Ready To Nosh Food Tours

DO NOT BUY A VOUCHER FOR A FOOD TOUR WITH READY TO NOSH!!! I am having the same problem. Can’t get through to them online, their website won’t come up. I scheduled a tour last month and I got an email the day of saying it was cancelled. I hope Living Social does something about this!

Do not get this deal. YOu will not be able to to get a reservation, there is no such thing, Living Social will not refund. Very, very disappointed with both.

My friend and I purchased the Progressive Dinner Tour from 365 Things to do in Austin back in November of 2011. We were finally able to book our tour for April 19, and received a cancellation notice from Ready to Nosh the day of our tour stating that the guide was sick and they did not have anyone to fill in. We re-​booked our tour for June 13 and received another email the day of stating that because of other customer cancellations the tour was post-​poned. They offered to two alternative dates (neither of which worked for my friend & me) or to extend the voucher through December 19. I have tried emailing THREE times to be refunded, with no response from Ready to Nosh. Today, I went to their website to try to find a phone number, and it appears that the domain name is for sale. *sigh* Terrible.

I was super excited when I saw this on LivingSocial deal. I did my research online before I made a purchase back in April, sad to say reviews didn’t start posting until recently if not I would have not bothered to waste my money. I was planning to redeem in May. I tried doing it online but all I got was error messages on their site. Now I tried emailing them a couple times as this is the only means of communication to set up a tour and nothing…
This would have seemed to be a great food truck tour for a foodie if it would have actually happened sad part is I cannot even get a refund on the voucher as according to LivingSocial no one else has reported a problem with the merchant. Sucks to be me.

Ditto what Sabrina B. said. I had the exact same experience. My cousin and his wife bought this Groupon for us as a Christmas present. A few months later, my cousin tells me that Groupon is offering refunds for this because the company has gone under or can’t be reached. I said that we were able to book the tour, and that if there was a problem I’d let them know.
Anyway, this past Friday (May 11, 2012) my husband and I went down to South First Street. We got an e-​mail telling us to meet at one of the food truck lots at 11:00 am. We got there right on time and waited for about 45 minutes. Nobody ever showed up!!! There was also no contact information… just a toll free number that went straight to voicemail. My husband left a message, I left one… nobody responded. I was PISSED, especially because I took the day off just for this.
Then, I got an e-​mail at 12:30 thanking me for my business and asking me to go to their website to leave a review. Just like Sabrina B., there was no place to leave one.
Lame!
Ready to Nosh is a total scam. I don’t know why Groupon and Living Social keep offering deals for them. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY.

I bought this Ready To Nosh food tour in September and have been trying to use it FOREVER. Until May I studied in another city and was planning on going to Austin in December 2011 for my Christmas break. Online it said nothing was available, however, when I called later they said that there were ones available in December, they just hadn’t updated their website. What? So I missed going in December.
I actually scheduled one in March and was very excited to go with my boyfriend. We showed up to the location that was listed on the original voucher, but little did we know they changed it on an e-​mail they sent us in February.
We went to both locations to find no one. The directions were very poorly worded «3^rd group of trailers on the right” — they didn’t even list a trailer name.
No one had called us to see where we were, and no one answered their phone when I tried to call the number that was listed.
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, so I left a message telling them I would be happy if we could re-​schedule a time to meet.
They never called me back, and they never responded to my e-​mail. I will never book anything else with Ready To Nosh Food Tours because they do not respect their customers.
HOWEVER!!! My family scheduled a different food tour that was absolutely incredible, it’s called Austin Eats Food Tours– we tried many different restaurants and foods. The hosts were so friendly and very informative.

We’ve been on a few food tours with Austin Eats that were great — so when I saw a groupon for this company for a food truck tour, I thought we’d give it a try. Here’s the problem — they don’t have a phone number, they don’t respond to emails, and they apparently don’t show up for the tours that they confirm!!! Our confirmation email said to meet at 1311 S. 1^st Street today at noon. We got there at 11:45. Not only were we the only people who showed up — no one from the company — but none of the food truck vendors knew about it either! In fact, the people at Torchy’s Tacos said this happens a lot! Ironically, at 12:30, Ready to Nosh sent me an email thanking me for our business, and asking us to post a review on their website. But when I clicked through — there was no way to leave a review on their site! Since this company wasn’t listed on Unilocal — I decided to create the listing so I could warn others. Go to Austin Eats instead! (BTW — Trip Advisor has reviews of this company — half of which pan it for basically the same reasons stated here.)