New York Cocktail Tasting Tour

New York Cocktail Tasting Tour – Overview

Join the New York Cocktail Tasting Tour! Take an evening walking tour exploring the vibrant East Village, with your specialist guide through New York’s booming cocktail scene.

Highlights 

Along the way sample delicious libations, swap tales of speakeasies and gangsters, shop for new local craft spirits, learn how to make craft cocktails and discover some of the best places to grab a drink in the Big Apple.

The tour mainly takes place in the East Village, a former gathering place for political radicals and socialists, as well as the city’s immigrant poor. That’s where the cocktail culture was invented. You’ll stop at one of the area’s best cocktail bars and other former speakeasies, before heading to Astor Wines where you can buy a boozy souvenir. In between the stops, you’ll learn about the era of prohibition and the making of cocktails. In addition, the guide will give you more advise about where else to go to get drinks and good food.

What will you do on the tour?

• Taste delicious craft cocktails at some of New York’s best bars
• Learn how prohibition shaped NYC, and the speakeasies and gangsters who influenced the city’s cocktail culture
• Discover new spirits from local micro-distilleries
• Find the best tucked-away places to grab a drink in New York’s East Village
• Learn how bartenders are revolutionising cocktails in America with fresh, artisanal ingredients

The tour includes a local English-speaking guide, 3 cocktails, as well as a light snack.

Exclusions: Additional food and drink, bottles of spirits, souvenirs, tips and gratuities for the guid

You may also enjoy: Lower East Side Food Tour , New York Midtown Sites & Bites Tour or the Hamilton Happy Hour Tour 

Important information 

Meeting point: Entrance of Tompkins Square Park, Corner of Avenue A and St. Mark’s Place Park. Meet on the park side of the intersection (east side)

Duration of the tour: 3 hours

Age restriction: 21

Inclusions: Local English-speaking guide, 3 cocktail tastings

Exclusions:  Additional food and drink, bottles of spirits, souvenirs, tips and gratuities for the guide

All tickets must be pre-booked. Click here and enter Promo Code: SMARTSAVENYC