Place to eat in Adelaide

Hey food lover! Spoil your appetite with the finest produce of Adelaide. Adelaide has its own vibe with locally baked pies and cakes that will surely make your tummy rumbling for more. Try the tender rock lobster from the Southern Ocean or hand-fed Angas beef raised on the banks of Murray River. Welcome to the world of South Australia where sumptuous food and wine are found at every turn.

1. Orana and Street ADL

Address: 285 Rundle Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Price range: $$$

The standout newcomer the extraordinary 25 seat restaurant, Orana and Street ADL, was established within a spate of new bars and restaurants opening in Adelaide this summer.
This new eatery is comprised into 2 sections. Street ADL offers informal dining, cocktails and a selection of delicious ‘street’ food. At Street ADL, you will find delicious hamburgers, pulled kangaroo sangas, BBQ pork ribs, Coorong mulloway and South Devon steak. Whilst Orana offers more intimate setting with a stunning selection of dishes that incorporate a vast list of Australian offerings including KI scallops, Coorong Mulloway, Kangaroo, Marron and aged beef that are matched perfectly with local, national and international wines. Expecting to taste the real Australia with 2 tasting menus; lunch $150 including wine and dinner $295 with wine.
Go-to dish: Kangaroo backstrap paired with mountain pepper and sow thistle.

2. Peel Street Bar

Address: 9 Peel Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Price range: $

Meet Chef Jordan Theodoros and his crew in his pioneer lunch bar in this little laneway called Peel Street. Lots of buzz in a precinct rapidly becoming known as “bar central”. Serving up Middle Eastern and Asian flavours, this bar has a pared-back, semi industrial style with exposed beams and brick walls, and a long polished concrete bar where lunchtime “on the concrete” specials are displayed.
It’s full flavoured, gutsy, simple cooking governed by the seasons. It looks casual, just like the atmosphere at Peel Street but food that tastes this good doesn’t come easily.
Go-to dish: mulloway fish pastry with sauce tartare and iceberg lettuce.

3. Eros Ouzeri Restaurant

Address: 275 -277 Rundle Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Price range: $$

Originally was constructed for the Adelaide Fruit and Produce Exchange, Eros Ouzeri still maintains much of its history and bustling ambience while providing refined service, and a modern twist on the recipes and technique passed down through generations of traditional culinary Greek delights.
Get captivated with a delicious mix menu with the standards such as the traditional house-made dips, pickled and cured meats and the old favourites like lamb souvlaki and grilled octopus. For more selective diners, there are vegetarian and gluten free options provided, like hand-rolled baklava cigars and the classic galactoboureko.
Located in the heart of the City, you’ll find Eros Ouzeri easily accessible and sure to cater for and satisfy the most discerning palate.

Go-to dish: lamb souvlaki and grilled octopus.

4. Ruby Red Flamingo

Address: 142 Tynte Street,
North Adelaide SA 5006
Price range: $$

Rudy Red Flamingo offers the Italian equivalent of tapas with menu items all designed to be shared. Must try dish are the Spiedini (the char-grill prawns, calamari, button mushrooms and capsicum) and the Salsiccia Di Porchetta (pork and fennel sausage).
The interesting part of this no-booking policy is the match-making game the staff will insist for the customers to join in. Service is otherwise appropriate; providing assistance without being intrusive.

Go-to dish: Polenta, Cannelloni, and Spiedini

5. Nano Ready 2 Go

Address: 23 Ebenezer Pl
Adelaide SA 5000
Price range: $

The idea behind NANO ready 2 go is to combine the delicate hand-made-from-scratch Italian bread with amazing coffee to facilitate a busy city lifestyle.
Here, customers are met by a family that cares. They care about what they feed you and how you feel afterwards. It makes the whole precinct feel more connected, more relevant. Tucked off the Rundle Street in Ebenezer Place, is big, bright and very Italian with all the right elements for breakfast, fast or slow.
Terrific pizzas and focaccias, everything baked fresh that morning, friendly staff, great coffee and orange juice pressed in front of you. Minimal wine offering but it does the job.
Everybody goes there. Breakfast (and lunch) keeps going until 3.30pm.

Go-to dish: pasta of the day, such as linguini arrabiate

Place to eat in Brisbane

Brisbane pleasant outdoor climate and abundance of fresh produce means al fresco-style food and drink. Whether it is a steak at a pub, a good coffee or a five-star degustation is locally sourced ingredients; from Moreton Bay prawns to greens from Lockyer Valley.

1.The New Shanghai

Address: LG 23 Queens Plaza
226 Queen Street, Brisbane
Price range: $$

A themed like Hong Kong tea house will give you live entertainment of their skilful front kitchen staffs making the dumpling right before your eyes.

Go-to dish: xiao long bao

2. Deer Duck Bistro

Address: 396 Milton Road
Auchenflower, Brisbane
Price range: $$

The sound of jazz, the classic antiquity look, the touch of sensual fabric, the aroma and taste of food alchemy in Deer Duck Bistro make it quickly becomes a much talked dinner destination. In contrary with its carnivorous name, this is a place that caters for vegetarians. Textures potato and eggplant, 63 degree hen egg, lavosh and asparagus are some of the menu example.

Go-to dish: crab with tomato, avocado, jamon, and lemon ‘snow’ and asparagus with the chocolate forest with seven textures of chocolate and orange marshmallow dessert.

3. Brewhouse Brisbane

Address: 601 Stanley Street
Wooloongaba, Queensland
Price range: $$

Conveniently located in central Woolloongabba, the building of Brewhouse Brisbane is rich history as a hotel which dates back to 1889. Expect chef Andrew McCabe’s recommend dish, steak from the grill given a helping hand to tender with dark ale marinade in a lively pub-style surrounds. Also do not miss the mighty racks of beef-infused, fall-apart barbeque pork ribs. Most of the menu is given beery accents; garlic three-cheese pizza with tortilla base comes with dark ale-infused caramelised onion, or Brewhouse's pie of the day, fittingly accompanied by beer-battered chips.
Best of all, the beers are brewed fresh in their owned brewery in Albion Brisbane. Guarantee preservative fee and contain only the 4 key ingredients; barley, malt, water, and hops. Brewhouse Brisbane is definitely deserved a reputation for being one of Woolloongabba’s most popular destination.

Go-to dish: Dark ale marinade steak a la Chef Andrew McCabe.

4. Esquire and Esq

Address: 145 Eagle Street
Brisbane
Price range: $

Perfection is the word for Esquire and Esq. No concessions to sloppiness of presentation, no slacking off in the sourcing of the pure and fresh, no allowance for unknowledgeable service or slipshod attitude. In addition, experience a universe of casualness while sit at smart timber tables contemplating the river and Brisbane Story Bridge. The food delivered is arguably Brisbane’s best. The 3 course lunch taste menus as generous as $35. Choices are divided into categories of charcoal, raw, raw greens, basic and sweet. Esq menu highlights include Moreton Bay sand squid, ocean prawns in garlic emulsion and rainbow trout – all cooked using charcoal - and their famous dessert the $12 Campari sherbet, orange sorbet, curds and whey ice-cream.

Go-to dish: Campari sherbet, orange sorbet, curds and whey ice-cream

5. Alchemy restaurant and bar

Address: 175 Eagle Street
Brisbane
Price range: $$

2012 Brisbane Times Good Food Guide Awards – Queensland Good Food Guide 2012. Alchemy restaurant is one of Brisbane’s hidden gems with exceptional food. Minimalist décor acclaimed so diners can focus on the million-dollar views overlooking the Story Bridge Brisbane.
Head chef Brad has introduced an Oven Roasted Venison Loin dish to hail the onset of the cooler weather. With a Chocolate Coffee Crumble and Dark Chocolate Ganache accompaniment, it’s an unexpected and subtle taste sensation.

Go-for dish: Oven Roasted Venison Loin dish.

6. Custom house

Address: 399 Queen Street
Brisbane
Price range: $$

Custom House offers guests the chance to dine in a building steeped in history. You will find exquisite boardrooms, a stunning ballroom, and a relaxing restaurant popular with tourists, business clients and local customers. A modern Australian menu makes use of some terrific local produce while remaining fairly priced for a restaurant on the river in the CBD.
Dine on the likes of heirloom tomato tarte tatin with black olive tapenade for entree followed by an eye fillet main with beetroot purée, horseradish crème and duck fat potatoes. The cuisine philosophy is to source seasonal produce to prepare dishes that are well presented with good clean flavours. The wine list incorporates some strong cabernet blends from South Australia as well as a handful of stellar international drops likes the Finca Flichman Gestos Malbec from Mendoza, Argentina and a Kaltern ‘Südtirol’ Pinot Grigio from Alto Adige, Italy.

Go-to dish: eye fillet main with beetroot purée, horseradish crème and duck fat potatoes