’s cuisine to how pirates affected Charlestonians’ diet.
  • Discover Charleston’s rich food and richer history on a walking tour
  • Learn how French dishes and African ingredients shaped the city’s cuisine
  • Gain VIP access to some top restaurants to sample their signature dishes
  • Enjoy enough delicious samples to comprise a full lunch

What's Included

  • Lunch
  • Alcoholic Beverages
  • Children's ticket (ages 0-6) food not included

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

  • 195 E Bay St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA

    Your guide will meet you underneath the awning in front of the Charleston Tours & Activities windows. Our guides typically arrive ~15 minutes in advance so if you arrive before that please be patient. Please try to arrive 10 minutes early if possible to get checked in.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Rainbow Row

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Pineapple Fountain

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Charleston City Market

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Near public transportation
  • Infants must sit on laps
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

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Ann_K
Our tour guide, Paige, was outstanding, the food was great at all 4 places( but she was waitressing , picking up our food, taking drink orders and delivering drinks at Poogan's Smokehouse- don't know if they were short-staffed or if she has to do that every time at that restaurant) but the pulled meat sandwich was delicious, the low country boil at port of call was fantastic, the she crab soup at Crab House wonderful, and dessert was quite good. Her tales of early Charleston life were very well done, would recommend to anyone coming to Charleston!

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Great tour
Shannon_S, Apr 2024
Jeff was a great guide, very nice and informative. We were a small group so it was like a personal tour. Good food and lots of history.
Excellent Food Tour
Ola_G, Apr 2024
Our tour guide Page Meyer was excellent in share all there was to know about the history of Charleston and where the food originates from. I was truly enlightened by the many stories of past and present that she had to share. Her knowledge of Charleston is exceptional!
Hope you get Page
donna_b, Apr 2024
Page did a wonderful job ferrying us around town. The she crab soup was great. I think that was the best. You can order alcoholic beverages if you wish.
It was good!
Crystal_H, Apr 2024
The tour guide Page was great! She was very knowledgeable about the history of the city and passionate about the food.
Great Mom and daughter event
Sharon_D, Apr 2024
The food tour was very well done, the tour guide was extremely knowledge. Memorable moment was walking down Philadelphia alley as we are from that area at home.
She crab soup was our favorite!
Laine_R, Apr 2024
Enjoyed the history lessons along with the great food. Our guide, Paige, was awesome. Was pleasantly surprised at the larger portion sizes of the foods we sampled.
Disappointed
Michael_T, Apr 2024
The tour guide was pleasant but no overly friendly or informative. Food selection for the tour was disappointing. The cost for the tour was not justifiable.
Great Tour
Caron_L, Apr 2024
The host was amazing and knowledgeable of the local foods in the area and provided and exciting experience.
A little taste of Charleston
Beth_B, Apr 2024
Page was our guide, and she did a great job of combining our food-focused tour with a smattering of the history of Charleston as it relates to food and the history of Charleston itself. I especially appreciated how she did not gloss over some of the sordid details of Charleston's past, ie. slavery and plantations. Instead, she used these facts as talking points to help us remember so we do not repeat the past. She did not try to erase Charleston's history but sought to educate. The tour is a great starting point to explore food in Charleston, with much of what you would expect ie. she crab soup, chicken perloo, bbq and the like.
Fun and great food stops.
Richard_c, Apr 2024
We enjoyed the food tour very much. Food was great! Loved the sites in this fine city. Our favorite as you can imagine is the She Crab soup.
A foodies first trip to Charleston
shivani_n, Apr 2024
Just learning the history of Charleston and the food! Paige was amazing and so knowledgeable. She was very kind and thoughtful in her explanations
Great Food Tour
C_J, Apr 2024
Page was a great tour guide. She gave us a good mixture of Charleston history. The food was good at each stop.
Wonderful!
Glenn_W, Apr 2024
Paige is great! Excellent food and a history lesson! The weather was perfect on this trip! Summer will be HOT!
Bridge run Food Tour
Brenda_M, Apr 2024
Paige was excellent in the food choices for us and her history of Charleston,we were disappointed the tour stated on your website we would visit Rainbow Row and The pineapple fountain and Paige informed the group it was a food tour not a residential tour,so that was disappointing, you might want to change the wording on the description of the tour
Enjoyed it
Eric_T, Mar 2024
Good tour guide, informative and friendly. I enjoyed the tour and it featured a good variety. This was the most expensive food tour across multiple cities I’ve done and didn’t really feel like it was more food or more expensive food. It was a proper amount of food for a tour but $100 was steep.
Response from Host, Apr 2024
Hey Eric, Super excited you enjoyed the tour and the guide, we have some of the best guides in the city. I do want to mention our tour is actually one of the more affordable one’s in Charleston. Food prices are pretty high in Charleston and there is several hospitality service charges restaurants charge that makes the food get pretty pricey. Thanks!
The tour guide was very...
Arianna_M, Mar 2024
The tour guide was very informative and helpful! He made sure we had a great time and had great eats!
Delicious and wonderful!!
Jamie_P, Mar 2024
Food was delicious!! Our tour guide gave us the perfect amount of history and was top notch. Highly recommended!!!!
Yummy experience
Tejna_S, Mar 2024
You get to taste the best food with expert guide in 4 different places. Also, get to hear some interesting facts about the food history. Thanks Page for being a wonderful guide.
Great food, great tour guide!
Ann_K, Mar 2024
Our tour guide, Paige, was outstanding, the food was great at all 4 places( but she was waitressing , picking up our food, taking drink orders and delivering drinks at Poogan's Smokehouse- don't know if they were short-staffed or if she has to do that every time at that restaurant) but the pulled meat sandwich was delicious, the low country boil at port of call was fantastic, the she crab soup at Crab House wonderful, and dessert was quite good. Her tales of early Charleston life were very well done, would recommend to anyone coming to Charleston!
Page was a wonderful very...
Cheryle_L, Mar 2024
Page was a wonderful very knowledgeable guide! We would highly recommend her! The food was fantastic!
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