Food and History Tours

Annapolis Food & History Tour

Your guide will share toasts of yesteryear throughout a tour that consists of a perfect balance of historical anecdotes, information, and nearly a dozen stops for food, history, or drink!

The tour starts with a wake-up of a premium specialty coffee. Once we have your attention, we start right in discussing money; or is that tobacco? It was all one and the same back in the 18th century. Speaking of the 18th century, we also stop for some crab at the same tavern George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin frequented in their time. If you don't like crab, perhaps other delights sampled on tour will move you. Yes, we will keep moving -- to the Sands house. This family hasn't moved in a long time. This house has been in the family some 239 years and is a repository of things left behind by six generations. You will be welcomed to this private home of the Sands family by Ann Jensen, great-great-great-great-granddaughter of John and Ann Sands. Before too many grains of sand slip though the hourglass we will continue onto, into, and around some other greats, with some other smaller stops along the way:

• The kitchen of the Hammond-Harwood House, a grand Anglo-Palladian house built in 1774 by one of the America's first true architects, William Buckland.
• Maryland's State House, which is the oldest state house in continuous legislative use in the country and the place where George Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief from the Continental Army.
• The Maryland Inn, built in 1772, is the first structure in Annapolis designed to be a hotel, and not just a house that could serve interchangeably as a residence, shop or tavern. We won't leave here before sampling their amazing popovers.
• Even a wine cellar will be explored. Will we be drinking? After all, we are walking! Oh, probably!
• Of course there are some stops along the way not mentioned here. What fun would this food tour be without a few surprises?

When the whining is over (or before), we'll go to an Irish Pub for cabbage rolls and luck, of course. And luck we will need to keep some of you out of the boutiques and specialty shops we will encounter on our journey. The journey will end (as all good things do) at what was once a bakery. A bakery that set the city ablaze at the close of the 18th century.

The amount of food consumed in total at all taste stops is enough to be considered lunch (and dessert) for the average person. Food costs and historic venue fees are covered in your tour ticket price. A bottle of water will be provided for each patron when the tour starts. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.

We suggest taking our food tour at the beginning of your stay in Annapolis so you can return to enjoy these wonderful eating establishments and historical sites at your leisure. This is the best introduction to Annapolis, Maryland offered!

Annapolis food tours are produced by Captial City Colonials of Annapolis, MD.
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