Regional Produce
Discover Kangaroo Island honey, dairy products, seafood and more. It's a unique food experience.
The lack of large-scale development on Kangaroo Island has meant that small industry has flourished and now includes a variety of products such as free-range eggs, olive oil, native jams, smoked fish, sauces and marinades.
Kangaroo Island's apiarists harvest honey from the pure strain Ligurian bees, and regional cheeses and yoghurts continue to find a place in food lovers' hearts.
Fresh seafood is featured across the Island and seasonally you can enjoy a variety of natural and farmed produce such as oysters, prawns, crayfish, whiting, snapper and, not forgetting freshwater marron - it's so easy to get a taste for Kangaroo Island!
Good Food Kangaroo Island provides further information about the wonderful foods that can be enjoyed on the island.
Andermel Marron and Two Wheeler Creek Wines
Harriet Road, Central Kangaroo Island
Opening Hours: 11-4.30pm daily. Group tours by arrangement.
Telephone: (08) 8559 4128 or (08) 8559 4114 (Café)
Don't miss this threefold opportunity for magnificent marron (freshwater crayfish), wine tastings/sales and café dining. View marron in holding tanks in the farm shed and learn more about this Island icon. Taste a selection of premium red and white wines made from grapes grown on the property - Sauvignon Blanc is a specialty. Select marron, wine and native herb sauces to create your own Island feast or dine at the Marron Café beside the native herb garden (last orders 4pm).
Clifford's Honey Farm
Elsegood Road, MacGillivray
Opening Hours: 9-5pm daily
Telephone: (08) 8553 8295
Discover the Ligurian Bee, view them in a glass hive and watch the informative video, which explains the collection and extraction process of honey and bee hive by-products. Enjoy browsing the local produce, art and craft and cosmetics made with honey and beeswax. Sample several flavours of pure Ligurian honey and try Jenny's famous honey Icecream.
Ferguson Australia
48 Kohinoor Road, Kingscote
Opening Hours: December and January: daily 9.30am-6pm; November to May (lobster season). By appointment.
Telephone: (08) 8346 8764 or 0418 819 403
A brand synonymous with Kangaroo Island. View live lobster and amazing King Crabs in the working depots' holding and feeding tanks. Purchase Ferguson's gourmet lobster range including lobster medallions and lobster oil. Live or cooked lobster, prawns, scallops, fresh fish, oysters, gift packs and condiments also available in season.
Fish - 2 Birds And A Squid
North Terrace, Penneshaw
Demonstration time: Last Friday of the month, December to March. Bookings essential.
Telephone: (08) 8553 7406
Join renowned chef Sue Pearson at her gourmet fish shop on the last Friday of each month as she hosts cooking demonstrations. Each lesson is different and covers all topics from shucking oysters to cooking the perfect lobster. She may even share the secrets to her now famous sauces, or take guests off-site in search of samphire and wild garlic.
Island Beehive
Main Kingscote entrance, on your right
Opening hours: 9-5pm daily
Telephone: (08) 8553 0080
Visit one of Australia's largest organic honey producers, an apiary industry showcase for Kangaroo Island's world renowned Ligurian Bee. Enjoy free tastings of their award-winning honey, view bees in the glass hive and take a guided factory tour. Shop for local art, homemade honeycomb ice cream and a wide range of quality souvenirs or just relax with a coffee in the café.
Island Pure Sheep Dairy
Gum Creek Road, Cygnet River
Opening Hours: 1-5pm daily Milking (recommended) 3-5pm
Telephone: (08) 8553 9110
A dairy with a difference. Take part in a guided tour and observe the milking of sheep and the making of this famous cheese and yoghurt. There are opportunities for visitors to taste and buy the produce, which includes Spanish, Greek, Italian and Cypriot style cheeses. Wouldn't you love some fried haloumi on the BBQ tonight?
Kangaroo Island Fresh Seafood
Telegraph Rd, Kingscote
Opening Hours: Daily 8am-8pm. Cooking hours: 11.30am-8pm (Thursday to Monday) and 4pm-8pm (Tuesday and Wednesday). Closed Monday from May to November.
Telephone: (08) 8553 0177
Serving the Island's largest range of fresh fish and seafood, including the famous King George Whiting. Buy and cook it yourself, or have it cooked for you, with a side of chips and salad. For those successful fishermen (and fisherwomen), KI Fresh Seafood also offers a filleting service.
