In 2025, New Haven broke the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS for Largest Pizza Party also featured in front of 14 million viewers on 60 Minutes. For 2026, New Haven is looking to break another record. Again it includes 5000 people and it’s pizza themed, but this time it will be one of the most stunning spectacles ever seen on The Green. Last year we asked people to eat the pizza, but this year we want you to BE the pizza.
Make pizza history with us as we attempt the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Pizza!
While we will outline some of the rules and details about this event in our FAQ, here are a few major aspects to follow. Each participant will be receiving a custom designed pizza slice costume which they can keep and even use as a Halloween costume! We will be assembling all participants into 50 groups of 100 along with a steward who will witness each participant in costume. Before and after you can roam around the free entry A-1 Toyota Apizza Feast where there are dozens of pizza vendors, food trucks, crafts, music, entertainment, bikes races, beer and wine gardens and more!
A percentage of the proceeds from tickets sold for the World’s Largest Pizza Costume Party will go directly to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater New Haven! We are so excited to work with these great instructors, kids and their families to help make this world record attempt something to remember forever!
IMPORTANT: ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST STAY IN FESTIVAL AREA UNTIL 7PM. We strongly advise all participants to arrive starting at 4pm since we expect the largest number of people to arrive between 5:30-6:30pm. This will allow participants to have more time in show your tickets, grab your costume and assemble in the record attempt area. We ask that each participant stay here until we finish the count at 7pm. At 7:30 pm we will announce that the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS attempt has been successful with a sea of 5000 people all dressed as pizza slices! All the while the A-1 Toyota Apizza Feast will be free entry to the public. We invite all participants to stay and enjoy throughout the evening, which goes to 10pm.
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Free entry to over 70 food, beverage, crafts, community and pizza vendors, music and entertainment and the New Haven Grand Prix bike races! Stay tuned for updates to the excited day of pizza, community and fun!
This amazing forage into the world of pizza in the heart of New Haven’s Little Italy on Wooster Street takes you to some of the top-rated pizzerias in the country. We focus on pizza, history and pizza (did we mention that?) with a little stroll, and some beer and wine. The 3-hour tour visits the historic Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana from 1925 for a plain tomato pie with garlic, mozzarella pie & white clam pie along with some Genesee lager. After a digestive and historic walk we enter the welcoming Zeneli Pizzeria for their Neapolitan pizza including a pizza marinara & pizza margherita along with Italian beer or wine. We scooch over to GIOIA Market for a Roman style Margherita pizza where we get a chance to purchase Italian specialty products. Finally, we head back to New Haven style apizza to the iconic Sally’s Apizza from 1938 including a plain tomato pie with garlic, mozzarella pie & white potato pie paired with their own Sally’s Apilz beer. All-in-all you will try nine different pizzas, have options for wine, beer and soda, and then get to vote on your favorite pizza of the day!
-tour is rain or shine, lasts 3 hours and about 1/4 mile of walking
-guests will be sitting inside in two stops but there are two standing stops with limited or no seating
-there are no gluten-free pizza options on this tour
-please consider bringing some cash to tip your guide ($15-$20 per person is customary)!
-parking is free on Wooster Street (just do not park on the block across the street from Sally’s Apizza)
Pasta lovers unite on our Pasta Tour in the heart of New Haven’s Little Italy along Wooster Street! This indulgent walk takes guests to some of the best spots for pasta paired with wine and sweets to help it all go down smoothly. One of the best known Italian foods, pasta comes in myriad shapes and with a variety of sauces, and is best enjoyed with others!
The tour starts us at a fan favorite with Zeneli Pizzeria e Cucina Napoletana for the simple but savory Cacio e Pepe spaghetti paired with a smooth Campanian red wine. We then cross the road to Pasta Eataliana for the famous Paccheri alla Siciliana paired with a robust Tuscan red wine. To please your palate we visit the state’s oldest pastry shop, Libby’s, for some fresh Gelato and an espresso, followed by a walk around the block to digest and make more room. We finish our pasta adventure at the historic Consiglio’s Restaurant for delectable Papardelle Bolognese, home made Limoncello liquor and top it off with a slice of succulent Tiramisu! And at that we say “Basta!” Sunday tours alternatively finish on the rooftop at GIOIA for a chef’s choice of succulent pasta & a sommelier’s pairing of wine!
-Tour lasts about 4 hours and is rain or shine
-We walk about a quarter of a mile total
-Come hungry since we will serve a plenty of pasta and accompanying food
Get ready to taste the parts of New Haven that come from the depths of your nightmares. We have put together a walking tour that will make even the darkest demons hungry. It’s a tour to please to most sinister of impulsive appetites while we fill your brains with mind-bending tales and travel to known haunted sites, ancient cemeteries, eerie basements and fabled Yale secret societies. We may even have a few visitors popping in along the way….. Besides the copious amount of flesh we will be feeding on, our path will lead us to a coven of tasty bites, toothy tastes, and blood-thirsty concoctions.
Stops include indulging on a tasty taco and a margarita from Geronimo, then we step on graves to get to Yorkside Pizza for gluttonous amounts of Greek food, pizza and beer & red blood wine. Our lives and tour ends in the dark depths of the basement of Old Heidelberg Bar for your final meal of pizza, cocktails and beer & the faint sound of our screams of udder delight.
This creepy amble lasts about 4 hours and is rain, shine or kingdom come. Survivors walk about 1.5 miles total. All food, blood and drink tastes are covered in your ticket price. To escape the wrath of your guide, bring a little cash treat to help them wet their beak, or else…
The tour of a lifetime is here! The Murder Mystery Cocktail Tour merges a progressive dinner, craft cocktails, history & intrigue and brings an actual unsolved murder to life. There are no actors, no costumes and definitely no bologna! This tour takes you to some of the best kept vintage restaurants & culinary gems where we pair a decadent meal and mind-altering drinks with some of the darkest stories of old New Haven.
New Haven, 1880s: The scene of a murder. A fisherman finds a young woman’s clothed body floating lifeless in the constant ebb of the summer tide, a life taken too soon, but as evidence reveals, a life taken by force. Her plight from a frolicking dame enjoying the revelries of youth to the twisted thoughts of the person who cast her earthly twinkle into the great abyss, detectives begin a wide search for a vicious murderer . But the prime suspects hide behind lie after lie, witnesses go missing and a team of high profile lawyers and powerful businessmen push the case and the people around it to the edge. In a series of twists, this Victorian murder proves to be one of the longest and most infamous mysteries in New Haven history. But we may uncover the truth, if we put our minds together!
The culinary trial starts with a selection of Pan-Latin guacamole, chips & yuca frita along with a palette cleansing Aperol Spritz at Downtown mainstay Pacifico. Deliberations continue at the storied Old Heidelberg in the Graduate Hotel where we examine bruscetta, pita, veggies, hummus and Bavarian pretzels filtered with an Old Fashioned for the ages. Our next culinary crime scene takes us to the legendary barroom at Ordinary where we investigate a succulent grilled cheese, skillet seared cheeseburgers & a masterfully crafted cocktail. The final verdict shall be read out loud at the Anchor Spa with peach cobbler empanadas & a powerful rum punch, because a murder mystery always has a painful punchline!
-tours are rain or shine, last 4-5 hours & are a mile walk total
-includes a progressive meal & 4 cocktails
-historical narratives & characters are based on real events
-incomparable to other murder mystery events (due to mysterious circumstances)
-led by Taste of New Haven founder, historian & author Colin M. Caplan or our longest running tour guide extraordinaire Brianne.
Westville is one of New Haven’s most artsy neighborhoods and is also host some amazing tastes and history. It’s also where founder Colin M. Caplan started the whole Taste of New Haven culinary walking tour business way back in 2011. This tasty forage brings guests to new and old restaurants in one of the most creative and diverse neighborhoods in New Haven. We’ll start strong with the new version of the old Delaney’s Tap Room for their famous and delicious chicken tenders with Buffalo and honey bbq sauces, a salad and a New England Brewing Co. Sea Hag IPA, followed by some baklava from their neighbor Pistachio, then dive into Poke Ole for Hawaiian poke bowls and a boba tea taste. Next we flock to Manjares for a taste of Dominican and French pastries paired with mimosas, then head to Rawa for a pita based leek pizza & half a dozen Middle Eastern dips and fire roasted fresh pita bread paired with Lebanese red wine. The tour concludes at the lively Camacho Garage for authentic Mexican tacos and margaritas and perhaps a cheer with famous chef Arturo Franco Camacho! Your Westville Tour will change your world!
Our Taco Tour is packed full of Downtown New Haven’s tastiest tacos! This traditional Mexican snack has reached the top of the food pyramid for many and we are going to town to find the best. To wash it down we pair these savory treats with refreshing margaritas. To accomplish all this we visit an array of restaurants that serve these corn or flour tortilla wraps and sweet and sour cocktails to perfection.
Our tour starts at the Chilean spot Viñas Tapas for a birria and chicken tacos plus a house specialty margarita. Next we head to the authentic taqueria Tacos Los Gordos for a freshly made taco, from the Mexican ground corn down to the masa tortilla, your choice of an al pastor or nopal taco. Then we head to the legendary Geronimo Tequila Bar for a carnitas and vegetable soft corn tacos and a choice of a cucumber or spicy margarita. We finish our journey at Pacifico for a Baja fish soft corn taco and a zesty mango margarita. Your stomach will be eternally happy achieving this level of taco heaven!
-Tour is 4 hours long and about a mile of walking
-Guests who consume alcohol must be 21 and over with a valid ID
-Margaritas can be made with no alcohol on request
-We may not be able to accommodate some dietary restrictions due to our strict taco regiment
-Tour guide gratuity is greatly appreciated ($15-$20 per person is customary)
Pizza people will love finding some of the most amazing variety of pizza in Downtown New Haven! This tour takes you to some of the best central spots featuring long-standing as well as newly opened pizzerias as we stroll through historic Yale University and its Gothic campus. This epic journey features nine different slices and a beverage at four stops, as well as a about a mile walk total.
The tour starts at the legendary Yorkside Pizza for a Greek style mozzarella pie, a gyro, feta, tomato & onion pie & a feta, tomato & zucchini pie, as well as a beer or glass of wine. We then hit a standing stop with the new place on the block, Bobbi’s Pizza for a tasting of Detroit style pizza including a classic cheese pie and their Butter Chicken pie. Next we hit the road and walk to the always popping brick oven BAR where sample their super thin mozzarella pie, plain tomato pie with garlic & their famous mashed potato bacon pie along with some tastes of their house craft brewed beer! Next we heat things up with Pizza at the Brick Oven featuring their wood-fired thin crust New Haven-New York pizza hybrid for a mozzarella pie, Margherita pie & white pie with shrimp & garlic, blessed with a beer or soda. Amen.
-soft drinks are offered at each stop -bring some extra cash to tip your tour guide ($15-$20 per person is customary) -we walk about 1 mile total -tour is rain or shine so please dress appropriately
Create your own private group food tour in New Haven! Taste of New Haven offers interested parties a flexible schedule with an assortment of cuisines and themes. This is the perfect opportunity for you to celebrate a birthday, engagement, school reunion, bachelorette party, corporate outing or company gathering. Private group tours are perfect for an office team building experience, university departments looking to show off the local restaurant scene, or a group of friends just looking for an exciting culinary adventure. We work with over 80 restaurants and shops in Downtown, East Rock, Wooster Square, Westville and beyond. Private tours start at $105 per person (plus fees & gratuity) for 3-6 hour tours full of food, drink, history and fun! Contact Dan to book a private group tour today: [email protected]or 203-231-5649
Get on the Hardcore Italians Pizza Tour in New Haven to taste your way through the Pizza Capital of the United States! Led by Taste of New Haven’s pizza guru Colin M. Caplan we take guests on a high level pizza tour of this historic city and rich Italian enclave. This five-hour 1 mile walk takes us to some of the most historic and highest rated pizzerias in the country and tasting a variety of pizza styles from New Haven style apizza, to Neapolitan style to Sicilian style pies. All food tastes plus beer, wine or soda are included in this tour experience.
We start at the legendary Sally’s Apizza founded in 1938 for three pizza tastes including the original tomato pie with garlic, also a mozzarella pizza and a white potato, onion & rosemary pie. We then head to the historic Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana started in 1925 for the original tomato pie with garlic, a mozzarella pizza & their famous white clam pie. After we jump over to modern day Naples to sample Neapolitan pizza at Zeneli Pizzeria tasting a marinara and a Margherita pizza. Our next stop is a brief standing taste at GIOIA for their signature Sicilian Margherita pizza. Next we stretch our bellies with a walk through the old Little Italy and Wooster Square neighborhood to see sites like St Michael’s Church, Saint Andrew’s Apostle Society, the old Italian Consulate and the numerous historic sites of old New Haven. Our final stop is the popping BAR to feature their signature mashed potato & bacon pizza, as well as a sausage & mozzarella pizza.
You guide Colin is a big name in the New Haven pizza world! He wrote the book on it: Pizza in New Haven, and also produced the documentaries “Pizza, A Love Story”, “Slice of America” and has been featured on The Pizza Show. Colin had New Haven declared the Pizza Capital of the United States, produced Connecticut Pizza License Plates, won the Guinness World Records title for Largest Pizza Party, runs the annual Apizza Feast Pizza Festival, Taste of New Haven Pizza Tours & Classes for 15 years, is a member of the St. Andrews Society and was married in the city of Amalfi, Italy!
