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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Fleurieu Peninsula
The product of d'Arenberg winemaker Chester Osborne's vision, the d'Arenberg Cube is an eccentric, surprising place – a towering, multi-tiered, black-and…
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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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Fleurieu Peninsula
Port Willunga hosts the justifiably busy, clifftop seafood shack the Star of Greece. Named after a shipwreck, it has funky decor, great staff and a sunny…
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Fleurieu Peninsula
A buzzy highlight of the Goolwa shopping strip is this crafty little cafe, which always seems busier than anywhere else in Goolwa. Exposed stone walls,…
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Fleurieu Peninsula
Sit down for a cafe breakfast and you'll be here all day − the views of Horseshoe Bay are sublime. Otherwise grab some takeaway Coopers-battered flathead…
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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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Clare Valley
'Terroir' – a word often associated with the wine trade – defines the nature of a place: its altitude, its soil, its climate. At this excellent restaurant…
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Fleurieu Peninsula
Crazy-busy-popular Pizzateca occupies a little back-blocks cottage, with a broad deck beneath a couple of huge old redgum trees. Generously sized pizzas…
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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…
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Fleurieu Peninsula
Nino's cafe has been here since 1974 (and the building a lot longer), but it manages to put a contemporary sheen on central VH. Hip young staff and a mod…
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Clare Valley
Umbria looks like a high-end Melbourne Italian restaurant, lifted from Lygon St and dropped onto Main North Rd. But the exposed stonework and moody…
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Yorke Peninsula
In a lovely old shopfront up the hill from the pub, Ma drives Stansbury wild with her superior seafood, wood-oven pizzas, craft beers, boutique wines and…
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Outback South Australia
It may sound a bit odd, but this brightly lit petrol-station diner is one of the best places to eat in Coober Pedy! Roasts, pastas, burgers, lasagne,…
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Fleurieu Peninsula
This old vine-covered inn has been here since 1851. Its latest incarnation features super Mod Oz offerings with an Asian twist: launch into the Berkshire…
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Outback South Australia
Hey, a fancy new sign and logo! You didn't need to go to such lengths, John – you still run the best place to eat in town. Expect table-sized pizzas,…
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Clare Valley
The pick of Burra's several bakery/cafes, St Just zeroes-in on baguettes, toasted sandwiches, bacon-and-egg rolls, BLTs and fresh soups and salads. Sit in…
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…
