No expiration date
Easy refund
Free exchange
Easy booking
Asheville: Downtown Food Tour with 6 Tastings & Ham Biscuit
Asheville, North Carolina, USA
$108
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
Six tastings, one walkable loop through downtown Asheville, and a food scene most visitors miss. Start with a chargrilled Indian street food roll in warm flatbread with slaw and chutney, then a buttermilk biscuit built around dry-cured Appalachian ham. Next, a pressed panini on toasted ciabatta from a shop better known for its hand-cut potato chips.
Somewhere in the middle, your Secret Food Tours guide leads you into two local artisanal shops for tastings kept off the itinerary until you're standing in front of them. Dessert is a quarter-pound ice cream cookie sandwich.
Your guide lives in Asheville and will tell you why the arcade outside was meant to carry a fourteen-storey tower, how the city's refusal to default on a Great Depression debt saved the buildings you're standing in, and where locals eat on a night off.
Small groups, an easy walking pace, and a guide with strong opinions about where to eat next.
Somewhere in the middle, your Secret Food Tours guide leads you into two local artisanal shops for tastings kept off the itinerary until you're standing in front of them. Dessert is a quarter-pound ice cream cookie sandwich.
Your guide lives in Asheville and will tell you why the arcade outside was meant to carry a fourteen-storey tower, how the city's refusal to default on a Great Depression debt saved the buildings you're standing in, and where locals eat on a night off.
Small groups, an easy walking pace, and a guide with strong opinions about where to eat next.
—
Asheville Small Group Tour
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 3 hours
- Ice cream cookie sandwich, halved, at a downtown cookie shop
- Chicken tikka roll at an Indian street grill
- Two secret tastings at local artisanal shops, revealed on the day
- Pressed panini on ciabatta, split two ways, at a downtown chip café
- Bancon, Egg and Cheese Biscuit at a popular local bakery
- Gratuities
Meeting point
Meet the guide at the Grove Arcade entrance on Battery Park Drive
Return details
The tour ends at the last stop. About 0.5 miles from the meeting point.
-
Grove ArcadeThe tour meets at the Battery Park Avenue entrance of this 1929 landmark, built as a grand indoor market and still full of independent shops and food traders.
-
Battery Park Book Exchange and Champagne BarInside the arcade at our meeting point, a two-storey bookshop and wine bar guests often come back to after the tour.
- A short walk from the meeting point, with the largest self-supporting elliptical dome in North America, built by the Spanish architect who worked on Biltmore. (pass by)
-
Pritchard ParkThe route passes this small downtown square, home to the Friday night drum circle.
-
A narrow curving lane of independent shops the route crosses, marked by the oversized flat iron sculpture on the Asheville Urban Trail.
-
Woolworth WalkA former five-and-dime turned local art gallery, still with its 1950s soda fountain counter, passed between stops.
-
Urban TrailThe tour route overlaps this self-guided trail of 30 bronze sculptures and plaques, several of which your guide will point out.
-
Pack SquareDowntown's historic public square, a focal point since 1797, at the eastern end of the walking area covered by the tour.
How it works?
01
—
You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
—
We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
—
Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!
Asheville: Downtown Food Tour with 6 Tastings & Ham Biscuit
Asheville, North Carolina, USA
$108
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
—
You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
—
We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
—
Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!