Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour
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Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour
By Tastin' 'Round Town
Recommended by 94% of travelers
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Discover the regional foods of Memphis on this history-packed food crawl. Try dishes such as hot tamales and house-made desserts at six different hotspots, from family-owned eateries to award-winning restaurants. Also, learn about the culture and history of the city along the way, and travel from place to place at a leisurely pace.
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₱3,596.50
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₱3,596.50
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Ages 8-99, max of 12 per group
Duration: 2h 30m
Start time: Check availability
Mobile ticket
English
Highlights
- This tour combines history and food, perfect for first-time visitors
- Enjoy the personalized attention of a private tasting tour of Memphis
- Ditch the tourist traps and discover local watering holes
- Meet at a conveniently located spot on Beale Street
Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best
2022
- Local Memphis guide
- Food tasting
- Local taxes
What's not included- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
- Gratuities
- Departure details
- Hampton Inn & Suites Memphis-Beale Street, 175 Peabody Pl, Memphis, TN 38103, USA Our starting point is inside the lobby of the Hampton Inn at Beale Street. We gather to the right of the hotel check-in guest. Your guide is the friendly face carrying a giant whisk. If you have additional questions please do not hesitate to call 901.482.7555
Return details- Returns to original departure point
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infants must sit on laps
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 41028P1- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- 2 person minimum per booking
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- This tour is wheelchair accessible
- Please let us know ahead of time if you are celebrating a special occasion.
- Alcohol is not included with the ticket price but is available for purchase from each venue. Please have proper identification should you wish to make a purchase
- Please alert us to any known allergies
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 12 travelers
- All sales are final and incur 100% cancellation penalties.
- How much is Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour?
- Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour price starts from ₱3,536.50. Discover and book Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour on Tripadvisor
- What is the Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour cancellation policy?
- Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour cancellation policy: All sales are final and incur 100% cancellation penalties. Discover and book Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour on Tripadvisor
- Which company provides Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour?
- Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour is hosted by Tastin' 'Round Town. Read reviews, discover additonal experiences or contact Tastin' 'Round Town on Tripadvisor. Discover and book Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour on Tripadvisor
- How much time do I need for Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour?
- On average, this experience will take approximately 2h 30m. Discover and book Taste of Downtown Memphis Food Tour on Tripadvisor
- If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 41028P1
Itinerary
- You'll start atHampton Inn & Suites Memphis-Beale Street175 Peabody Pl, Memphis, TN 38103, USAOur starting point is inside the lobby of the Hampton Inn at Beale Street. We gather to the right of the hotel check-in guest. Your guide is the friendly face carrying a giant whisk. If you have additional questions please do not hesitate to call 901.482.7555See address & details
- 1Tastin' 'Round TownStop: 3 hoursOur Memphis Food Tours provide visitors and locals alike, a variety of unique food tasting and culinary excursions at the birthplace of the blues and the soul of barbecue. The Bluff City offers a plethora of choices from delicious and historic family-owned, local restaurants to trendy award-winning chefs. Tastin’ Round Town provides a local, sustainable experience tasting a variety of foods, allowing you to feel like a native Memphian. Each tour is designed to include delicious food tastings from specialty eateries as well as an off-the-beaten-path glimpse of the history, culture, architecture, and entertainment offerings of the Mississippi Delta.Read more
- You'll return to the starting point
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michellewehrle
00Great Time!
Taylor was so fun and knowledgeable! She was well known and liked everywhere we went. I would highly recommend thi…
CQB1234567
00Super Experienced Guide
Harper is a life long Memphian and provides a great history tour along with some very tasty food selections . Harpe…
GinLynn6
00It’s an absolute MUST!!
BBQ Tour. In short, this is a MUST. Amazing food and a fun, friendly local who teaches you the history of the city …
baselnajjar
00Interesting tour with great BBQ
We did the BBQ tour and had a great time learning about the history and culture of Memphis. Harper was extremely kn…
Strong1313
00Must do!!!
We took the BBQ tour and our only regret was that we didn’t do it the first day!!!!! Harper was fab & showed us all…
tracilewis0603
00Great food and Tour!
We did the bbq tour and it was excellent. It was a walking tour and does involve a lot of walking, but it wasn’t to…
t1norman
00Awesome Tour
Harper overdelivered with his incredible knowledge of Memphis history, culture, and of course BBQ. Had a great tim…
theblarggVAN
00BBQ Tour Magnificent
I did the BBQ tasting tour on January 15, and although I was the only person booked (don't be spooked, January is o…
Jennga3
00BBQ food tasting tour
Such a great, well-worth, delicious, fun tour. Perfect for visitors of Memphis or locals. Harper was a GREAT guide.…
IamCathi2
00Memphis BBQ Tour is well worth it!
This tour is a must for anyone new to the city. On this tour we were able to try several different styles of BBQ. …
Popnzs
00Memphis BBQ Tour & O' Tappy Day Brewery and Spirits Crawl
My mom and I went to Memphis on a quest for some good BBQ and to celebrate her 79th Birthday because she LOVES good…
OccasionalTraveler22
00Taste of Downtown Memphis
As others have stated, this walking tour was well worth it -- very good to excellent food choices, not too strenuou…
Alexandra S
00Amazing BBQ Tour!
We had an amazing time with Harper on the Tastin' Round Town Memphis BBQ tour. Harper was so knowledgeable about ba…
juliedenverg
00Delicious BBQ tour!
My husband and I did the BBQ food tour and it was fantastic! So much more than just a food tour - our guide gave us…
chilliemander
00BBQ tour
We enjoyed this tour so much. We got a history lesson, exercise and amazing food all in one. Our tour guide was ver…
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Emma S
14 contributions
We did the Taste of downtown Memphis tour with Taylor. She was very knowledgeable and provided lots of interesting facts about Memphis and some good recommendations for restaurants to try. We were advised to 'come' hungry but if I'm honest we left still feeling hungry. For the cost of the tour we did not think enough food was provided. The hamburger at Dyers was lovely but we were each given a small quarter to eat along with half a cup of milkshake. I realise this is meant to be just a 'taster' rather than a full meal but for the amount we paid sadly we did not feel overall it was good value for money.
Written 17 April 2022
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Cindy RAMIREZ
1 contribution
May 2021
I took the BBQ TOUR around Memphis w/ Harper and it was absolutely amazing!! I cannot say enough wonderful things about Harper. Even though it was a very small tour Harper was very attentive and had so much depth to every single thing we went through. He made the experience memorable, my fiance enjoyed trying so many different versions of barbecue we had never thought about before. And for me, I enjoyed listening to the detail and beautiful history of Memphis... and even if i want to deny it, the ribs he gave us were to die for!! I would recommend to anyone that even thinks of venturing off to Memphis they need to book this tour because Harper gives his wonderful charisma and delicious food to everyone in the tour. Once I go back to Memphis I will definitely book another tour, it was a wonderful memorable experience and worth the price. I will do it again once I am back in Memphis!! Thank you Harper!!
Written 1 June 2021
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mikkelrj
Copenhagen, Denmark2 contributions
This was a fantastic way to experience Memphis for us, a family of three on a two day stop on our road trip! We enjoyed the relaxed walking around downtown with Harper, who was a fountain of knowledge of not only BBQ, but also the city. It was also a very nice to spend some time to get to know the other guests on the tour, and of course to taste some great food at different locations! Dry rub, wet rub, nachos.. yummy!
Written 8 December 2022
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Beachykeen70
Sydney, Australia330 contributions
Jul 2022 • Couples
Well, we booked the Taste of Downtown Memphis Tour mainly because my husband was on crutches and could not walk the distance of the BBQ tour.
We arrived with 2 other couples to the meeting point. (Later transpired that 4 of us were on the Downtown tour with Taylor and one other couple were on the BBQ tour with her father).
Unfortunately there had been a personal emergency which transpired in Taylor not arriving and I think her dad tried to make the best of a bad situation. Certainly these unfortunate things happen and my review is not about that per se (and I hope all is now well) but about how it was handled and I hope this review provides constructive feedback to the operators ( Taylor’s dad) for next time.
We were also in the unique situation of my husband being on crutches.
What happened was that Taylor’s father arrived and was visibly annoyed that there were 3 couples when he was expecting 1, and he had a go at my husband for booking the tour and asked “can he walk 4 miles?” when the tour we booked was a considerably shorter distance. He later confirmed that we wouldn’t have to walk that far as we would be sticking to the Beale Street area. He told us all that Taylor was running late and would meet us at the first stop. But first, he took the first couple away for a tasting of something in the lobby and told the rest of us to wait for 15 minutes whilst he did that.
We kept thinking Taylor was joining us shortly and we would start our tour, but without any communication he just took us all on the BBQ tour which involved 4 miles of walking. As we walked further and further away from Beale Street totally confused about what was happening. and my husband was struggling, we had to ask what was going on. The response was “you are on this tour with me now”’. He then made some modifications after we explained that my husband was struggling with the distance of what we are now doing.
In fairness, the stops were great, Taylor’s dad was a nice guy and was very knowledgeable and we really enjoyed the other couples’ company. I can see if you booked the BBQ tour, then you would have had a great time. There is certainly enough food on the tour - you will not go hungry and we would recommend doing this on your first day in Memphis.
I appreciate that it was a stressful for Taylor’s dad, and he tried to make the best of a bad situation. But honesty is always the best policy. If he had been honest at the start that something must have happened (because emergencies do happen and we can all understand that) and asked if we wanted to cancel/refund or change tours then that would have been the right approach (for anyone really, even if they weren’t on crutches and unable to easily walk 4 miles). And when the tour ended, he took a group photo and said he would email this to us along with a list of recommended dining options. We never received this.
It has the makings of a great business model, with some communication improvements when things do go awry. We did have a nice time, but probably would have cancelled if we had been given the option.
We arrived with 2 other couples to the meeting point. (Later transpired that 4 of us were on the Downtown tour with Taylor and one other couple were on the BBQ tour with her father).
Unfortunately there had been a personal emergency which transpired in Taylor not arriving and I think her dad tried to make the best of a bad situation. Certainly these unfortunate things happen and my review is not about that per se (and I hope all is now well) but about how it was handled and I hope this review provides constructive feedback to the operators ( Taylor’s dad) for next time.
We were also in the unique situation of my husband being on crutches.
What happened was that Taylor’s father arrived and was visibly annoyed that there were 3 couples when he was expecting 1, and he had a go at my husband for booking the tour and asked “can he walk 4 miles?” when the tour we booked was a considerably shorter distance. He later confirmed that we wouldn’t have to walk that far as we would be sticking to the Beale Street area. He told us all that Taylor was running late and would meet us at the first stop. But first, he took the first couple away for a tasting of something in the lobby and told the rest of us to wait for 15 minutes whilst he did that.
We kept thinking Taylor was joining us shortly and we would start our tour, but without any communication he just took us all on the BBQ tour which involved 4 miles of walking. As we walked further and further away from Beale Street totally confused about what was happening. and my husband was struggling, we had to ask what was going on. The response was “you are on this tour with me now”’. He then made some modifications after we explained that my husband was struggling with the distance of what we are now doing.
In fairness, the stops were great, Taylor’s dad was a nice guy and was very knowledgeable and we really enjoyed the other couples’ company. I can see if you booked the BBQ tour, then you would have had a great time. There is certainly enough food on the tour - you will not go hungry and we would recommend doing this on your first day in Memphis.
I appreciate that it was a stressful for Taylor’s dad, and he tried to make the best of a bad situation. But honesty is always the best policy. If he had been honest at the start that something must have happened (because emergencies do happen and we can all understand that) and asked if we wanted to cancel/refund or change tours then that would have been the right approach (for anyone really, even if they weren’t on crutches and unable to easily walk 4 miles). And when the tour ended, he took a group photo and said he would email this to us along with a list of recommended dining options. We never received this.
It has the makings of a great business model, with some communication improvements when things do go awry. We did have a nice time, but probably would have cancelled if we had been given the option.
Written 17 August 2022
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
Misty N
New Orleans, LA4 contributions
Feb 2023 • Couples
We had a fabulous time being squired around downtown with Harper. His personal experiences as a Memphian as well as his historical insight made a delectable experience even tastier! He was a great host and was greeted warmly at every establishment, making us feel welcome as well. Worth every penny. My suggestion is this: do this tour early in your Memphis trip so you will have time to fully enjoy all the restaurants you were exposed to!
Written 9 February 2023
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
USAMaineTravelers
South Portland, ME102 contributions
We did the Taste of Downtown Memphis tour and it was great! I got a call and text from the owner that our guide was sick and couldn’t make the 11am tour we booked but she offered that we could reschedule for a special noon tour or join the regular 2pm tour. We chose the noon trip tour and out guide was the owner’s father! And the tour was just with the two of us. It was a blast!
We went to Blues City BBQ, SOB, Central BBQ, Rum Boogie Café, and ended at Dyer’s Burgers, plus a chance to see the Walk of Fame at Silky’s. We ended up skipping dinner that night—we were so full! The food was excellent and all included if you want an alcoholic drink, you paid for that on your own. Our guide gave us a detailed in-depth review of not just Memphis food but also culture and history. You cover Beale Street but areas down to the Civil Rights Museum. You’ll also get recommendations for restaurants over and above the ones on the tour plus local attractions. He even took our picture a couple times and texted them to us!
We’ve done many food tours and this is the best in country! Sign up and bring your appetite!
We went to Blues City BBQ, SOB, Central BBQ, Rum Boogie Café, and ended at Dyer’s Burgers, plus a chance to see the Walk of Fame at Silky’s. We ended up skipping dinner that night—we were so full! The food was excellent and all included if you want an alcoholic drink, you paid for that on your own. Our guide gave us a detailed in-depth review of not just Memphis food but also culture and history. You cover Beale Street but areas down to the Civil Rights Museum. You’ll also get recommendations for restaurants over and above the ones on the tour plus local attractions. He even took our picture a couple times and texted them to us!
We’ve done many food tours and this is the best in country! Sign up and bring your appetite!
Written 26 May 2021
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
Ryan C
1 contribution
Jan 2023 • Friends
Harper was awesome, he showed us around town while introducing us to the amazing food Memphis has to offer. Harper is very knowledgeable in the history of Memphis and can tell you a lot about how Memphis came to be, as well as the history of ribs and how they came to have such a large presence in the city. Absolutely worth doing, whether you only have one day or multiple, it is a must-try!
Written 19 January 2023
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Jennie Martin
1 contribution
Sep 2022 • Couples
Harper was a great tour guide. He introduced to us not only the food but also the background, the history and flavor of Memphis. He injected so much enthusiasm and passion about the city of Memphis, you cannot help but falling in love with the city and its food. The food at each of the stops was fantastic. We will be coming back with our grown children (will take them on the tour as well). A great tour to sign up for getting to know Memphis.
Written 17 September 2022
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Laura V
13 contributions
Great food. Enjoyed hearing about the food, as well as the history of the restaurants we visited. One restaurant had guitars from every major artist you can imagine on the walls!
The only reason I gave it 4 stars rather than 5 was that the guide was a little bit irritating. She must’ve said “y’all” 50 times and it just got annoying. (Taylor Goode)
The only reason I gave it 4 stars rather than 5 was that the guide was a little bit irritating. She must’ve said “y’all” 50 times and it just got annoying. (Taylor Goode)
Written 18 November 2022
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
Dave S
1 contribution
Apr 2021
Make sure you do this tour while you are in Memphis, especially if it is your first time there! We did the BBQ tour and between the variety of BBQ , the tour of the city, and hospitality this tour is a fantastic value and great way to spend an afternoon getting acquainted with Memphis. Also, we hit at least 4 places(not on the tour) that were recommended visiting (food and attractions) and they were all spot on, and made our stay even more enjoyable. Do yourself a favor and take the tour, you will not be disappointed!
Written 8 April 2021
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Do you sell gift certificates for the food tours. I want to give as gift and for them to schedule themselves.
Caltha G
5 contributions
I believe if you purchase direct from the tour company a gift certificate is doable.
Rebecca S
13 contributions
Hello
We are wanting to do the tour, I realize walking is involved, could you tell me how often we stop at a restaurant? My mom has some trouble walking but would love to go.
Could you put my friend and I on a waitlist for sat and sun of labor day weekend? Thank you
