As March comes to a close and we head further into autumn, it’s time to look back on the fantastic businesses Adelaide welcomed this month. From tea shops and East End cafes to recovery and wellness destinations and obstacle adventure parks, here are 12 great new spots to check out!
Addictea
Rapidly expanding tea brand Addictea has officially landed in Adelaide, and it’s far more than your average tea shop. With its own on-site brewing and production facility, the team is all about precision, consistency and serving up exceptionally fresh, flavour-packed drinks every time.
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Baan A-ma
Step inside Baan A-ma in Adelaide’s east and it feels like stepping into a Thai family home. The restaurant is the brainchild of Sarinee Chammas, her mother Sirirat Kitisatthathik, and sister-in-law Kanchana Kitisatthathik, and with help from Sarinee’s daughter, it’s a three-generation family venture built on the kind of cooking that starts at the table, not in a cookbook.
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Ditobi
For a city that embraces global flavours, the range of Filipino cuisine on offer is criminally stunted, especially when compared to Adelaide’s love affair with Italian, Indian and Asian fusion restaurants.
Bringing the authentic flavour of a cuisine as rich and beloved as Filipino food isn’t always easy to replicate. But Adelaide’s newest Filipino restaurant, Ditobi, believes it has done just that, and it already has the approval of Adelaide based Filipino’s to back it up.
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Ember
Channing and Ianik from Ember Specialty Coffee Lab didn’t imagine opening a cafe less than 12 months into their roasting business, but when a space in Adelaide’s bustling East End, Ebenezer Place, became available, it was too good to resist.
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Formosa Alley
Adelaide is set to welcome a slice of Taiwan’s everyday comfort food, straight from the alleys of Tainan City, the country’s oldest city. Formosa Alley is the new Findon eatery founded by Sandy Hsu, a Tainan-born foodie who has called Adelaide home for more than ten years.
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Haddad’s Shawarma
A new Lebanese street food joint has fired up on Findon Road, with Haddad’s Shawarma bringing a proudly authentic Lebanese eatery to Woodville South. The new local is the kind of place you come back to every few weeks when there’s a mutual household agreement that nobody is cooking. You’ll be returning for the food, sure, but also for the personality.
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Mixue Adelaide
Chinatown welcomed the world’s largest food chain, Mixue (pronounced mee-shoo), in March. As an already internationally popular ice cream and tea restaurant, they’re known for low prices and delicious menu options. In 2024, a study showed that Mixue has over 45,000 stores worldwide, whilst McDonald’s has a mere 42,000.
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Panini Brothers
If the smell of fresh bread drifting down the street is your idea of temptation, you’ll want to make tracks to Panini Brothers, the Italian bakery that’s just landed in Fulham Gardens and is already buzzing from open to close. Step inside and you’ll feel like you’ve ducked into a small Italian village cafe.
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Providore 1885
A new venue has officially opened inside the historic Fort Largs along the coast near Port Adelaide, bringing back the nostalgic charm of a corner deli, but with a modern, artisan twist.
Providore 1885 is made for the no-rush mornings, slow sunny afternoons, and carries the same spirit as the corner deli you’d visit as a kid with $5 in your back pocket from mum.
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Rebuild Recovery
Adelaide’s east has welcomed a premium recovery and wellness destination in March, bringing locals a new purpose-built space to recover and recharge.
Designed entirely around helping people perform at their best, in sport and in day-to-day life, Rebuild Recovery was born from the personal experiences of its three founders, Matthew Weistra, Jordan Tippins and Lachlan Jarvis, in sport and training. They set out to create a dedicated space where recovery is encouraged to be an essential part of an active lifestyle rather than just an afterthought.
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San Churro Norwood
Who isn’t a sucker for a sweet treat to end the day or get you through a hard afternoon? Norwood locals will be glad to know that San Churro have now opened up another sister store on The Parade, giving Adelaide’s east side sweet tooths a new place to gather.
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The Cupcake Lady
If you were lucky enough to score a cupcake from The Cupcake Lady’s previous pop-ups around the state, you’ll be pleased to know you no longer have to chase them across South Australia to get your hands on their much-loved desserts.
After incredible success with pop-ups in places such as Rundle Mall, Plant 4 Bowden and the Adelaide Central Market, the viral dessert brand has finally put down permanent roots. After six years of pop-ups that built a loyal following, their fans asked — and the team delivered — opening a permanent retail space of their own.
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The Reserve Social
A forgotten building in the heart of Light Square in the CBD is stepping back into the spotlight. The multi-level venue has reopened, and it shifts effortlessly between a daytime grab-and-go coffee spot to a late-night social hub.
After sitting empty for almost five years, the team behind ‘Boss of Clouds’ on O’Connell Street have revamped and reinvigorated this iconic spot that locals have been yearning for years. The Reserve Social at Light Square opened its doors in March, and it’s had an extremely successful opening.
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Tru Ninja
An action-packed obstacle adventure park has landed in the CBD this March, with Tru Ninja opening inside Rundle Place.
Taking over the space above Hijinx Hotel, Tru Ninja is bringing a high-energy, immersive ninja experience to the heart of the city, and according to owner Michael Hicks, there’s nothing else like it in Australia.
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