Must-see restaurants in Adelaide

For the best laksa in town (in the state?), Asian Gourmet is the place to be. It's a no-frills, glass-box shopfront inside Adelaide's rambunctious Central…

This little slice of Italy in the Central Market has been around since Lucia was a lot younger. All her pasta, sauces and pizzas are authentically…

At this brilliant organic pizzeria, thin crusts are stacked with tasty toppings like free-range roast duck, Spencer Gulf prawns and spicy Hahndorf salami…

This colourfully tiled city branch of Parwana Afghan Kitchen in Torrensville does a heady lunchtime trade. Spill some mantu (steamed dumplings with carrot…

Give your arteries something to do: this woody food room plates up succulent US-style BBQ meats, with a slew of slaws, beans, greens and grits on the side…

Vili's pies are a South Australian institution. Next to its factory, west of the CBD, is this all-night diner, serving equally iconic 'pie floaters' (a…

Winning pub grub at this enduring/endearing local: enjoy steak sangers (sandwiches, for the uninitiated), curries, lamb-shank ragu, southern fried chicken…

This raffish shopfront in suburban Clarence Park started life solely as a coffee-roasting business, but soon transformed into a full-blown cafe. A hit…

Down on the corner, Perryman’s is the kind of simple, reliable, affordable bakery that all neighbourhoods should have. Baked on-site for the last 80…

Goodwood Rd is a long way from the backstreets of Montmartre, but Boulangerie 113 does a reasonable job of impersonating a French patisserie. Roll up for…

One of a new breed of quick-fire city eateries, with clever interior design (wood panelling, bicycle wheels, communal tables and artful lighting) and…

As the after-work brigades trudge between the East End pubs and the West End bars, sometimes they get hungry. That's where this street-food joint enters…

All things to all people, the democratic, unsnooty (though reasonably pricey) Wharf is big on SA seafood (Coffin Bay oysters, Kangaroo Island whiting, SA…

When the late-night food attack hits, duck out of the bar and into Gondola Gondola – a bright, buzzy, fishbowl diner on the corner of Peel St and Hindley…

This loud, fluoro-lit, bossy-staffed eatery is a culinary gem, serving cuisine styled from the Guangzhou region, such as 'BBC' (bean curd, broad beans and…

A skinny, lived-in, age-old Hindley St room among the strip clubs and hookah-pipe bars, serving magnificent Middle Eastern and Lebanese delights: falafels…

Store is a long-running combo of casual Parisian bistro and jazzy cafe. The vibe is retro-kitsch (art nouveau posters, stag horns, Tretchikoff prints),…

Unpretentious, authentic and reliable neighbourhood Thai just off the main North Adelaide strip. Head for the scatter of chairs on the faux-grass footpath…

The prefix ‘nano’ applies to a one-billionth measure of something…something extremely small. But neither the servings nor this ebullient Italian cafe…

A spin-off branch of Henry's original Kent Town operation, this city locale shares an industrial space with Prohibition Liquor Co (caffeine or gin: what's…