Quick Details
When: 11am Weekdays (City pick ups from 10:15am)! Check the calendar for upcoming dates.
Where: We meet at Paesenella Cheese & Food Emporium in the downstairs cafe (150-152 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville) a short walk from Sydenham Station.
Start: City Pick Ups from 10:15am or Meet us in Marrickville at 11am. If you are running late, give us a call but please, please, please be on time. Your guide will love you for it!
End: 2:00pm (in Marrickville) or approx 3:00pm (City Drop Off). We will advise exact locations closer to the tour date.
Taste Explorer (City Transfer)
Return transfer from City to Marrickville
A$ 200
Taste Explorer (Marrickville)
Meet Us in Marrickville
A$ 150
CLASSIC SYD EATS & SWEET TREATS
Duration
- 3 hours from Marrickville OR
- 4.5 hours including City Pick up and Drop Off
About
Marrickville has been named one of the coolest suburbs in the world and we agree, as its our home and we want to show you around!
Our bite-seeing walking tour will take you through some of our neighbourhood’s most famous eats, plus a few surprises we wanna ‘keep under the cloche’!
Marrickville is the centre of the independent beer scene in Sydney with multiple breweries, distilleries, live music venues, art spaces and of course food offerings. They are often housed in former industrial warehousing. It’s kinda like our version of Brooklyn in New York.
Like most of Sydney, all the great drink and food is underpinned by the area’s strong multicultural influence. There are plenty of nationalities represented, but Marrickville is predominantly the Vietnamese, Portguese and Greek immigrants that settled here in the last 70 years or so. This combination makes Marrickville vibrant, delicious and the perfect place for some bite-seeing!
We can’t wait to have you around at our place for some great food and drink.
Highlights
- Tasting your way through Marrickville like a local
- Experiencing a multicultural, non-touristy part of Sydney
- Sampling direct from the producer
Sample Itinerary
- We’ll start at an iconic family-run deli for a coffee (or an iced cafe crema) and tasting of the house-made cheeses along with Australian olives and meats (kangaroo salami. ..yum!).
- Next, it’s another Sydney icon our most famous Banh Mi (Vietnamese pork roll).
We’ll wash down that deliciousness with a beer from a local brewery. We think a sour matches best, but you may be a hop head and need an IPA or possibly you are in love with the darkness of a porter. No judgement, all beer is good beer. - Following the refreshment, we’ve got some Aussie classics from our mate’s bakery for you to ‘wrap your laughing gear around’ (that’s an old Aussie term for eating).
- Once you’ve filled up on your Aussie ‘tucker’ (food) quota, we’ll drop by another small cheese producer for a snack before the sweet sweet finish!
- The dessert finale to the Marrickville Munch is at our favourite ‘serial chillers’ headquarters. We may get to see what they are up to through the factory windows while we ‘get stuck into’ their house made gelato and crazy chocolate creations.
At the end of your food tour, we can roll you back to Sydenham station, or you can jump on the afternoon Marrickville Brewery Tour that starts shortly after and share some beers and spirits in Australia’s Craft Beer Capital!
Who Is This Tour For?
- Food & Drink Lovers
- Explorers looking to experience REAL Sydney
- Hungry People
Included
- Tastings at a minimum of 4 food stops and including at least one drink.
- A bottled water is provided, but please bring your own reusable bottle to be more enviro friendly
- Eating like a local in REAL Sydney
Not Included
- Additional tastings
- Takeaway food
- Transfers (unless purchasing City Pick Up & Drop Off)
- Alternative dietary options (we can try and offer substitutes, but its likely you would have to go without certain tasters if you cannot have them)
What To Bring
- Walking Shoes (dancing shoes maybe later)
- Reusable water bottle
- Your appetite
- A sense of humour or at least the ability to appreciate bad jokes
- An exit strategy
Things You Should Know
- Alcohol is part of this tour, therefore you need to be 18+ to tour
- We cannot guarantee your dietary requirements will be accommodated. Please contact us as far ahead of time as possible so we can try and make alternate arrangements
- This is a walking tour, it may not be great if you’re not mobile. Marrickville is flat, but there are uneven surfaces. The minimum distance we would cover would be 1.5km (close to a mile for our US mates)
- We can do a wheelchair friendly version of this tour, you just need to advise us before you book. Please note our vehicles do not have a lift or ramp, foldabale chairs only.
- Transfers from the City to Marrickville are available at an additional cost
- This tour can be operated as a driving tour at additional cost. Our standard public departures are walking only (excluding pre-purchased transfers)
*SOMETIMES THINGS CHANGE – Because our tours visit multiple venues, sometimes our plans need to change to accommodate their operations. And Sometimes we just know about goings on around town that are worth checking out, so we may change some parts of our tours. Whilst these changes are rare, we do reserve the right to make them. If you do have a MUST-SEE spot, please let us know when making your booking and we’ll do all we can to make it happen.
