Eco Pedicab

A friend and I purchased a food tour groupon toward the start of summer. It took us a while to set a date for our tour, and we ended up booking it for a a Friday late afternoon in July. It was relatively simple to coordinate a date and time with Eco Pedicab for our tour. We met up with our guide for the tour, Benny (who was most excellent!), and off we went. Benny chauffeured us around to Bar Louie, Bravo, and Aspire where we had little coupons he provided for different deals at each place (BOGO app, free app with purchase of $x, and free dessert). We hadn’t known we would have to pay from our own pocket for some of the deals as we had thought the coupons we received would cover everything. As another note, you can fit up to three people in the cab, although we ended up being comfy with just two of us.
Benny was great and entertained us with witty conversation and played along with our silliness. We were waving around like William and Kate to all the denizens of Providence, and Benny made sure to ding the little bike bell, much to our delight, to announce our presence to any large groups within earshot. He even snagged some balloons to decorate the pedicab to surprise us after our last stop. He was friendly and super prompt with picking us up when we were ready to (literally) roll out to the next stop on our tour.
Bring some extra cash to give your guide as a tip! They work hard and are really there to not only provide a service but also to entertain you. As a note, they also offer other types of tours (historical, etc) and they just have «regular» bike service (like a taxi) for getting around certain parts of the city (downcity, Fed Hill, and Fox Point are their main haunts, I think). Check them out for a fun way to get around town!

Way to go, Tom. Your Food Tour is going to be a great success. We enjoyed our afternoon, and every stop was perfection.

Tom is a super cool dude. and Eco Pedicab is a super cool startup, new this summer to Providence.
Simple — it’s a bike/​taxi hybrid. You sit. Tom pedals. You get to see the sights, save some cash money, and avoid cab jams outside larger venues. Tom gets a great workout and tips to help him through his senior year of college. The environment doesn’t choke on carbon emissions. Everyone in the city becomes instahappy when they see you whizzing by because they live in a hip city where we have pedicabs. Everyone wins!
As a disclaimer, I’ve met Tom and his pedicab in India Point Park and chatted it up. And I’ve experienced him and his crew pedaling all over the city. But I haven’t yet fully utilized the service myself yet because I’m usually biking, too. That said, I recommend the biz far and wide after meeting Tom and have the disbatch number dutifully programmed into my phone (401−400−2380) should I need to text or call for a lift.
The website offers a superior list of creative ideas and tour options in addition to just transport. Historical tour? Brew tour? Special events like weddings? Creative first date? Late for your bus and on the other side of town? The opportunities are endless for both residents and tourists and the service is super easy to use by texting or calling.
Keep smiling, Tom! You’ve brought something great to our city!