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Raleigh: Warehouse District Food Tour with 5 Tastings & BBQ

5(1)3 hoursRaleigh
  • Food & Drink
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  • Street Food Tours
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Downtown Raleigh packs three centuries of food history into a three-hour walk, and no two stops taste alike. Start with a steamed Char Siu Bao, a Cantonese barbecue pork bun, inside a downtown brewery that's part bookshop, part flower stall. Move on to a Lebanese family kitchen for hummus, baba ghanouj, fattoush, shawarma, and kibbee mikli, recipes carried across a century. Then it's whole-hog barbecue, chopped fine and sharpened with vinegar the eastern North Carolina way, at a Warehouse District pit room. Somewhere along the route, your guide hands you a Secret Dish, revealed only on the day. Finish with a three-bar chocolate flight at a bean-to-bar factory inside an old railway depot. Your guide lives here and will explain the barbecue rivalry between eastern and western Carolina, what East Hargett Street meant to Black Raleigh in the 1920s, and where they take their own family to eat.. Come hungry, leave with a downtown Raleigh you actually know how to eat your way through.

What's included

  • Chopped barbecue plate with two sides at a Warehouse District pit room
  • Plus, our Secret Dish!
  • Three-bar chocolate tasting flight, 70% classic dark, 70% sea salt, and 75%
  • A Lebanese tasting of hummus, baba ghanouj, fattoush, chicken shawarma, kibbee mikli, and cheese
  • Char Siu Bao, a Cantonese barbecue pork bun, at a downtown brewery and dim sum house

Itinerary

  • The tour starts in this four-acre park, one of only two surviving from the five public squares drawn into Raleigh's original 1792 plan, and a gathering place ever since.
  • The Mission-style market house on the square's southern edge opened in 1914 and pulled farmers and grocers into the district. Its cobbled side streets are the first thing guests walk through.
  • Along the northern edge of the square, this stretch was known as Raleigh's Black Main Street in the 1920s, home to more Black-owned businesses than anywhere else in the city.
  • The route crosses downtown's main spine, with the North Carolina State Capitol closing the view at the northern end.
  • The other survivor from the 1792 plan, passed on the walk west, and a useful bookend to the square where the tour began.
  • A converted warehouse marking the start of the Warehouse District, where the second half of the tour takes place.
  • The rail heritage the whole district was built around. The tour finishes a short walk away, in the head house of the city's original depot

Good to know

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Meeting point

Meet your guide in Moore Square across from Market Hall at 209 E Martin St, Raleigh, NC 27601

Cancellation

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Languages

  • English guide