Darwin Food Walking Tour with Tastings

Your experienced and knowledgeable local guide will treat you to the best of Darwin’s food scene. Join us for lunch or dinner on an escorted 3-hour easy walking tour. Chefs and staff present at least 9 tasting plates (degustation) with an emphasis on local produce. Our roster of dining includes many of the city’s most award-winning restaurants.
During the short walk we’ll also show you cultural and historic landmarks and Darwin’s vibrant street artworks. Download the free ‘Darwin Street Art Festival’ app for Apple or Android to see cool, futuristic augmented reality art. Your guide also carries a tablet to view it larger.

Meeting Point

Ruby Vietnamese Restaurant

48-50 Smith St, Darwin City NT 0800, Australia

If the restaurant is open, we're probably starting your tour here, so come inside to meet your guide at our reserved table. If the restaurant is closed, your guide will meet you out front.

What's included:

• Guide commentary on Aboriginal and contemporary history, WWII, architecture, gov't, arts and more
• Local guide

What to expect:

Duration: 3 hours

Darwin

Darwin, Northern Territory

Here are the kinds of gourmet dishes you can expect on a typical tour. You’ll get to try at least 12 different dishes. Note our focus on NT-sourced produce or Aboriginal bush foods.
• Duck salad with banana flower, mint, and ginger sauce
• Char grilled beef in local wild betel leaf
• Kai lan with oyster sauce
• Eggplant with sweet and sour dressing
• Salt and pepper marinated crocodile
• Whole char-grilled gold band snapper with cashew sauce
• Charred bullhorn pepper
• Green papaya salad
• Line-caught smoked mackerel pate
• Cassava wedges with spicy balado seasoning and kewpie mayo
• Rum Jungle buffalo croquettes
• Skull Island prawns
• Black garlic pate made in house
• Charred Berry Spring snake beans with toasted walnut
• Line-caught loligo calamari
• Crocodile dumplings
• Kangaroo spring rolls
• Berber spiced kangaroo with tomato jam
• Caramelised banana, vanilla ice cream, wattle seed caramel, macadamia, and mint

1 hour

Darwin Street Art

Austin Lane, Darwin, 0800, Northern Territory

Austin Lane, West Lane and other areas: an unexpected surprise when wandering Darwin's city streets is the murals that adorn the walls of our laneways. Since 2017, the Darwin Street Art Festival has brought vibrancy and colour to the city's walls, with international, national and local artists contributing to the large-scale art gallery. We’ll have photo opportunities in Darwin's celebrated Austin Lane, home to giant street art paintings.

30 minutes

The Old Town Hall

13 Smith St, Darwin, 0800, Northern Territory

On Christmas Eve 1974, after almost a century enduring tropical conditions and 64 air raids during World War II, Darwin's Town Hall literally started crumbling during Cyclone Tracy. The heritage building—erected 14 years after European settlers arrived in the region in 1869—was damaged beyond repair by the natural disaster, as was much of the city. Some of our tours will have photo opportunities at this heritage-listed site, a testament to the destructive power of the cyclone that destroyed much of Darwin.

30 minutes

Parliament House

Mitchell St, Darwin, 0800, Northern Territory

See the newest Parliament House in Australia on the edge of the Arafura Sea. We'll either walk beside or into this grand structure.

30 minutes

Darwin Waterfront

7 Kitchener Drive, Darwin, 0800, Northern Territory

This is a great place to find gourmet food and drink, not to mention that it’s set on a beautiful lagoon on Darwin Harbour. Our tour is constantly changing and we feature different establishments on different days of the week. Waterfront restaurants on our tour can include Wharf One, Hot Tamale, Snapper Rocks, Chow, and others. Weather permitting, we’ll dine outside with a view of the harbour.

30 minutes