San Francisco Food Tours

 

Ferry Building and Farmers Market Tour

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays 10:00am - 11:30am (and custom tour dates based on availability*)
$90 per person

Join the original Ferry Building Tour established in 2004 with a knowledgeable food industry professional as your guide. Guests will sample handmade chocolate confections from Recchiuti and French macarons from Miette, named one of the top ten pastry shops in the world by Conde Nast Traveler. Recently opened, Señor Sisig’s ube churros and chicken tortas are a new crowd favorite. Award-winning cheese tastings at Epicurean Trader, paired with sweet and sour loaves from Berkeley’s Acme Bread are always a hit. Additional stops may include Gott’s RoadsideHumphry Slocombe, Reems or Cholita Linda.

Please note that the Farmer's Market is active on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Tours on all other days will include more time, visits and tastes inside the building.

 

Ferry Building Food Tour and Alcatraz Excursion

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays
(and custom tour dates based on availability*)

Ferry Building Tour: 10:00am - 11:30am
Alcatraz: Afternoon departure / Last return changes seasonally
$172 per person (includes $45.25 face value Alcatraz ticket)

Two entertaining and engaging historical landmarks bring you the ultimate, day-long San Francisco excursion exploring land, sea, food, and history. You'll begin with a 90-minute tasting tour of the best of the Ferry Building Marketplace, where a knowledgeable guide/food industry professional leads you on a historic, food-filled journey of the building's local, artisan cuisine and food purveyors. After a brief break, you'll then voyage by ferry to one of the city’s most popular attractions, Alcatraz Island, for a self-guided tour of the beautiful island and its history-packed maximum-security prison that has drawn San Francisco Bay Area tourists for decades.

Please note that the Farmer's Market is active on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Tours on all other days will include more time, visits and tastes inside the building.

 
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Japantown Tour

Fridays and Saturdays, 11am - 2pm
$130 per person

San Francisco is home to one of only three remaining Japantowns in the United States, and our guide takes great pleasure in showing it off to locals and visitors alike. Tastes may include a bento box of savory salads from locally owned Japanese market, Super Mira; onigiri (rice balls) from family-run Kissako Tea; Takoyaki (Japanese street food) from Yama-Chan; matcha soft serve boba sundae from Matcha Cafe Maiko; and steaming bowls of ramen from Hinodeya Ramen Bar. After the tour, you’ll be an expert on where to find the best bites in the neighborhood.

 

Mission 18th Street Tour

Saturdays 11:00am - 2:00pm
$150 per person with alcohol, or $130 per person without alcohol

Visitors line up around the corner for Bi-Rite Creamery’s handmade ice cream, but you’ll be treated like a VIP with front-of-the-line access to a scoop. You may also taste the pop-up cult sensation of Wes Burger 'N More, the best bahn mi Vietnamese sandwich you've ever had from a very unlikely location, or our favorite hidden side street wine bar. Other coveted bites may include tacos and tequila from Tacolicious, mushroom and cheese empanadas from Chamorro eatery, Prubechu, and single-origin chocolate tasting from Dandelion Chocolate.