Eat your way through one of the world’s most wonderful and wonderfully diverse culinary cities.
Australians have a penchant for borrowing and bastardising with great irreverence. This is especially true when it comes to the creatively competitive culinary arts. Experience inventive cultural fusion and stunning seasonal produce while unravelling some of Melbourne’s most vibrant local neighbourhoods.
Suggested but highly flexible itinerary:
Be picked up from your hotel or be met at the airport and hit the ground running - this is an excellent ‘day one’ experience.
Take to the backstreets for a coffee fix somewhere wonderfully local and get to know your personable Localing host. Share a few tastes and interests to help make the experience personal.
Barter for seasonal produce, local wine and fresh seafood at the Queen Victoria Market. Learn about the fare from local farmers and market characters (only available market days).
Take time to experience a few of Melbourne’s twenty-seven different ethnic community areas.
Hunt for Chinatown’s most delectable dumplings, Little Saigon ‘banh mi’ or the best buffalo mozzarella in Little Italy. Learn about how these communities, have become a part of Melbourne’s vibrant cultural patchwork.
Meet chefs and culinary creatives in kitchens and cooler rooms.
Want to dive head first into speciality coffee? Visit a local roastery and ‘cellar door’. Their passionate roasters are a wealth of information on everything from farming practice and green bean selection to cupping and roasting.
If beer or local whisky is more to your tastes, visit a micro brewer or distiller to drink, chat and learn about local craft.
Cap it off with a visit to an epic bakery, because everything should finish with fresh, flaky baked goods.
Your Localing host will have you back at your hotel by 4 pm (start and finish times can be varied to suit your needs).
Tour Code: Food
Special Interests: City Tour, Tastings, History, Private
Duration: 6 hours
Languages: A range of languages please send request
Departures: Central Hotel
Departure Time: 10 am start (recommended). Times can vary, please specify time for tour at booking.
Returns: Central Hotel
Return Time: 4pm
- Foreign language host +$180A total
- Public holidays +$180A total
- Gourmet dining +$100A p. p.
- Airport pickup (max 4 guests) +$150A total
- Private scenic helicopter flight (20-min.) +$380A p. p.
- Private river cruise and aperitifs (1.5 hrs.) +$800A total
- Dawn balloon flight and breakfast +$700A total
Unique Enrichments (by arrangement)
- Gelato making master-class at world-famous Gelato Messina
- Australian Masterchef Experience
- Market produce and Australian seafood barbeque experience
Terms and Conditions
Bookings cancelled outside of 7 days of a tours departure will receive a 100% refund. Bookings cancelled inside 7 days but outside of 24 hours of a tours departure will receive a 50% refund. No refund is possible inside 24 hours of a tours departure. All amendments and rescheduled tour date requests inside of 48 hours will incur a change fee of $50 plus any additional costs incurred.
Weather is not a reason to cancel a tour except in the most extreme circumstances, we advise guests to dress comfortably and appropriately.
$990A for up to 2 guests
$160A for each additional guest (up to 7 total)
Children under 5 free
Includes:
- Expert Localing host
- Premium private touring vehicle and in-car wi-fi
- Locally bottled spring water and Victorian treats
- Fresh local coffee/tea
- Taste artisanal treats from around Melbourne
- Walk iconic lanes and arcades
- Explore local boroughs like Fitzroy and St. Kilda
- Queen Vic. / South Melb. Market tour (market days)
- Engage with chefs and local culinary creatives
- Go behind the scenes in iconic local kitchens
- Visits to China Town, Little Saigon or Little Italy
Excludes:
- Lunch
