Start from 72 curated places around Adelaide, AU, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Africola
A pink-tiled, fire-driven East Terrace room — South African childhood riffed through Israeli, North African and South Australian produce, with the wood grill running everything from sticky chops to grilled cabbage. The Adelaide restaurant other Australian chefs name first.
Shobosho
Leigh Street's open-kitchen yakitori-and-fire room — Japanese grill technique stretched across Chinese, Korean and modern-Australian dishes, and a charcoal hearth visible from every seat. The CBD's go-to for a long, share-plate dinner with the team in town.
Trails & outdoors
Waterfall Gully to Mount Lofty Summit
Adelaide's signature uphill — 7.6km return from Waterfall Gully car park to the 727m Mount Lofty summit, climbing through the Cleland forest beside a creek with stepped cascades. The trail every Adelaidean walks at least once.
Morialta Conservation Park — Three Falls Hike
Three-waterfall loop in a sandstone gorge 20 minutes east of the CBD — First, Second, and Third Falls connected by a 7.5km circuit with the gentler valley path on the way out, the plateau ridge on the way back. The best half-day walk inside metropolitan Adelaide.
Things to do
Adelaide Festival Centre
Riverbank arts complex on King William Road — Festival Theatre, Dunstan Playhouse, Space Theatre, and a year-round program of theatre, dance, opera, and the OzAsia, Adelaide Cabaret and DreamBIG festivals. The city's biggest stage and its quietest plaza on non-show days.
Adelaide Zoo
Frome Road zoo on the Botanic Garden's northern edge — 3,000 animals, the Southern Hemisphere's only giant pandas (Xing Qiu and Yi Lan), and a sun-bear enclosure that's the country's best. Half a day, walkable from the CBD across the Torrens footbridge.
Landmarks & sights
Adelaide Central Market
Seventy-plus traders under one roof between Gouger and Grote Streets — Lucia's pasta counter, Smelly Cheese Shop, Marino Meat & Food Store, and a back row of producers locals queue at on Saturday mornings. The room every Adelaide cook routes through weekly, and the best place to spend an hour off the plane.
Adelaide Oval
South Australia's hometown ground on the north bank of the Torrens — Bradman Museum on the upper concourse, RoofClimb tour up the western stand, and a heritage scoreboard the locals still hand-operate. Walks across King William Bridge from the CBD in seven minutes.