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Adelaide
Eating & drinking
There are plenty of good eateries in Adelaide and you don’t have to blow the budget as there is a good choice of cheap and decent-priced places to eat.
Rundle Street is an obvious place for restaurants as it boasts over 50 eating outlets although there are several other streets that offer a more eclectic choice. Gouger Street and Hutt Street have a great range of international restaurants with Asian food more prevalent on Gouger Street and European food on Hutt Street. Melbourne Street in North Adelaide is another good street that is lined with affordable restaurants. If you’re staying in Glenelg, then Jetty Road is the local restaurant strip.
Adelaide even has its own budget-priced culinary speciality – the pie floater. You can’t leave Adelaide without trying this delicious meat pie floating in pea soup and topped with tomato sauce. It tastes much better than it sounds! You can try a pie floater from the pie carts either outside the train station on North Terrace or outside the post office near the corner of Franklin and King William Streets. This is a good option for a late-night feed, generally pie carts open from the afternoon through to the wee hours of the morning.
If you’re preparing your own food, the Coles supermarket (21-39 Grote Street, Adelaide) near Victoria Square and Woolworths (80-88 Rundle Mall, Adelaide) are your best options in the city centre. Adelaide Central Market (corner Gouger & Grote Streets, Adelaide) is a good place to stock up on fresh food or grab a snack.
Drinking in Adelaide is fun and easy, as the “City of Churches” definitely has more watering holes than churches and the pubs are generally much better than you would find in most other Australian cities.
After numerous research trips to Adelaide, our favourite pub is the Coopers Ale House, aka the Earl of Aberdeen (corner of Carrington & Pulteney Streets, Adelaide). It’s a traditional pub with great atmosphere and food. But don’t limit yourself to our favourite as there are a lot of good pubs in Adelaide.
Other bars include Cargo Club (213 Hindley Street, Adelaide), which is a cheap place that’s popular with students; the Botanic Bar (310 North Terrace, Adelaide), a hip lounge bar that attracts an older crowd and the Garage (163 Waymouth Street, Adelaide), which is a good place if you’re up for dancing. It has a big dance floor and loud tunes roll through the night.
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