This culinary experience offers an intimate food walking tour of the mid-State Street area of downtown Santa Barbara and gives guests an up close and personal look into the local food scene.  

As we walk the streets of Santa Barbara, this food tour stops for tastings at six different shops and restaurants, where we taste and experience the best dishes and best restaurants that make Santa Barbara the great dining destination that it is. Our tour tastings vary, with some tours making stops at the Santa Barbara Public Market, and others stopping at areas like El Paseo and La Arcada. Throughout the day, guests will  also become acquainted with historical places like the Arlington Theater, the Granada Theater, and the Santa Barbara County Courthouse.

French pastries, Northern Italian dishes, noodle bowls, local wine, craft beer, tacos, ice cream, and empanadas are among the tasting options.

• Tour format: To ensure our guests safety, we are currently offering small group tours with a maximum of ten guests in each group. Please note that for some of the sit-down tastings, your group will be seated together at one table.

• Group minimums: We need a minimum of four guests to run each tour - please note that if you make a booking for two or three guests and no one else books for your tour date, we will reach out and you will be given the option to reschedule, cancel, or pay a private tour fee to make your tour a private tour.

• Price: Tickets are $139 per person ($125 for guests under 21 or those who don't drink alcohol).

• Refunds: Admission fee for all private tours is non-refundable from seven days before tour departure. For public tours (purchases of 1-6 tickets), admission fee is non-refundable from 48 hours before tour departure.

• Contactless check-in: Each member in your party will need to sign off on our waiver prior to the tour. We will send you an email with the link to our online waiver - please forward the email to all members of your party so they can sign it electronically before the start of your tour.

• When: Tour runs 11am-3:00pm and begins near the intersection of State Street and Figueroa Street in downtown Santa Barbara. Tour concludes a few blocks away. Exact meeting location will be provided once tour is booked. Private tours also available seven days a week - please call for more info.

• Dietary Restrictions: We can accommodate vegetarian, vegan or pescatarian diets - but please let us know in advance of the tour. Our tours are not ideal for guests on dairy-free, gluten-free, sugar-free, or low fat diets as some of our partner restaurants are not able to make substitutions for these diets. Because we notify all of our restaurants and partnering businesses the day prior to the tour, we are not able to accommodate any last minute dietary requests.

• Food Allergies: Our tours are not suited for guests with severe food allergies such as severe gluten allergies or nut allergies and we cannot guarantee that there will be no cross contamination of any given allergen. If guests with food allergies are attending the tour, please let us know in advance.

• Limitations: There is a significant amount of walking on this food tour. For most of the tastings, guests will be standing, so please wear good, comfortable walking shoes. This tour is not suited for those who cannot be on their feet for 2+ hours or those with physical limitations that make walking long distances difficult.

• Advance purchase required. We suggest all parties plan on booking a week in advance to ensure getting the desired reservation. In order to ensure a spot on the tour (and to give us adequate time to notify our restaurants), reservations will be closed 24 hours prior to each tour.