Brian

About:

While I spent my childhood in South Florida, my parents were displaced New Yorkers so I grew up around the culture, food, and accents. I made my way back to my spiritual home as quickly as possible. Having now lived here for over two decades, there's nowhere else I would rather be.

After studying acting and moving to the city, I found myself mostly working in restaurants and around food. I combined my passion for performance and food into a food blog and webseries and eventually found my way to tourism.

I've been leading guests around the city showing them the local life through the city's incredible cuisine for almost 20 years. When I'm touring around the city with someone, they become a friend who gets to have a say in how we explore the city through a local's perspective.

Education:

BFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University

Training:

18 years experience as a tour guide and tour developer

Have been working as a tour guide and tour developer with Devour, Urban Adventures, Turnstile Tours, and Intrepid

Personal Interests:

Food and Drink, Sustainability, Puzzles, Travel, Neighborhoods, Cities

Special Tours:

Food tours are my specialty - my food tours are interactive, sustainable, and combine a wealth of history and context for the food you're trying and why you're trying it

I have recently been developing a few interactive puzzle, choose your own adventure, mystery food tours that I am excited to debut soon. 

Languages:

English

Services Offered:

Airport/Pier Meet & Greet Hospitality Desk & Staff Tour Escort Tour Consultant Tour Guide Tour Manager

Tours Offered:

Brooklyn Bronx Wall Street/Financial District Walking Tours Virtual and Online Tours Upper West Side Upper East Side TriBeCa Times Square Theater District Private Tours Pub Crawls Queens Lower East Side Jewish History Italian Immigrant History Immigrant Experience Irish Immigrant History Hell's Kitchen Greenwich Village Grand Central Terminal East Village DUMBO Downtown Manhattan Culinary Tours Chinatown/Little Italy Chelsea Central Park Private Bus Tours SoHo SoHo & NoLita South Street Seaport Step-On Guides Student Tours

Featured Tours by Brian

The Melting Pot of the World: Jackson Heights, Queens Taste the entire world in the city's most diverse neighborhood as we explore different communities and see how they all live peacefully together - it's a shining example of the beauty of New York. Not to mention some of the most delicious food in the whole city.