Fast Lunches in the Adelaide CBD

by Dan Cunningham and Holly Bodeker-Smith

Updated May 17th, 2021

From the many Asian restaurants that line Gouger Street to the salad bars and other takeaway joints endemic to Peel Street and surrounds, the CBD is packed with places to get a fast, cheap lunch. Here are our top picks.

Bai Long Store
Restaurant
This ambitious modern-Asian restaurant and store challenges its neighbours on the ailing Hutt Street strip.
Mandoo
Restaurant
All the dumplings.
Abbots and Kinney
Cafe
Inventive pastries to go.
Adelaide Pho
Restaurant
How quickly can you slurp?
Asian Gourmet
Cafe
Defeating hunger since 1985.
Chicken & Pig
Shop
Slow-roasted meats served fast.
Goodies & Grains
Shop
Vibrant juices and lots of grainy salads.
Jack Greens
Cafe
Where salad is the hero.
Let Them Eat
Cafe
Raising the bar for vegetarian food.
Little NNQ
Restaurant
The faster alternative to NNQ Woodville.
Lucia's Fine Foods
Shop
A Central Market legend.
Mamachau
Cafe
Go for the KFC Bao (fried chicken with Asian slaw and kimchi mayo).
Sit Lo
Restaurant
For banh mi, pho, noodle bowls and baos.
Thea Tea Shop
Restaurant
Get in early or you'll wait.
Two-bit Villains
Restaurant
Vegan and vegetarian burgers.

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Fast Lunches in the Adelaide CBD

Fast Lunches in the Adelaide CBD

Bai Long Store

Restaurant

Mandoo

Restaurant

Abbots and Kinney

Cafe

Adelaide Pho

Restaurant

Asian Gourmet

Cafe

Chicken & Pig

Shop

Goodies & Grains

Shop

Jack Greens

Cafe

Let Them Eat

Cafe

Little NNQ

Restaurant

Lucia's Fine Foods

Shop

Mamachau

Cafe

Sit Lo

Restaurant

Thea Tea Shop

Restaurant

Two-bit Villains

Restaurant

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