DESCRIPTION
Our experienced local guide will meet you at the Top End Visitor Information Centre, 6 Bennett Street, Darwin City, and walk with you to the first restaurant on our tour. These tours are lunch-only, and generally start earlier than our other scheduled lunch tours.
What’s included?
• Darwin’s best food in a 4-hour tour
• experienced local guide
• Darwin’s top restaurants
• a wide variety of tasting plates
• one glass of wine, spirit, or a beer as a welcome drink at the first restaurant
• soft drinks, coffee and tea included throughout
• staff talk to us about the food
• local produce and food culture
• see Darwin’s street art come to life with augmented reality
• includes info on culture, history, WWII, architecture
• lunch tours include a stop at an Aboriginal art gallery and store
• short easy walks between restaurants
• vegetarian and gluten-free options
• there’s lots to eat—we’ll fill you up
• tasty tropical desert to finish.
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 12 different dishes.
Menu samples of locally-sourced produce
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NT crocodile dumplings
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Line-caught smoked mackerel pate
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Rum Jungle buffalo croquettes
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Skull Island prawns
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Thai-style local fish cakes with nam jim
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Loligo calamari
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Char grilled beef in local wild betel leaf
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Garlic kai lan
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Vegetable laksa
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Whole chargrilled snapper with cashew sauce
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Kang koong water spinach with garlic and chilli sauce
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Green papaya salad
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Kangaroo spring rolls
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Berber spiced kangaroo with tomato jam
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Whole char grilled goldband snapper with cashew sauce
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Barramundi in turmeric, lemongrass, fresh curry leaves, coconut
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Salt and pepper marinated crocodile
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Eggplant with a sweet and sour dressing
- Sago pudding
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Caramelised banana with roast macadamia topping
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Mango vanilla bean cheesecake, rosella and strawberry gum coulis, toasted coconut
…and more!
