The Top 48 Places to Eat Near Restaurant Botanic
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Rank 1. Restaurant Botanic
Modern Australian
The dining room sits inside the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, which means fifty-plus acres of garden are essentially the mood lighting. This is a tasting-menu restaurant where the kitchen, led by Jamie Musgrave, builds each course around native ingredients and seasonal botanicals foraged or sourced from what's growing nearby. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it four Chef Hats. Dress accordingly and clear the evening.
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Rank 2. Station Road
Modern Australian
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A one-off sculptural chandelier, locally made and named for light, anchors the room at this all-day European restaurant on North Terrace. The Art Nouveau bones give it genuine atmosphere, and the kitchen leans on regional producers to do the talking. It runs from morning coffee through cocktails at dusk, so the crowd shifts considerably depending on when you arrive. The Australian Good Food Guide has given it two Chef Hats.
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Rank 4. Peel St
Fusion Australian
A fusion restaurant in the Adelaide CBD where seasonal Australian produce gets pulled toward global influences without any particular apology for it. The room has a rustic-contemporary feel that leans into sharing plates and noise, the kind of place where the table next to you orders something you immediately wish you'd noticed. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 5. Garcon Bleu
Modern French
French fine dining on the ninth floor of the Sofitel Adelaide, where the city spreads out below and the menu works through classic technique with locally sourced produce. The room is formal enough that you'll want to dress for it, and the wine list is the kind you actually read rather than skim. Holding an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat, it earns the occasion.
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Rank 6. Pinco Italo
Italian
A laneway Italian tucked into Exchange Place, Pinco Italo runs on the philosophy that dinner should take a while. The menu moves between comforting classics and sharper contemporary plates, all built for sharing, and the drinks list is put together with care. It's warm and unpretentious in the way that's harder to pull off than it looks, and the Australian Good Food Guide has given it a Chef Hat to prove the kitchen is keeping pace.
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Rank 7. Osteria Oggi
Italian
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Rank 9. Fino Vino
Modern Australian
South Australia's growers and winemakers effectively double as the kitchen team here, which tells you everything about what kind of restaurant and bar Fino Vino is. The menu tracks local seasons with the dedication of someone who has the farmer's number saved in their phone. Hospitality is warm without being performative. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 11. Golden Boy
Thai
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Rank 12. Herringbone Restaurant
Mediterranean
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Rank 13. La Louisiane
French
Velvet banquettes, golden lamplight, and the kind of live music that makes you order another glass of wine: La Louisiane is a French restaurant doing old-world Paris in the Adelaide CBD, and doing it without apology. The menu runs escargot through to crème brûlée with a ribeye in between, which is to say it knows exactly what it is. An Australian Good Food Guide One Chef Hat. Linger, obviously.
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Rank 15. Allegra Dining Room
Modern Australian
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Rank 16. ODE Bistro
Modern Australian
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Rank 17. MENSA
Italian
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Rank 18. Carnivore
Mediterranean Steakhouse
The open grill is the centerpiece here, not just the cooking method, and the whole room is arranged around watching things burn in the best possible sense. Carnivore is a Mediterranean steakhouse on Port Road where premium cuts share the menu with seafood, and the wine list runs local and international. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat, which fits the polished, fire-forward room. A solid pick when someone else is expensing dinner.
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Rank 19. arkhé
Modern Australian
The open hearth in the middle of the room isn't décor; it's the kitchen's organizing principle, and everything on the menu follows that logic. This is a fire-led modern Australian restaurant in Norwood where wood smoke finds its way into vegetables and seafood as readily as into the dry-aged beef and Wagyu the place is known for. Jake Kellie, who came up at Burnt Ends, runs the hearth with an ease that keeps it from feeling like a stunt. Ranked 16th on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list.
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- Australian Good Food Guide 13/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 20. Orso Kensington
Modern Australian
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Rank 22. Samurai Teppanyaki House
Japanese
Dinner here is dinner and a show, in the most literal sense: chefs work a teppan grill tableside while you sit close enough to feel the heat. Samurai is a teppanyaki restaurant on King William Road, the kind of place where Wagyu lands in front of you still sizzling. The Australian Good Food Guide gave it a Chef Hat. Groups and corporate bookings fill the room, which means the energy tends toward celebration whether you planned on that or not.
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Fine dining inside a restored heritage house, with a glass atrium flooding the room in natural light. Lenzerheide sits on Belair Road in Hawthorn, a few minutes from the city, doing the kind of polished, seasonal European cooking that requires a reservation and probably your better shoes. Service is attentive without being theatrical. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 24. Penfolds Magill Estate Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 26. Hardy's Verandah Restaurant
Modern Australian
The dining room looks out over the Piccadilly Valley from a grand old Adelaide Hills homestead, and the kitchen leans into that view with a degustation menu built almost entirely around South Australian produce. This is fine dining with a regional fixation, so expect multiple courses, expert wine pairings, and the kind of unhurried pacing that assumes you have nowhere to be. The Australian Good Food Guide gave it three Chef Hats.
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Rank 27. Thelma Piccadilly
Modern Australian
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Rank 28. Topiary
Modern Australian
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Rank 29. Ondeen
Modern Australian
Rolling Adelaide Hills framing the windows sets the mood before the food arrives. Ondeen is a Modern Australian dining room in Verdun, a short drive from Hahndorf, built around the idea that the region itself is the ingredient, with local produce and an all-Adelaide Hills wine list doing most of the talking. The spaces flex for private events and celebrations, and the Two Chef Hats from the Australian Good Food Guide suggest the kitchen is keeping pace with the view.
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Rank 30. Mt Lofty Ranges Vineyard
Modern Australian
Wide timber decks look out over the estate vines in the Adelaide Hills, and on a clear day the valley stretches far enough to justify a second glass. This vineyard restaurant pairs a monthly changing seasonal menu with wines grown on the property, and the open fireplace makes the rustic interior a reasonable argument for winter visits too. The Australian Good Food Guide handed it Two Chef Hats.
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Rank 31. Anvers Wines
Modern Australian
Perched on Razorback Road in the Adelaide Hills, Anvers Wines pairs its estate wines with a full regional dining room built around the same philosophy: everything comes from here. The menu leans Modern Australian, shaped by a chef who treats local produce as both ingredient and argument. The Australian Good Food Guide has awarded three Chef Hats. It's the kind of lunch where the wine list is short because everything on it was made outside the window.
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Rank 32. Pike & Joyce Restaurant
Modern Australian
The dining room looks out over the estate's own cool-climate vines, which makes ordering the wine feel less like a choice and more like an obvious conclusion. This is a winery restaurant in the Adelaide Hills doing seasonal Modern Australian food with the kind of produce that barely needs an introduction. The Australian Good Food Guide gave it a Chef Hat, and the setting does a lot of the heavy lifting, though the kitchen clearly isn't coasting on the view.
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Rank 33. LVN Restaurant at Bird in Hand
Modern Australian
Floor-to-ceiling windows keep the vineyard in the frame while you eat, which is either very clever or a little on the nose, depending on your tolerance for wine country theater. LVN is a fine-dining tasting menu restaurant on the Bird in Hand estate in the Adelaide Hills, earning three Chef Hats from the Australian Good Food Guide. The kitchen pulls produce from the Hills, Finniss, and Tasmania, running it through a menu that doesn't announce itself too loudly.
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Rank 34. The Lane Vineyard
Modern Australian
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Rank 35. Maxwell Restaurant
Modern Australian
Perched on the Maxwell Winery estate with vineyard views rolling out to the Fleurieu Peninsula, this fine dining restaurant runs a multi-course tasting menu built around South Australian produce, matched to wines from the cellar below. The chef brought a Michelin-trained European technique to McLaren Vale, and the combination of stacked stone walls, polished timber, and floor-to-ceiling glass keeps the setting from feeling too serious about itself.
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Rank 36. Ekhidna Kitchen and Wines
Modern Australian
A cellar door restaurant set among estate vines with the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges rolling out behind it, Ekhidna is a family-run spot where the menu follows the kitchen garden and the wine list follows the property. Modern Australian cooking with a loose global accent, wood-fired pizzas on weekends, and grazing boards for when you've already had a long afternoon. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 37. d'Arry's Verandah Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 38. Serafino Restaurant
Modern Australian
Serafino sits on a winery estate in McLaren Vale, ringed by ancient gums and a lake that makes the dining room feel like it wandered in from a painting. The restaurant runs a Modern Australian menu with Italian leanings, leaning hard into seasonal produce, so the food shifts more than the view does. Weddings fill the calendar, but the cellar door keeps it honest. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 40. Orleana
Modern Australian
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Rank 41. St Hugo Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 42. Hentley Farm
Modern Australian
Stone walls and timber beams meet a sleek bar stocked with the estate's own wines, which sets the tone for what follows. Hentley Farm is a fine dining destination in the Barossa where the menu is a surprise each visit, built around foraged, caught, and garden-grown ingredients from the property and its surrounds. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it Three Chef Hats. No printed menu to fuss over, just whatever the estate offers up that day.
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Rank 44. Fino Seppeltsfield
Modern Australian
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Rank 45. Appellation
Modern Australian
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Rank 46. Staguni
Mediterranean
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Rank 47. Vintners Bar & Grill
Modern Australian
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Rank 48. Otherness
Modern Australian