New Orleans Secrets Tours

Our tour was great and our guide Adelaide was fabulous. I highly recommend this tour company.

Date of tour: December 21, 2024After a wonderful food tour in Prague last year, we wanted to replicate the magic stateside while visiting New Orleans, a city with a rich food history and scene. As requested, I will keep the individual location names secret as to not spoil your potential food tour but also because the stops can change and I don't want to have you disappointed if you don't get the same places on your tour.Ty was a great guide, providing us with local history and culture as we ate our way down Magazine Street. The only complaint I have is that they didn't really interact with us during the food portions, standing or sitting off to the side, or running to the next location to make sure we were all set. To me, the guide should be not only the bridge between the locations and food with us, but also a bridge between the different groups on the tour. Ty told us before the tour started that the other folks joining us were from Michigan, but we found out from them later that they were actually from New York. Had these connections been made earlier, it would have enhanced the tour.On to the food, wonderful that it all was! Please note that I may make some errors in the actual names of the food, while I took pictures, I did not write down the names and there wasn't a post-tour recap to assist me!Stop #1: A local sandwich and a seafood side. Both quite good, especially since I don't like olives!Stop #2: An unusual meat that was shockingly good!Stop #3: Seafood options. I've had a different version of one of these items in Asheville, NC. This wasn't quite as good but still tasty.Stop #4: Southern favorites that were so good! I didn't think I would like these but I did.Stop #5: A peppermint fudge cupcake. Sadly, the weakest stop on the tour. Other that tried the gelato came away disappointed and my cupcake was neither overly fudgey or pepperminty. It looked pretty, though!

We booked the new small group paranormal experience tour. It was absolutely one of the most unique ghost/ paranormal tours I've done.This is a small group experience, which is why I wanted to do this one. We met at the Tableau Restaurant and were offered the choice of an aperol spritz or a French 75. We chose the spritz. We were told some history and ghost lore before going up to the wine room for some more stories. Very cool. They showed us video of a ghostly incident that had occurred there before. Next we walked down the street where we were told about the haunting at Muriel's Restaurant, where they also set a ghost table. Our last stop was at a psychic shop where we did a tarot card reading and we're given a Pan Am cocktail. I highly recommend this tour. It's unique and you get a little bit of all the good things you come to New Orleans for.

Our food tour was PHENOMENAL all thanks to our guide BJ! He was super funny and engaging and you could tell that he had a genuine love and interest for food, history, and sharing New Orlean's culture. I went in a group of 8-9 people (i only knew 3 other people before going) and it was the perfect size. All of the food that BJ got us was delicious, there were no long waits anywhere we went, and he was even kind enough to let restaurants know in advance of my shellfish allergy and got feedback on alternatives that I liked to put creative spins on my replacement dishes. I mean it when I say that if I ever come back to New Orleans BJ will be the first person I call!

Great time learning City history. Mark is a great tour guide! Nice time, highly recommend.

As much as it pains me to write a subpar review from a seemingly-beloved-tour company on yelp, I had a very disappointing voodoo tour. While the tour guide was nice and friendly, I felt that the content provided was limited and did not expand upon my knowledge of voodoo. My favorite part was a visit to the local voodoo shop, which seemed to be the most authentic component of the tour. Very few parts of the tour included elements listed on the Secrets Tours website. Marie Laveau was not mentioned, nor any specifics about voodoo dolls, potions, summoning and possession by spirits, etc. Granted, my husband and I left the tour ten minutes early so it's possible that something was mentioned. By the time we left, though, I was already displeased with the lack of information provided. I do not think this tour was worth the price. The tour group is small and participation is expected.

I'm so glad I did my research and selected New Orleans Secret Tours for my food tour. We had a small group of three; a couple and myself as a solo traveler, and were lucky to have BJ as our guide. I loved trying foods I normally would never think of as well as learning about the history about the city and unique foods. BJ was definitely a wealth of information. The Alligator Sausage and Eggplant Napoleon were my favorites, and ironically nothing I would've attempted if I hadn't been on this tour.

We did the voodoo tour (with Anderson) and ghost tour (with Barrett). Both were phenomenal! Anderson's general knowledge of New Orleans coupled with his clear passion for the history and evolution of Voodoo was amazing. We learned so much! Of note was that he also had a personal connection with many people we passed, whether they were buskers, practitioners or just folks walking down the street, which really helped us feel part of the story we were learning about. Barrett was fabulous as well. His humor combined with his encyclopedic knowledge of ghost stories and terrible tales of the Quarter made for an amazing evening experience. Can't recommend New Orleans Secrets Tours enough. We rarely do tours, but when we do, I only hope they're as good as both of these were. It felt more like a walk through town with incredibly knowledgeable friends than taking a tour. Thx!

We had a great tour with Ty. He is a walking encyclopedia, friendly, and generally fun to be with. And the food was terrific. They say to arrive hungry and they are NOT kidding! Highly recommended.

Barrett was a great storyteller! I appreciated that New Orleans Secrets puts on other tours, not just ghost tours, so we got a ton of history on our tour that went alongside the spooky stories. The tours are kept small so you can hear your Tour Guide and not block the streets with giant groups. We saw a lot of other tours running the same time, and I would not have wanted to be in a group of 30+ as it would've been so hard to hear. We got to ask all our questions and then some. Thanks Barrett for showing us your city!