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Food tour group on High Street — laughing, holding tasting portions. Casual, social, daytime.
Taste What the Short North Is Made Of
Walking food tours, distillery tastings, art-focused walks, and neighborhood crawls — the best way to meet the Short North is one stop at a time. Every tour is led by someone who knows the district by name.
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§1 — Tours + Tastings Hero. Event-feed page — hero signals bookable, date-driven programming. 'Taste What the Short North Is Made Of' — participatory, confident, food-forward but inclusive of all tour types. CTA scrolls to event feed. Photography: group energy, not food close-ups. High Street visibility matters — anchors the tour as a neighborhood experience, not a restaurant promotion. Daytime lighting.
Tours + Tastings in the District
Walking tours, brewery visits, food crawls, and tasting experiences — bookable year-round.
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Short North Food Tour
Columbus Food Adventures
Take a leisurely stroll through Columbus's Short North Arts District and savor its culinary delights with tastings at six to seven stops. Includes local culinary knowledge and neighborhood history.
3 hours
$58/person
~1.5 miles walking
Saturdays year-round; Fridays May–Oct
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Columbus Dessert Adventures
Columbus Food Adventures
A walking tour exploring the Short North's dessert offerings with stops at Italian pastries, signature pies, dessert waffles, and public art exploration. Includes a cocktail (alcohol-free option available).
2.5 hours
$58/person
Saturdays
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Columbus Brew Adventures
Columbus Brew Adventures
Educational microbrew tour covering beer production, styles, and brewery history with tastings at multiple locations including Columbus Brewing, Seventh Son, North High, Barley's, Wolf's Ridge, and Zauber.
3 hours
$55/person
Saturdays
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Pedal Wagon
Pedal Wagon
A 15-person pedal-powered rolling experience visiting restaurants, bars, and local establishments. Perfect for birthdays, corporate events, and pre-game celebrations.
2 hours
$25–$30/person
Daily, 9 AM – 10 PM
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Distillery Tour + Tasting
Middle West Spirits
Taste signature vodkas, gins, and whiskeys made in one of the country's most state-of-the-art craft distilleries. Tour the production floor and sample what they're making this season.
1 hour
$10/person
1230 Courtland Ave
Thu–Sat or by appointment
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Brewery Tour + Tasting Flight
Seventh Son Brewing
Visit Seventh Son Brewing for a brewery tour to learn about the process at one of the city's favorite local brewers. The tour includes a four-beer tasting flight.
1 hour
$12/person
1101 N. 4th St
Fridays 5:30 + 7:30 PM (first come, first served)
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Brewery Tour
Barley's Brewing
Tour the Barley's brewing facilities and learn about what it takes to brew both traditional and innovative ales. Includes a pint glass, cheese, crackers, and printed taplist.
1 hour
$18–$22/person
467 N. High St
By appointment
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Brewery Tour Package
North High Brewing
Tour the beer production facility and receive a branded t-shirt and pint glass while enjoying beer from one of the Short North's own breweries.
1 hour
$20/person
1125 Cleveland Ave
Select Saturdays
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Meadery Tour + Tasting
Brothers Drake Meadery
Learn mead basics and sample works in progress with a facility tour, process history, and tasting. Groups of 5–40 welcome.
45 minutes
$20/person
26 E. 5th Ave
Mon–Sun by appointment
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§2 — Tours + Tastings Directory. Replaces the event-feed approach with a static directory of 9 bookable tours and tastings — these are ongoing/recurring experiences, not one-off events. Each card shows the tour name, operator, description, key details (duration, price, availability), operator logo, and a booking CTA. Content is managed as business profiles in WordPress — no editorial copy per card. Adding or removing a tour means adding or removing a business record.
Upcoming Tours + Tastings
Next up from the events feed — filtered by the Tastings + Tours category.
Short North Food Tour
11:00 AM – 2:30 PM · Columbus Food Adventures · $58/person
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Columbus Dessert Adventures
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM · Columbus Food Adventures · $58/person
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Columbus Brew Adventures
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM · Columbus Brew Adventures · $55/person
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Pedal Wagon Short North
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM · Pedal Wagon · $25–$30/person
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Distillery Tour + Tasting
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM · Middle West Spirits · $10/person
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Brewery Tour + Tasting Flight
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM · Seventh Son Brewing · $12/person
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Short North Food Tour
11:00 AM – 2:30 PM · Columbus Food Adventures · $58/person
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§3 — Upcoming Tours + Tastings. Auto-populated from the SNA events feed, filtered by the Tastings + Tours category, sorted by date (soonest first). Shows the next 5–10 upcoming instances. No editorial maintenance — content comes entirely from event records (title, date, time, operator, price). "Learn More" links to the event detail page. Complements the static directory above by showing what's actually bookable next.
Keep Going
The tour ends but the neighborhood doesn't. Here's what's next.
[ Restaurant interior or patio — someone settling in for a meal after an experience. Post-tour energy: relaxed, satisfied, still social. The natural 'what's next' after a tasting. ]
Eat + Drink
Still hungry? The tour was just the appetizer. Find a table and keep the evening going — every restaurant in the district is in walking distance.
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[ Gallery Hop or evening event atmosphere — people moving between venues, string lights, sidewalk energy. The district at its most alive. ]
Events
Tastings and tours are just the beginning. See what else is happening in the Short North this week — from Gallery Hop to live music to seasonal programming.
See What's On →
§5 — Tours Cross-Sell: 'Keep Going'. Two tiles — Eat + Drink (natural before/after for tastings) and Events (broader programming calendar). 'Keep Going' framing: the tour ends, but the evening doesn't have to. Eat + Drink tile should feel post-tour — someone settling into a meal, not browsing a menu. Events tile should feel like the district at night — Gallery Hop energy, live music, sidewalk atmosphere. Cross-sell photography should be warmer/more evening-toned than the browse section above. The intent is occasion-completion: 'you came for a tour, stay for dinner and a show.'
PRE-FOOTER — Global component displayed on every page. Combines newsletter signup + social links into a persistent strip above the footer.
Footer consolidates full sitemap. Social links in pre-footer above. Links connect to wireframes where available; # = placeholder for pages not yet wireframed.