Taste the Eyre Peninsula

Port Lincoln is the place to start, where the fishing industry is king and the Eyre Peninsula earned its ‘seafood frontier’ title. Buy wholesale at the Fresh Fish Place, or leave it to the professionals and visit one of the local restaurants – there are too many to mention here, but some of the highlights include Sarins, L’Anse French Café and Del Giorno’s . But like we said, that’s just some of the many great options!

The small town-cafes dotted across the peninsula - such as Drift at Streaky Bay - are also not to be missed and coupled with the local bakeries (vanilla slice or a fresh meat pie?) and butcher shops selling local meat it really is worth stopping and staying a while! Plenty of pubs offer daily specials, and there are a growing number of pop up food vans selling anything from fish and chips to pizza to an ever-changing lunch menu along with coffee.

And then there’s the quirky, like Colton Bakehouse near Elliston (it’s a roadside stall selling freshly baked breads and sticky buns, with a cash-only honesty box system!) or oysters from a vending machine in Coffin Bay.

If you want to round everything together, just jump on a tour to get a real ocean-to-plate experience – shuck oysters fresh from the ocean in Coffin Bay and at Smoky Bay with Oyster Deck Experience, or join…or simply call into the Fresh Fish Place in Port Lincoln where you'll be spoilt for choice.

And don't forget the 'drink' in 'eat and drink'! Local wines? Check! Local beer brewed from local grain? Check! There are even some distilleries popping up, as well as local coffee and juice. 

But first, wine: you'll find vineyards dotted around the Port Lincoln and southern Eyre Peninsula area, from the historic (but freshly updated) Boston Bay Wines and its sublime cellar door view to the ocean. Lincoln Estate Wines can be found at Glen Forest Tourist Park, where you can enjoy a wine tasting and meet some furry locals at the same time! Don't forget to try some of the smaller wineries too such as Coomunga Wines and Gardners - look out for when they combine pizza and music).

If wine isn't your thing, try one of the local breweries – there are two located in Port Lincoln, Jump Ship Brewing and Port Lincoln Brewing Co. Both offer local beers on tap as well as great dining options in fun, relaxed breweries.

The harder stuff can also be found in and around Eyre Peninsula. In Port Lincoln you'll find West Coast Distilling Co - call in for a cocktail, at Coffin Bay you can book an experience with Coffin Bay Spirits - and learn all about how they make their bevy's, in Streaky Bay you can find gin produced by Streaky Bay Distillers in the bottle shop or call into The Kinfe Shop Distillery.

For non-alcoholic drinks, Boston Bean Coffee Company and Eyre Roasted are both local coffee favourites, and you'll find their products across the region as well as at their locations in Port Lincoln.