Eat & Drink
Wine, Dine, Celebrate
The best eat & drink in Fleurieu Peninsula
Everything edible on the Fleurieu - wineries, restaurants, cafés, breweries, distilleries, markets and makers.
The Fleurieu Peninsula is a genuine paddock-to-plate region, and eating your way around it is half the reason to visit. This is one of South Australia's most productive corners — vineyards and olive groves, market gardens and orchards, almond and citrus, cheese makers and small-batch producers all within an easy drive of one another.
It shows up everywhere. Spend a morning at the famous Saturday farmers market in Willunga, graze your way through farm gates and cellar-door kitchens around McLaren Vale, or pick up fresh fish, local cheese, olive oil and just-baked bread to take to the beach. The region's restaurants and cafés lean hard on what's grown nearby, and many of the best meals are had at winery and brewery tables looking out over the vines.
From long vineyard lunches and seaside fish and chips to country bakeries and good coffee in almost every town, there's something for every appetite and budget. If you're planning a trip around food, aim for a weekend so you can catch the markets, and book ahead for the popular winery restaurants — they fill quickly, especially in spring and over the summer holidays.
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Blewitt Springs Wine Co
An organic and biodynamic small-batch Grenache and Shiraz producer with Saturday winemaker-led tastings on the Blewitt Springs sand.
Boho Farm
A new boutique cellar door on a working hinterland farm at Mount Jagged, pouring Southern Fleurieu cool-climate wines next door to Alexandrina Cheese.
Bombora on the River
$$Seafood and river views on Barrage Road
An award-winning Goolwa cafe on the edge of the Murray River showcasing local produce - Coorong mullet, Goolwa cockles and Fleurieu wines - in a light-filled riverside dining room.
Bondar Wines
Small-batch shiraz and grenache on McMurtrie Road
A small family producer on McMurtrie Road best known for the Higher Springs Shiraz and site-expressive grenache, tasting from a shared cellar door with Lino Ramble and Sherrah.
Bracegirdle's House of Fine Chocolate
A licensed chocolatier and cafe in a heritage McLaren Vale cottage - hand-made chocolates, rich hot chocolate and a full all-day menu.
Brash Higgins
$$$Experimental amphora winemaking by appointment
Cult small-batch winery by former New York sommelier Brad Hickey, specialising in amphora-aged Nero d'Avola and minimal-intervention wines.
Brick Kiln Cellar Door
A small-batch Shiraz specialist housed in a restored barn cellar door on Main Road, McLaren Vale - 'The Barn' on McMurtrie Road precinct.
Cape Jervis Tavern
$$Last pub before Kangaroo Island
The only pub in Cape Jervis - counter meals, takeaway and seven simple motel units a short drive from the SeaLink ferry terminal.
Chalk Hill Wines
$$The Chalk Hill Collective on Field Street
Wilson family winery anchoring the Chalk Hill Collective on Field Street - a destination site shared with Never Never Distilling and Alpha Crucis Lounge.
Chapel Hill Wine
$$Certified organic in a historic chapel
Certified organic winery housed in a restored 1860s hilltop chapel, known for flagship Shiraz and Cabernet and expansive McLaren Vale views.
Cockles Cafe
$$All-day cafe on Port Elliot's North Terrace
Bright all-day cafe on Port Elliot's main street - good coffee, brunch standards and counter cabinet food from 7:30am.
Corio Hotel
Heritage hotel on the Goolwa wharf road
Historic stone hotel on Railway Terrace, Goolwa - one of the town's most recognisable 19th-century buildings, with a pub, restaurant and accommodation.
Coriole Vineyards
$$Italian varietals & estate lunch
Family-owned estate famous for pioneering Sangiovese in Australia, Fiano, Nebbiolo and a celebrated garden restaurant overlooking the McLaren Vale hills.
Cradle of Hills
A high-perched boutique producer above Sellicks
A small boutique winery on Rogers Road high above Sellicks Hill, with sweeping views across the Gulf St Vincent and a by-appointment cellar door.
Curtis Family Vineyards
A three-sibling Italian-heritage family winery established in 1973, with guided tasting flights and a generous purchase rebate.
d'Arenberg
$$Home of the Cube
Fifth-generation family winery famous for the Dead Arm Shiraz and the architecturally striking five-storey d'Arenberg Cube tasting room.
d'Arenberg Cube
Chester Osborn's five-storey glass cube rising out of the d'Arenberg vineyards - part wine tasting room, part fine-dining restaurant, part art gallery, part Salvador Dali museum.
d'Arry's Verandah Restaurant
$$$$Hatted fine dining at d'Arenberg
d'Arenberg's fine-dining restaurant on Osborn Road - seasonal Fleurieu produce, an epic wine list and sweeping views across the vineyards to the Cube.
Dandelion Vineyards
$$The Wonder Room on Chaffeys Road
Family winery by Elena and Zar Brooks with a new Wonder Room tasting experience on Chaffeys Road - family-friendly, design-forward, and open 7 days.
Delamere General Store
The community heart of tiny Delamere - a country store and cafe with provisions, takeaway, and the outdoor Delamere Art Wall next door.
Dennis of McLaren Vale
One of McLaren Vale's original family wineries, established in 1970, with a weekday cellar door on the corner of Kangarilla and Park Roads.
Dodgy Brothers Wines
Wes Pearson's cult small-batch Grenache and Mataro project, pouring at a shared cellar door on Foggo Road.
DogRidge Vineyards
$$Hidden-gem Blewitt Springs estate by Pedler Creek
A relaxed family-run cellar door tucked away in McLaren Flat, pouring estate-grown shiraz, grenache and whites with genuine hospitality.
Dowie Doole
$$Four shipping containers in the vines
Sustainable solar-powered cellar door housed in four recycled shipping containers amongst the vines on California Road.