9 Local Food in Adelaide

Breakfast, lunch and dinner, yeah, but in Adelaide – the South Australian metropolis that doesn’t get too much sleep, remember – there’s a fourth and very well-loved meal of the day: the midnight snack. To our mind there are two dishes that serve as midnight food icons and both, of course, are damn good. Pie floater is the first, essentially a nice thick pea soup with a traditional Australian meat pie plonked in the middle and then topped with tomato sauce and, if you’re particularly peckish, a dollop of mash. Thought to be a midnight favourite of Adelaideans since around the 1860s, the best pie floater can be found in restaurants around Adelaide’s famous Hindley Street. Up next is AB – Adelaide restaurants still argue over what that stands for but we like ‘Absolutely Beautiful’ – born from a couple of drunk students being unable to decide between yiros and chips and so deciding instead to pile them on top of each other and douse the resulting pile in garlic, tomato and barbeque sauces. You’ll find this late-nighter in a couple of very famous Adelaide restaurants along O’Connell Street and it’s damn, damn satisfying.