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Nightlife in Adelaide

7 clubs, live music venues and late-night spots in Adelaide.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first.

Nightlife in Adelaide

  1. DrinkCity and North Adelaide

    First Lounge Bar & Restaurant

    The only nightspot on Rundle Mall. First started life as a chilled out cocktail bar, but rapidly became popular as an after-work spot on Fridays, and could now also be filed under "clubs". On weekends they are packed out and play commercial house, but on weeknights it reverts to the original cocktail bar atmosphere.

  2. DrinkCity and North Adelaide

    Jive

    300-person capacity mainly live venue that hosts local and interstate rock/alternative/indie acts. Also home to indie/alternative dance club Gosh! on Saturdays after the bands.

    Open every weekend and sometimes during the week

  3. DrinkCity and North Adelaide

    The Stag

    More up market establishment, with good views of the parklands from the al fresco seating, good range of drinks and weekly live music. The second floor balcony literally overlooked the old Formula 1 street circuit and was always crammed with race fans. With the shortened Clipsal 500 course this is no longer possible, but still a good place to go after the days races.

  4. DrinkCity and North Adelaide

    The Union Hotel

    Good value meals every night including cheap pizza night every Monday. On Friday nights the crazy is dialed up with Generation Pop, a mix of pop music from retro to modern and very popular with the after work crowd (7:30PM-1AM). Saturdays is Get Back, Adelaide's only weekly retro dance club playing music from the 1950s-80s (8PM-1AM). Entry is free to both nights. Crowd is a healthy mix of ages, even after dark.

    Open most days 11AM-1AM

  5. DrinkSouth and East

    The Unley

    formerly Boho

    Burlesque themed bar, with live music and burlesque and period performances, a 5-minute drive, bus or Tram ride South of the CBD. Half-price cocktails Wednesday and Sunday 6-9PM.

  6. DrinkCity and North Adelaide

    Worldsend

    Serves food all day. This lively pub features a beer garden and a solid restaurant. The crowd is generally early to mid 20s, many from the nearby Hindley Street campus of the University of South Australia. While it definitely has a strong pub feel, the music is more like a bar, with live jazz and funk, house and drum'n'bass (rather than rock) the order of the day.

    Mon-Fri 11AM-late, Sat 4PM-late, Sun closed

  7. DrinkCity and North Adelaide

    Fumo Blu

    Below ground cocktail lounge in the heart of Rundle St.

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Adelaide (CC BY-SA 4.0).