Barossa Valley
An elegant, breezy room with huge windows facing the main street, Blond serves nutty coffee and all-day cafe fare (including awesome pumpkin, capsicum and…
Must-see restaurants in South Australia
Limestone Coast
Naracoorte's closest approximation of a city cafe is sweet little Sweet Espresso, an unpretentious caffeine nook with a contemporary fit-out near the town…
Limestone Coast
Lean on the front bar with the locals, or munch into steaks, schnitzels, Coorong mullet or a Coorong wrap (with mullet!) in the cavernous, refreshingly…
Fleurieu Peninsula
One of four Home Grains dotted around the Fleurieu Peninsula, this one in otherwise soporific McLaren Flat wakes up the locals with good coffee, bags of…
Barossa Valley
'Give people what they want' is the creed at this German bakery, serving mettwurst (Bavarian sausage) rolls, cheeses, pies, cakes, strudel and all-day…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Parked on the footpath outside the Streaky Marine Products fish processing plant, Fish Fix caravan is a warm-weather fixture in Streaky Bay, serving…
Limestone Coast
Kick-off your culinary adventure with a breakfast burger (fried egg, bacon, caramelised onion, aioli and African-style taka tala sauce), then come back…
Murray River
This casual, rather perplexingly named eatery across from the pub raises plenty of questions: is it an Italian joint? Does it smoke its own meats? Who or…
Yorke Peninsula
The affiliated Seagate Motel next door may have fallen on hard times, but Sails is still going strong. Pub-style bistro fare is the order of the day:…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Terrific-value Indian scoring points with hungry steel-millers, the Guru does a mean butter chicken, and an even better palak paneer (homemade cottage…
Murray River
This gargantuan, peach-coloured pub at the base of Barmera's main street has cold beer, hefty pub meals, vaguely art-deco stylings and an unlikely glade…
Murray River
A rusty, iron-clad shopfront on the Waikerie side of Barmera, Backyard Bread is a deli/cafe baking 'bread bites': mouth-sized bits of flavour-packed bread…
Limestone Coast
This cheery ocean-blue bakery on the main street is the place for rolls, pies, scrolls, cakes, slices, buns and biscuits. Sourdough pizzas Friday evenings…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
This rather Mediterranean-looking pub bistro at the entrance to Port Lincoln's marina (check out the tuna fleet while you're in the 'hood) is a top spot…
Fleurieu Peninsula
Pick up heat-and-eat gourmet dinners or a takeaway cone of salt-and-pepper squid with lime-salted fries. If you feel like lingering, nab a table for…
Adelaide Hills
This sprawling multi-tiered pub is packed on weekends (with 18 to 25 year olds, oddly enough). The bratwursts and schnitzels here are legendary. Live…
Flinders Ranges
Chunky slate floors, old-time photographs and pub meals collide at the renovated 1869 Blinman Hotel. The kitchen serves up big, basic steaks, schnitzels,…
Clare Valley
The tarted-up Taminga is looking good: polished floorboards, exposed stone walls and pressed-tin ceilings. Pub classics are what you're here for: surf 'n'…
Fleurieu Peninsula
Almost hilariously informal, Goolwa's Indian diner features goofy-font signage, a loud turquoise colour scheme, a Taj Mahal kitchen service window and…
Clare Valley
We're not sure how much wild saffron grows in the Clare Valley (most of it seems to be 'under vine', as they say), but this cafe is hugely popular…
Adelaide
Big, bright and brassy: quick-fire Chinese on the main Chinatown strip, with an impressive menu ranging from the predictable (braised beef hotpot, steamed…
Fleurieu Peninsula
Retro-mod prints and furniture adorn this 1840s cottage bistro, which quadruples as a cellar door, art gallery and wine bar. Mains are fishy and meaty,…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
The busiest business on the main street (always a good sign), this little glass-fronted bakery does the usual range of pies, pasties and cakes, plus…
Limestone Coast
Hey presto! Occupying a heritage shopfront in downtown Mount G, Presto is a stylish cafe with blonde-wood floorboards, blonde waitstaff, bentwood chairs…
Clare Valley
Put some spice in your Clare Valley life with a visit to this modest, charming curry house on the main drag, ceilings draped with bright bolts of purple,…
Limestone Coast
Nooked into a car park off Meningie's main drag, this little bake house does a brisk seven-day trade. Pies, pasties, lamingtons, lemon tarts and bodacious…
Clare Valley
There's a cellar door here, focusing on small-production local vineyards, but most folks are here for the bakery, serving excellent pies, cakes, big…
Outback South Australia
In true Coober Pedy style, friendly Opal City Chinese eschews aesthetics in favour of functionality: generous, simple Chinese food served inside a…
Fleurieu Peninsula
Jetty takes a hunter-gatherer approach to food, sourcing the best produce along this stretch of coast. Grab an organic coffee, a fresh-baked loaf, a…
Barossa Valley
Straight-up, no-fuss Malaysian shopfront on the lower end of Tanunda's main street, serving generous curries, satays, soups and noodle dishes. Where else…
Kangaroo Island Fresh Seafoods
Kangaroo Island
This unassuming place attached to a petrol station has some of the best seafood on the island. Fat oysters go for around $20 a dozen, then there are all…
Fleurieu Peninsula
Willunga's dreadlocked, crystal-gazing, karmic set flock to this lovely organic cafe, seeking corn fritters, gluten-free cakes, buckwheat pancakes and…
Limestone Coast
The best edible discs in town, served in a little lime-green shopfront or delivered to your motel door. Try 'The Boss': ham, salami, mushrooms, olives and…
Flinders Ranges
Just out of Laura if you're trucking north, blink-and-you'll-miss-it Stone Hut has a couple of good businesses, including this long-running bakery serving…
Coffin Bay Pizza & Homemade Food
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
An unassuming little bolt-hole takeaway serving decent pizzas, basic pastas and fish and chips, plus homemade pies, pasties and sausage rolls. Don't die…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Here at the top of Spencer Gulf, you expect quality seafood. This takeaway joint serves fresh King George whiting, garfish, butterfish and Smoky Bay…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
A local hang-out a block away from the beach (and thus not on many tourist radars), GLO serves wholesome organic quiches, wraps, salads, falafels,…
Murray River
OK, so it's technically part of a petrol station, but what a viewpoint! Sit on the deck with your steak sandwich, BLT or glistening chocolate donut and…
Yorke Peninsula
A few kilometres inland from Point Turton, Inland Sea is a seafood diner that's close enough to the coast for the catch-of-the-day to still be wriggling…
Flinders Ranges
Pies, pasties, sausage rolls, cakes and passable coffee – fuel-up before a big day of copper mining. And if you've somehow avoided trying a quandong pie…
