Barossa Valley
One of the Barossa's landmark restaurants, Vintners emphasises simple elegance in both food and atmosphere. The dining room has an open fire, vineyard…
Must-see restaurants in South Australia
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Pick up a box of freshly shucked molluscs and head for the foreshore, or sit up on the rooftop here under an umbrella and watch the road trains rumble in…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
This snappy-looking place on the way into town, with its broad deck and rammed-earth walls, looks out across the boat-filled harbour. Order a Spencer Gulf…
Barossa Valley
What? Yet another of SA's best restaurants here in the Barossa? Correct. Hentley Farm is a top-quality outfit, occupying an 1880s stables building on…
Adelaide
Little sidestreet Zest has a laid-back vibe and brilliant breakfasts – more than enough compensation for any size shortcomings. Baguettes and bagels are…
Adelaide
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…
Adelaide
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
Adelaide’s suburban backstreets often contain odd little rows of former shops, abandoned when locals started to shop at supermarkets instead. Hawthorn’s…
Adelaide
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…
Adelaide
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…
Adelaide
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…
Adelaide
This endearing little plum-coloured eatery in the Glenelg South back blocks is Adelaide's best (only) Peruvian restaurant. The hard-working kitchen turns…
Adelaide
Breathing a bit of vigour into Whitmore Sq, corner-cafe Troppo has jaunty exposed timberwork and a sustainable outlook (local ingredients, recycling,…
Adelaide
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…
Adelaide
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…
Adelaide
This classic old joint has been around since the days when Adelaide phone numbers only had seven digits. Authentic pizza and pasta with bentwood chairs,…
Adelaide
Multicoloured tables, marina views, super service and a contemporary menu of meze plates − you'd struggle to find anything this appealing on Santorini…
Adelaide
Fancy Italian on a North Adelaide side street, seated either in old-cottage confines, or out by the babbling fountain (a very Tuscan scene). The calamari…
Adelaide
Climb the stairs above the Jetty Rd tram-scape for fabulous organic pizzas with bountiful SA ingredients. The vibe is a tad hippie – a refreshing change…
Adelaide
Beef, lamb, pork, veal, goat, chicken, fish…vegetarians run for the hills! Sosta's aged 1kg T-bone steaks are legendary. With crisp white tablecloths and…
Adelaide
Affordable, breezy Thai joint right in the high-rent Rundle St mix. Mango and coconut chicken, spicy pepper beef (or kangaroo!) clattering chairs and…
Adelaide Hills
Hot tip: don't invite disdain and display any ignorance/curiosity by asking what an 'aristologist' is (a person refined in the art of growing, preparing,…
Clare Valley
In a lovely old mill building on Clare's main street, Seed Espresso does the day shift, handing over to Seed Winehouse & Kitchen for dinner. Either way,…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
This flashy new fine-dining restaurant fills the innards of Peter Teakle Wines, a stone-and-wood winery on the hillsides behind Port Lincoln. There are 19…
Yorke Peninsula
Making a splash in Moonta, this corner cafe occupies a heritage shopfront in the old town, with couches under the low eaves outside and retro timber…
Adelaide
Occasionally a new bar or cafe opens in Adelaide and it seems like the whole city knows about it, is talking about it and just can't get enough of it…
Murray River
This bayou shack on the shores of Lake Bonney is that actual building in which Donald Campbell stored his Bluebird boat during his unsuccessful attempted…
Fleurieu Peninsula
On the highway above Sellicks Beach, the Victory is an excellent pub, parts of which hark back to 1858. There are awesome views of the silvery Gulf St…
Limestone Coast
Robe's excellent fish and chipper always seems to have people standing around inside, waiting for their crumbed calamari, even when everywhere else in…
Yorke Peninsula
Kadina's best dinner destination by a considerable country mile, glitzy Bellagio is all Viennese masks, curlicued iron and chandeliers. On your plate are…
Clare Valley
Reilly's started life as a cobbler's shop in 1856. These days it's a cellar door for Reilly's Wines and a lovey restaurant, which is decorated with local…
Limestone Coast
Inspired name, uninspiring windy car-park location. But once you're inside, you'll lose track of external concerns. Burgers are the main thrust (try the …
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
In one corner of Port Lincoln's old art-deco Civic Hall (now the progressive Nautilus Arts Centre; www.nautilusartcentre.com.au) – Rogue & Rascal does a…
Kangaroo Island
Occupying a former Mexican restaurant (glad they kept the 'Day of the Dead' mural!), Cactus is a progressive Kingscote cafe run by a couple of ex-Southern…
Fleurieu Peninsula
In an unbeatable location above the surf club right on Port Noarlunga beach, Hortas gives the sea's bounty a Portuguese twist. Order some petiscos …
Adelaide
Dipping into an architectural grab-bag of bygone New York City style, Sean Connolly’s sassy brasserie occupies a prominent corner of Adelaide’s otherwise…
Fleurieu Peninsula
In a former currant-drying shed built in 1916, this relaxed bistro sources as many ingredients as possible from its own gardens (fennel, peas, asparagus,…
Kangaroo Island
Around 15km north of Vivonne Bay, you can check out marron (naive freshwater crayfish) in breeding tanks, then eat some! It's a subtle taste, not always…
Adelaide
'Oggi' means 'today' in Italian. In this gorgeously styled, piazza-like eatery, this translates to super-fresh pasta, gnocchi and meat dishes, prepared,…
Adelaide
Hey Jupiter! What are you doing out there in between Mars and Saturn? Eating some French food, perhaps – maybe a classic soupe a l'oignon (French onion…
