Rundle Street

Rundle Street is Adelaide's cosmopolitan centre and a part of the historic East End.

It's full of cafes, restaurants and boutique fashion stores that have replaced the former wholesale markets selling fruit and vegetables. As well as the 50 eating outlets, it also has 10 hotels, a number of offices, 140 shops and 11 cinema screens.

The East End is also pleasantly situated amongst a number of Adelaide's attractions, including the Botanical Gardens, Rymill Park, Rundle Mall,
and the many highlights along North Terrace.

 

 

Rundle Street Market

Open Sunday 9am - 4pm on Rundle Street.

It’s a day full of discoveries! Lose yourself in the hand-made shoes, custom jewellery, bags and fun fashion, set in Adelaide’s trendiest café and shopping precinct.

The street market concept, that is so successful in The Rocks in Sydney and Salamanca in Hobart, is working beautifully in Rundle Street.

There are over 70 stalls offering a range of high quality products including fashion and accessories, will operate every Sunday from 9am - 4pm in Rundle Street between East Terrace and Frome Road.

A Walk Down Rundle Street... 

As the cliché says, Rundle Street is the “place to see and be seen”. It is the hip strip for the young set – particularly on Friday and Saturday nights and lazy Sunday afternoons. Shiny cars, which the owners have spent a day polishing, cruise up and down the street, while stylishly dressed shoppers
max their credit cards at every second store.

The attractive strip is part of the historic East End – though, these days, largely cafes, restaurants, boutiques and hair salons have replaced the former wholesale markets selling fruit and vegetables. The street now brims with 50 eating outlets, 10 hotels, a number of offices, 11 cinema screens and 140 shops.

 Women shoppers can head to a high-end shoe store, where designer heels sell for $1000 a pop, or drop into a quirky boutique, where tongue-in-cheek artworks grace the windows and the loved-up owners live upstairs. The side streets just off Rundle Street, such as Ebenezer Place and Union Street, are also becoming treasure troves for the wares of up-and-coming local designers.

Alternatively, let your tastebuds go wild anywhere along the strip, serving up a melting pot of cuisines, from Argentinean to Italian, Indian, Thai and Lebanese. Al fresco dining is de rigueur here, thanks to the original Al Fresco Gelataria.

 

After dark, head to one of the strip’s groovy bars, where the owners are often just as famous as the bars themselves – Elle Macpherson’s trainer is part-owner of a hip, non-smoking joint, where even the cocktails have a healthy kick, and a flamboyantly-dressed local painter and DJ runs a chic bar/pool lounge above a popular Italian cafe.

 

Rundle Street – adjoining the southern end of Rundle Mall – is also just a
hop, skip and a jump from such attractions as the Botanic Gardens and Rymill Park. It is also the place to be when the Fringe Festival is in town, playing host
to its opening parade and many of the gigs.