In 1918 my great-grandparents Albino and Grazia, immigrants from Naples, opened their shop on Arthur Avenue. A decade later, their store is still here and our family business has expanded to introduce serious food lovers to our Italian village in the Bronx.
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Discover the true Little Italy of New York City, also called simply “Arthur Avenue” a close knit neighborhood of Italian food shops, most of which have been in business for over 100 years.
Our signature Shopping & Tasting Tour + Lunch includes a walk across Arthur Avenue and 187th Street.
Over the course of 2.5 hours we visit butchers, bakers, cheesemakers, pasta artisans, import stores and the famous Arthur Avenue Retail Market. We’ll taste the most special foods in the neighborhood and meet the people behind the counter who are keeping these Italian food traditions alive and well.
As we walk from shop to shop guests learn about this historic NYC neighborhood. Stories include:
How the Lorillard family once owned this pastoral land and used it for to***co production
How Arthur Avenue was named
The surprising connection between the Italian community and the neighboring New York Botanical Garden and Bronx Zoo
What makes our tour unique is that it is an authentic experience of this neighborhood drawn from generations of stories and relationships. Your experience of Little Italy will be an extension of ours. We’re a family business that has been on Arthur Avenue since 1918, first as a fish shop, then as a butcher shop which served as a set for the Academy Award winning film “Marty” and now as a tour operator.
If you’re coming for the food, join our Pizza, Pasta & Parm Tour, a roving feast of Italian and Italian-American classics including cacio e pepe, eggplant parmigiana, pizza and chicken parm.
We’re also Italian food and wine experts. Husband-and-wife team Danielle Oteri and Christian Galliani lead food and wine tours in the Cilento, a region of Southern Italy where the Mediterranean Diet was discovered. Danielle’s food and travel writing has been published in Conde Nast Traveler, Roads & Kingdoms and NPR while Christian is a sommelier who was on the wine team at Michelin-starred Del Posto, lead sommelier at Tarry Lodge and and Beverage Manager at Eataly Downtown.
We pride ourselves in offering a world-class food tour that highlights small, family businesses. We're proud to have earned a 5 star rating on TripAdvisor, Facebook and Airbnb Experiences and to have our work featured in the Los Angeles Times, CNN Travel, USA Today, Paste Magazine, Westchester Magazine, Hudson Valley Magazine and Edible Bronx.
Would you like a closer look at what the tour is like? Watch co-founder Danielle Oteri in this video about the real Little Italy featured on CNN Travel.
We offer our Shopping & Tasting Tour 5-days a week starting at 11am in front of the Arthur Avenue Retail Market 2344 Arthur Avenue. Tours are $79 per person and $45 for children. Tastings included on the tour are equivalent to a large lunch.
Private tours for friends, families and corporate groups are also available. Multigenerational family celebrations are our specialty! Visit www.arthuravenuefoodtours.com for more information.
