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Three hours. Six locally-owned restaurants. The best dish on every menu. Our award-winning Nashville food tour takes you behind the scenes at restaurants you won't find on your own, with live honky tonk music, a whiskey cocktail at a downtown distillery, and stories from a guide who knows every kitchen and every corner of downtown Nashville.
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Public walking tours, private group experiences, and corporate events. All routed through Nashville's best locally-owned restaurants.
Our public walking food tour. BBQ ribs, shrimp and grits, a James Beard restaurant, a whiskey cocktail at a downtown distillery, and live honky tonk music. Small groups, max 14 guests. The food tour Nashville visitors call the best part of their trip.
From $125 per person · $145 with drinks Book Your Public TourThe same six locally-owned stops, exclusively for your group. Custom routes around dietary needs, themed cocktails, cheeky toasts. Built for bachelorette parties, family reunions, and birthday celebrations.
From $180 per person · 4 to 30 guests See Private OptionsTeam building activities in Nashville, corporate events, conference offsites, and Nashville company holiday parties. Trusted by Amazon, American Express, Deloitte, and Penn State. Walking tours for groups of 6 to 120, custom events for up to 300.
From $180 per person · group pricing Inquire About Your EventA full meal, craft drinks, and three hours of Nashville food, history, and stories
A hand-picked dish at a James Beard Semi-Finalist restaurant. The one we order when we go there for lunch.
The only Nashville food tour with live music. Country pickers, a window seat, and the city waking up around you.
A quarter rack of slow-smoked ribs and a side of cool, creamy slaw at one of downtown's most beloved locally-owned spots.
Stone-ground grits, Gulf shrimp, andouille at a Nashville landmark. The reason Southern cooking has a reputation.
Hand-pulled caramels and pralines from a 120-year-old family recipe. You will leave wanting to take a box home.
A stop at a downtown Nashville distillery with your choice of two infused whiskey cocktails. Non-drinkers get a fresh juice mocktail.
TripAdvisor ranks A Little Local Flavor #13 out of every culinary experience in the United States
We fully accommodate vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, and all food allergies on every Nashville food tour. Our owner has celiac disease, so dietary restrictions are built into every stop, not worked around. Every restaurant on our walking food tour has options prepared specifically for guests with restrictions.
Private food tours in Nashville for groups of 6 to 120. Custom culinary events for groups up to 300.
TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Best of the Best, 2021 and 2023. Top 1% worldwide.
"My husband and I had a wonderful time. Kyle, our tour guide, was very professional, caring, and clearly committed to providing the best tour possible. His storytelling was fascinating. A Little Local Flavor MUST be in your Nashville itinerary!"
"I was in Nashville for a company sales incentive trip. We wanted to give our reps a flavor of the city, and this tour did that perfectly: it was a home run. The restaurants and taverns we visited were all local and very unique."
"This food tour was fantastic! Our guide, Sam, was personable, friendly, and extremely knowledgeable. She explained the food, the restaurants, and the history of these places and downtown Nashville."
"Amazing experience. We learned about the history and architecture of Nashville and stopped at a number of great restaurants and bars we would have never gotten to experience on our own. This is a 5-star Nashville food tour."
"Excellent walking food tour highlighting small local businesses. Mathew was AMAZING and extremely knowledgeable."
"Held a corporate event in Nashville and took the team on a tour. The tour guides were both informative and had great personalities, and the stops were so great. Best corporate event in Nashville we've done."
"Guide Darrin was wonderful, very personable and knowledgeable. The walking food tour was well paced with the best smoked ribs. Loved visiting the locally-owned Mom and Pop spots in downtown Nashville."
If you're searching for the best food tours in Nashville, a walking food tour in Nashville TN, or just a great culinary tour Nashville visitors actually rave about, you're in the right place. A Little Local Flavor is Nashville's #1 rated food tour, with a perfect 5.0 rating across 2,700+ verified reviews on Google, TripAdvisor, and Yelp. We're the only Nashville food walking tour that includes live honky tonk music, a whiskey cocktail at a downtown distillery, and a James Beard Semi-Finalist restaurant on every route.
Our downtown Nashville food tour is a 3-hour walking tour through six locally-owned restaurants in the heart of downtown Nashville. It's the kind of Nashville foodie tour that turns first-time visitors into people who return every year, and we offer three ways to do it: a public tour for individuals and couples, private Nashville food tours for bachelorettes and birthdays, and corporate group tours for teams from Amazon, Penn State, Deloitte, and 20+ more major companies.
Food tour Nashville TN, Nashville culinary tour, walking tour Nashville, Nashville food adventures — whatever you call it, we built A Little Local Flavor to be the food tour we'd actually take our own friends on. Come hungry.
I started A Little Local Flavor eight years ago because I believed the best way to experience Nashville is through its food, its people, and its stories. Every other Nashville food tour company that launched alongside us has either changed hands, been acquired, or shut down. I am still here, still running every part of this business, and still walking the streets with our guides.
I also have celiac disease — and that is not a footnote. Every restaurant on our food tour has options for guests with dietary restrictions because I picked each one knowing what it feels like to sit at a table and wonder if you can eat anything.
Our Nashville food tours exclusively showcase locally-owned restaurants. In eight years, we've put over $1.4 million directly into Nashville's local restaurant community. This is not a franchise. This is my city, and I want you to love it the way I do.
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A Little Local Flavor offers the best food tour Nashville visitors call worth every dollar — a Nashville Tennessee food tours experience built around six locally-owned restaurants, live music, and a whiskey cocktail at a downtown distillery. Beyond our public walking tour, we also offer a private food tour Nashville option for bachelorettes and birthdays, plus corporate Nashville food tours for team building. We're trusted for corporate events Nashville companies plan year-round, from quarterly offsites to holiday parties. If you're searching for team building Nashville options, looking for the best Nashville team building activities, or planning a corporate Christmas party in Music City, our private group tours are the answer. Three hours, six stops, the best dish on every menu.
BBQ ribs, shrimp and grits, a James Beard restaurant, a Nashville distillery, and live honky tonk. Three hours, six stops, every bite hand-picked by a local.
Three Hours. Six Stops. The Best Dish on Every Menu.