Grab and Go

The Hub - Level 4 - main entry level

• Taste Baguette - Baguettes or salads for $7-10. Usually pretty good coffee. They have some coffee & pastry/sandwich deals. Nice almond croissants and pastries, especially in the morning when they’re freshly baked

• Grassroots - Coffee isn’t their specialty, but they do sell a range of salads, quiches, hot meals and soups.

• Hawker centre - Asian food options: combinations with rice or noodles, or sushi. They also do bubble tea and other cold or hot drinks.

 

ADH 

• Basement Cafe - We have soft drinks, chips, chocolate, instant noodles and other cariogenic cheap and nasties for the dental student in a rush.

 

Union centre

• Mayo café - A range of affordable hot and cold dishes available that vary occasionally. Their hot chips are pretty good.

 

Lunchtime at the ADH

Zouki café

About 20 meters away from the ADH and 10m away from the smokers ironically smoking infront of the sign that says 'The Hanson Centre for Cancer Research' Zouki sells a range of hot and cold food options, ranging from light snacks to hot, hearty meals. Coffee is alright, hot chocolate is better. Flash your AUDSS membership card for a 10% discount.

 

Aroma café

Further up Frome Rd than Zouki on the UniSA campus. Has a very large seating area which is good for group lunches. Fairly good food.

 

East end - Ebenezer Place and Charlick Circuit

Just off Rundle Street and Frome Road about 10 minutes away from the ADH and Uni. Proximity means you can choose to eat-in and take-away food at varying price ranges.

• Belgian Beer Café - Slightly more expensive but nice food

• Munooshi - A taste of Arabia just off Charlick Circuit on Hutt St. Delicious Lebanese flat breads with various fillings. IT Exec recommends the Chicken Avacado and the Community Aid Exec recommends the lamb mince or falafel.

• Nano's - Some lunch options as well as coffee.

• Kutchi Deli Parwana - Worth visiting just to check out the massive effort they've put into decorating the place! Would recommend the lamb bolan. Don't go knick knocking 9 Ebenezer place though! All the 5th years live there.

• Burger Theorey - Greasy but oh so tasty burgers and chips

• Le Carpe Diem - On the other side of East end on Grenfell St, a really cute French creperie with both savoury and sweet crepes as well as yummy pastries

 

Rundle Mall

• Soonta -  2 shops, one in the Rundle Place Food Court and one in James Palce. Cheap and filling, try the pork belly bun bowl.

• Warong - Situated in the Rundle Place Food Court, great if you're craving Malaysian and Indonesian street food, come here for a decent feed close to Uni

• Nanyang Cafe - Excellent Malay food in the Renaissance Arcarde. Cheap and BBQ meats are not bad here. But be prepared for a line.

 

CAFFEINE

On campus

• Taste Baguette

• Grassroots

 

Rundle St

• Felici Espresso

• Taste Baguette

• Cibo - A popular Italian café chain. You’ll be seeing them all around Adelaide. Hazelnut cappuccino is recommended, though a more expensive coffee option than other nearby cafés

 

East End

• Sad cafe

• Bambi's Kitchen - Good coffee, nice juices and lunch is usually served with a lot of salad. Great for vegos.

• Exchange Specialty Coffee - Great coffee, great food and really friendly baristas

• Hey Jupiter* - Good if you like your coffee a bit bitter; pork belly sandwiches are delicious!

• Penny University* - nice coffee (Our Community Aid Exec would like to add: Bonus - the owner is pretty cute)

  * May spot the surgeons from the OMFSU at these two places in the mornings after their ward rounds.

 

Rundle Mall

• Bar 9 - In the Adelaide Central Plaza/David Jones food court downstairs, they also have their main café in Parkside [south of Adelaide CBD], which is quite well renowned. Try their Truffled Mushroom Ragu with poached eggs on toast (so creamy~)

• Fair Espresso - On James Place off Rundle Mall, a little pricey but well known for good, Fairtrade coffee and a range of milk options available including almond, coconut, soy and organic cow’s milk, a cute small café to sit in if you’ve got time.

• Oxfam store café - on Charles St, the side street with a side entrance to David Jones, reasonably priced Fairtrade coffee at around $3.50

• Please Say Please - on Grenfell St, just walk to the other the end of the Rundle Place shopping centre, also have interesting macaron flavours that vary regularly. Literally a hole in the wall with really good coffee and enough space to seat maybe 8 people. Take-away is recommended.

• Colin and Co - near the Grenfell St end of Rundle Place

• Taste Baguette - again, in Rundle Place

• Cibo - next to the Reject Shop and ANZ bank.

• Larry and Ladd - In the Regent Arcade, a cool cafe which stocks a neat selection of magazines and journals

 

Other CBD coffee shops

• Coffee Branch, Leigh St - They know their coffee and they make it well. Often have to wait in a queue but service is fairly quick. They also sell nice, fresh pastries.

• Flinders St Project - Great coffee, pastries and food but is a bit of a walk from uni

 

It's Caries Time!

CBD

• Steven Ter Horst, Rundle St - or decadent desserts and drinks to enjoy at the café, or pick up some handmade gourmet chocolates

• Koko Black, Rundle Mall - chocolate café, also have some light meals and gourmet individual chocolates

• Haigh’s, Rundle Mall - not a café, but you can buy individual chocolates or choc chip cookies from here and they offer you a sample to try with your purchase Very popular in SA, and a good gift idea*

 

* Haigh’s chocolate factory in Parkside (just south of Adelaide CBD) runs free 30-minute tours (ring up to book a few days in advance). They sell a wide range of their products there and offer you samples to try, as well as tea or coffee. Good for small groups of chocolate lovers.

 

• Le Carpe Diem, Grenfell St - French café that offer sweet and savoury crepes and nice pastries. Nicely decorated and has a nice vibe for small group catch-ups

• MeetFresh, Hindley St - Asian desserts, including their signature herbal jelly dessert

• Dessertstory, Chinatown - more Asian desserts, which are quite affordable especially if you get a few to share in a group

• St Louis House of Fine Ice Cream and Dessert, Chinatown - As the name suggests, for fancy desserts, chocolate cocktails/mocktails, and ice cream

• The Original Pancake Kitchen, off Hindley St - One of the few 24-hour eateries in Adelaide, good for late nights, sweet and savoury options available

• Astonish Patisserie, King William St - near South Tce

 

North Adelaide and Suburbs

• Chocolate Taperia, Melbourne St, North Adelaide - creatively presented desserts, good for small groups

• Elephant Walk, Melbourne St, North Adelaide - quite a cosy, intimate setting, open late nights

• Matcha House, O’Connell St, North Adelaide - for all things green tea and matcha-related

• Eggless, Goodwood - really popular, unique menu that changes monthly, overly friendly boss, bookings recommended for groups of 6+, opens late

• The Aviary, Norwood

• Creperie Bruxelles, western suburbs of Adelaide - not very far from CBD

 

Specialised Vegetarian Cuisine

• Thea Tea Garden - Located on Gawler place. Completely vegetarian, cheap and delicious!

• Bambi's Kitchen - On East Tce. Good coffee, nice juices and lunch is usually served with a lot of salad. Great for vegos.

• Zen’s Kitchen - Bent St

• Vego n Lovin’ It - Rundle St

 

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