The Best Places to Drink and Stay in Adelaide

Art Nouveau flourishes run through this boutique hotel on North Terrace, where the interiors feel like a turn-of-the-century drawing room that quietly agreed to install modern plumbing. It sits between the Adelaide Oval and the convention center, which explains the mix of sports fans and conference attendees in the lobby. The spa is sizeable, and Luma, the in-house European restaurant, sets a tone that matches the building's ambitions.

The red brick and copper accents are a deliberate echo of Adelaide Central Market, the Victorian covered food hall just outside the door, and the whole hotel is built around that idea. Rooms run warm and graphic-printed rather than bland-boutique-beige. The two in-house restaurants, a modern Italian spot and a rooftop raw bar, pull in locals who didn't come just for the minibar, which is usually a decent sign.

The rooms are built into the outer shell of Adelaide Oval itself, so your hotel is also a functioning cricket and Australian rules football stadium. It's a high-end boutique stay with 138 quietly stylish rooms, most looking out over the historic parkland ringing the ground. The Bespoke Wine Bar and a taphouse handle drinks and food well above standard stadium-concession logic. The CBD is a short walk, and the Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

A boutique hotel in the upscale Adelaide suburb of Walkerville built around the colorful Western Desert paintings of Indigenous artist Yannima Pirkarli Tommy Watson. The suites are minimalist and modernist, with the work displayed rather than decorated around, and staff called Art Advocates run art tours of Adelaide. The in-house café, Local Grind, handles brunch and dinner if you'd rather stay in.

A basement cocktail bar on Peel Street where the drinks menu is divided by landscape: coast, hills, valleys. The idea is that Adelaide's terroir belongs in a glass as much as a bottle, so the team leans into seasonal local produce and genuine technique to make the argument. The crowd that's figured this out tends to come back often enough to be called regulars. Named a Discovery by The 50.