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(New York, N. Y.)
WalkingToursManhattan.com has introduced new food walking tours to enhance your sightseeing experience when visiting the Big Apple.
The latest food tours added are; The Cake Boss, Brooklyn Bridge Sunset Food Tour, Little Italy/East Village Pizza Tour and Private Food Tours.
The Cake Boss We’re going to Carlo’s Bake Shop, the location of the smash hit television show Cake Boss, as seen on The Learning Channel, for the past 3 seasons. We hope to see Buddy Valastro, his mother, three sisters and three brothers-in-law now operating the shop since it opened in 1910. We’ll meet in lower Manhattan, and take the Path train to Hoboken. Other nearby attractions are Frank Sinatra’s boyhood home, and Sinatra Park overlooking the Hudson with a great view of Manhattan. Purchase of foods are additional. Little Italy/East Village Pizza Tour Our tour begins in Little Italy and the home to Lombardi's, New York's first pizzeria, still making pizza the old-fashion way in the original coal-fired brick oven. Then we'll go to Lasso, a winner of the Manhattan Borough Pizza Competition for its margherita pie. Next we'll visit Ciao Bella, for authentic home-made gelato as we clense our palate and head into the East Village. Artichoke Basille is a popular pizzeria drawing crowds day and night with the freshest ingredients and a beautiful char crust. Must see local icons included Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, The New Museum, and Cooper Union, a free university built in 1859, the old home to CBGB's and McSorley's, the oldest pub in the city. Lunch included in the tour price. Brooklyn Bridge Sunset Food Tour
We'll meet in Lower Manhattan near the bridge, and take a short walk into Brooklyn. The scenery from the bridge is incredible, the orange/red glow of the sunning sun, and the view of the Statue of Liberty are amazing. Our first course will be Nova Scotia Salmon on the bridge as we learn more of the longest suspension bridge built at the time. Its 15 years of construction was completed in 1883.
In Brooklyn Heights we'll have the legendary pizza from Grimaldi's, a famous name in New York Pizza, who got a start working with the Lombardi family in Little Italy in the early 1900's. Their thin-crust pizza is still made in a coal-fired brick oven, and carries the highest pizza rating from Zagat. For dessert we'll visit a gourmet hand-made ice cream store in an old fireboat house at the Fulton Ferry Landing. Sights not to miss are the old cobblestone streets in this historic seafaring neighbhorhood, Long Island Safe Deposit Company build of cast oron built in 1869, and the Eagle Warehouse & Storage Romanesque Revival built in 1874. Food included in tour price.
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