What to see in Adelaide

Adelaide highlights

The places you can’t miss. In the app we sort them by day and close to each other.

1. Central Market

   The great producers’ market.

2. Glenelg

   A beach you reach by tram.

3. Barossa Valley

   One of the country’s great wine regions.

4. Kangaroo Island

   Wildlife and a spectacular coastline.

5. Hahndorf

   A German-founded village in the hills.

Day trips from Adelaide

We take you straight to the best-rated tour on GetYourGuide, with its reviews and dates.

• Barossa

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Typical food of Adelaide

The dish you have to try there and how to make it at home, to whet your appetite before the trip (or to go back to Adelaide from your kitchen).

Pie floater

Adelaide’s late-night dish: a meat pie floating upside down in a thick pea soup, with ketchup. It was sold from night carts from the 19th century onwards.

• Serves 4
• 1 h 30 min

Ingredients

• 4 meat pies
• 300 g split peas (green or yellow)
• 1 onion
• 1 ham bone or 100 g pancetta
• 1 litre of stock
• Ketchup, mint and malt vinegar

How to make it at home

1. Cook the peas with the onion, the ham bone and the stock for 1 hour, until they break down.
2. Blend the soup: it should be thick.
3. Heat the pies in the oven.
4. Put a ladle of soup in each bowl and a pie upside down on top.
5. Finish with a good squirt of ketchup and, if you like, vinegar and mint.

The trick: The pie goes upside down: that way it floats and the soup doesn’t soften the lid.

Frequently asked questions about Adelaide