Custom Food Tours

Private Tours

Planning a birthday, bachelor or bachelorette party, family outing, or corporate event? We’d love to help! Please take a look at the options below and fill out the form below to let us know what you’re looking for so we can help design the perfect tour for you.

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Option 1: 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.

Depending on your day and time needs, your tour will be a private, customized version of either The Highlands or NuLu food & history walking tours.

This tour can be alcohol-free upon request and all ages are able to participate.

Where

NuLu or The Original Highlands

Availability

Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays

Pricing

$109 per person, plus taxes and a 10% gratuity

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Option 2: Evening Cocktail Tour

Venture out to explore the hidden stories of Louisville’s haunted past. As you eat and drink your way down Whiskey Row, you’ll meet the resident ghosts of Louisville’s historic downtown, trace the footsteps of bourbon magnates and mobsters, see Al Capone’s secret getaway, discover hidden speakeasies in the belly of Whiskey Row, and learn the shocking truth about Prohibition.

Your tour will be a customized, private version of our Prohibition tour. This tour can be alcohol-free, but all participants must be 21+.

Where

Whiskey Row, Downtown

Availability

Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays

Pricing

$149 per person, plus taxes and a 10% gratuity

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What to Expect

In addition to food, you can expect…

Beer & Bourbon

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

Audio Headset​

The lightweight headset helps you hear us from a distance.

Private Group

We can accommodate up to 20 at a time. Larger groups will 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.

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Private Tour Requests

Please fill out the form below to give us an idea of what you’re looking for, and we 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 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. The daytime food tours have a LOT of food – we recommend arriving hungry and possibly planning to skip dinner that evening!

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! You will enjoy delicious non-alcoholic mocktails and drinks paired with delicious food.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer any kind of transportation to our guests. We are licensed and insured as a walking tour company only, and our insurance doesn’t currently allow us to offer any kind of transportation to our guests. That said, Lyft and Uber are typically available near our tour locations.

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.

Private tours require a bit of extra legwork on our end to figure out custom itineraries, communicate with our restaurant partners, and book additional tour guides. For this reason, we add a $10 per person administrative fee to our public pricing to cover our time. We also require our private tour groups to prepay a 10% gratuity for our hard-working tour guides.

Unfortunately, we are only able to host you on our walking food tours. We’re happy to offer advice or recommendations for bourbon trail drivers or restaurants, though!

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.

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Tour Reviews

Read some of our many 5-star reviews from guests.

Incredible tour… you MUST add this to your Louisville trip!

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This tour was so freaking fantastic! You cannot miss this unique opportunity to explore Nulu and eat so many delicious treats! We explored the city and learned some of the histories of Louisville (the host was very knowledgeable and witty), everything in the tour was timed well and just so fun. I feel like this was 3 tours bundled into one, we saw so many places and ate so much unique to Lousiville food. It was AWESOME!!
Casandre M.
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Hilarious culinary experience

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What an awesome tour! Started with beer and cheese, and then wandered through the neighborhoods learning the history of the development of Louisville, learning culture, eating more food, and drinking delicious cocktails! 10/10 would recommend
Jessi marie
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