Chinatown and North Beach night tours

On their own, Chinatown and North Beach stir your senses.

Together, they awaken you to new flavors, new cultures, and to parts of your heart. We'll start by exploring Chinatown by twilight, including tasting Dim Sum from one of the oldest bakeries in Chinatown. We'll delve into Chinese mysticism and culture, as we explore local sculpture and architecture.

Tea is to Chinatown as North Beach is to coffee and we'll try both. We'll search out authentic Chinese and Italian crafts and pottery. We'll uncover their hidden secrets only intrepid locals know. And you'll be astonished by the new finds in secret alcoves.

From wine to Dim Sum, fortune cookies, and teas, to cappuccinos in the very places where the Beat Generation started and Barbary Coast history that made San Francisco what it is, you'll feel like you've really experienced Chinatown and North Beach on these San Francisco Tours.

• We'll start with Dim Sum (a variety of Chinese foods) at the oldest Chinese Bakery in San Francisco.

• We'll be seeing how fortune cookies are made and exploring the real San Francisco Chinatown.

• And, of course, we have to do a tea tasting.

• We'll explore the beat generation of North Beach as we visit the very place where Francis Ford Copola wrote the Godfather screenplay and the location where Bill Cosby and Steve Allen got their start. It still feels and looks exactly the same as when they got their start. Of course, we've got to have pizza and wine in North Beach.

• We'll be moseying into authentic Western saloons and the back parts of San Francisco's North Beach.

When you join us at 6pm, we are going to try some of the best coffee, Dim Sum, and other food on our approximately two-hour tour.

San Francisco is one of the culinary capitals of the world and every block has its own unique feeling and foods. On every one of our sojourns into San Francisco neighborhoods, we'll go into local bakeries, restaurants, and cafes, and taste the food. We know these places because these are the places we go to ourselves.

We don't go and look at "tourist" shops. Our San Friancisco tours takes you into, to spend time with, local artisans as they practice their crafts, whether it is calligraphers, bakers, or families who have been fishing for generations.

We have a passion for life, for trying new things, for living life to its fullest. Our goal is that after you join our San Francisco tours and explorations, you will take that same passion with you. After experiencing the real zeal of this place, we know you will. And not only will you leave your heart in San Francisco; you may find that you have left part of your soul here as well.

Local Tastes of the City San Francisco Tours is a group of passionate, professional, and certified guides with years of experience leading adventures in our San Francisco tours. We live here; we can't imagine living anywhere else. We love the City and want you to also experience its magic.

One of the founders, Tom Medin, has been guiding our San Francisco tours for close to a decade. In addition to extensive knowledge of San Francisco history, architecture and cuisine, he is a trained naturalist, specializing in marine mammals. Several of his cookbooks are in the process of publication.