Old New York-Italian is infused with pan-Asian influences at Tarantino's, a retro diner-inspired eatery in the heart of Adelaide.

A one-man pizzeria run by a chef with fine-dining cred. Rock up on a weekend for pizzas by the slice or take a full pie home with you

With a 2am licence, this 40-seater – with an inventive cocktail list and a variety of small snack plates – fits perfectly into any night out.

This iteration of Pinco brings a refined Italian menu and grown-up charm to Union Street, with handmade pasta, share plates and cocktails – all in a warmly renovated industrial space.

A classic shio tonkotsu ramen is the star of the menu – created in consultation with a world-renowned ramen chef. Or go for a spicy miso ramen inspired by the famous Kikanbo ramen shop in Tokyo.

Garden-green pasties served on tuckshop bags. White-bread tommy ruff sangas. Golden Gaytime semifreddo. The casual sibling to one of Australia’s best restaurants serves your favourite childhood treats, all grown up.

The team behind Stirling’s fave fish’n’chipper is behind this 100 per cent traceable seafood shop and eatery in the Central Market. Come for dry-aged sashimi and wines, and leave with fresh fish to cook at home.

With a European menu and a record collection that’s off the charts, this vinyl-spinning bistro is another solid effort from the Clever Little Tailor gang.

The Melbourne-bred chain is bringing its Nashville-hot tenders, chicken sandwiches and boozy slushies to South Australia – for good this time.

Spanish food is designed to be shared, and this sophisticated diner encourages just that. Bring your crew for charred octopus, mussels with tarragon aioli, and a show-stopping Basque cheesecake.

A lively Southeast Asian restaurant by a former Rockpool pastry chef – need we say more? Come for creative Malaysian and Indonesian dishes, and one very eye-catching dessert. Plus, a vinyl-spinning bar upstairs.

Kiin’s Ben Bertei is one of the country’s most exciting chefs. Try the cuisine-crossing dishes – like burrata with green nam jim – at his buzzing modern Asian restaurant and you’ll understand why.

Descend to the basement of a heritage city space to find this moody, late-night brasserie for French fare, live jazz and one of the best Martinis in town.

This unpretentious brasserie will take you from breakfast right through to dinner. Expect a menu spanning flat iron steaks with cafe de Paris butter, and ricotta and truffle gnudi.

After eight years cooking at pop-ups, Meg Barathlall has a permanent home for her comforting South African Indian dishes. This casual spot is where to go for samosas, roti rolls and koeksisters (syrupy fried doughnuts).

Tucked away in Dacosta Arcade, this homey Japanese eatery serves some of Adelaide’s best (and most affordable) Japanese lunches. Ramens, curries, bento boxes and more.

A hole-in-the-wall ramen shop by the Shobosho crew.

A compact yet sophisticated diner serving big steaming bowls of 12-hour pork tonkotsu, soupless tantanmen and Japanese curry.

A top chef with Michelin-star cred leads this socially sustainable diner at Adelaide’s multi-level Light precinct. Come for a menu powered by native Australian produce and various global influences.

Find Melbourne chef and restaurateur Jessi Singh's self-described "unauthentic" Indian cuisine at this colourful pan-Indian restaurant. Think naan pizzas, Indian-ish cocktails and a roving champagne and whisky cart.

This ambitious all-day venue comprises an elegant fine-diner serving degustations, and an open-air cafe and bar serving upmarket snacks and local wines. Find them both inside a handsome courtyard in the city centre.

At this ambitious seafood restaurant from the 2KW team, you'll find everything from fish and chips to beluga caviar, plus a raw bar, an ocean-themed video installation and fish-themed cocktails.

Crowne Plaza’s sleek 10th-floor restaurant delivers the stars of Japanese cuisine, rare whiskies from the country's reserve and sweeping views of the city and parklands.

The hottest chicken at this Nashville-inspired joint is coated in a blend of four chillies. One of them is the infamous Carolina reaper, so you know Cheekie’s isn’t fooling around.

This spot brings Korean street food to Morphett Street. There’s also spongy, fluffy chiffon cake and that bulgogi beef ramen dish from Parasite.

A New York-inspired Italian restaurant riffing on tradition. Settle into an intimate booth (or a ringside seat at the marble bar) for “Roman Vegemite” toast and something delicious from the woodfired grill.

Korean fried chicken is all over town, but Gunbae is one of the best. The menu is blissfully simple: chicken (brined for 12 hours before being fried), beer and Korean sides including kimchi pancakes, mandoo salads and rice balls.

Channeling the sun-drenched vibe of Palm Springs, this vibrant diner is an all-day playground. From boozy breakfasts to late-night bites, the menu is built for sharing and designed to please a crowd.

In South Korea, pocha is a street stall where you can eat, drink and socialise late into the night. That’s very much the brief here, with a focus on fried chicken and K-pop.

Fino at Seppeltsfield is a Barossa icon, so expectations were high for its first urban outpost. Good news: this charming 70-seat wine bar and restaurant delivers. The food is simple and elegant, with next to nothing wasted.

A triple-threat restaurant at the old Adelaide Railway Station. Whether you’re a looking for a takeway coffee and a snack, or a sit-down situation with a steak and a Martini, you’ll be looked after here.

Considered a gem of Adelaide's fine-dining scene, this 28-seat restaurant focuses on innovative, plant-based courses. Go for porcini and port jelly with spent sourdough; fermented roots with sesame butter; and more.

The second iteration of East Terrace taverna Yiasou George is as fun as ever. But this time around, one of Adelaide's best chefs is turning out Ritz crackers topped with café de Vardon butter, smoked whiting and salmon roe; plus a rotisserie spin on ​​Yiasou George’s signature lamb.

Korean classics bolstered by a solid collection of soju to sip with your K-barbeque and Korean fried chook.

A late-night favourite for fast and friendly Chinese dishes.

“Shake shake rice”, spicy noodle salad and marinated meats ready for you to grill at this Korean barbeque joint.

A Queensland-born boutique burger chain serving burgers and frozen-custard desserts it calls “concretes”. Despite being a chain, the quality of the burgers has remained consistently excellent – and attractively priced – over the years.

On a leafy Adelaide corner is one the city’s benchmark diners. Quentin Whittle’s creative menu looks to Asia and the Middle East for cues – but everything’s done in a way that feels effortless. Casual, mod-Oz dining at its best.

Hainanese chicken rice – with complimentary prawn crackers while you wait.

An approachable, comfy, old-school pub with restaurant-quality food.

A Serbian restaurant where you’ll find grilled-meat platters, fresh seafood and plenty of Mediterranean flavour.

A French-Australian patisserie and cafe from a talented pastry chef.

Crocodile-fat tortilla. Emu fillet smoked in paperback. Sea urchin tongues. Restaurant Botanic serves one of the most exciting tasting menus in the country, driven by produce from the surrounding 51-hectare gardens.

Korean fried chicken worth getting your hands dirty for.

Flame-licked meat on sticks, plus ramen and dumplings cooked and served by your very own chef. It’s small yakitoriya in Shobosho.

Behind an unassuming facade, you’ll find a Japanese restaurant running differently to most in Adelaide.

Two Paper Tiger chefs are behind this big-flavoured wine bar, where contemporary Southeast Asian dishes meet new-wave drops in a relaxed and lofty space.

The Osteria Oggi crew’s Hutt Street hotspot isn’t a restaurant. It’s best thought of as a bar with knockout food – one that’s open all day and flaunts Italian-ish cocktails until late.

Months of development go into the house creations at this elite 15-seat cocktail bar under Cold Chisel Lane. And they're tasty enough to trap you here for a few hours at least.

Park in one of west end’s biggest beer gardens with a tasting paddle and chunky, Detroit-style pizza slices by a Lost in the Forest co-founder.

No standing, no rowdy groups and no Dirty Martinis. This intimate, 12-seat cocktail bar isn’t for everyone. But if you’re game for a hospitality experience unlike anything else in Adelaide, Bar Peripheral is the one for you.

This sleek bar offers something different: South American and Catalan small plates alongside wines on tap. Don’t leave without trying the show-stopping desserts, like Molotov cake with an innovative twist.

The conversation flows just as freely as the South Australian wines at this cosy wine bar. Its snug interiors, homemade snacks and record player make it feel less like its namesake, and more like hanging at your coolest friend’s place.

Head upstairs to find this neon-lit vinyl bar, which has a balcony and red-tinted dancefloor. Come for its disco balls, DJs, and 800-odd disco, funk and house records. Stay for its tropical cocktails and late-night dance parties.

This intimate, San Sebastian-inspired bar stands in a former Flight Centre. But it does a better job at evoking wanderlust than a discounted airfare ever could. In between plates of pintxos and glasses of cava, you'll feel totally transported.

Not your average rooftop bar. Here the team is reducing waste with innovations such as tomato skin “paprika”, apple core “flour” and celeriac-skin treacle, plus sorbets and ice creams created from vegetable by-products.

An intimate wine cellar with a list of close to 200 bottles, including hard-to-find drops like a single-vineyard palomino from Spain. Pair them with Ortiz anchovies, duck terrine or a slice of Basque burnt cheesecake.

Ascend the stairs from Hindley Street to a slice of island paradise, with pan-Asian and California-inspired bar snacks, playful cocktails, a disco ball and DJs spinning house and funk tunes.

Expect foraged produce, atypical pub food incorporating Mismatch beers (think kingfish garnished with hops and a riff on beer-can chicken riff) and experimental brews made in the “Mismatch lab”.

Hidden behind Leigh Street Luggage, this good-times cocktail bar is a love letter to the Adelaide hospo crowd. It's the kind of place you can drop in late, grab a fancy toastie and a well-made cocktail, then boogie to a rotating cast of DJs spinning everything from hip-hop to house until the early hours.

After one of Leigh Street’s longstanding tenants closed its doors, it was reborn as this Mediterranean cocktail bar paying tribute to its former life. Visit for local craft beers, European wines and a simple food menu of cured meats and cheese.

This inclusive bar and nightclub is a safe space for Adelaide’s queer community, but it's open to anyone who's looking for a gay old time. Mirrored ceilings, light-up go-go dancing cages and a giant rainbow are the canvas for your Saturday night boogie.

Formerly Fowler’s Live, this heritage live music space is one of the best places to see live music in the city. It's had a modern revamp by a team of SA hospitality veterans, and now it stays open late with a diverse line-up of bands, DJs and more.

This tiny, timber-panelled bar next to the Exeter Hotel is a destination for cocktails, lo-fi local wines and simple food such as olives, cheese and tinned seafood.

Big groups are well catered for at this spacious, neon-lit warehouse. Inside is a brewery, burger truck, coffee caravan and even a retro-style wedding booth for couples looking to elope after a few drinks.

American-style burgers, beef rendang hoagies and tropical cocktails are the signatures at Gang Gang’s disco-ready burger bar. After the dinner trade, a floating DJ booth provides danceable tunes till late.

At this throwback cocktail bar by the Cry Baby Crew, you'll find live blues, a pool room and classic drinks.

This Western saloon – by the Cry Baby crew – is part honky-tonk, part truck stop and all Americana. Expect live music, darts, American beers and whisky – with most drinks around the $10 mark.

At this tiny natural wine bar, there's no service bar, removing the barrier between staff and guests. Instead, you can pick your wine off the shelf – a bit like a bottle shop, but it's a bar.

The west-end wine bar bringing a touch of New York City to Adelaide.

A bar from the team behind 2KW that specialises in agave-based spirits and sherry, with tinned anchovies, terrines, charcuterie and cheese to eat in or take home.

A former drycleaner is the setting for one of Adelaide's most exciting drinking dens – a cosy, cleverly designed wine bar serving world-class vino and inventive plates.

An unusual brewhouse serving kombucha – but no beer or wine – on tap.

The iconic East End pub has a kitschy sports bar, an old-school poolroom and a kitchen run by an ex-Orana, Noma and Attica chef.

It’s a cafe, it’s a record store, it’s a wine bar. And it blends all three seamlessly.

A cafe that takes a purist’s approach to coffee. Plus, natural wines poured in the evenings.

Expect moussaka pies, baklava coffees and spanakopita sandwiches from this family-run cafe.

Get hand-held Japanese staples like tuna onigiri, pork katsu sandos and house-blended matcha make for delicious grab-and-go options without compromising on quality.

At the premium Japanese matcha brand’s first Australian outpost, try matcha sundaes and matcha floats. Plus, rolled matcha cookies, matcha milk manju, matcha gateau chocolate cake.

Pop by the cafe that gained more than half a million social media followers for prosciutto and mozzarella sangas, cinnamon scrolls – baked fresh every 30 minutes – and coffee.

This tiny deli brings Vietnamese-inspired sangas and toasties to the city. Most popular is the Pho-nomenal, bursting with brisket and Asian herbs.

Meeting for coffee in the city? This cool spot has you covered with sandwiches, quality coffee by Rio and pastries by Prove.

At this Hutt Street patisserie, you'll find miso cookies, plum and rose Danishes and chai blondies. Plus, there's quiche with freshly-foraged porcini mushrooms, flourless brownies and whisky-and-almond knots.

Hit this homey for the “barista’s breakfast” (a potent coffee trio) plus creative brunches that up the cafe-menu game.

A community-focused cafe with comfy couches, a book exchange and excellent toasties. It's a relaxed spot that feels miles away from its inner-city surrounds.

The Central Market's tiny but mighty falafel stall has moved to a bigger site and introduced breakfast, coffee and deli products for sale.

This hole-in-the-wall lunch spot serves up egg-and-bhaji naans, blackened cauliflower salad, fresh juices and breads made in-house.

Jonny Pisanelli’s fourth patisserie store mixes tradition and invention.

Top up your caffeine levels while your bike gets an oil change.

Asian-inspired grab-and-go lunches such as vegan ramen, rice bowls and black sesame and charcoal buns

Say “yiasou” to this very modern Greek eatery, with traditional roots.

This flash five-star hotel draws inspiration from Adelaide and Bordeaux. There’s a moody champagne bar, a French restaurant that colours outside the lines, a pool lit by four chandeliers and a daily candle-lighting ceremony led by a staff member in elaborate costume.

The first South Australia outpost broadens this curated fashion marketplace's network that already spans Melbourne, Hobart and Canberra. With stock rotating so regularly you’ll likely encounter dozens of new pieces every time you visit.

The CBD outpost for one of the world’s best denim brands doesn’t disappoint. If you’re after a new pair of jeans, this is where you want to be.

Freshly made pasta and cannoli, dry-aged meat and hard-to-find Italian products await at this Central Market institution.

Step inside the pastel-hued space for house plants, wildflowers and a creative take on “dead bouquets”.

Descend the stairs to this west end basement for pre-loved and vintage clothes, new streetwear and hemp basics, and recycled cotton garments made from Australian offcuts.

This ethical clothing label is locally made, but has a global reach.

This boutique stocks some of Australia’s best independent labels.