Carmel Small Group Walking Food & Cultural Tour

Carmel is a must see if you are in the area & this tour was perfect! Bonnie was so friendly and knowledgeable! She made it a point to try to get to know us and make us all feel comfortable. I would book this tour if I came back again since we would probably try different foods/places like Bonnie mentioned. The food portions were generous and we were given plenty to drink. We also loved walking through all the unique passageways Carmel has so we could go back and know where we wanted to go shopping after our tour.

Our tour guide, Rusty, was wonderful. She shared her love of the Carmel area as we walked to our restaurants. The reason for only 4 stars is the choice of venues. We have done many food tours and are used to tastings seated in a restaurant. On this tour only 3 were seated. Of the remaining 2 one was a stop at a kiosk that sells nuts and salts where we stood and sampled nuts. The final stop was at a lovely chocolate shop where we were each given 2 small pieces of candy. There was nothing wrong with the nuts or candy but definitely not what we expected i. terms of a tasting.

We had a great time on this tour! Bonnie was delightful and had great knowledge of & passion for the community. All the food/drinks were spots on--highly recommend!

My wife and I had a great time! Our guide Rusty was fantastic, informative and super nice! She showed us a nice variety of food venues. One of the highlights of our 3 day Carmel visit. Highly recommend!

Our guide, Rusty led us through a 5 course tour of welcoming restaurants, bars and shops and chose delicious foods and drinks we would have not chosen otherwise.

We so enjoyed our food walking tour today with Bonnie. We were only a small group, but that meant we were able to chat easily and hear all the local information. First stop El Bistro by the Sea for Chilaquiles and strawberry mimosa! Not a bad way to start! Second stop was Alvarado Street Brewery for a drink and another yummy tasting plate (involving cauliflower!). Third pit stop was down a tiny side street to visit The Nut Hut and some sampling of organic nuts. Fourth stop was at Toro, for 3 tasting plates of Japanese food and 2 of sake. Finally we sampled a couple of exceptional chocolates at Lula’s. Wow! Bonnie is a local and proudly told us of her home town. Highly recommend!

Thank you to our wonderful tour guide, Bonnie, who did a great job. As a Carmel native, she knew all the great little alleyways and details that you could miss on your own. She also worked hard to make sure our orders were put in ahead of time to be ready when we got there. I liked that there are several restaurants that the tour can choose from so each tour will be a bit different, you are not going to the exact same spots as every tour before you. They do a good job of trying to balance larger meals with some smaller snacks so that you are not so completely full halfway through that you cannot enjoy it. My favorite stop was Toro, a Japanese restaurant where we got to try sake and several other authentic Japanese cuisine. The sake, however, was unique and different than what I had had everywhere else in my life. That being said, I do wish that perhaps there was at least one more stop on the tour that was a bit more substantial similar to what we did at Toro. Our tour guide was excellent, and she pointed out several restaurants along the way that would be good for us to try, but I kept wishing that perhaps we could actually try one more of those on our tour. I would’ve liked to have had a little bit more of a substantial meal at another stop on the tour. Overall, this is a lovely experience I would recommend.

Amber did a great job providing details about Carmel By The Sea and keeping the tour moving. She answered questions and was knowledgeable about the places we visited and the food.

We stopped by 5 places and were too full to eat our doughnut at the end. We happened to have a good group of people which made it more fun.

Absolutely wonderful!! Great food, drinks and informative tour gyide with a great personality! Overall 10/10