This is the tour that made us famous! (Well, as famous as you can be in Darwin.)
You can customise this private tour to suit what interests you. For example, we often host culinary tours that visit three top restaurants, where you get to try several tasting plates. With a combination of activities, you could still visit one top restaurant and get a full Outback meal including delicious crocodile and other local delicacies.
Rather than a mostly culinary tour, though, you might prefer to spend more of your time spotting wildlife at Darwin’s top sightseeing spots, or any combination of activities. We’ll begin your tour by presenting you with a range of options for your day and weaving your preferences into the fabric of the tour.
Your experienced local guide will pick you up from your accommodation.
Customise your tour with one or all of these iconic Territory activities:
· Gourmet dining
· Distillery tasting and tour
· WWII history, sites and sights
· Aviation Museum
· Royal Flying Doctor
· Wild fish feeding
· Chinese history, temple, museum
· Architecture
· Beaches
· Aboriginal art
· Museum & Art Gallery
· Parliament House
· Private tropical gardens
· Birding and wildlife spotting
· Botanic & Community Gardens
· Jumping crocodiles
· Territory Wildlife Park
· Litchfield National Park
The options are yours.
Or if you prefer, we can suggest a fun and interesting itinerary with a wide range of activities.
What's included if you want this to be mostly a Gourmet Food Tour?
• All transport
• Darwin’s best food in a 5-hour tour
• experienced local guide
• Darwin’s top restaurants
• more than 10 tasting plates
• all drinks including alcohol, cocktails, soft drinks, coffee and tea included throughout
• staff talk to us about the food (chefs too, where possible)
• 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, gluten-free, and other dietary options
• there’s lots to eat—we’ll fill you up
• tasty tropical desert to finish
• sightseeing central Darwin.
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
NT crocodile dumplings
Line-caught smoked mackerel pate
Rum Jungle buffalo croquettes
Skull Island prawns
Thai-style local fish cakes with nam jim
Loligo calamari
Char grilled beef in local wild betel leaf
Garlic kai lan
Vegetable laksa
Whole chargrilled snapper with cashew sauce
Kang koong water spinach with garlic and chilli sauce
Green papaya salad
Kangaroo spring rolls
Berber spiced kangaroo with tomato jam
Whole char grilled goldband snapper with cashew sauce
Barramundi in turmeric, lemongrass, fresh curry leaves, coconut
Salt and pepper marinated crocodile
Eggplant with a sweet and sour dressing
We can host more guests at additional pricing.
Contact us for more information or to get advice on what to see and do in Darwin to suit your tastes.