A gourmet walking tour for food lovers.

A delicious and fascinating guided walking tour of the iconic Queen Victoria Market. Taste the freshest produce, discover unique ingredients, explore the Market’s history, learn about our sustainability measures and meet some of our beloved traders.

On this guided tour, you will wander through the heritage-listed Market food halls and visit some of the Market’s best traders, indulging in an abundance of food as you go.

Two-hour tour includes generous tastings and Market shopping bag.

We also offer bespoke tours for private groups! Enquiries bettina.dechateaubourg@qvm.com.au

Tours run: 10am Thursday, Friday and Saturday

Adults $109

Children 5 – 14 years $59

Littlies 0 – 4 years Free

Carers Free (must be accompanying a guest on the tour and hold a valid carer or companion card)

Enquiries: bettina.dechateaubourg@qvm.com.au

Please let us know via the above email if you have any accessibility requirements so we can do our utmost to help make this tour as enjoyable as possible.

Please note that all online bookings incur a booking fee of 1.75 %

Testimonials:

Our guide, Virginia, gave a fascinating history of the market whilst her knowledge of the produce and the market traders was fantastic. The market itself is outstanding and the produce on sale as good, if not better, than anything we have experienced in any other country in Europe. We tasted a broad sample of different high quality foods including Chai Tea, mussels, kangaroo, fantastic Australian cheeses, locally produced cured meats and several other fantastic produce. By the end if the tour we were nicely full. A very enjoyable tour which we would recommend. Definitely a tour for people who love good locally produced food.

Our bellies and hearts were full with this ultimate foodie tour at Queen Victoria Markets. Within 10 minutes of the
tour starting we were sampling a range of beautiful mussel dishes and I was already smacking my lips over the chili coconut mussels and sipping up the sauce with bread. Then it was kangaroo steak, a few wonderful cheeses, some very tasty fruit and finally 2 hours later a famous jam donut! Lunch was not required. Our guide, Irene, was absolutely lovely and shared here knowledge and passion for the markets, the history, the people and the food. Even our teen
enjoyed it all!

My wife bought the tour for me and my sister as a Christmas present. We did the tour today with Hannah as our tour guide. Absolutely loved it. We tasted mussels, kangaroo, salamis, cheese, antipasto and fresh fruit and finished the famous American doughnuts. The sounds, smells and flavours we experienced were amazing. I’ve lived in Melbourne all my life and have been coming to the Market since childhood. It was so interesting to hear some of the stallholders tell us about their time as a stallholder. Hannah was a delightful guide for our group of 6, pointing out things we didn’t know. Thoroughly recommend the tour for locals and tourists.

Irene gave us one of the best tours in all of Melbourne! Learning about the Queen Victoria Market and its amazing traders was an exceptional experience. Add in all of the delicious food and wine we had the opportunity to try and you have a perfect day! What an absolute treat – don’t miss this if you’re in Melbourne. 

We are locals and had always wanted to do the tour. Absolutely loved it. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable, she knew all the vendors in the market. We got to try some interesting things that we would never usually eat and met overseas travellers and locals from down the road. Would highly recommend doing it.

The history of the market was very interesting but the food tastings were exceptional. It is highly recommended that you don’t have breakfast, because you are going to be very well fed. Seafood, kangaroo, bread, cheese, dips, chocolate, wine, fruit and finish with a sorbet. 2 hours of pure joy.

Our tour of Queen Victoria Market was certainly an ultimate foodie tour, thanks in large part, to our excellent tour guide. Because she has been a customer of the market for years and cooks with what she buys there, she brought a high level of authenticity to the experience. The tour was extremely well organized. Every stall we stopped at was expecting us; the vendors were charming and had interesting stories to tell, encouraged by our guide, who seemed to know each family’s history; the tastes were beautifully set out and we were able to cover a great deal of the market during our allotted time. The tastes were very generous and explained well by each vendor. 

I went on The Ultimate Foodie Tour today and it was absolutely worth it. I cannot recommend this tour highly enough. I have been to Queen Vic Market many times and being able to go on a tour and gain deeper knowledge about the history of the Market, along with valuable insight and knowledge from the lovely traders and generous samples was well worth the price. The Tour Guides are a wealth of knowledge and incredibly friendly and helpful. Regardless of whether you are a local or an interstate/international visitor, everyone should do this tour. You honestly will not regret it!

It was a fantastic tour. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable And passionate about Queen Victoria Market. The stall holders were fantastic, fun and knew their stuff. The food was sublime. Can highly recommend this tour.

This tour exceeded all of our expectations. Thanks for a most insightful couple of hours in which our guide showed her huge knowledge of the history of the area, the businesses and families in the markets and of course the wonderful food! Highly recommend (and was a terrific way to spend our wedding anniversary).