Adelaide food and drinks festival Tasting Australia is on sale now

Tickets are on sale from 7am to Tasting Australia 2021, signalling the return of SA’s popular food and drinks festival

Tickets are on sale today for Tasting Australia 2021, signalling the return of the popular eating and drinking festival to SA.

COVID-19 put a stop to this year’s event and while ongoing travel restrictions mean no international headliners, high profile chefs from interstate will include Three Blue Ducks’ Darren Robertson – who replaces Jock Zonfrillo as the festival’s food curator – Lennox Hastie (Firedoor, NSW) and Alanna Sapwell (Esmay, QLD).

Also returning to the program is Tasting Australia Airlines, with flights to Coffin Bay and Kangaroo Island, and a revised Town Square.

Tasting Australia 2019 generated a gross spend of $5.4 million for the state – the highest ever recorded for the event – and attracted more than 6200 interstate and 5000 international visitors.

Festival director Simon Bryant said Tasting Australia 2021, on April 30-May 9, would pay homage to the hospitality industry following a tough year.

“With a focus on brilliant homegrown talent … we have created a program that truly celebrates everything we do so well in South Australia,” he said.

Among the 140 events is a Cinco de Mayo Fiesta on May 5 at Pirate Life brewery, featuring traditional Mexican foods from Alejandro Huerta of Chica Bonita (NSW), Hispanic Mechanic head chef Greggory Hill and La Popular Taqueria’s Daniela Guevara.

“It’ll be a very big party,” Daniela says.

On sale 7am, tastingaustralia.com.au