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!
Join New Haven’s longest running and most acclaimed pizza learning & making experience with 4th generation pizzaiolo Jimmy Ormrod of Zuppardi’s Apizza & pizza guru, author & tour guide Colin M. Caplan. This 3 hour pizza class will give the novice to the advanced home pizza maker a hands-on, up close experience where we learn the steps from dough production, forming & stretching to pie decorating, baking & slicing. Each participant will be able to watch, learn & try the techniques used to make New Haven style apizza from one of the most established & renowned pizza families in the country.
-classes are in person & limited to create intimate learning experience
-dress casually since you will be working with ingredients
-includes a meal with a variety of pizza & beverages
-appropriate for ages 13 and up
-take home your own rolled dough balls & baked pizzas
