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  • Things to do
  • Fairs and festivals

It’s a magical time to be in Adelaide, as revellers descend in their droves to the largest arts festival in the Southern Hemisphere: Adelaide Fringe. Take a walk down the buzzing city streets like Rundle and Hutt and see the clusters of cafés, bars and restaurants spring to life with people chortling with laughter. Or watch on as the fire-breathers, plate-spinners, and card-dealing magicians punctuate the pavements with their talent.  Get gorging at the Fringe hub Gluttony in Rhymill Park, home to a variety of worldwide flavours that you can tuck into by the emerald lake. And then there’s the electric Garden of Unearthly Delights, another Fringe hub that remains unrivalled as one of Australia’s best festival precincts with its merry-go-round of performance venues, bars, carnival rides, and market stalls.   In stringing together more than 6,000 artists in 500 venues, Adelaide Fringe collectively stages more than a whopping 1,400 shows. Stretching from Whyalla across the state to Naracoorte, the city is currently bursting at the seams with cabaret, theatre, comedy, circus, music, visual arts, workshops and more.  While it is curtains up for some of these shows, there are still plenty of things to catch before the Fringe is over on March 17 – you can find the full programme here. Can't make it to Adelaide this year? Bide your time with our guide to the festivals happening in Australia this year.

  • Restaurants

Combining seriously stylish design with access to abundant fresh produce from the surrounding wine regions, Adelaide’s restaurant scene has the best of both city and regional dining. Forward thinking mod oz cuisine is informed by food traditions from across the world, which are also visible in everything from Afghan comfort food to Parisian classics and what might be Australia’s first pizza restaurant. The accompanying wine lists are just as wide-ranging, encompassing powerful Barossa reds, spritzy natural wines and everything in between, all served by knowledgeable staff. And the best bit? Even the extended degustations sit at a price point that will come as a pleasant surprise to East Coast diners. Thirsty? Kick on at one of the best bars in Adelaide right now.

  • Things to do

Looking for the best things to do in Adelaide? South Australia's bustling capital city has much to offer both tourists and locals alike. Whether you're visiting for a quick weekend away or an extended stay, we've rounded up all our favourite activities. From amazing places to eat and drink, to family-friendly strawberry picking, via a quick stop at the zoo. Before stepping out in the city, be sure to check out our selection of the best things to do in Adelaide. RECOMMENDED: These are the 37 best things to do in the whole of Australia.

  • Restaurants
  • Cafés

Don’t come to Adelaide if you don’t love birds. A zillion adorable alarm clocks will have you up at dawn in search of outstanding coffee, halloumi, smashed avo, spelt crumpets and berry-studded pancakes in cafés on the leafy streets and in parks. Adelaide is a city of tree walks and nature trails – even the CBD and suburbs are stuffed with parks and gardens. And cafés. At the end of each brave pre-prandial stroll or electro-scoot about town, there’s a lovely breakfast spot for all seasons.  Any café worth its black lava salt can do a perfect poached egg over sourdough and house-cured bacon, but is there a potoroo snuggled at your feet, or a chortling maggie praising your bed-head while you sip your açai smoothie? And if you’re outdoors, you’ll still get to enjoy the endeavours of chefs and cooks who celebrate exquisite, sustainably grown local produce. Here are 11 of the best breakfasts you can get in Adelaide.

  • Attractions
  • Vineyards

Just a tick over 64km north of Adelaide, the compact Barossa Valley is one of the world’s great wine regions. This is traditional Peramangk and Ngadjuri country, with baking hot summers, cool winters and mineral-rich soils – perfect conditions for producing big, beefy red wines. Shiraz is the local hero, with some mighty fine rieslings emerging from the slightly higher, slightly cooler Eden Valley sub-region, just over the rise. There are more than 150 wineries in the Barossa, and an astonishing 80-plus cellar doors. You could spend weeks going between them, sipping fine wines all day long – but that’s probably not entirely sensible. Why not start with our 13 top picks, and take it from there?

  • Bars

Forget the ‘City of Churches’ tag – Adelaide has just as many pubs, not to mention bars of all persuasions, which have ridden a boom in recent years following a tweak to licencing laws that now allow small bars to serve booze without food.  From city-fringe craft beer nooks to gin and whisky dens taking design cues from across the planet, there’s a bar here to suit every mood and tipple of choice. Adelaide is also a UNESCO ‘City of Music’, so expect to hear some live jazz, an acoustic troubadour or at least a DJ spinning rock classics while you quench your thirst. Oh, and don’t forget the wine. Given that South Australia is the nation’s wine-producing heartland, you can expect nothing but top bottles here. The best bars in Adelaide – the ‘City of Booze Bunkers’ – are waiting for you. Want to stay sober? These are the best things to do in Adelaide.

  • Attractions
  • Theme parks
  • West Beach

The creation of entrepreneur Alex Blyth, who based much of the design on challenges he experienced as part of his training in the British Army, this amazing 28-metre tall playground in West Beach includes more than 70 aerial obstacles in its MegaClimb. Get your Spiderman on with suspension bridges, swings, scramble nets and vertical climbs. Real risk-takers can take a leap of faith from the 18-metre-tall GiantSwing, while those with less of a daredevil streak can enjoy the views from the tamer 83-step Skywalk.

  • Attractions
  • Beaches
  • Glenelg Jetty Road

Just because something is known by all doesn't always mean it should be overlooked. Adelaide's most famous beach, Glenelg manages to nail being both a genuinely beautiful natural place and a buzzy, metropolitan hot spot. Unlike the other beaches on this list, Glenelg is a 20-minute tram ride from the city centre, is fringed by amazing restaurants, and allows you to sink a tropical cocktail while watching a brilliant sunset descend over the beach. How's that for a good time?

  • Attractions
  • Farms
  • Greater Adelaide

If you've ever eaten breakfast at a fancy hotel or on a Qantas flight you've probably eaten Beerenberg. A South Australian institution, the family-owned company has been making delicious jams at its Adelaide Hills strawberry farm since 1975, and distributing them in cute miniature jars all over the world since the 1980s. Although the brand now makes 75 different preserves, its strawberry jam remains the most famous, made fresh from the fruit picked from the farm's strawberry plants in Hahndorf, just 30 minutes out of Adelaide (Beerenberg actually means “berry hill” in German). Every year from November to April, you can grab a punnet and wander the farm yourself, picking your own fresh berries to take home for just $5 per person and $11.95 per kilo. There's no better way to spend a sunny day than wandering Beerenberg's picturesque strawberry patch, hunting down the perfect luscious berries to eat later.

  • Restaurants
  • Asian
  • Adelaide Central

One of the newest kids on the block, Paper Tiger arrived in town with a bang and is collecting fans all around the ’hood. Chef Benjamin Liew takes things back to his roots with a blend of Malaysian and Indonesian-style share plates, including crispy pork belly bao, peanut gado gado salad and Singapore chilli soft shell crab. Small in size but not in flavour, it’s also worth reaching for the grilled scallops, crispy chicken wings and kombu-cured tuna sashimi (warning: the spice is real). Try to score seats on the street at sundown and cap off the night with a tropical cocktail from the bar.