Savor Seattle Food Tours: Walking for a Taste of Seattle
Exploring unknown territory is always easier with a guide like Savor Seattle Food Tours. Savor Seattle Food Tours offers several downtown walking tours, such as their tour of Pike Place Market and the surrounding area, along with a chance to meet the merchants and sample their wares. It's a delicious way to get some inside information on Seattle's landmarks.
Each tour has its own focus. The two-hour Pike Place Market tour allows walkers to sip MarketSpice's Cinnamon-Orange blend tea before swinging past a stall of fish-throwers to catch a few bites of smoked salmon. Other samples include chocolate covered cherries, piroshkies from Piroshky Piroshky, fresh cheese from Beecher's Handmade Cheese, chowder, and crab cakes.
The Gourmet Seattle tour is an hour longer and includes sushi, gelato, artisan bread, pad thai, and other tastes from some of Seattle's best restaurants. The Chocolate Indulgence tour is two hours of brownies, mini cupcakes, gourmet popcorn, and more – all chocolate flavored.
For those who want to go all out, the Gourmet Kayaking tour offers three days in the San Juan islands near Seattle to kayak while enjoying Washington wines and cuisine. The charming and vociferous tour guides know Seattle like the back of their hand as well as every merchant by name. As they walk along, they're ready to relate a myriad of interesting anecdotes and tidbits, allowing the walkers to appreciate the many awards won by the cup of chowder they're holding, the origin of that MarketSpice tea, or the history of the first Starbucks.
Ear phones allow the touring customers to hear the guide, even in the busiest of crowds, and the seasoned guides are quick to rescue those who've gotten separated from the pack and polite when deflecting passersby trying to help themselves to the tour's sample food.
Purchase tickets in advance on the Savor Seattle Food Tours website, and be aware that they sell out quickly during the busy tourist season. Weather can have a significant impact on the tour experience; avoid rainier seasons or else be prepared for some moisture. Be prepared to walk as well.
HelloSeattle Tip: Savor Seattle Food Tours suggests bringing a filled water bottle, crucial during hot weather and less so during the cooler months. While there's no time for shopping during the tour, participants are given a list of the stores visited as well as a card that will get them a ten percent discount on purchases there for the next ten days.
Posted on Apr 13, 2011 by Cat Rambo
