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Chinatown & Little Italy Food Tour

Eat your way from Chinatown across Canal Street into Little Italy and Nolita. Seven tastings, three neighborhoods stacked right on top of each other, and a guide who will show you exactly where one ends and the next one starts.

About The Tour

What To Expect On The Chinatown & Little Italy Food Tour

Three neighborhoods, six blocks, and about a hundred and fifty years of people arriving and opening shops. This is the densest eating in Manhattan, and we know which doors to walk through.

On the Chinatown & Little Italy Food Tour, you will:

Eat at seven independent shops: From a Fuzhounese noodle counter to a fourth-generation Italian cheese counter, every stop is family-owned.
Cross Canal Street on foot: Watch Chinatown turn into Little Italy turn into Nolita, and find out where the real lines fall versus where the maps say they do.
Hear the stories behind the storefronts: A bakery that got its obituary written in the New York Times and reopened anyway. A pasta shop on the ground floor of an official New York City landmark.
Skip the tourist traps: These are the counters New Yorkers actually line up at, picked for the food and not for how close they sit to the subway.

Tour Details

Chinatown & Little Italy Food Tour

Tour Details	Description
Tour Duration	Three Hours
Number of Stops	Minimum of Seven Locations
Availability	Tuesdays & Fridays @ 11AM and Saturdays @ 11AM and 2:30PM
Capacity	Maximum 12 People Per Tour

Note: Beer and wine available for purchase. Vegetarian options are available. The meeting location for the tour is included in your confirmation email.

Family Friendly

Vegetarian Friendly

$94 Per Person

The Experience

Three Neighborhoods, Seven Stops, and One Very Full Afternoon

Learn More About Our Chinatown & Little Italy Walking Food Tour

Most people walk straight through all three of these neighborhoods without noticing where one ends and the next begins. We are going to fix that, and feed you the whole way.

We start east of the Bowery in the blocks New Yorkers call Little Fuzhou, a newer Chinatown than the one on the postcards, then cross into the old one on Mott, Bayard and Pell, where all of this started in the 1870s. Canal Street is the seam. On the other side of it, Little Italy has narrowed to a few blocks of family businesses that outlasted everything around them, and a little further north it turns into Nolita.

Seven stops, three hours, all of it flat and under a mile of walking. We finish on Mulberry Street with something sweet. Bring your appetite and skip lunch.

Tour Stops

Visit These Awesome Locations On The Chinatown & Little Italy Tour

Shu Jiao Fu Zhou

A Fuzhounese counter shop on Grand Street where almost nothing costs more than a few dollars and everything gets made fresh. Robert Sietsema called it the neighborhood’s favorite cheap eats destination, and The Infatuation rates it a 9.2. The owner left an engineering career in Toronto to come back and run the family shop, and he keeps the prices low on purpose so the neighborhood can still afford to eat here.

North Dumpling

Dumplings folded by hand at the window while you wait, cooked to order, northern style. The tell here is ginger, and they are not shy about it. Regulars can pick these out blind. The kitchen also turns out chive pancakes, hot and sour soup, and wonton noodle soup for the people who come in and sit down for an actual lunch.

Mei Lai Wah

A Taishanese bakery that has been feeding Chinatown since 1968. In 2008 the New York Times published something close to an obituary for it. It reopened three months later, on an auspicious 8/8, and then outgrew the Bayard Street counter it had held for over fifty years and moved around the corner to a bigger room on Mott. The founders’ oral history sits in the Museum of Chinese in America.

Kam Hing Coffee Shop

One family has been making one thing on Baxter Street since 1984, in more than thirty flavors, for about a dollar apiece. It is barely sweet, which is exactly why the neighborhood’s older residents have always favored it. A longtime customer bought the shop from the founder in 2009, and his daughter runs it today. She drew the cartoon characters on the wall herself, based on her own family.

Piemonte Ravioli

Fresh pasta rolled daily on the ground floor of an 1833 Federal-style house that New York City individually landmarked in 2010. The pasta business has occupied this storefront since before the Depression, and it’s often described as one of the oldest pasta shops in the country. The Bertorelli family has run it for the last seventy years. Half the Italian restaurants in this city quietly buy their pasta here.

Nolita Pizza

A corner slice shop on Kenmare run by a guy who came from Bleecker Street Pizza, which is a stop on our Greenwich Village tour. He once spent five hours building a pizza with Pope Francis’s face on it, using ricotta and raspberries to get the skin tone right. His house pie is a Margherita with two upgrades, and he will happily argue for both of them. Gluten-free crust available.

Figo – Il Italiano

We finish on Mulberry Street at the one gelateria The Infatuation singled out as not a tourist trap, on the single most tourist-trapped block in New York. Authentic Sicilian cannoli, with both the shells and ricotta made in Palermo, Sicily.

Historical Landmarks

You will cover the seam where three neighborhoods meet. Start in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge near the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, then wind through old Chinatown to Doyers Street, the sharp curve once called the Bloody Angle. Cross Canal into Little Italy to the spot where gangster Joe Gallo was gunned down in 1972, then finish in Nolita beneath the domed Old Police Headquarters. Under a mile total, all of it flat.

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