Historic Downtown St Paul Food Tour

I spent a delightful afternoon with Doug, the tour guide, exploring the magnificent historic homes on Summit Avenue. A wonderful introduction into the people who made St Paul grand.

Just ok. 5 stops with two restaurant samples . 2 are candy stores and one brewery . Our tour guide ,Kim, was great so this review is about the stops.
Tour started at 11. First stop is legacy Chocolates which is good but your tasting is a few chips of varying degrees of cocoa, bitter to semi sweet dark chocolate and one truffle. After that it's 12:30 until the next stop which is African grille. Food was on tables before we arrived and lukewarm at best. Restrooms needed attention, no toilet paper in either one. Not the tour company's fault but maybe they'll relay that they expect clean Restrooms with adequate supplies. We were a group of 16, too large given the pandemic but I'm sure they need business.
Next stop is candyland. Very small place with all of us inside plus customers. Way too cramped but if you didn't huddle you couldn't hear information. Sample is one turtle and
popcorn. Next stop is Sawatdee. Food was served quickly after we arrived, some type of chicken dish with rice and shrimp spring roll - very good. Last stop is stack the deck brewery. They bring three samples-all happy. We love craft breweries so we're disappointed in the selection. Not the tours fault but offering beers that most will like (ales) would be a better choice. Most in the group left beer in the glasses. The stops are not worth the money for us but if you mostly want to hear about the area , it's ok.

Kim was an excellent guide. I enjoyed the diversity of the stops, the historical narrative, and the quality of the food. My friends thought it was too much walking and I think the size of the group was too large.

It was so much fun! We actually live near the Twin Cities, but we hadn’t been to any of these locations. We learned history that we didn’t know and now have some new, favorite places we will be returning to again and again. Our guide, Kim, was great. We highly recommend going on this food tour.

The tour guide was awesome! The food places were good! There are so many places in St Paul that are local icons, it would be nice to see a number of places included instead of just the few we had

Nice walking tour of St Paul with history. The Somali food and chocolates were fabulous. Kim did a nice job. Staying in Minneapolis so glad we got to see St Paul.

My sister and I, along with two cousins, took this food/history tour with tour guide Kim. It was such a great tour and Kim was delightful! Our dads grew up in St. Paul and in fact, owned an apartment building in downtown St. Paul in the 1960's, so hearing some St. Paul history was really special to us - and the food/chocolate was GREAT!
Highly recommend this tour!

Fun experience and great foods! Kim, our guide, was fun and knowledgeable with history and fun facts. And we got a lot of good walking exercise in too!

The refresher and new information learned about St Paul was done in a fun way and the food stops were delicious & a delight.

This was our first visit to Minnesota, we mainly stayed in Minneapolis but decided to do the St. Paul Historic Downtown tour on our last day. Kim was our guide and she was very knowledgable and made the tour really interesting! Who knew Charles Schultz was from St. Paul? They had some great Peanuts Statues in Rice Park. The food we tried was also delicious, from our chocolate tasting, the Somalian and Thai food, then ending at brewery! We sampled three different beers. We stayed and had another pint before heading out to the airport.
The service was great at each establishment. We had a nice group of out of towners like us.
It was a nice afternoon and a great way to end our trip.

So fun! Great places to eat and nice scenery. We stopped at 5 locations and had enough food for lunch. My favorite stop was the African food

The local food was great! It was really nice to see and learn about the city on foot. St. Paul has such an interesting pass.

Fantastic this and guide. Love the food too. The candy was delicious and the variety was perfect. Meet some nice people too

I took this tour with some family as a little "gals weekend" activity and it was a ton of fun! Learning more about the restaurants and their history was great, and learning more about the city was also cool. Even as St Paul natives we learned a lot of cool new facts and history that we hadn't previously known and got to try a new restaurant to us - Afro Deli (which was amazing by the way!) Would definitely recommend taking this tour and will be booking future tours with them in the future!

Kim was an excellent guide. She shared many fun facts, a variety of food choices and was flexible to our group's needs.

Met out guide (Kim) at the designated time and location. She explained the tour and the stops we were going to experience. Consisted of a chocolate tasting (including sipping chocolate and truffles) Somolian food, Chicago popcorn and then a variety of craft beers with 3 large pizzas to snack on. Hand sanitizer was provided at every stop as well.

Our group was 10 people total and it seemed everyone enjoyed all aspects and offerings.

Kim grew up in St. Paul and was able to discuss its history and pointed out many sights along the tour. She seemed to love talking about the city and enjoyed conducting the tours. Very relaxed and easy going as well.

My gf and I enjoyed the 3 hours, her more for the chocolate and me for the beer. Overall a great experience with some good convo and laughs with the others.

Enjoyed the history & the food was excellent. Especially liked the history on chocolate & the samples.