Unleash your inner foodie during the Rockridge Neighborhood Heritage & Walking Food Tour! During this three-hour long guided walking tour we'll share the area's rich history and explore its fast-growing dining culture'all while enjoying some seriously delicious samplings along the way! This food tour is just as appealing to visitors as it is to locals alike'it's a rare opportunity to learn some little-known facts about the area that may even surprise those who call Rockridge home.
Enjoy an opportunity to skip the typical Bay Area tourist traps and dive deep into the food culture, history, architecture, and current happenings of this European-inspired oasis. On this food tour you will cover 1.7 miles in 3-hours while enjoying a 'Progressive Eating' experience. Make sure to come with an appetite! Local selections offer enough to keep you satisfied, but not stuffed. You will enjoy a small group experience as this tour is capped at 12 guests.
TASTING SELECTIONS
Enjoy our 'best-of' Rockridge highlights, including:
- A'sweet and fluffy morning bun'from one of the finest authentic French patisseries in the Bay Area that will have you saying 'oui!'
- Seasonal Southern-Italian-meets-California delicacies'from the Zagat-rated restaurant leading the charge on bringing fine dining to the East Bay.
- Pairings of'local and global seasonally-inspired cheeses'at the Bay Area's first European-style marketplace, inspired by Les Halles in Paris.
- A'selection of house-made sausages, courtesy of a Rockridge local butcher whose high-quality products have remained a staple of the area throughout its many changes.
- Authentic crispy chicken taco'made from'scratch with no artificial ingredients where all'meat and poultry comes from local partner farms that never feed the animals growth hormones, antibiotics or animal by-products.
- Visit the birthplace of'America's first blockbuster ice cream flavor'at a parlor that takes you back in time.
