Los Angeles - Exploring America’s Culinary Frontier

Our food journey of Los Angeles is a banquet laid out for the bold, the curious, and the intrepid as they explore  the extreme culinary diversity and ingenuity across the oldest areas of the seemingly boundaryless and magical City of Angels.

• Visit to the oldest food market in LA
• Tasting of delicious tacos and taquitos
• Experience a reinvented tea ceremony in Chinatown
• Sample of authentic japanese specialties in Little Tokyo

We’ll begin our day on this Los Angeles food tour with a tea ceremony in its atmospheric Chinatown, followed by a taste of some of the most innovative tacos around. Afterwards we’ll rummage through a tiny Vietnamese bodega to find LA’s best Báhn Mì and continue our walk down Olvera Street, stopping for taquitos at the spot where they were invented, before checking out Union Station and Pueblo de Los Angeles, including Avila Adobe, built in 1818 – the oldest existing residence in the city.

Traversing the Hollywood Freeway, we’ll discuss how cars and then later freeways transformed Los Angeles into the postmodern paradise it is today before we make our way into the pedestrian-friendly backstreets of Little Tokyo to sample some of the most authentic Japanese food in America. Walking down Broadway we’ll marvel at the most impressive architecture and sample some of the best bites inside LA’s oldest food market. All along the way we’ll stop for other surprises, both edible and cultural.

• Getty Center, Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Japanese American National Museum, North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Venice beach, Ocean Front Walk, Venice, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Venice Canals, Los Angeles, Venice, CA, USA
• Little Tokyo, East 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• The Broad, South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, North Main Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Chinese American Museum, North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, L A, CA, USA
• Grand Park, North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, L A, CA, USA
• California African American Museum, State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• San Antonio Winery, Lamar Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Angels Flight Railway, South Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Walt Disney Concert Hall, South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Los Angeles State Historic Park, North Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Hammer Museum, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Olvera Street Cross, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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If you have food allergies, you are ultimately responsible to ensure your own health and safety. If you share information about your allergies, we can provide you with some guidance about the food purveyors on your tour, but we are not responsible for any allergic reactions that you may have. We are not responsible for any damages or losses incurred as result of acts by entities beyond our control, including but not limited to restaurants, shops, market stalls, eateries and food carts. We are not responsible for acts beyond our control, including but not limited to acts of God, act of nature, acts of war, or other unrest caused by state or non-state actors. If you are disruptive, we have the right to ask you to leave the tour without refunding you or providing you with a credit for your tour. You are aware of and responsible for all damages or losses that may arise during the course of the tour resulting from:

Risks associated with food, water or other drinks, including alcoholic beverages; physical accidents during the tour or at any of the locations visited; transportation failures; forces of nature; criminal activity; damage, loss or misplaced property; or accident or illness without means of rapid evacuation or availability of medical supplies or services. You agree that any claims that may arise will first go to arbitration and only if not resolved in that manner shall be heard in court. In both cases, grievances shall be heard in the jurisdiction of Washington, DC. You further agree to be responsible for your own welfare and property and accept any and all risks of delay, unanticipated events, inconvenience, illness, injury, emotional trauma or death. You further acknowledge that participation in Culinary Backstreets tours is based upon execution of this Liability Waiver. By completing the reservation process you release and discharge forever Culinary Backstreets, its employees, owners, affiliates, officers, directors, successors, agents, and assigns, from and against any liability arising from participating in this tour. You further agree that this release shall be legally binding upon you personally, all members of your family, all minors traveling with you, your heirs, successors, assigns, and legal representatives, to the maximum extent of the law.

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