Review: Adelaide Food and Street Art Tour with Feast on Foot

Please note: Feast on Foot no longer operates this tour. You may like to visit the venues covered in our review yourself, or browse the available Adelaide walking tours here.

It’s difficult to decide what should get top billing on Feast on Foot’s Adelaide Food and Street Art Tour — the food or the art.

Both are extraordinary, and often the food is almost as visually stunning as the street art — not to mention how good it tastes. As clichéd as it sounds, the experience — which sees guests traversing the backstreets and byways of the South Australian capital with a local guide — is a feast for all five senses.

Like so many great ideas, this tour evolved out of personal passion. As a renowned foodie and lover of street art, owner Caitlin Hillson was forever recommending new eateries and arty nooks to family/friends to check out. Husband Terry finally suggested that Caitlin start a tour showcasing her latest culinary and artistic finds, and she hasn’t looked back.

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There are two options available to tour guests — the ‘tour only’ option where you buy your own food along the way, and the ‘all-inclusive’ option where Caitlin organises all the food tastings for you. My advice is to go all-inclusive. It’s excellent value.

So, what can you expect on this tour? Well, firstly let’s talk about the street art you’ll see along the way, which falls largely under the protective wing of a local government department known as Splash Adelaide. It’s been charged with the task of bringing the city’s streets and laneways to life, and is doing a fine job of it! Street artists have been commissioned across the city to breathe new life into some pretty dodgy streetscapes.

However, don’t for one moment think this patronage makes the art any less edgy — or vulnerable. Street art is inherently fragile. Across the city (and this tour goes for three hours so you do cover quite a bit of ground) we enjoy an amazing array of artistic labours of love that in a sense have no future. Government department or no government department, street art must survive on its own merits in a harsh and unrelenting environment.

Vandals, weather, pollution and late night revelers all take their toll, and official efforts to try and protect street art can often be disastrous. Like Melbourne City Council’s attempt in 2008 to preserve Bansky’s priceless Little Diver by covering it with a Perspex cover. Vandals poured silver paint down behind the cover and defaced the work. These works can literally be here one day and gone the next. As Caitlin points out, that’s one of the most exciting elements of street art. Something new is always just around the corner.

Moving on to the culinary component of this tour, and most of the styles of cuisine we get to try could loosely be classified as street food (well, you could certainly munch on it with one hand while on the move if you wanted to). We kick things off at Munooshi Cafe in the East End for a taste of the Middle East. The munooshi is a style of Arabic pizza — thin dough topped with a savoury mix of ingredients (such as minced lamb and spices), folded in half and toasted. This family-run affair greets you with a tantalising aroma of spices, followed by delicate flavours to enjoy. We’re off to a good start.

From there, we swing by Steven ter Horst Chocolatier on Rundle Street, which is a real treat. These guys use the finest Belgium chocolate infused with a variety of local ingredients to create some sensational sweet delights. Expect the unexpected here.

Our next stop is the Michiru Sushi Bar in Regent Arcade. Fabulous! Lots of colour, fresh and flavoursome, and the sushi chefs are right there hard at work loading up the non-stop sushi train. All-inclusive feasters can take their pick of three plates. We’re now feeling very full, but it’s far from over.

We pass the much-loved Rundle Mall pigs (inspired by Florence’s Il Porcellino) enroute to Sit Lo Vietnamese cafe in Bank Street off Hindley. With an emphasis on fresh and fast Vietnamese with no MSG, the delicate baos or steamed buns with Barossa Valley pork belly are sensational.

Taking a detour through the revitalised Topham Mall, we end up outside Adelaide’s buzzing Central Market. I’m expecting our fifth and final stop to be here, but no. We continue on to Gouger Street and the deliciously pink BTS Cafe for coffee and cupcakes. Try the Belgian chocolate ‘Mr Big’; it’s one of the cafe’s most popular cakes and I can understand why!

‘It’s a really exciting time to be in Adelaide’, says Caitlin. ‘We’ve always had excellent wine but now we’re shaking off the boring reputation and really surging forward with an open-minded feeling of community, good times, food and fun’. Again, I can’t argue with that.

All in all, this Adelaide Food and Street Art Tour is a merry dance to the beat of the streets, and is full of surprises. As is usually the case with these things, you just need to know where to look.

The writer travelled as a guest of Feast on Foot.

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