With 250 stalls under one roof it stretches across a city block from Grote to Gouger Street. Easily the best in Australia, it sells predominately food - fruits and vegetables, fresh and smoked fish and meats, gourmet specialties and exotic game, cheeses and bakery products. But hunt around and you will find a shop selling anything - secondhand books, crafts, jewellery, clothes, etc. The market days are Tuesday and Thursday 7am to 5.30pm, Friday 7am to 9pm and Saturday 7am to 3pm. First impressions are its popularity and high quality stalls with excellent presentation of goods.
Shops range in size from one to a dozen employees.
Most are family businesses run by Aussies of European and Asian backgrounds, so shoppers experience a chatter in foreign languages - Italian, Greek, Chinese and Vietnamese etc. It's a great place for breakfast and lunch - restaurants offer exotic dishes and shoppers crowd the coffee bars. Master of the Market is Graeme Andrews and his Food and Wine Tours . If you want to get away from the bustle of the city and sit on a tussock to contemplate Nature, then a hike in the Adelaide Hills is for you. The outer southern suburbs of Blackwood and Belair are actually on top of the hills at 300 metres altitude.