I love Napa. It’s beautiful and always a good time when you go with great people. A Napa food tour is a great addition to your vacation. It’s nice to have a wine free day between all the winery visits. Click here for my blog on Military Friendly Napa Wineries.

If I were to do my visit all over again, I would have done the food tour on the first day. We visited so many great restaurants but didn’t get to go back to most of them since we did the food tour in the middle of the vacation.

Napa Food Tour Details

We booked our tour with Foodies on Foot and ended up having a private tour since no one else booked the same day as us.

Our tour guide, Sherry, was awesome and took us to 7 places in the Oxbow Market and downtown Napa. Although the portions seem small, you’re going to 7 different places, so go HUNGRY. It’s enough food to cover breakfast and lunch. Even the 6 foot tall men on our tour were stuffed by the end.

The tour costs $79 per person sans alcohol. If you want a tour that pairs food and beverages, you can try Rooted For Foodies Tours or Gourmet Food & Wine Tours for a more upscale experience.

The Best Thing I Ever Ate English Muffin

The tour started out pretty simple, with an English muffin that was featured on the Food Network show, “The Best Thing I Ever Ate.” It was an appropriate starting point since the tour started at 10:30 am.

Oxbow Market Sushi

The lion roll sushi we got at Oxbow market was really, REALLY good. It’s basically a California roll topped with seared salmon. We had a vegetarian in our group, and Sherry was able to accommodate him with an avocado roll.

Street Tacos

Next, was street tacos from a food truck down the road.

Gourmet Empanada

We classed it up a bit at a full service sit down restaurant with a gourmet empanada.

Waffle Grilled Cheese

Oaxaca cheese with tomato, jalapeno salsa, avocado and cilantro between savory waffles made this a very unique and delicious grilled cheese. It even came with a side of made from scratch tomato soup for dipping!

Chocolate Truffles

A piece of chocolate from Anette’s Chocolate and Ice Cream was a perfect dessert!

Hole in the Wall Italian Malfatti

The last stop of our Napa food tour was Clemente’s Authentic Italian Takeout. This place is located inside a liquor store, so unless you were looking for it, you’d never know it existed. I never had or heard of malfatti. But, I’m so glad Sherry had us try it. It’s a pillowy dumpling in a tomato based meat sauce (or tomato sauce if you’re vegetarian). Kind of like a large, light gnocchi. Delicious.

The Next Day….

We ended up ordering Italian takeout from Clemente’s again (it was that good), opening up one of our bottles of wine and enjoying the view at our beautiful airbnb.