If you’re anything like me (an obsessive list-maker with wallet-draining dining aspirations), you keep a note on your phone titled “Restaurants to try.” It’s a dreamy wish list of the spendy and trendy, consisting of high-end institutions to try before you die and buzzing neighborhood pop-ups required to maintain your cred.

My picks tend to cluster on the Strip but are also sprinkled throughout neighborhoods like Chinatown and Summerlin and, more recently, Downtown. Destination eateries have steadily emerged in our city’s center, and now, there’s a way to sample a handful and learn a little about the neighborhood.

Nosh Las Vegas food tours take eight to 15 guests on a three-hour walking tour to five Downtown (or SLS) restaurants, giving tasters solid impressions of where they might like to return. Portions range from generous family-style servings to single appetizers to small samples, and dishes are chosen at the discretion of the chef. Sometimes diners receive house staples, and other times daily specials.

On a recent tour, we tried Italian white beans, rabbit pasta and “old-style” salmon sashimi with bergamot oil and roe at Radio City pizza; fried chicken skins at Carson Kitchen; spicy pecans, citrusy calamari and Kronenbourg 1664 blanc beer at Perch; the signature dog at Cheffini’s Hot Dogs; and a sample of Jinju Chocolates.

“It’s really up to the restaurant how they want to be perceived and what they want to present,” says tour guide HeidyNoelle Stamper. “Some bring out a few dishes and some give just a taste.”

Downtown tours run Fridays and Saturdays at 2 p.m., $60, noshlasvegas.com.