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Outback Gourmet Food & Art Tour (Minimum 4 guests)

  • Darwin
  • Full-day Tours
  • Tour in English
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  • Special Experience
  • Family Outing

Overview

Minimum 4 guests.

Tours are generally limited to 12 guests per tour.

Lunch: 11:30
Dinner: 17:30

Overview

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 or 4-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.

Many of our tours feature Darwin’s fabulous street art, which we see on our short walks between restaurants. Many of the art works feature augmented reality and we linger to marvel as the art leaps off the walls and comes to life. We’ll also talk about Darwin’s history and Aboriginal and contemporary culture.


Your experienced local guide will meet you at Ruby Vietnamese Restaurant, 48-50 Smith Street, beside Raintree Park, Darwin City.
What’s the food like?
You’ll enjoy a wide variety of gourmet dishes. We cater for dietary preferences including vegetarian, pescatarian, gluten-free, allergy-related and others. Below is a wide selection from several of the restaurants on our tours that’s indicative of some of the gourmet dishes you can expect on a typical tour. Selections may vary from tour to tour, but we’ll serve you more than 9 different dishes.

What’s the walk like?
This is a relaxed walking tour on level and paved walkways, all wheelchair accessible. The average walking distance is under 1.5 kilometres, broken into short walks between restaurants. Our tours generally finish about a kilometre from where they started. If the weather is poor we’ll provide transport. Tours operate in a small walking area as indicated below.

What are the historic and cultural landmarks we’ll see on a tour?
The historic and cultural landmarks we stop to see depend on the tour and the day of the week. Not all tours include all landmarks. Your tour may include one or more of these:

Darwin Street Art
Austin Lane and West Lane

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. Many art pieces feature very cool augmented reality. We’ll have photo opportunities in Darwin’s celebrated Austin Lane, home to giant street art paintings.

The Old Town Hall
11 Smith Street

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. We’ll have photo opportunities at this heritage-listed site, a testament to the destructive power of the cyclone that destroyed much of Darwin.

Darwin Waterfront
Kitchener Drive

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. Weather permitting, we’ll dine outside with a view of the harbour.

Parliament House

Some weekday lunch tours enter the building. This grand building, known locally as The Wedding Cake, opened in 1994. Photo opportunities abound and your guide will point out one or two significant but hidden features.

State Square, Darwin
Overland Telegraph Memorial
Liberty Square

The Overland Telegraph line linked up with a submarine telegraph cable between Darwin and Java in 1872. It connected with the extensive British telegraph network, providing Australia with its first solid communications link with the rest of the world. If you could understand Morse code, that is.

Survivor’s Lookout
Esplanade

This high walkway gives spectacular views of Darwin Harbour and the Arafura Sea. Its name came about after survivors of the first WWII air raid on Darwin, in 1942, gathered here to see the devastation below. There were over 40 ships in Darwin Harbour during the attack, and some of the pictures on display are of burning ships seen from this high point.

Menu samples of locally-sourced produce
·        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, mint

What’s included

Included

  • Please refer to the different packages.

Not included

  • All inclusions are as indicated on the websites at time of travel. If not stated as included the item/s are at guests own cost.

Ages

Those aged 6 to 16 years old inclusive pay the listed Child’s price.

Those aged under 6 years old eat free. Please let us know if you have children under 6 years old with you.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

How to use

After the booking is comfirmed you will receive an email with attachment. Please check the details on the voucher. On the day of tour, please take the voucher to participate in the avtivity.

Please arrive at the meeting point at least 5-10 minutes before departure.

Meeting point: Ruby Vietnamese Restaurant, 48-50 Smith Street, beside Raintree Park, Darwin City

Good to know

Take an easy walk at a slow pace, wheelchair accessible.

Please dress smart casual. You may want to wear shorts and a short-sleeved collared shirt in Darwin’s tropical climate, but no singlets or thongs please. If it looks like rain, please bring an umbrella. Comfortable covered walking shoes are recommended.

All tours are wheelchair-accessible. Guides are happy to assist guests who experience limited mobility or require assistance.

Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish-speaking guides (and other languages) by arrangement. Please contact customer in advance.

On very rare occasions, tours may be cancelled (severe weather, road or park closures,insufficient numbers). Should this occur, you will be transferred to an alternative tour / date,or if this is not suitable, you will receive a full refund.

Disclaimer

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The tour duration is only an approximation. If the tour ends early, it may be due to weather conditions requiring an earlier conclusion.

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No show: Ticket holders who 'no show' without prior cancellation or notification are not eligible for a refund.

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