The Top 45 Places to Eat Near fermentAsian
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Rank 2. Appellation
Modern Australian
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Rank 3. St Hugo Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 4. Fino Seppeltsfield
Modern Australian
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Rank 5. Staguni
Mediterranean
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Rank 6. 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 7. Vintners Bar & Grill
Modern Australian
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Rank 8. Otherness
Modern Australian
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Rank 9. Orleana
Modern Australian
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Rank 10. Topiary
Modern Australian
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Rank 11. 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 12. 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 13. 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 14. Penfolds Magill Estate Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 15. 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 17. ODE Bistro
Modern Australian
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Rank 18. MENSA
Italian
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Rank 19. Orso Kensington
Modern Australian
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Rank 20. 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 21. Golden Boy
Thai
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Rank 23. 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 25. Thelma Piccadilly
Modern Australian
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Rank 26. Osteria Oggi
Italian
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Rank 27. 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 28. 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 29. 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 30. 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 31. 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 32. The Lane Vineyard
Modern Australian
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Rank 35. 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 36. Herringbone Restaurant
Mediterranean
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Rank 37. 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 38. Allegra Dining Room
Modern Australian
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Rank 39. 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 40. 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 43. Watervale Hotel
Modern Australian
The beer garden wraps around a wood oven and an Argentine-style grill, which tells you something about the ambitions of this old Clare Valley pub. Much of the produce comes from the hotel's own organic farm down the road, and the kitchen runs everything from a casual a la carte to a six-course degustation. The Australian Good Food Guide has given it a Chef Hat, and the setting, a lovingly restored country hotel, makes it easy to stay longer than planned.
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Rank 44. 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 45. Bush DeVine Restaurant
Modern Australian
Perched inside Paulett Winery in the Clare Valley, this alfresco Modern Australian restaurant draws its menu partly from an on-site Indigenous bush food garden you can wander before sitting down. The chef folds native ingredients into dishes that lean global without losing the landscape, and the estate wines are right there if you need a reason to order another round. It holds a one hat rating from the Australian Good Food Guide.