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When I sat down with tour guide Bob last month, he had so much great stuff to say that I didn’t even get to share all of it with you. I wanted to include a couple more choice quotes from him, including some instruction on how to be a good tour taker and a story…

  If you have yet to try Brooklyn Blackout Cake, you MUST take our Nolita/ Noho Tour ASAP! In the meantime, enjoy this classic Brooklyn Blackout cake recipe courtesy of Capital New York. For the filling: 1 1/2 tablespoons unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa 1 3/4 cups milk 3/4 cup sugar 1 ounce bittersweet chocolate, roughly chopped…

Okay, I’m going to get a little meta on you right now. We’ve all seen them, they plaster the internet: the “top” lists. Top 5 Regrets People Have On Their Death Beds, Top 5 Movies of the Summer, Top 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Left Hand, etc. Sometimes they’re awesome, and sometimes they’re…

Looking to create the Minetta Tavern experience at home? Here is their recipe for a Maple Leaf Sazerac as published on FoodRepublic.com. Or stop by for one after the Central Village/ Soho Tour. Servings:1 cocktail Ingredients 1 3/4 oz. Rittenhouse rye whiskey 1/2 oz. Demerara 1/4 oz. Sortilège maple liqueur 3…

It’s no secret that when the Olympics come to your country, the whole world is watching. According to the BBC, a record 4.8 billion people will watch the games this summer, making the 2012 London Olympics the most-watched event in history. That’s a whole lot of eyes on the United Kingdom. This summer also marks record…

Ah, the Fourth of July. A time for barbecues, beers, and (hopefully controlled) explosions. But don’t let today’s fanfare make you forget what we’re celebrating: American independence! Here are five (not boring) facts I bet you didn’t know about Manhattan’s involvement in the Revolutionary War. Happy celebrating! 1.  Manhattan fell to British forces…

I sat down with tour guide Barri this weekend for some sugary latte drinks around the corner from the Foods of New York Tours office. I’m going to start profiling a tour guide every month for your reading pleasure. The people who make up this company are so diverse and so interesting, so come get…

In New York City, there are a few ways you can go as far as celebrating Independence Day. Of course, there are the spectacular fireworks over the Hudson River (put on by Macy’s for the second time this year), for which many people buy expensive tickets to beautiful boat cruises or clamor for space on…

One of my favorite things about working for Foods of New York Tours is the photos. No, not our pictures; your pictures. Pretty much daily, people who have taken tours share the pictures they took during the tours on our Facebook page (if you didn’t know, each month we choose one picture submitter to win two free tour…

So check this out. Thanks to the Internet, we can all indulge our nerdy historian sides from time to time. At the end of April, the New York City Department of Records released an online archival gallery of over 870,000 photographs, some dating back as far as the 1880s. In the little wave of press…

  Our Director of Operations, Amy Bandolik, was pretty busy last week. She took a trip to Faicco’s Pork Store (an internationally-known meat market and one of the stops on our Original Greenwich Village Tour), not just to check in and say hello but to stick around and help them make a batch of their…

Well hello there! Thanks for dropping by. This is the shiny new and improved Foods of New York Tours blog. We’ve done the blog thing before, and if you check out our archives, you’ll find all kinds of tasty morsels and recommendations: best places to check out in Chinatown, official recommendations from our New York…