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About Food Tours Australia

Food Tours Australia is an independent editorial site on foodtours.com.au. We help travellers decide how to taste a city or a wine region, then send them to operators and venues to confirm the plate. We do not take bookings, invent prices, or publish “#1 tour” lists.

Independent food editor’s desk with cookbooks, stone fruit, coffee and a rosemary pot in morning light

At a glance

What we are
A planner and a magazine spine, rebuilt for this decade.
What we are not
A booking cart, tourism board, or rankings desk.
Contact
callum.sherwood.seo@gmail.com
Archive
Heritage /food-tours-articles/ URLs 301 to modern evergreen pages.

Why this domain still exists

The old site published food-tour journalism — chef-led tables, cellar-door programs, seasonal bounty, a Dandenong village piece — long before every capital had a tasting walk. Those URLs still matter to searchers and to anyone with a 2008 bookmark. This rebuild keeps the spine and replaces the thin travel-affiliate shells with a planner you can actually use.

The quality bar is Capes-tier editorial: a photo hero, facts you can hold, a long narrative, a planning table, photo gateways, questions answered in the first sentence. The palette is culinary — wine, terracotta, olive, cream — not a coastal navy clone. The copy is written for this niche only.

We name public landmarks and geographic indications. We do not invent operator prices, star ratings, legal outcomes or medical claims. Trademarks remain with their owners. The disclaimer in the footer is the legal sentence; this paragraph is the ethic.

How to use the site

Start at the [homepage](/) if you want the argument. Start at tours if you want types. Start at a city if you already have a pillow. Start at how to choose if you are arguing about a guide. The articles hub holds the longer essays, including rewrites of archive themes.

Keystatic is the writing room for those essays. The public site is the reading room. /keystatic is not for travellers and is not indexed.

If you run a tour or want to advertise, read Advertise. If you need a human, use contact. If you care about data, read privacy.

Correspondence

Editorial and general mail goes to callum.sherwood.seo@gmail.com. We cannot confirm a booking, alter an operator’s roster, or reconstruct a 2010 celebrity lunch from a headline. We can point you at the page that matches the job.

Guest contributions remain the copyright of their authors unless otherwise agreed. Unauthorised reproduction of this site’s text and images is prohibited.

Ledger

Planning table

What this desk will and will not do.

We willWe will not
Explain tour types and regionsTake your card details
Keep heritage URLs alive via 301Paste archive articles verbatim
Link hubs to children and siblingsCrown a #1 operator
Tell you to verify allergensInvent a medical or legal claim

Asked at the table

Questions travellers actually ask

Short answers first, then the useful detail. Written for people comparing a guided tasting with a self-directed market morning.

Is Food Tours Australia a booking site?
No. It is independent editorial. Contact operators and venues directly to book, and verify inclusions, allergens, licensing and hours with them.
Do you rank the best food tours in Australia?
No. Rankings rot when a chef changes jobs. We publish fit tests, not medals.
What happened to the old food-tours-articles pages?
They redirect to modern evergreen pages that keep the useful theme — chef-guided tables, cellar doors, seasonal produce, Dandenong village days — without pasting the archive verbatim.

Next tasting

Read the planner, then verify the plate

City, region, experience, then one email to an operator. That is the whole method.