Adelaide

Adelaide Food and Wine

Adelaide’s food scene moves easily between convivial pub meals, market shopping, thoughtful restaurants and food experiences close to the city. You can settle in for a schnitzel or burger, browse Italian pantry goods at the Central Market, or make an afternoon of chocolate, coffee, wine and beer. The surrounding Adelaide Hills add cellar doors, a brewery and a distillery within the wider local orbit, while cooking schools and caterers offer ways to enjoy food at home or with a group.

Here is a varied selection for everyday eating, relaxed catch-ups, celebrations and exploring local flavours. Each provider offers a different way into Adelaide’s dining and drinks culture, from a covered market and neighbourhood cafés to destination tastings and hands-on classes.

🍺 Pub & Bistro Dining

The Exeter Hotel

This East End pub serves an à la carte kitchen menu built around schnitzels, burgers, Reuben sandwiches, fish and chips, a curry of the day, and vegetarian and vegan choices. Drinks include Coopers beer on tap, locally made ciders, bottled craft beer and wine, with live music adding to the venue’s social character.

246 Rundle St, Adelaide SA 5000
☎ (08) 8223 2623 bookings

The Duke of York Hotel

A heritage pub in central Adelaide, the Duke of York pairs pub classics and modern comfort food with tap beers and wine. Its published menu ranges from share plates, burgers and beer-battered fish and chips to a vegan burger, salads, shepherd’s pie, salmon and steak, making it a flexible choice for a casual meal.

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🍽️ Restaurants & Dining

Africola

Africola’s East End dining room centres on an open-plan kitchen and wood-fire oven. Its African-inspired menu brings together vegetables, grilled and smoked meats, flatbreads, pickles and ferments, followed by desserts, cocktails and natural wine. The sample menu is seasonal and changes with availability, so the experience is shaped by what is on hand.

4 East Tce, Adelaide SA 5000
☎ 08 8223 3885 restaurant enquiries

Shōbōsho

On Leigh Street, Shōbōsho uses smoke, charcoal and fire to shape Japanese-influenced dining. Menus include raw seafood, potsticker dumplings, barbecue vegetables, crab udon, spit-roast chicken and wagyu, with à la carte and banquet formats. The connected Shō Yakitori space focuses on charcoal-grilled sticks, snacks and omakase menus.

17 Leigh Street, Adelaide SA 5000
☎ (08) 8366 2224 restaurant enquiries

Lucia’s

At Adelaide Central Market, Lucia’s combines Italian dining with a deli and fine-food shop. The Pizza & Spaghetti Bar serves traditional Italian dishes, while the broader offering includes panini, charcuterie, pantry goods, pasta sauces, pestos, salsas, soups, oils, vinegars and coffee. Catering is also available, making the business useful for both a market meal and food to take home.

Adelaide Central Market, Adelaide
☎ (08) 8231 2260 fine foods enquiries; (08) 8231 2303 Pizza & Spaghetti Bar reservations

☕ Cafés, Coffee & Bakeries

Cirelli Coffee Roastery & Café

In Allenby Gardens, Cirelli combines a coffee roastery with a café serving barista-made coffee, breakfast, lunch, pastries and desserts. Roasted beans, including the roaster’s blend, are available to take home, so the visit can work equally well as a café stop or a way to stock the kitchen.

568 Port Road, Allenby Gardens SA 5009

Dough

Dough is an Adelaide Central Market bakery and patisserie specialising in sourdough, baguettes, French-style pastries, tarts and sweets. It offers a straightforward market stop for bread and baked goods while browsing the wider food hall, whether you are gathering provisions or looking for something sweet.

Stall 45, Adelaide Central Market, 44–60 Gouger St, Adelaide SA 5000
☎ 8211 9640 stall enquiries

Les Deux Coqs

This Adelaide Central Market stall brings together French pâtisserie, viennoiserie, charcuterie and pantry goods. It suits a browse through the market’s specialist provisions, with French-style baked items and deli products available from a compact stall on the Grote Street side.

Adelaide Central Market Shop, Stall 2, Adelaide 5000 (North East Corner, on Grote Street side)

🧺 Specialty Food & Markets

Adelaide Central Market

Adelaide Central Market is a covered food market with more than 70 traders spanning fruit and vegetables, seafood, meat, poultry, cheese, smallgoods, bakeries, coffee, specialty foods and eateries. Its self-guided audio tour takes about 50 minutes and explores the market’s history and food culture, adding context to an everyday shopping trip.

44–60 Gouger St, Adelaide SA 5000
☎ (08) 8203 7494 market enquiries

🍷 Wineries & Cellar Doors

Penfolds Magill Estate Kitchen

At Magill Estate, the kitchen combines deli-style grab-and-go food with à la carte dining and a bar menu. Guests can pair food with wine, a cheese flight or tasting plate, then continue the visit at the estate cellar door. It offers a winery setting close to Adelaide without requiring the experience to be only a formal meal.

Magill Estate, 78 Penfold Rd, Magill SA 5072
☎ +61 8 8301 5569 cellar door enquiries; 1300 095 930 general enquiries

Sidewood Estate

Sidewood Estate provides an Adelaide Hills wine-and-food outing in Hahndorf, with estate wines available through its cellar door and dining at the visitor site. It is a useful nearby option for combining a cellar-door visit with a meal while exploring the hills beyond the city.

6 River Road, Hahndorf SA 5245

🍺 Breweries & Distilleries

Prancing Pony Brewery

At Totness in the Adelaide Hills, Prancing Pony Brewery serves its own all-grain, all-hop beers with pub classics and seasonal kitchen menus. The brewery restaurant includes a dining room and beer garden, alongside wine, cocktails and non-alcoholic drinks. Brewery tours and guided tastings are available by arrangement on Sundays.

42 Mt Barker Road, Totness SA 5250
☎ 08 8398 3881 brewery restaurant enquiries

78 Degrees Distillery

At its LOT.100 cellar door in Hay Valley, 78 Degrees offers gin, whiskey, vermouth, vodka and other spirits. Visitors can choose guided distillery tours, gin tastings or a hands-on gin-blending class, where participants make and label their own blend. It is a participatory way to explore the Adelaide Hills drinks scene.

Hay Valley, Adelaide Hills

🍫 Food Experiences & Cooking

Haigh’s Chocolates Visitor Centre

Haigh’s original factory site at Parkside includes a chocolate shop and visitor centre. The free Chocolate Experience explains the company’s bean-to-bar chocolate-making process and history, with guided and self-guided formats available. Children under 16 must be supervised by a parent or guardian.

154 Greenhill Road, Parkside SA

Sprout Cooking School

Sprout in Hilton runs seasonal hands-on cooking classes, along with occasional school-holiday classes for children. General classes are for adults aged 17 and over unless stated otherwise. The school also provides school cooking programmes and training services, giving individuals and groups several ways to learn through food.

89 Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Hilton SA 5033
☎ (08) 8443 4343 cooking school enquiries

👩‍🍳 Catering & Private Dining

Does Catering

Does Catering works across Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills, offering tailored catering for corporate functions, weddings, cocktail parties and private dinners. Its services also include in-home chefs and cooking classes for colleagues or private groups, allowing food to become part of an event or a more personal gathering.

Adelaide and Adelaide Hills service area

Event Gourmet & Florals

Event Gourmet & Florals provides grazing tables, catering and floral styling for corporate occasions, weddings and private events. Ready-to-order boxes and platters are available for delivery across Adelaide, with service extending to the Adelaide Hills, Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and the Fleurieu Peninsula.

Adelaide service area
☎ 0403 009 840 catering enquiries

Adelaide rewards an unhurried approach: share a market browse with lunch, follow a city meal with a local drink, or make a nearby hills visit part of the day. If you run a restaurant, café, bakery, pub, producer, cellar door, caterer or food experience in the area, you are warmly invited to add or update your listing so people can connect with your own menu, reservations or enquiries.

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