Adelaide
Peel St itself – a long-neglected service lane in Adelaide's West End – is now Adelaide's after-dark epicentre, lined with hip bars and eateries, the best…
Must-see restaurants in South Australia
Adelaide
This energetic food room is a winner. Chipper staff allocate you a space at the communal tables (bookings only for six or more) and take your order pronto…
Adelaide
The best cafe in affluent, eastern-suburbs Norwood is arguably the best cafe in Adelaide too. It is in Norwood, so by default it's a bit thin on soul. But…
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Adelaide
Adelaide's most hyped restaurant deserves the limelight: its fun, generous, irreverent attitude has challenged haughty fine-dining norms across the city…
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Kangaroo Island
About 12km east of Penneshaw, KI's pioneering winery has a winning cellar door – a fancy corrugated-iron shed, with astonishing views over a deep ravine…
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Adelaide
This place is an exercise in sensory bombardment: a barrage of smells, colours and cacophonous stallholders selling fresh vegetables, breads, cheeses,…
Adelaide
The pick of the restaurants on office-heavy Waymouth St. Press is super stylish (brick, glass, lemon-coloured chairs) and not afraid of offal (pan-fried…
Adelaide
Enter this basement wonderland for magical north Indian curries and consummately professional staff (they might remember your name from when you ate here…
Adelaide
Superb, freshly constructed rice paper rolls, pho and super-crunchy barbecue-pork báhn mì, eat-in or take away. Wash it all down with a cold coconut milk…
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Kangaroo Island
In a handsome corner shopfront with a lace-trimmed balcony, Amadio blasts reggae and retro Brit-pop into Kingscote's sleepy streets. It's a mainland-SA…
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Kangaroo Island
Hungry? Thursday night? If it's 'affirmative' to all of the above, wander over to this big steel farm shed (a couple of kilometers down a dirt road across…
Adelaide
Little sidestreet Zest has a laid-back vibe and brilliant breakfasts – more than enough compensation for any size shortcomings. Baguettes and bagels are…
Adelaide
Nutty, spicy, slippery and a little bit funky: Afghan food is unique, and this authentic restaurant, west of the CBD across the parklands, is a great…
Adelaide
Food fads come and go in Adelaide: one week it's Mexican food trucks, the next it's pulled-pork burgers in bars. But Georges remains – classy, romantic…
Adelaide
Adelaide’s suburban backstreets often contain odd little rows of former shops, abandoned when locals started to shop at supermarkets instead. Hawthorn’s…
Adelaide
Off to one side of this upmarket boozer (all big screens, beer terraces and business types) is a romantic restaurant with a cool retro interior. Hot off…
Adelaide
Jarmer's is a mainstay of rapidly redeveloping Bowden, a city-edge suburb once an industrial wasteland, now home to hundreds of hip new townhouses with…
Adelaide
Nested deep within the verdant folds of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, this white-linen beauty has been wowing critics. Creative fine-dining is why you're…
Adelaide
This endearing little plum-coloured eatery in the Glenelg South back blocks is Adelaide's best (only) Peruvian restaurant. The hard-working kitchen turns…
Adelaide
Breathing a bit of vigour into Whitmore Sq, corner-cafe Troppo has jaunty exposed timberwork and a sustainable outlook (local ingredients, recycling,…
Adelaide
Hunger pangs at 3am? Roll on into the Bakery on O'Connell for pizza slices, cakes, buns, pies, pasties and doughnuts as big as your face. Or perhaps a…
Adelaide
Nifty plywood panelling, stacks of hot-sauce boxes by the door and unbelievably good spicy King George whiting tacos, beef brisket nachos and braised lamb…
Adelaide
This classic old joint has been around since the days when Adelaide phone numbers only had seven digits. Authentic pizza and pasta with bentwood chairs,…
Adelaide
Multicoloured tables, marina views, super service and a contemporary menu of meze plates − you'd struggle to find anything this appealing on Santorini…
Adelaide
Fancy Italian on a North Adelaide side street, seated either in old-cottage confines, or out by the babbling fountain (a very Tuscan scene). The calamari…
Adelaide
Climb the stairs above the Jetty Rd tram-scape for fabulous organic pizzas with bountiful SA ingredients. The vibe is a tad hippie – a refreshing change…
Adelaide
Beef, lamb, pork, veal, goat, chicken, fish…vegetarians run for the hills! Sosta's aged 1kg T-bone steaks are legendary. With crisp white tablecloths and…
Adelaide
Affordable, breezy Thai joint right in the high-rent Rundle St mix. Mango and coconut chicken, spicy pepper beef (or kangaroo!) clattering chairs and…
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Adelaide
Occasionally a new bar or cafe opens in Adelaide and it seems like the whole city knows about it, is talking about it and just can't get enough of it…
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Kangaroo Island
Occupying a former Mexican restaurant (glad they kept the 'Day of the Dead' mural!), Cactus is a progressive Kingscote cafe run by a couple of ex-Southern…
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Adelaide
Dipping into an architectural grab-bag of bygone New York City style, Sean Connolly’s sassy brasserie occupies a prominent corner of Adelaide’s otherwise…
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Kangaroo Island
Around 15km north of Vivonne Bay, you can check out marron (naive freshwater crayfish) in breeding tanks, then eat some! It's a subtle taste, not always…
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Adelaide
'Oggi' means 'today' in Italian. In this gorgeously styled, piazza-like eatery, this translates to super-fresh pasta, gnocchi and meat dishes, prepared,…
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Adelaide
Hey Jupiter! What are you doing out there in between Mars and Saturn? Eating some French food, perhaps – maybe a classic soupe a l'oignon (French onion…
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Adelaide
OK, so it's part of the Adelaide's casino complex, but we'll forgive this irritating mainstream locale because the food here is top notch, and the Madame…
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Adelaide
Walk right in to this hawker joint off Rundle Mall, down inauspicious Francis St (more of an alley, really). The energetic kitchen here – on full display…
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Kangaroo Island
Walk past reception at the Seafront Hotel to the modest little service counter at the back of the lobby – 'Hey, there's a pizza restaurant in here!' It's…
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Adelaide
With beers on tap and black-painted walls, this glam vegan place is more like a bar than a restaurant – perhaps a reflection of how mainstream vegan…
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Adelaide
Everything at this split-level, rustic Italian eatery – adorned with breadbaskets and beautified by Italian staff – is cooked in the wood oven you see…
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Adelaide
Make like an Argentine cowboy and swagger into Gaucho’s, arguably the best spot in town for a carnivorous iron infusion. Grain-fed, 28-day-aged steaks are…
