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The F Factor – Adelaide Food Tour
Highlights
- Savour the unique flavours of Adelaide with local delicacies like fritz and Fruchoc on this immersive food tour.
- Discover the rich stories behind iconic treats while exploring the vibrant Central Market's culinary offerings.
- Indulge in a bakery lunch featuring a meat pie or pasty, showcasing Adelaide's hearty food culture.
- Take home a surprise dessert and extra goodies to extend your Adelaide food adventure beyond the tour.
What is fritz? A Fruchoc? Find out when you join the Adelaide food tour The F Factor! This is the original tour showcasing the fun local foods hailing from Adelaide and South Australia.
On this two-hour food history tour, they will detail the stories of these locally made products. You’ll taste the city’s best chocolate, nuts, and iced coffee, plus oddities growing up eating in Adelaide: a frog cake and some fritz. Finally, a bakery lunch will be provided (a meat pie/pasty etc of your choice). You’ll take away a surprise dessert plus extra goodies to continue your Adelaide food journey.
Take the time to find out about Adelaide’s unique foods, their stories and why they are loved so much – from a local with international guiding experience.
Flamboyance Tours provides high-quality experiences through fun, quirky and immersive travel.
– This tour can be altered for vegetarians, but is not suitable for vegans or those with intolerances, including gluten
– The Central Market has an ‘optional’ trading day on Wednesdays. Please note this doesn’t affect the tour, but not all stalls are open for you to explore afterwards.
Tour details
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Available from 28 May 2025 to 31 March 2027
Features
Service facilities
Service Tags
Sevice Activity
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.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
Vision
Caters for people who are blind or have vision loss.
- Information in audio format (includes an audio described map of their venue, audio descs of performances and/ or displays) is available.
- Staff are trained in customer service for people with vision loss (training would incorporate way finding and communicating with people with vision 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)
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to restaurant, lounge and bar
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
Access & Inclusion
An access and inclusion statement is available on the business website.
- https://flamboyancetours.com.au/accessibility/
Operation information
Flamboyance Tours
Flamboyance Tours provides fun, quirky and immersive travel through Adelaide walking tours with born-and-raised Adelaide guides.
Winner of the South Australian Tourism Award for Cultural Tourism in 2025, this locally owned and operated company focuses on promoting the vibrant capital of South Australia through history, food and street art culture.
Only one day in Adelaide? Flamboyance Tours offers a variety of walks to get you acquainted with the city.
The Welcome to Adelaide tour is a comprehensive walk showcasing major landmarks. South Australian artists are featured in the Paint and Palate Street Art Tour, while The F Factor is the Adelaide food tour focused purely on the city’s local, fun foods and where to find them.
Food and wine are things we love – consider our Adelaide Central Market Tour or Tastes of Chinatown tour to get up close to their respective precincts. The Adelaide Wine Walk (East End) delves into how South Australians consume wine.
For an in-depth Adelaide experience, consider the Iconic Adelaide Tour, or get out of the city centre for the Port Adelaide Walking Tour. There’s also the Adelaide Queer History Tour as an alternative look at Adelaide.
Tours are available for school groups and corporate groups on request across the year, along with private tours.
Join Flamboyance Tours on an Adelaide tour and be amazed at the city’s rich stories.
Activities
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Accreditations
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ATEC Tourism Trade Ready
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Quality Tourism Accreditation
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
- Tourism Emission Reduction Commitment
Memberships
- Tourism Industry Council of SA
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