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Palermo Food tour company

We are on the Best of Sicily tour in late March next year. Looking for local tour company for a pre tour time in Palermo. We love doing food tour but are open to most types.

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Check out Streaty Food Tour. We did it before the Best of Sicily tour in late April. It’s a small group tour (I think there were 10 of us on our tour). The guide’s English was excellent, but he was a local. One of our stops was in his neighborhood and one of his neighbors lowered her basket and asked him to buy her something while we were stopped. We ate and drank very well; we tried some things I wouldn’t have been brave enough to try on my own. I would recommend doing the tour as early as possible in your visit. Not only was the food great and the company friendly, but it was helpful in orienting us to the Old Town part of the city as well as teaching us how to cross the major streets in Palermo. This was one of our Sicily highlights.

I also meant to add that the meeting point was Teatro Massimo. It gets very crowded in that area and I was anxious about finding our guide. Not to worry, they were easy to find and we keeping eyes out for tour patrons, even though it was the site of several political speeches.

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I'd second the Streaty recommendation. We took a Saturday evening tour in September that focused on La Vucciria market, and it was delightfully frantic. The spleen sandwich was a highlight, not the sandwich so much as the preparations and surroundings. We ate and drank our fill with a variety of selections and finished with gelato near the marina. Our guide spoke good English and made sure everyone knew how to get back to their lodgings and accompanied several of us back to our starting point at Teatro Massimo.