Fermented food fans, your time has come – and it's going to taste incredible.
South Melbourne Market is serving up A Foodie Affair: Cultured & Cured, the latest edition of its beloved tasting tour series running from 5 to 15 November.
This self-guided degustation is all about the ancient art of preservation – think pickled, fermented, cultured and cured delights reimagined by the market’s most creative traders. Whether you’re chasing tangy kimchi, decadent black garlic pastries or raw milk cheese with a kick, A Foodie Affair: Cultured & Cured delivers bold flavours and serious craftsmanship at every stop.
A Foodie Affair: Cultured & Cured
- 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 15 November 2025
- 11am and 1pm sessions
- South Melbourne Market, corner Coventry and Cecil streets, South Melbourne
- Find out more
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Sessions run at 11am and 1pm on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, giving visitors the freedom to savour each bite at their own pace. The $85 ticket unlocks 10 exclusive dishes created just for the event. The line-up spans continents and techniques, from Agathé Pâtisserie’s Korean kimchi, bacon and corn cheese melt mini croissant to Cobb Lane Bakery’s wild black garlic curd pastry with miso brown butter financier and salted egg yolk. Bambu Asian Eating House is bringing kimchi pancakes with caramelised black chilli soy vinaigrette, while Fritz Gelato offers a creamy mango lassi frozen yoghurt to cool things down.
Greek’n Out serves grilled loukaniko Greek salad with tzatziki, cherry tomato and dill, and K-SEIN Fromagerie showcases Gippsland raw milk cheese with mountain bush pepper. Pizzateca Lupa delivers piccolo salumi misti with San Daniele, salami and bresaola, while Simply Spanish pairs white anchovy on sourdough with caramelised onion and bitter dark chocolate. SMITHBURG keeps it casual with fried pickle spears and ranch, and UGO Burrata Bar rounds out the tour with burrata bao featuring fennel kraut and hoisin.
Beyond the ticketed experience, visitors can score free tastings of locally brewed kombucha from Good Brew Kombucha at Moses and Co. Market Wholefoods, plus Australian black garlic from Garlicious Grown at Georgie’s Harvest.
There’s also a chance to win a Cultured & Cured prize pack worth $500 by signing up to the South Melbourne Market e-newsletter. The haul includes two event tickets, a Kilner fermentation set, Good Brew Kombucha bottles, ACIDE pickled vegetables, a copy of Ferment by Holly Davis, a timber chopping board from Greenvalley Timber, a glass butter dish from In2Homewares, Korean Gochugaru spice blend from Gewürzhaus and a selection of Garliciously Grown black garlic ingredients.
For more information, head here.
