Must-see restaurants in 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…

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…

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…

Adelaide's most hyped restaurant deserves the limelight: its fun, generous, irreverent attitude has challenged haughty fine-dining norms across the city…

This place is an exercise in sensory bombardment: a barrage of smells, colours and cacophonous stallholders selling fresh vegetables, breads, cheeses,…

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…

Racking up recent 'Australia's Best Restaurant' awards, Orana is a secretive beast, with minimal signage and access via a black staircase at the back of…

Enter this basement wonderland for magical north Indian curries and consummately professional staff (they might remember your name from when you ate here…

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…

Little sidestreet Zest has a laid-back vibe and brilliant breakfasts – more than enough compensation for any size shortcomings. Baguettes and bagels are…

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…

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’s suburban backstreets often contain odd little rows of former shops, abandoned when locals started to shop at supermarkets instead. Hawthorn’s…

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…

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…

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…

This endearing little plum-coloured eatery in the Glenelg South back blocks is Adelaide's best (only) Peruvian restaurant. The hard-working kitchen turns…

Breathing a bit of vigour into Whitmore Sq, corner-cafe Troppo has jaunty exposed timberwork and a sustainable outlook (local ingredients, recycling,…

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…

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…