Food & Wine - Destinations - Best of the Rest

Looking for some food experiences? Here are the ones that are off the beaten track but well worth adding to your list.

• The award winning fruit wines at Murdering Point Winery at Silkwood East offer intense yet delicate flavours with a touch of paradise.
• Travel the Great Tropical Drive from Townsville to Ingham and stop for fresh lychees, mangoes, watermelon and bananas. Look for exotic purple mangosteens, taro, pummelo, star apple, sapodilla and black persimmon.
• Enjoy a traditional outback treat at Charters Towers and indulge in an Aussie meat pie.
• Discover sensational mangoes, bananas, pineapples and melons at road side stalls and the freshest reef fish, sweetest prawns and mud crabs for sale on rickety wharves around Mackay.
• At Julia Creek Redclaw is an outback taste sensation.
• The Gladstone Seafood Festival in September each year is a chance for locals to show their skill with the One Arm Raw Prawn Peeling Competition.
• Feast on freshly made mud crab sandwiches at The Big Crab, a quintessential Aussie highway stop at Miriam Vale.
• Paroo Honey, found only in the isolated western Queensland region of Eulo, has a distinct outback flavour from the native Yapunyah gums.
• Palm Grove Date Farm, also in Eulo, offers a range of date spreads and wines.