Feature image: Magill Estate Restaurant
Who doesn’t want to feel like royalty while they enjoying meal with more courses than they have fingers? We do. Everyday if we could. But we can’t, because our wallets probably won’t allow it.
If your bank account is what’s stopping you from going down the road of degustations (other than on the odd special occasion), we’ve made you a nifty little guide to some of the best degustation offerings of all prices across the state.
Arranged the same way we filter our dream online shopping cart – prices high to low. Granted not all of them take into account the cost of wine, but do we ever budget for wine? The answer is no.
Restaurant Botanic
The crème de la crème of degustation menus can be found at Restaurant Botanic. Follow the garden trail and indulge in the delights that are being currently harvested. Starting at $315pp, their tasting menu presents over 26 different flavour combinations that come in all different shapes and sizes and have been perfectly curated for what’s in season.
In addition, there are four different beverage options each perfectly paired with the degustation. These range in price from $145pp to $650pp.
Restaurant Botanic
Where: Plane Tree Dr, Adelaide
Price: From $315pp
For more information, click here.
The Lane Vineyard
If you’ve ever wanted to disappear into a long lunch and emerge several hours later wondering where the afternoon went, this is your moment. The Lane’s Chef’s Table Experience is a seven-course, estate-to-plate affair hosted by the kitchen team, celebrating seasonal produce grown on the property or sourced from local producers who care just as much as the chefs do.
Each course lands with a perfectly matched Lane wine (or a clever non-alcoholic alternative, if that’s your pace), creating a relaxed but deeply considered food and wine journey. Intimate, unhurried and indulgent, it’s designed for small groups who like their lunches long and their flavours dialled right up.
The Lane Vineyard
Where: 5 Ravenswood Lane, Hahndorf
Price: $295pp
For more information, click here.
Magill Estate Restaurant
Situated on Penfold Road, the Magill Estate Restaurant delivers exemplary, contemporary food, alongside an extensive collection of Penfolds wines and stunning views of the Adelaide Hills.
The Magill Estate Restaurant offers an everchanging seasonal tasting menu from $295 per person, with optional icon or sommelier wine pairings.
Magill Estate Restaurant
Where: 78 Penfold Rd, Adelaide SA 5072
Price: $295pp, Optional Icon Wine Pairing $350pp or Sommeliers Wine Pairing $210pp
For more information, click here.
Hardy’s Verandah Restaurant
Mount Lofty House’s Hardy’s Verandah Restaurant serves a seasonally changing degustation menu, following the ‘Valley to Verandah’ concept. Guests are guided through the evening by an attentive host, while expert sommeliers help navigate one of the country’s most impressive wine collections. HVR is a 3 Hat restaurant, making it one of the most renowned in the country. Through celebration of traditional luxury HVR promises an unforgettable epicurean journey.
Hardy’s Verandah Restaurant
Where: Mount Lofty House, 1 Mawson Drive, Crafers 5152
Price: $275pp.
For more information, click here.
St Hugo
This is the kind of experience that makes you feel like you’re really tasting, seeing, and feeling everything that went into it. St Hugo’s Garden to Table is equal parts foraging adventure and front-row dining, kicking off with Champagne before you wander through the kitchen garden alongside the chef, tasting and sniffing your way through whatever’s in season.
From there, it’s onto the best seat in the house, the open kitchen, where a multi-course seasonal menu unfolds in full view, paired with premium St Hugo wines and plenty of insight from the people behind them. Intimate, hands-on and deeply Barossa, it’s a three-hour deep dive into how garden, kitchen and cellar all talk to each other.
St Hugo
Where: 2141 Barossa Valley Way, Rowland Flat
Price: $275pp
For more information, click here.
Hentley Farm
Watch alongside the vibrant kitchen as Hentley Farm’s exquiste team prepare your luxury chef’s table experience, starting at $260pp. Guests are invited to interact with the chefs as they prepare additional dishes and treats for this exclusive space.
This experience is available for groups of six to eight guests and includes a tailored beverage pairing of Hentley Farm Luxury and Cellar Release wines.
Hentley Farm
Where: Corner of Gerald Roberts Road and Jenke Roads, Seppeltsfield 5355
Price: $260pp, Wine Pairing additional $155pp
For more information, click here.
LVN at Bird in Hand
LVN at Bird in Hand is designed for long pauses and unhurried indulgence, pairing spectacular Adelaide Hills views with a refined tasting menu of seven to ten dishes. The experience moves from elegant one-bite signatures to more substantial, carefully composed plates, encouraging guests to settle in and enjoy the journey.
Priced at $225 per person, the immersive dining experience can stretch up to 3.5 hours and is best suited to adults, with children under eight not accommodated. Optional wine pairings deepen the experience, with a standard pairing at $95 per person or a premium Tribute pairing at $145 per person, featuring rare back-vintage and museum releases. Group sizes are limited to a maximum of six, keeping the experience intimate and focused.
LVN at Bird in Hand
Where: 150 Pfeiffer Rd, Woodside SA 5244
Price: $225pp, Optional Standard wine pairing $95pp or Tribute wine pairing $145pp
For more information, click here.
Maxwell Restaurant
One of McLaren Vale’s best, Maxwell Restaurant has set the benchmark for regional fine dining, named South Australian Restaurant of the Year by Gourmet Traveller in 2024. The tasting menu champions seasonal local produce, modern technique and a strong sense of place, paired with wines drawn from the Maxwell estate.
Maxwell Restaurant
Where: 19 Olivers Rd, McLaren Vale
Price: Tasting menu $225pp, Wine pairing $85pp
For more information, click here.
Fugazzi
As one of Leigh Street’s most popular venues, Fugazzi Bar & Dining Room, is a New York inspired Italo-American bar, known for their lux interiors and star-studded guests. On offer is a 5-course Cena Tasting Menu, presenting the best Fugazzi has to offer. Plus, with a central CBD location, the degustation is the perfect excuse to experience the hustle and bustle of the city.
Fugazzi
Where: 27 Leigh Street, Adelaide, SA, 5000
Price: $135pp
For more information, click here.
Windy Point Restaurant
Positioned in the Adelaide foothills, Windy Point has all the tranquillity and beauty of the Australian bush, just 15 minutes south of the city, with ample car and tour bus parking. The unique opportunity for a ‘virtual’ tour of Adelaide from the comfort of your dining chair is irresistible. A standout dish from the five-course tasting menu is the 12-hour Coonawarra lamb shoulder, with broad beans, saffron yoghurt and carrot.
Windy Point Restaurant
Where: 339 Belair Road, Belair SA 5052
When: Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 5:30pm
Price: $135pp
For more information, click here.
Aurora
Supported by the pillars of sustainability, local produce and social responsibility, the team at Aurora aim to create a memorable affair that nourishes and engages. Enjoy a 3 or 5-course degustation dining experience, with a selection of the kitchens favourite dishes, paired for flavour and balance with the option of additional beverage matching.
Aurora
Where: 63 Light Square, Adelaide 5000
Price: 5 course $130pp, 3 course $95pp.
For more information, click here.
Sofia
Sofia Bistro’s ‘Don’t Even Think About It’ offering is all about relaxed indulgence, the kind that starts with warm bread on the table and just keeps rolling. The $85pp set menu moves through a generous line-up of snacks before settling into shared mains, sides and dessert, striking that sweet spot between polished and comforting.
If you’re doing it properly, the optional $12 pasta course is a no-brainer. Add it on, settle in, and let the evening stretch, this is classic Hutt Street dining done right.
Sofia Bistro
Where: 16 Hutt St, Adelaide
Price: $85pp (optional pasta course +$12pp)
For more information, click here.
Golden Boy
Located in Adelaide’s East End, Golden Boys is a contemporary Thai restaurant, providing perfectly curated fresh flavours. Golden Boy’s ‘Tuk Tuk’ menu includes a range of dishes from the menu, carefully picked by your waiter. This includes dessert!
Golden Boy
Where: 309 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
Price: $84
For more information, click here.
Pastel Wine Bar
Pastel’s $76pp dinner offering leans into share-style plates and easygoing indulgence, designed for long conversations, good pours and plates that keep coming. All of it unfolds inside Pastel’s moody, warmly lit space on O’Connell Street, where timber panelling, exposed brick and a marble bar set the tone. Add DJ-backed evenings and a leafy courtyard out back, and it’s equally suited to date nights, group dinners or midweek hangs that accidentally turn into late ones.
Pastel Wine Bar
Where: 47 O’Connell St, North Adelaide SA 5006
Price: $76pp
For more information, click here.
There’s heaps of other degustatingly-good menus across the state, this is just the tip of the iceberg…
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