Melbourne is Australia’s culinary capital, but to discover the city’s foodie hotspots, you need a local guide. On this food walking tour, explore Melbourne’s atmospheric laneways and arcades; visit the city’s coolest bars, cafés, and street food stalls; and sample everything from Chinese dumplings to sweet pastries. This small-group tour is limited to 10 people for an authentic local experience.

Melbourne foodie walking tour
Visit Melbourne restaurants, cafés, and/or street food stalls
Sample delicious Chinese dumplings, indulgent desserts, and freshly brewed coffee
Ideal introduction to Melbourne’s culinary scene for traveling foodies!
Small-group tour limited to 10 people ensures a personalized experience

What's Included

Coffee and/or Tea
Alcoholic Beverages
Snacks
Your local guide can provide all sorts of other info to help you best enjoy your stay in Melbourne.

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Departure & Return

Departure Point

Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Meeting Point: Please wait on the steps at the entrance to the H&M store in Bourke St Mall, near the corner of Elizabeth St. Please note: This is NOT the same as the entrance in Little Bourke St. Allow 10-15 minutes to walk from Flinders St Train Station or Melbourne Central Train Station.

Return Details

22 Whitehart Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
The bar where we typically finish is very close (2 minutes walk) to the starting point.

What To Expect

Meet your guide and small group of no more than 10 people in central Melbourne. Set out on a walking tour of the city’s atmospheric laneways and markets, stopping to admire striking street art or peek into the historic arcades.

Visit Melbourne’s best restaurants, coffee houses, bakeries, and/or street food stalls, and tuck into delicious food samples along the way. Sip freshly brewed coffee, fill up on tasty Chinese dumplings, and indulge in sweet treats, then finish your tour with a drink at a rooftop bar, gazing out over the city.

Of course, you also get the inside scoop on Melbourne’s foodie scene and your guide is happy to offer personalized recommendations to suit your tastes.

Your tour ends in central Melbourne.

Melbourne Laneways

We discover many of Melbourne's laneways and arcades sharing the stories from the past and present through the delicious things that we sample along the way.

3 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Bourke Street Mall (Pass By)

We meet in centrally located Bourke St Mall to begin our afternoon exploring Melbourne's laneways.

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Infants must sit on laps
Not wheelchair accessible
Service animals allowed
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers

Operated by Walk Melbourne Tours

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The answers provided below are based on answers previously given by the tour provider to customers’ questions.

Q:What is the policy on sanitization during Melbourne Foodie Discovery Walking Tour?

A:The policy on sanitization is:

Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff

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Reviews

4.5

84 reviews

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Yummy walking tour

Casccw, Dec 2021

We experienced coffee, dumplings, chocolate, gelato, Vietnamese pork roll and a wine - all deliciously good- walking was really only a small distance. Good learn a bit about Melbournes history and about the food. If you don’t drink coffee heads up to organize something else instead

Best food tour in Melbourne

Maria_M, Dec 2021

Monique was wonderful , very friendly and informative it was just myself and my daughter so there was no rush and the tour flowed to our needs . We would highly recommend this tour even if your local like us .

Response from Host, Dec 2021

Hi Maria! Thanks so much. So glad you enjoyed yourselves!

Highly recommended

David-Leanne, May 2021

Our guide Melinda was fantastic. A fifth generation Melbournian. Mel made the afternoon interesting, kept our attention, personable and friendly. Mel’s knowledge of the city was excellent. Highly recommended.

High recommend this tour

Kathy_C, May 2021

Melinda our guide was amazing. Very caring and full of knowledge. Thank you Melinda for a wonderful tour.

Food walking tour

Liz_J, Dec 2020

Fun knowledgeable guide and we got to know areas we hadn’t seen before Different food in each stop off and a good group

A Rip-Off

Janice_C, Mar 2020

A total RIFF-OFF and one of the worst tours I have gone food wise. It was very expensive for what we got and should have been 1/2 the price as the food was cheap and nasty. Although the tour guide Monique was extremely knowledgeable, the food on the tour was cheap and nondescript and a disgrace to Melbourne. (Melbourne is the food capital of Australia). Firstly if you wanted to serve something Australian - you will bundle up vegemite and meat pie in one go not offer it as 2 tastings. It was a cheap shot. There should be tastings of multicultural cuisine like Italian etc instead of just Chinese dumplings. Instead of going to a macaroon shop you could stop for coffee and cake. Very poor. The guide was excellent just the quality of the food and the tastings. You could even widen the area.

What lies beneath

Karina_W, Feb 2020

A fantastic tour offering some really interesting information about the history of Melbourne combined with great food and drink. Would totally recommend to anyone visiting Melbourne, even if you have been here before like we had.

Great way to explore the inner city.

Susan_W, Feb 2020

Thoroughly enjoyed the food walking tour of Melbourne CBD. Sue our tour guide was wonderful. She was friendly and very knowledgeable about the inner city. We saw things you would never notice if walking around on your own. Loved exploring the various lane ways and will definitely explore them a lot more next time we are in Melbourne. The pie, dumplings, coffee and macaroons were very tasty. Don’t expect this tour to be all about and eating loads of food because it’s not. You discover lots of great and quirky places. Thoroughly recommend this tour to anyone who wants to discover inner Melbourne a bit more and get great information about some of the the history of Melbourne.

Interesting and informative.

michelle, Jan 2020

We can thoroughly recommend this tour. Our guide was very friendly and informative and made the tour very interesting with her local knowledge. We went to places we would never have found on our own. It was also nice to meet the other people on the tour.

I did this tour with my parents, and...

Chad K, May 2018

I did this tour with my parents, and while it was interesting, it really wasn't so much a food tour as it was a walking tour which was our expectation - so we left hungrier than we expected to be. We did get to see some fun, hidden parts of Melbourne, and our guide was very gracious.

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