Must-see nightlife in Adelaide

Adelaide's best pub, this legendary boozer attracts an eclectic brew of postwork, punk and uni drinkers, shaking the day off their backs. Pull up a bar…

Down some stairs down an alleyway off a laneway, Maybe Mae doesn't proclaim its virtues loudly to the world. In fact, if you can't find the door, you won…

This hidden back-lane space was once the stables for the adjacent Stag Hotel. Out with the horse poo, in with 16 craft beers on tap, American and…

A true contender for the title of 'Adelaide's Best Pub', the Grace has live music most nights (alt-rock, country, acoustic, open-mic nights), kooky '50s…

A hidden gem under the flight path in industrial Thebarton, with an arty crowd of students, jazz musos and the gainfully unemployed. Tidy beer garden,…

If you're looking for Mr Goodbar, you'll find him at this excellent red-brick cocktail bar just off Rundle St in Adelaide's East End. Super-attentive…

Now this place is ace! Wedged into an impossibly tight alleyway space off Leigh St (seriously, it's only a couple of metres wide), Pink Moon Saloon has a…

Cool! Downtown ADL was begging for a craft-beer brewery, and now it’s here. Topham Mall is an uninspiring alley, but inside the brewhouse the mood…

Laneway boozing at its best (in fact, this was one of Adelaide's first laneway bars), nouveau-industrial Udaberri is a compact bar on Leigh St, serving…

They don't make 'em like they used to. Actually, these days, when it comes to handsome two-storey sandstone pubs, they don't make 'em at all. This…

Get a little bit Frenchy at this romantic wine bar, nooked down the fast-evolving Gresham St in Adelaide's West End. It's the kind of place you'd go for…

Classy food and wine at this gorgeous chemist-turned-bar, dating from (you guessed it) 1878. Dark-timber medicine cabinets, bentwood chairs, velveteen…

A commercial offshoot of East End Cellars, Adelaide's best bottle shop, this classy wine room gives you the chance to try before you buy. The range is…

CLT was one of the vanguard which ushered in the new brigade of small bars in Adelaide's lanes. Good liquor is the thrust here, along with fine SA wines…

One of the few Peel St bars to employ a bouncer (protecting the sanctity of the tapas-consuming good-time crew inside), La Rambla is a stylish Spanish…

The pick of the West End clubs, Zhivago is all muscles and manscaping vs high heels and short skirts, with DJs pumping out everything from reggae and dub…

A flagship business in the rejuvenation of Port Adelaide is the Port Admiral Hotel, reopened in 2017 after a decade of boarded-up dereliction. It's a…

Forget the pious ‘City of Churches’ moniker: Adelaide has always been a hard-drinking town. 'Gin City' might be a better tag these days, with 21 brands of…

If Semaphore were an author, it'd be Jack Kerouac – bohemian, poetic and partial to a drink. Wander the main street before gentrification takes hold,…

'Established 1914' says the signage. We reckon it was closer to 2014… Either way, the Publishers is an upmarket bar with jacketed bartenders, interesting…