ABOUT SIDEWALK FOOD TOURS OF SAN DIEGO

Sidewalk Food Tours was founded in New York City in 2011 by Joshua Hirsch with a simple idea: one of the best ways to understand a neighborhood is through its food.

After years of leading food tours in cities across the U.S. and abroad, we brought Sidewalk Food Tours to San Diego. Since then, we’ve spent a lot of time exploring the city, eating at local restaurants, working with local guides, and finding the food and stories we think are worth sharing.

San Diego is a great city to explore through food because its culinary scene reflects so much of what makes the city unique. Its location near the Mexican border, coastal setting, diverse communities, and California culture have all influenced the way San Diego eats.

We want a Sidewalk Food Tour to feel a little like exploring San Diego with a local friend who knows where to eat and has some good stories to tell along the way. Our guides don’t simply take you from restaurant to restaurant. They share the history, culture, architecture, people, and stories behind the neighborhood you’re exploring.

We also put a lot of thought into where we eat. We’ve tried plenty of restaurants that haven’t made the cut. Great food matters, but so does the story behind the restaurant, its connection to the neighborhood, the experience our guests have there, and how each tasting fits with the rest of the tour.

Our private San Diego food tours are popular with families, friends, celebrations, and other groups who want to explore and eat their way through the city together. Having your own guide makes it easy to enjoy the experience without worrying about choosing restaurants or coordinating all the details yourself.

We also specialize in corporate team-building experiences in San Diego, including private team-building food tours and hands-on cooking classes and cooking competitions. Our food tours get coworkers out into the neighborhood to eat, explore, and spend time together, while our cooking experiences bring teams together in the kitchen to cook, collaborate, and enjoy some friendly competition.

Whether you’re joining a public tour, exploring San Diego with family and friends, or planning a corporate team-building event, our goal is pretty simple: great food, interesting stories, and a fun way to experience San Diego together.

We’re always discovering new restaurants, meeting new people, and finding new places worth sharing.

Come hungry. We’d love to show you around.

Sidewalk Food Tours San Diego

San Diego is a city that’s best experienced outside. Our walking food tours get you out into the neighborhood, where you can experience the food, history, culture, architecture, and people that give San Diego its personality.

Come hungry. Along the way, you’ll stop at local restaurants and food spots we’ve chosen to give you a taste of the neighborhood. We look for places with delicious food, but also places that have a story to tell or a connection to the community you’re exploring.

But a Sidewalk Food Tour isn’t just about eating. Between tastings, our local guides share stories about San Diego’s history, changing neighborhoods, architecture, and food culture and point out places you might otherwise walk right past.

That’s one of our favorite things about food tours: the food gets you into the neighborhood, but the stories help you understand it.

Choose a public San Diego food tour, book a private food tour for family and friends, or bring your coworkers together for a corporate team-building food tour. We also offer team-building cooking classes and cooking competitions in San Diego for companies looking for a more hands-on way to get their teams cooking, collaborating, and having fun together.

Whether you’re visiting San Diego for the first time or you’ve lived here for years, we hope you leave with a full belly, a few good stories, and some new places you’ll want to come back to on your own.

Pick a tour, bring your appetite, and experience San Diego with us.