Ben’s Bagel Tours

Great tour my husband and i took yesterday in Grand Central. We live in town and been through there many times. Ben was very informative and shared a new light on the building and its history. This tour is for everyone. Thanks Ben

We took the Lower East Side tour and had a great experience. Ben, of Ben & Marty, was our tour guide. He started the tour by providing us each with a fresh bagel. We then went all around the Lower East Side sampling food from places like The Pickle Guy & Yonah Shimmel Knish Bakery. Ben was very knowledgeable and filled with facts of the history as well as the current trends of this part of the city. While this tour was mainly focused on history & the shops from the early 1900s, he did point out a few new spots which he recommended, such as Babycakes Bakery & The Meatball Shop.
I learnt a lot about this part of NYC that I didn’t know & tried great food that I hadn’t tried before.
Overall I would recommend this tour to anyone who’s interested in the history of the city and food.
I do however have one recommendation for Ben & Marty, & this may be something they are working on or maybe they didn’t do it this time because we were in a small group. But it would be nice if they kind of partnered up with the stops and had the owners/​workers speak to the group & had samples available for the tour (while there were samples on the tour, Ben bought them himself).

This is a really fun and informative tour of an area even a lot of diehard New Yorkers don’t know that much about. With all kinds of great food along the way. Highly recommended!

Awesome! Saw the lower East Side in a whole new nosh-​ey way! AMAZING AND so fun!