Tour Info
| Location: Manhattan
Duration: 3 Hours Tour Includes: All food, enough for lunch! Option to add on extra stops/drinks for additional price Walking Distance: Two miles. |
Eat your way through the Chelsea Market, Meatpacking District, and the High Line, and see the new Hudson Yards!
From its working-class origins to its place in NYC’s club scene, to today, where high-end fashion houses rub shoulders with celebrities and trendsetting gourmands, the Meatpacking District is a slice of all of New York City!
Learn the area’s secrets, take in the views from the world-famous High Line and sample the diverse fare in the historic Chelsea Market.
*Tour runs rain, snow or shine.
*NEW* Enjoy a free 5oz. draft pour at The Bronx Brewery in Hudson Yards after your tour! Details available in your confirmation email after you book your tour!
Stops are subject to change at any time.
OUR TOUR GUIDES:
All of our tour guides are working actors, comedians or writers, as well as amazing storytellers. Every tour comes packed with personality!
Eat Offbeat is a social impact food company whose menus are entirely conceived and prepared by a team of refugees and minority immigrants from around the world who now live in New York City. Eat Offbeat has been bringing the best global home-cooking from around the world (Syria, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar…) to New York, are absolutely committed to incorporating different cultures into the kitchen, promising authentic recipes and a delicious mix of flavors. They have recently opened two new eateries, one at Chelsea Market and another at 550 Madison Ave and would love for you to stop by and learn more about Eat Offbeat!
On your tour you will hear the term “social impact”, but what does that really mean? For us, social impact is making sure that we have a positive impact on the communities we live and work in, as well as the amazing places we explore with our tours. We believe that truly experiencing a place “like a local” means having meaningful engagement that supports local, community-based organizations and learning about their causes and the people making them happen. Just as we carefully select the places you’ll visit and the food you’ll try, we have also carefully selected our social impact partners to showcase the amazing work being done in our communities. Your patronage on our tours is a small act to help these initiatives flourish. We want to help our visitors explore NYC on an authentic level and make sure that we are all having a positive impact while doing it.
Meatpacking District
Although the area was originally residential, markets have existed in the district since the 1840s. People moved into tenements in the Meatpacking District in the 1820s to escape epidemics in what was then the main part of New York. In 1900, 250 slaughterhouses and packing plants filled the district; by the 1930s, those houses produced the nation’s third-largest volume of dressed meats. Five meatpacking companies still operate in the district. Boutiques and bars are more common than rump roasts these days, and the neighborhood continues to evolve almost daily.
Chelsea Market
Chelsea Market is a food hall, shopping mall, office building and television production facility located in the Chelsea neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. It was built in the former National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) factory complex where the Oreo cookie was invented and produced.
The High Line
“Built on a historic, elevated freight line destined for demolition, the High Line has inspired millions worldwide as an example of how cities can reuse industrial spaces to create beautiful, hybrid spaces.”
Hudson Yards
Hudson Yards is the largest real estate development project in the history of the United States! It features five acres of public space and gardens with the centerpiece being the Vessel which is an interactive landmark. There is one million square feet of shops and restaurants as well as office buildings and residential buildings. It has its own MTA subway stop off the 7 line. The 7 was extended to end here (previously the last stop was Times Square).
There is a 10% non-refundable cancellation fee for holding the tour guide and the tour date. The balance of the tour is fully refundable up to 72 hours before the tour date.
