Eat & Drink
Wine, Dine, Celebrate
The best eat & drink in Willunga
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.
Browse eat & drink by area
16 places
3 Monkeys Fine Foods
An expansive Willunga providore on the High Street stocking local artisan goods for picnic hampers, with a courtyard cafe out the back.
Alma Hotel
$$Willunga's 1856 corner pub, still pouring
Built in 1856 on the corner of Hill and Aldinga Road, the Alma is the unpretentious locals' pub of historic Willunga - hearty meals, cold beer and a cheerful front verandah ideal for a post-market pint.
Fino Vino
A stylish small wine bar from the original Fino team serving Mediterranean share plates and natural wines in a Willunga sandstone shopfront.
Four Winds Chocolate
A small Willunga chocolatier and patisserie on the High Street, hand-painting eggs and turning out fresh weekly patisserie alongside a tight chocolate range.
Hither & Yon
$$Boutique Willunga cellar door
Small family winery by brothers Richard and Malcolm Leask, with a stripped-back cellar door in an 1850s stone cottage on Willunga's High Street.
Magpie Springs
$$Boutique wines and paintings on Willunga Hill
A boutique cellar door and working art gallery on the Willunga scarp, showcasing estate wines alongside paintings by Adelaide artist Avril Thomas in a garden setting with valley views.
Minko Wines & Providore
A Mount Compass cool-climate winery pouring its wines from a heritage cottage providore on Willunga's High Street, alongside local artisan produce.
Old Bush Inn
Willunga's oldest pub - a heritage 1839 bluestone hotel on the High Street serving hearty meals, with regular live music and a beer garden.
Ortus Wines
A mother-daughter-owned winery with a warehouse-style cellar door on Willunga's main road, paired with a contemporary art programme curated by Praxis Artspace.
Russell's Pizza
$$Woodfired pizza in a heritage yard
A Friday and Saturday night institution - Russell Jeavons' woodfired pizzas served under the stars in a walled garden behind a Willunga stone cottage.
Shifty Lizard Brewing Co
A tiny, much-loved craft brewery and taphouse on Willunga's High Street, brewing experimental small-batch beers a few barrels at a time.
The Farm Willunga
An organic farm cafe and providore set among biodynamic vineyards and olive groves above Willunga, with a paddock-to-plate menu that changes by the day.
Vigna Bottin Cellar Door & Osteria
A slice of Italy on Main Road, Willunga
A Calabrian family cellar door and osteria on the main road into Willunga, specialising in Italian varietals and traditional homestyle cooking.
Willunga Creek Wines
A family-run boutique cellar door on the Willunga foothills (also known as Black Duck), open weekends for tastings, platters and winter curries.
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.
Zimmermann Wine
An Austrian-Australian family winery in Willunga, with by-appointment tastings and a focus on European-style structured reds.