Louisville Food Tours

Private Tours

Experience the story of Louisville one bite at a time on a guided walking food tour exclusively for your group.

Enjoy a carefully curated adventure through the city’s most delectable eateries! Pick from 3 meticulously crafted tours that each highlight the city’s best restaurants, bars and speakeasies. We’ll handle the food, drinks, and planning — you just show up ready to celebrate.

Note: Planning a team outing? We offer specialized services to help make your event a success! Head over to our team event page to learn more.

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Private Daytime Food Tour

Take a walking food tour through Louisville’s most iconic neighborhoods while learning about the history of Louisville and its culinary contributions.

This tour can be alcohol-free and all ages are able to participate. This tour is both wheelchair and stroller accessible.

Where

NuLu, Downtown, or The Original Highlands

Availability

Weds-Sunday

Private Evening Cocktail Tour

The perfect pre-party plan: great food, cocktails, and a fun walk through Louisville’s best neighborhoods. Enjoy a night out on the town in NuLu or Downtown Louisville with a private Phantoms of Prohibition or Beyond the Barrel tour!

This tour can be alcohol-free, but all participants must be 21+.

Where

Downtown or NuLu

Availability

6-9 PM, Tues-Sat

What to Expect

In addition to an exclusive, customized experience for your group you can expect…

Bourbon, Beer & Cocktails

Unless, of course, you’d rather not. It’s your private tour, after all!

Audio Headset​

The lightweight headset helps your party hear us from a distance.

Private Group

We can accommodate up to 20 at a time. (Larger groups may need to be split up.)

Walking

1-1.5 Miles. Wear comfy shoes!

What Happens on a Food Tour?

In a nutshell: we’ll walk around a beautiful neighborhood making frequent stops for food and drinks while telling you fascinating true stories from Louisville’s history.

Take a look at this video for a glimpse of what to expect on your tour!

Get in Touch: Private Tour Requests

Need an experience customized for your group? Want a time or date that isn’t available to book online? Prefer to ride in style on a historic trolley rather than walk? Let us curate your event! Please fill out the form below with more details, and our events team will get back to you ASAP.

FAQ’s About Private Tours

Take a look at the Frequently Asked Questions about our Private Tours:

That depends on the tour you book. The daytime food tours have a LOT of food – we recommend arriving hungry and possibly planning to skip dinner that evening! The Whiskey Row evening tour is more of a cocktail & booze tour than a food tour, but you’ll be eating almost a full meal consisting of an appetizer portion, entree portion, and dessert. And the NuLu

That depends on the tour you book. The evening tour is primarily a drinking tour and you will be drinking 2 small pours of bourbon, a full glass of beer, and 4 half cocktails. The daytime tours have less alcohol; you will enjoy some beer, bourbon tastings, and some other cocktail tastings depending on the tour.

Yes! Non-drinkers will enjoy refreshing non-alcoholic mocktails and drinks paired with delicious food.

Depending on the size of your group, we may be able to charter a van or bus to add pickup to and from our tour. All of our tours are designed to be walkable and are under 1.5 miles, so you won’t need transportation during the tour. If you need transportation, please fill out the form above or send an email to sales (at) louisvillefoodtours (dot) com before booking your tour.

Because private tours are tailored to your group and come with a dedicated guide, private tours do cost more than our public food tours. Your party will receive personalized attention and more flexibility, making it an ideal option for those seeking an intimate and exclusive food tour experience.

The price of our tours is based on an operating margin that fairly compensates our hard working tour guides, pays full menu price for our local restaurant partners, and includes a gratuity for the staff at each of the bars and restaurants we visit.

Our tour times and days are based on when our restaurant partners are open. However, we can sometimes make it work if we create a custom tour itinerary that skips a stop, or if there is a large group that makes it worthwhile for our restaurant partners to open and add staff just for us. Please fill out the request form above with what you’re looking for and we’ll check with our restaurant partners to see if they are willing to make special accommodations for your group, or let you know what customized tour options we can offer.

Yes, we’re happy to accommodate your group! However, due to restaurant size constraints, your group may need to be split up, take slightly different routes, or begin at staggered times. We can accommodate up to 20 guests per guide, so we’ll also need to make sure we have staffing available to suit your needs depending on the size of you group. We also have more options available for corporate groups.

Please fill out the form above or send an email to sales (at) louisvillefoodtours (dot) com to get the ball rolling.

Children of any age are always welcome on our daytime food tours! Children under 2 do not need a ticket and are welcome to share food with their parents. Children 2+ will need a non-alcoholic tour ticket.

On our evening tours, however, we visit bars that do not serve food, which means we can only accommodate adults 21+.

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