<p>Hi, </p>
<p>We are heading to New York City this spring and would love to take the kids on a food tour. I like the idea of the kids seeing some of the city and tasting the food too. </p>
<p>Some I have seen on tripadvisor and yelp are Food on Foot, Food of New York Tours, Ahoy New York Food Tours. </p>
<p>Any suggestions? </p>
<p>Thanks,
Snow</p>
<p>Food on Foot!!! I’ve done it twice, once the East Village Tour, the other the Midtown. The guy who owns/runs the program is AMAZING…and so is the food. You go to out-of-the-way places that he’s picked, have tastes of amazing food, and keep walking. Very friendly, very personable.</p>
<p>Taking the Midtown tour the first year I was there taught me enough about Hell’s Kitchen that I was very comfortable renting an apartment there when I went back the next summer – I knew where I was, and where I could find good food.</p>
<p>Have fun!</p>
<p>Really depends on what kind of money you’re looking to spend… most of these are special-occasion level prices for me, but here’s my list of favorite NYC staples.</p>
<ul>
<li>Motorino (East Village) - one of my favorite sit-down pizza spots in the city</li>
<li>Eataly (Flatiron) - awesome italian food and pastries</li>
<li>City Bakery (Flatiron) - famous hot chocolate, pretzel croissants </li>
<li>Cafe Cluny (West Village) - one of my favorite brunch spots, on a great little tree-lined street.</li>
<li>Rice to Riches (SoHo) - Rice pudding, exclusively. </li>
<li>Momou Milk Bar (various) - Bizarre and awesome sweets</li>
<li>The Spotted Pig (West Village) - This is one of my favorites for lunch on a rainy day. Super cozy, relaxed, hip vibe with great food and great beer.</li>
<li>Balthazar (SoHo) - Not cheap, but worth it. This place is on every Best NYC Restaurant list.</li>
<li>Momou Ssam Bar (East Village) - Admittedly, I haven’t been here because it’s so expensive. But it’s such an NYC favorite that I had to include it.</li>
<li>Shake Shack (various) - a great NYC “fast food” chain, amazing burgers and shakes. Plus it’s affordable!</li>
</ul>
<p>I’ve also heard great things about Frankie Spuntino, Prune, ABC kitchen ($$!), Union Square Cafe. I also love to duck into little ethnic places around the city, and you usually can’t go wrong with just a hole-in-the-wall slice of pizza. I’ve been here for several years and still have such a long list of places to try (the never ending options is the worst part of living here!)</p>
<p>Street meat…</p>
<p>How old are your children?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.momou.com/restaurants/ssam-bar/[/url]">http://www.momou.com/restaurants/ssam-bar/</a> lunch at momo***u sassam bar, lobster rolls from the truck at union square</p>
<p>Depends on what kind of food you are looking for, here are some of my favorites of all kinds. One hint, 8th and 9th ave in the 40’s has a lot of interesting restaurants, great to wander and pick out your favorite.</p>
<p>-Chinatown is always a fun destination, plenty of great restaurants. For Dim Sum, my favorite is the Nom Wah Tea Parlor, the older Dim Sum house there (and fortunately, recently renovated). It is at 13 Doyers street, which is this narrow alley of a street off off Mott/the bowery. Also fascinating, the street has a long history during the Tong wars (basically Chinese organized crime),many of the buildings along that street have multiple egresses to allow fleeing from enemies and such (fortunately that happened almost 100 years ago…:). My now wife and I used to cut class at NYU and go there for lunch, back then for the two of us would come out to be about 10 bucks:)</p>
<p>There are a ton of restaurants there, for the cheap Chinese flair, try Wo Hop ,17 Mott Street, it is an old style chinese restaurant, with a lot of cheap food. Their hot and sour is quite different then the standard brown version…</p>
<p>I also like 69 Mott Street, try the roast pig appetizer.</p>
<p>-John’s Pizza, Bleecker Street, Village. 278 Bleecker st, West village (between 6th and 7th avenue). They have another restaurant on West 44th street, but I like the original better.</p>
<p>-Carmine’s, West 44th st (just west of Broadway). Family style italian food, they also have a restaurant on 92nd and broadway that I like better, but they both have fantastic food (their caesar salad is worth dying for), large portions.</p>
<p>-Katz’s Deli, Houston and Ludlow St, Lower east side. An old style Jewish Deli (when you walk in, you each get a ticket, and the waiters or counterpeople write on them, you give the tickets at the Cashier)…it dates back to when the lower east side (now a hipster paradise) was a Jewish immigrant area (I believe it goes back to 1880), still has the best pastrami and hot dogs in my opinion. </p>
<p>-For something more upscale, try the Old Homestead steakhouse, 14th st and 9th avenue. Located in what is still called the meatpacking district now an upscale, yuppified area (never thought I would see high end fashion stores in that area, once home to S/M clubs, meatpacking places and a honky tonk biker bar among other things). A very old fashioned type of steak place, dates back to the 1850’s I believe, last time I was there still had great steaks (not cheap).</p>
<p>-Cart Food. There are apps on smartphones for this that list where they are, food carts have become a booming business, never know what is out there, everything from German food to Korean Tacos and beyond. I also encourage trying the ubiquitous hot dog carts, I tend to like the hot sausages.</p>
<p>-If feeling brave, couple of places outside of Manhattan worth going to</p>
<p>Flushing, Queens (easily accessed, take the #7 subway from Times Square or Grand Central to Main St stop) has a large number of Asian restaurants and in some ways is more vibrant then Chinatown. You can find Korean, Indian and a variety of regional Chinese restaurants (I would say after going there go back 1 stop on the subway and take in a Mets game if they are in town, but I am not cruel, I would subject anyone to that).</p>
<p>-Take the D train out to Coney Island in Brooklyn, and go to the original Nathan’s restaurant. The Hot Dogs taste different there and it is a part of an older NY now vanishing, from when Coney Island was an amusement and beach destination (still is, the cyclone roller coaster, if open for the season, is one of the best), plus the NY Acquarium is right there. </p>
<p>-Back in Manhattan, if you like fried chicken try Korean Fried chicken (one place is Boka at 9 St. Mark’s place, east village), it is fantastic stuff.</p>
<p>-Veselka, 9th Street and second ave, fantastic Ukrainian style diner/restaurant, kind of place you always see people eating breakfast. Great Kielbasi, also make a mean pea soup, any of their food is fantastic.</p>
<p>-Shake Shack (I recommend the location on Columbus Ave or the one in Madison Square park on a nice day and eat outside), the one on 8th ave is always crowded.</p>
<p>What suggestions musicprnt- this thread is very helpful.</p>
<p>I think the OP is asking about organized “food tours” of NYC ?</p>
<p>Everyone - thank you so much for the great suggestions! </p>
<p>I was looking for a food tour. All my kids are teenagers and it is a special occasion for one. First time to NY and she is very much a foodie. I thought going on a food tour would get us out to restaurants and neighborhoods we might not otherwise encounter. And I find that tours push you to see a bit more than you might on a typical afternoon. </p>
<p>I greatly appreciate all the restaurant suggestions and I am printing off this thread to use when we are there and looking for somewhere to eat. </p>
<p>I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it - you parents are the best! </p>
<p>Thanks again,
Snow</p>
<p>I did this one <a href=“http://www.foodsofny.com/chelseamarket.php[/url]”>http://www.foodsofny.com/chelseamarket.php</a> It was great! The tour guides are pretty much underemployed actors and do a wonderful job. I wanted to do Greenwich Village but it was booked. The meatpacking district was great. I would do any of these - <a href=“http://www.foodsofny.com/index.php[/url]”>http://www.foodsofny.com/index.php</a></p>
<p>Haven’t been on this tour, but he’s had lots of good press. (Kind of pricey though…) </p>
<p>[Famous</a> Fat Dave’s Five Borough Eating Tour on the Wheels of Steel!](<a href=“http://www.famousfatdave.com/]Famous”>http://www.famousfatdave.com/)</p>
<p>He drives you around in a vintage Checker cab…</p>