Eating and staying in South Australia
4,379 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 653 towns and suburbs in South Australia.
South Australia accounts for 7% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 5th-largest of the 8 regions by venue count. Those 4,379 venues sit across 653 named towns and suburbs, of which 21 carry at least 25 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is relatively even: Adelaide (801), Mount Gambier (84) and Glenelg (68) hold 22% of everything between them. The remaining 632 places average 4.4 venues each — a long tail of small settlements that we list on the nearest town page rather than give an empty page to.
The regional split runs 75% eating to 35% accommodation, against a national 75/25. That is close to the national balance.
1,572 venues in South Australia carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on italian pizza (13), curry (5) and mediterranean (10).
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 758 venues here publish opening hours (17% against 17% nationally), 1,050 list a website, and 136 record step-free access. Everything on this site comes from open data, so coverage reflects what mappers and councils have published — not what exists on the ground.
The category split
| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 1,081 in South Australia · 25% of the region · 13% of New Zealand's 8,614 |
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| Restaurants | 1,029 in South Australia · 23% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 15,956 |
| Cafés | 882 in South Australia · 20% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 14,706 |
| Takeaways | 775 in South Australia · 18% of the region · 7% of New Zealand's 11,499 |
| Pubs | 486 in South Australia · 11% of the region · 10% of New Zealand's 4,719 |
| Motels | 149 in South Australia · 3% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 2,395 |
| Hotels | 143 in South Australia · 3% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 2,378 |
| Bars | 115 in South Australia · 3% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 1,831 |
| Serviced apartments | 82 in South Australia · 2% of the region · 7% of New Zealand's 1,132 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 68 in South Australia · 2% of the region · 7% of New Zealand's 969 |
| Hostels | 23 in South Australia · 1% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 441 |
Towns and suburbs in South Australia
A further 632 smaller places in South Australia carry fewer than 25 venues each. Rather than publish a page with nothing to say, we list their venues on the town pages nearest them.