When you join a walking food tour, you win! As a guest, you gain new insights to the downtown areas and experience first-hand a cross-section of the locally-owned downtown area eating establishments. Our guides enhance the guest experience by sharing local culture, history, fun stories and information about where to shop and eat.
I took over the reins in early 2018 when Peter and Leigh retired to the coast – lucky! Growing up in the South, I was always the first at the dinner table and happy to do the dishes in order to enjoy some of mom’s homemade food. Food and family have always gone together for me. My best Christmas memories were not the gifts, but arriving at my grandparents to find a bowl of homemade chicken soup and chocolate chip cookies waiting at the dining table. Both my grandmothers were great cooks as is my mother. Me, I focus on the eating and praising of the chef. I’m a better eater then a cook!
I put myself through college working in the restaurant community – I did everything from waiting, running food to bartending to hosting. Working with independent restaurant is a natural fit for me coupled with 20+ experience planning events in the hospitality filed. I love showing off the restaurants and downtowns to locals and visitors alike.
How did Triangle Food Tour get started? Quite simply, there was a confluence of events revolving around food and an unbridled enthusiasm for the Triangle area that one day all came together. Leigh and Peter had been living in the Triangle. They were familiar with walking food tours (found i’n most major cities) and had personally gone on a couple and loved the experience. One day in 2007, during a meeting with some of the folks from the Downtown Raleigh Alliance, they brought the subject up, talked about the value for downtown visitors and observed that Raleigh did not have one of these. Their answer back was- why don’t you do it? They said, “why not!”
In early 2008, they launched Triangle Food Tour, offering the first food tour in the Triangle, with two different downtown Raleigh walking food tours. Soon, tours expanded to all corners of the Triangle (Raleigh, Chapel Hill & Carrboro, Durham and Cary).
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