Eat & Drink
Wine, Dine, Celebrate
The best eat & drink in Fleurieu Peninsula
Everything edible on the Fleurieu - wineries, restaurants, cafés, breweries, distilleries, markets and makers.
The Fleurieu Peninsula is a genuine paddock-to-plate region, and eating your way around it is half the reason to visit. This is one of South Australia's most productive corners — vineyards and olive groves, market gardens and orchards, almond and citrus, cheese makers and small-batch producers all within an easy drive of one another.
It shows up everywhere. Spend a morning at the famous Saturday farmers market in Willunga, graze your way through farm gates and cellar-door kitchens around McLaren Vale, or pick up fresh fish, local cheese, olive oil and just-baked bread to take to the beach. The region's restaurants and cafés lean hard on what's grown nearby, and many of the best meals are had at winery and brewery tables looking out over the vines.
From long vineyard lunches and seaside fish and chips to country bakeries and good coffee in almost every town, there's something for every appetite and budget. If you're planning a trip around food, aim for a weekend so you can catch the markets, and book ahead for the popular winery restaurants — they fill quickly, especially in spring and over the summer holidays.
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Varney Wines
$$Heritage 1870s barn overlooking Onkaparinga Gorge
Alan Varney's cellar door sits in a restored 1870s limestone barn on the edge of the Onkaparinga Gorge at Old Noarlunga.
Victor Harbor Farmers Market
Saturday morning produce market in Grosvenor Gardens
Every Saturday morning, over 30 local producers set up in Grosvenor Gardens in central Victor Harbor with fresh produce, seafood, meat, baked goods and Fleurieu wine.
Whalers Seaside Dining
$$$Restaurant at the foot of The Bluff
Long-established restaurant at Franklin Parade, Encounter Bay - dining with panoramic views across Encounter Bay and the base of The Bluff.
Willunga 100 Wines
$$$The Grenache Room at Blind Spot Vineyard
Willunga 100's Grenache Room is a grenache-focused tasting space inside a restored 1920s cottage in the Blind Spot Vineyard at Blewitt Springs.
Willunga Farmers Market
$Every Saturday morning, rain or shine
One of Australia's most celebrated farmers markets, running every Saturday morning in the grounds of Willunga High School.
Wirra Wirra Vineyards
$$Heritage ironstone cellars
Heritage winery established in 1894, famous for The Angelus Cabernet and the award-winning Harry's Deli bistro in the ironstone cellar.
Woodstock Wine Estate
$$Family-friendly Douglas Gully winery
Family-owned winery with the Stocks Tasting Room, Coterie Restaurant, native wildlife park and extensive gardens on Douglas Gully Road.
Yangarra Estate Vineyard
$$$Biodynamic Grenache pioneers
Certified biodynamic and organic estate in the sandy-soil Blewitt Springs sub-region, making Australia's most celebrated old-vine Grenache.
Yankalilla
One of colonial SA's five major towns
Historic agricultural town on the western Fleurieu, once one of the five major towns of colonial South Australia and still the service centre for the surrounding farming district.
Yankalilla Bakery
$Award-winning country bakery
A legendary country bakery on the Main South Road at Yankalilla - celebrated for its vanilla slice, pies and pasties on the drive to Cape Jervis.
Yilki Store
$Beachfront cafe and store on Franklin Parade
A beloved Encounter Bay beachfront cafe, grocery and takeaway - open from 6am for breakfast, coffee, burgers and famous fish and chips.
Zonte's Footstep
$$Cellar Door & Kitchen on the Main Road
Family winery with a casual cellar door and kitchen on Main Road, McLaren Flat, known for Chocolate Factory Shiraz and a fun, family-friendly vibe.