Adelaide: Where to Eat

Foodies won’t be disappointed with Adelaide. There are over 700 cafes, restaurants and pubs to choose from, while Adelaide Central Market is a haven for local food and wine.

Rundle Street

Rundle Street, in the east end of the city, is the centre of alfresco eating where restaurants and cafes take advantage of the Mediterranean climate. There are more than 50 cafes and restaurants – including Italian, Greek, Japanese, Thai, Indian and Mexican – along with wine bars and pubs.

Hindley Street

Some of Adelaide’s hottest nightclubs and swanky bars and restaurants can be found on Hindley Street in the west end of the city. It is also home to the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

Gouger Street

This is the city’s fresh-food mecca, home of the Adelaide Central Market where the city’s top chefs create their daily menu from the fresh produce. Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Malaysian restaurants share the street with some of the best seafood restaurants in the city.

North Adelaide

North Adelaide has some of the state’s grandest homes. In keeping with this high-end lifestyle, many fine restaurants and cafes are located in North Adelaide, especially along Melbourne and O’Connell streets.

King William Road, Hyde Park

South of the city, King William Road is a favourite at weekends when the hip set of Adelaide flock to its cool cafes, restaurants and shops.

Dining on the beach

The city beachside suburbs of Glenelg, Henley and Grange have restaurants in the form of groovy beach shacks, modern cafes and grand old esplanade hotels offering seafood, wood-oven pizzas and contemporary Australian cuisine.

In the suburbs

For a family meal or special occasion, you can’t go past our inner-city suburbs. Unley Road in Unley and The Parade in Norwood are lined with quality restaurants and cafes.

At the pub

Adelaide has about 600 hotels. Many are treasured old buildings – their balconies decorated with fancy ironwork, their verandas wreathed with old grapevines. As well as a cooling ale or local wine, they offer great pub food. Some have fine-dining restaurants.

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Rowing on River Torrens. Courtesy of Tourism Australia

Festival Centre. Courtesy of Tourism Australia

Glenelg. Courtesy of Tourism Australia

City skyline at night. Courtesy of Tourism Australia