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Foodie's Bucket List Tour
Highlights
- Savour five delicious tastings while exploring Melbourne's vibrant culinary scene, immersing yourself in diverse flavours.
- Stroll through the city's foodie hotspots, each offering unique signature dishes that promise unforgettable experiences.
- Discover cultural and historical anecdotes at every stop, enriching your palate with stories behind the cuisine.
- Enjoy a gourmet adventure tailored for short visits, making it easy to indulge in Melbourne's latest culinary delights.
When time is of the essence, the Bucket List Tour will wow your senses – while tasting and strolling your way through Melbourne’s exploding culinary epicentre.
The Bucket List Tour includes five delicious tastings with cultural and historical anecdotes. Taste your way around Melbourne from Modern Chinese, Peruvian, Spanish, Asian Fusion, Contemporary Australian and more.
If you’re in Melbourne for a short period of time, or seeking an ‘experiential’ gourmet adventure, This Is Melbourne make it easy for you to hit all the hot spots and latest foodie’ must do’s of this fabulous city.
Each stop will delight you with their signature or specialty dish, providing an experience unique to their establishment and a ‘taste’ you will want to return again and again for.
Itinerary highlights
Tasting Melbourne
Our ‘Bucket List’ Food Tour includes up to 10 delicious ‘tastings’, dotted with cultural and historical anecdotes.
Be dazzled as you experience unforgettable ‘tastes’ from some of Melbourne’s best and ‘must visit’ award-winning restaurants
Melbourne’s multicultural cuisine encompasses many influences, drawing predominantly from indigenous, European, and Asian flavours.
Melbourne Style
Learn the meaning of ‘Melbourne-Style’ through your local guide who is passionate about all things Melbourne – especially good food and Melbourne’s rich, vibrant history
Laneways of Melbourne
Weave in and around the many iconic laneways of Melbourne – visiting the bustling boutiques and foodie hot spots – amongst our mesmerising and wondrous Street Art – filled with stories, both past and present, far and wide
Tour details
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Available from 23 November 2025 to 31 December 2026
- On demand
Features
Service facilities
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
- Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
Vision
Caters for people who are blind or have vision loss.
- Staff are trained in customer service for people with vision loss (training would incorporate way finding and communicating with people with vision loss).
Hearing
Caters for people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
- Staff are trained in communicating with people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- Wheelchair accessible transport options available in the general vicinity (provide information on name of the operator, phone and website link to individual providers for private vehicles, community transport train, mini vans, hire cars, buses, taxis, ferry, tram, light rail etc in their access statement).
Allergies and intolerances
Caters for people with allergies and intolerances.
- Staff are trained to respond to allergic reactions.
- Complies with The Food Authority requirements for allergy management in food preparation.
Operation information
This Is Melbourne
This Is Melbourne provide experiential adventures for visitors and locals alike – all through the lens of taste, smell and touch. Every experience captures the essence of Melbourne, as the team share stories of its past and present – people, diverse history and exploding culinary scene.
Fenian Wines deliver guided walking tours – The Story of Melbourne, Taste of The Town, Street Eats, and their original Foodies Bucket List Tour – showcasing Melbourne’s vibrant and multi-cultural energy through local Melburnian’s, bursting with passion to ignite the city.
In addition, private experiences are available – tailored to suit individual group, themes or special occasions.
Memberships
- Australian Tourism Export Council
- National Trust
- Victoria Tourism Industry Council
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