Private Brooklyn Heights Food and History Tour
Tour Type: Private Group Walking Tour
Themes: Brooklyn Food and History, Architecture, Immigration and Demographics, Transportation in NYC
Starts: 209 Joralemon St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Ends: 1 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Duration: 2.5 hours
Cost: $85/person. Fee includes all food. 6 ticket minimum. 48 hour cancelation policy.
Good For: Groups, Students, Corporate Events, Families, Anyone!
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Join Alex on a Brooklyn Heights food and history tour to learn all about America’s oldest suburb. We’ll discuss the area’s past, from Dutch farmland to one of New York’s most elegant neighborhoods. We’ll follow the neighborhood’s demographics over time, from a provincial enclave, to a working class Jewish and Italian community, and eventually into Brooklyn’s most exclusive neighborhood.
We’ll weave our way through the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, stopping at several National Historic Landmarks along the way. Other stops include Brooklyn’s Borough Hall, several famous 19th century churches, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Ferry Landing, and DUMBO. If time allows, we may even stop by a few celebrity mansions!!
But it’s not all history. We’ll enjoy delicious treats from several local businesses, including Croissants from a famous French bakery, potato latkes and smoked salmon from a classic Jewish deli, sandwiches from a 125 year old Lebanese market, and NYC style pizza from an iconic local pizzeria. As usual we’ll skip the lines at each neighborhood institution!
Along the way you'll have plenty of time to ask questions and engage with Alex on any number of topics. Tours are casual, flexible, and fun, so bring your curiosity, appetite, and a comfortable pair of walking shoes!
This tour is perfect for groups, students, field trips, networking events, corporate events, families, or anyone looking to experience New York City’s food, culture, and history in a new way!
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Alex will meet you at a predetermined location, and the tour will begin. Tours are flexible, and we arrange everything, so you can simply focus on the experience!
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Food Strolls Guided Tours was created in 2020 as a means for sharing our passion for New York’s food, history, and culture with others. What began as a hobby has developed into a full service tour agency, and over the past three years we’ve given over 1,000 tours to clients including Stanford University, Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Google, Etsy, You Tube, Ernst and Young, Zillow, The Lawrenceville School, and the NYC Department of Education.
We are fully licensed and insured tour guides, professional bloggers, and active members of the Guides Association of New York City. Local food and history is our passion, and our tours are experiences you simply will not find anywhere else in NYC.
For more information email alex@foodstrolls.com, or call us at +1-609-658-8556. To inquire about any of our private group tours, click below.
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“I highly recommend this company. I booked the Brooklyn Heights tour as a work event. Everyone loved it. We learned a lot, ate great food, and had fun. Alex is lovely, engaging, and accommodating.” - Laura Dickey, Director of Engineering at Etsy
“Our family recently booked a private tour through food strolls and had a very fun time. We took the Brooklyn Heights Food and History Tour and learned a ton about Brooklyn and NYC history. We stopped 4 times during the tour to eat, and the food was delicious. Alex is a great tour guide. He owns the tour company and you can tell he is very passionate!” - Lucas Louis, Cinematographer and Foreign Correspondent for Globo TV International
“We recently visited New York from Colorado to visit our son in Brooklyn. We booked the Brooklyn Heights food and history tour and were blown away! We got so much more than we had expected. To learn the whole “backstory” alongside the food was fascinating. We are veteran world travelers, and hands down Alex is the best tour guide we have ever met. Thank you Alex!” - Patrick Beach, CEO of Captec Financial Holdings Corp
“Great time with Alex! Would recommend for those wanting a leisurely stroll with neighborhood history and tasty grub thrown in!” - Patrick Catterall, Senior SEO Offpage Manager at iGaming.com in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK