10 New Jersey Food Tours to Excite Your Taste Buds
It’s no secret that New Jersey has no shortage of excellent restaurants. So it’s great that there are some very smart people who started food tours in their neighborhood! Whether you’re in a college town, city, downtown area, or by the beach there are tours to excite your taste buds.
10 New Jersey Food Tours:
Beyond the Plate Food Tours
With tours in foodie cities like Hoboken, Red Bank, Princeton, and Somerville, Beyond the Plate Food Tours takes you on a three hour foodie experience that you’ll tell all your friends about. Beyond the Plate Food Tours started in Jersey City and has expanded to food tours throughout the Garden State. Not only will you explore the food scene and take in the local culture, but you’ll also gain insight and learn history of the towns you’ll visit. Click here to read my review on their Jersey City Tour, and here for their Downtown Somerville tour.
Cape May Food Tours
The OG of NJ food tours, Cape May Food Tours will have you savoring in local cuisine at multiple locations, learn about the Victorian sights, and delve into Cape May culture. If you’ve ever been to Cape May you known there’s an abundance of great local restaurants, so why not try out a few in a day? They have two tours, the Historic Downtown Food Tour or the West Side Cape May Food Tour. Both tours are 2.5+ hours long featuring 6 spots.
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Sister Cities Food Tours
Sister Cities Food Tours was started by two local residents to highlight the best food from sister cities Lambertville, NJ and New Hope, PA. Included on this guided, walking, food tour is your ticket to participate in tastings at FIVE of the best restaurants as well as hidden gems! The sisters will guide you through these two towns while providing guests with some fun historical facts along the way.
Taste of Asbury Food Tours
Asbury Park has emerged a foodie destination, so why not take a food tour? Spend your day savoring different dishes at various local restaurants and eateries while exploring the Jersey Shore’s most unique town. You’ll leave filled with fascinating history and the best foods Asbury Park has to offer! Their 2-3 hour tours include a Downtown Walking Tour, Sip & Stroll (downtown + booze), Bikes, Booze, & Bites Tour and a Pedego Electric Bike Tour.
Nom Nom Newark
Have you met Newark? Nom Nom Newark provides tasty, fun, Food Tours that bring visitors to 4-5 unique spots over a tour for food and private talks with the chefs!
On the Town Food Tours
On The Town Food Tours is a company that will provide people with fun and delicious educational food experiences in neighborhoods that have some of the best restaurants and bakeries in the state of New Jersey. Tour locations including Haddonfield, Collingswood, Mount Holly, Atlantic City, Hammonton, and Bordentown.
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Savor and Stroll Food Tours
Morristown is one of the Top Ten NJ downtown areas so it’s no surprise that they have their own food tour! Savor and Stroll Culinary Tours will take you through the heart of Morristown, NJ eating all the way. Enjoy hearing Morristown’s history and tasting a meal’s worth of samples from their partners as you meander through town. Your tour guide will present many facts and tidbits about Morristown and its history including info about historic churches & their cemeteries, the Morristown Green and its statues, several mansions, famous residents and locations of significance during the Revolutionary War and Gilded Age. They run two tours: The Classic Savor and Stroll ticket includes guided tour and food samples from six (6) restaurants or shops or their Savor, Sip and Shop ticket which includes food samples from 4-5 restaurants or shops.
Mangia Hoboken!
Magnia! Unlike some other food tours you will have an authentic behind-the-scenes experience at many of their stops. This 3.5 hour includes Carlo’ s City Hall Bakery (aka Cake Boss), Grimaldi’s Coal Brick-Oven Pizzeria, Empire Coffee & Tea Co, and more.
Totally Bites
Totally Bites food tour is 5-star rated tasting adventure that guides you as you eat your way through 6-8 restaurants and experience a local neighborhood through diverse food flavors. What better way to explore our culturally rich area than via a mini walking-talking-tasting buffet? Grab your bites friends forever (BFFs) and let Totally Bites be your purveyors of all-things-delicious while you learn the history of restaurants, backstories on dishes, details about culture…plus other surprises and tidbits along the way. Tours include a downtown tour of Montclair and the Upper Montclair Brunch Tour.
Noshwalks
Although their primarily based in NYC’s 5 boroughs, Noshwalks hosts tours in Newark, NJ and Paterson, NJ.
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