Visiting Adelaide and South Australia

Lunch and Dinner

Looking for somewhere to eat?  Here are some ideas about where you might want to have lunch or dinner while you're at the conference.  Most of the places are open both for lunch and dinner, but they're divided into 'lunch' (faster and/or closer to Adelaide Uni) and 'dinner' (slower and/or further from Adelaide Uni).

For those whose knowledge of Adelaide's CBD is a little rusty, you could have a look at the map on the Adelaide Metro site (which is fairly clear and schematic, and has some free city-circle bus routes on it; also shows Adelaide Uni, Chinatown, the Central Market and a few other features), or else a map produced by a hotel-booking company (which is more detailed but harder to read).

Lunch

There are several food courts on Rundle Mall.  The one in the basement of the Myer Centre and the one under David Jones run between North Terrace and Rundle Mall (the back entrance of each is on North Terrace, more or less across the road from Adelaide Uni); the food court in the City Cross (C|X) building runs between Rundle Mall and Grenville Street.

Renaissance Arcade is on Pulteney Street, between North Terrace and Rundle Mall.  It's got quite a few places, including an Asian hawker-style shop, a noodle bar, and a vegetarian cafe.

There's Aroma Cafe at the University of South Australia City East campus; it's just to the east of the Adelaide Uni campus, on Frome Road, near North Terrace.

Then there's the Staff Club at Adelaide Uni.

If you're looking for something a bit more upmarket, there's a fully licensed restaurant in the Botanic Gardens.  Or else some of the dinner places below.

Dinner

There are lots of restaurants, cafes and pubs along Rundle Street, to the east of Rundle Mall and Pulteney Street.

Hindley Street, the continuation of Rundle Street to the west of Rundle Mall, also has restaurants, cafes and pubs; usually a little more downmarket than the Rundle Street ones.

If you're interested in going a little bit further afield (we're talking maybe 10 minutes walk here!), go down King William Street to Victoria Square, then a block or two west along Grote Street, past the Central Market, to Chinatown.  There are lots of mainly Asian restaurants on Moonta Street between Grote St and Gouger St, and around into Gouger Street.

Alternatively, hop in a bus or taxi and go up to North Adelaide, either Melbourne Street or O'Connell Street.

Of course, there are lots and lots of other places too.  You could go out to the Parade at Norwood, or down to Unley, for example.  Or catch the tram down to Glenelg.

 

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Last updated: 16 August 2007