For cafes from The Parade to Jetty Road, Hills cafes in Stirling and Hahndorf, beach kiosks at Henley and Semaphore, and coffee vans working the city squares: a site that shows the menu as text, gets the hours right on Proclamation Day and Adelaide Cup Day, and opens the ordering app you already use. Built by our team on Hutt St, with nothing to pay until you've approved the draft.
The basics every cafe site covers, such as hours near the top, a menu typed as text and an Order ahead button, are on our main cafes page. In Adelaide a few more questions come up: which public holidays you close for, whether there are stars on the wall, which tram stop is free, where the van is parked this week and whether you'll fill a customer's own cup. These are the parts we'd plan for.
South Australia's calendar has entries the eastern capitals don't share. Adelaide Cup Day falls on Monday 8 March in 2027, 26 December is Proclamation Day rather than Boxing Day, and Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve count as public holidays only from 7 pm to midnight. In 2026 Proclamation Day falls on Saturday 26 December, with an extra public holiday on Monday 28 December. If you add a surcharge on holidays, the site lists those dates and carries the surcharge wording set out in the ACCC's price display guidance (opens in a new tab).
SA Health's Food Safety Rating Scheme turns a routine council inspection into three stars (good), four (very good) or five (excellent), and each business decides whether to display its certificate. Only councils that opt in give ratings, and several around Adelaide haven't. If yours has and you'd like the stars online, we show them beside the month of the inspection and replace them after the next one, so the page never says more than the certificate does.
Inside the city, tram travel is free between the South Terrace, Entertainment Centre, Festival Plaza and Botanic Gardens stops, and the free City Connector buses loop the CBD on weekdays (99A and 99C) and the CBD with North Adelaide every day (98A and 98C). A cafe off Gouger Street or down a Peel Street laneway can name its nearest free stop and the walk in minutes. Further out, say which tram stop, bus route or car park works, and whether the parking is timed.
A coffee van in the City of Adelaide needs a permit for each vehicle, keeps 25 metres from any fixed food business that's open unless the owner agrees in writing, and takes one of no more than six vendor places in the city squares, which council allocates at its discretion. Council can't reserve a spot for you, so the site gets a weekly schedule: the street or square, the hours, and any events you've booked through their organisers, listed separately.
Say how many seats are outside, whether they're covered or heated, and that the area is smoke-free, which South Australian law requires of outdoor dining areas whenever food is offered or available, e-cigarettes included. Tables on a council footpath come with a permit and its conditions, so the photos on the site should show the layout that permit allows.
Since September 2024, single-use plastic coffee cups, lids and food containers have been banned in SA, with an exemption for cups and lids certified compostable to Australian standards; since 1 March 2026 that exemption has covered only certified products that are clearly marked. Customers' own cups are also easier to accept than they once were. If you give a discount for a keep cup or run a cup swap, put it on the menu page beside the coffee prices, so regulars know before they leave home.
The Santos Tour Down Under runs from 16 to 24 January 2027, with stage starts at Henley Beach, Glenelg and Norwood and a final lap through Stirling. Adelaide Fringe follows from 19 February to 21 March, then Tasting Australia from 30 April to 9 May. If one changes your hours, brings a special menu or puts a show in your back room, a short notice goes on the home page for those days and comes off once it's over.
Before a South Australian cafe starts trading it notifies the authority that will inspect it under the Food Act 2001, which for most of Adelaide is the local council. In five council areas, Burnside, Campbelltown, Norwood Payneham & St Peters, Prospect and Walkerville, the inspections belong to the Eastern Health Authority (opens in a new tab) instead. EHA's page for food businesses (opens in a new tab) asks for the notification form 14 days before you open and offers a free pre-opening inspection and a review of your design plans if you tell it in advance. Notification is a one-off, but EHA wants it again when the ownership, ABN, business name or address changes, which catches anyone buying an established cafe.
Star ratings come from SA Health's Food Safety Rating Scheme (opens in a new tab), introduced in April 2016. Councils choose whether to join, and inside a participating council the scheme generally covers food service businesses that make and sell high-risk food, cafes included, each rated at its next routine inspection; a score under three stars earns no certificate, and the council works with the business instead. SA Health's list of 21 participating councils includes the City of Adelaide, Unley, Holdfast Bay, Charles Sturt, Port Adelaide Enfield, West Torrens, Mitcham, Marion, Onkaparinga, Salisbury, Tea Tree Gully, Playford, Adelaide Hills and Mount Barker. None of EHA's five councils is on it, so a cafe on The Parade, on Prospect Road in Prospect or at Burnside Village has no certificate to show, and SA Health says a missing certificate doesn't mean a business is unsafe. Its frequently asked questions (opens in a new tab) add that neither SA Health nor councils publish individual scores.
Footpath tables need a council permit, and the terms vary. The City of Adelaide (opens in a new tab) accepts applications from food and drink businesses with a ground-floor street frontage, wants a footpath at least 3.2 metres wide, rules out taxi and bus zones, keeps 1.8 metres clear of obstructions from the building line, allows only removable furniture and asks for development approval for semi-fixed umbrellas. Norwood Payneham & St Peters (opens in a new tab) renews permits every year, sets the fee by the number of seats, the location, how enclosed the area is and whether it's licensed, asks for a copy of your public liability insurance, and won't transfer a permit to a new owner; it also points out that serving alcohol outside needs a separate application to the state's liquor licensing office, either to extend an existing licensed area or to create one. In every council, SA Health's smoke-free rule (opens in a new tab) applies whenever food is offered or available.
Vans and carts trade under the Local Government Act 1999, which, as Adelaide Hills Council (opens in a new tab) puts it, bars using a public road for business purposes without a permit. That council has adopted four pre-approved roadside sites, and one permit covers all of them, subject to each site's rules. The City of Adelaide (opens in a new tab) sets no limit on the number of permits, charges by the space used each day, and lets vendors trade on streets and footpaths with enough room, while event trading is arranged with the event's organiser. It also asks for proof that you've notified the council where the food is mainly prepared. A van that works both the city and the Hills holds both permits, and its website should separate the regular spots from the one-offs.
The state's Single-use and Other Plastic Products (Waste Avoidance) Act 2020 has removed takeaway items in stages, according to Replace the Waste (opens in a new tab): straws, cutlery and stirrers in March 2021, polystyrene cups, bowls, plates and clamshells in March 2022, and single-use plastic cups, lids and food containers in September 2024. Its guideline for drink containers (opens in a new tab) exempts cups and lids certified to AS 4736 or AS 5810, and since 1 March 2026 the exemption has applied only to Australian-certified products clearly marked as compostable, apart from very small cups and lids. The same guideline explains that in July 2022 the Civil Liability Act 1936 was changed to remove liability from cafes that sell food or drink in a customer's own cup or container, though not where the seller was negligent or the food was under recall, and that refusing an unclean cup is considered reasonable. Western Australia has its own cup rules, which our Perth cafes page covers.
We haven't built a cafe website yet, so we won't pretend otherwise. These two South Australian clients have sites that do jobs a cafe site does: one page that sells a day out with photos, a map and gift voucher requests, and a larger site that gives each area its own page, which is how a group with cafes in more than one suburb would be laid out.
Full-day fishing charters from Cape Jervis, seven days a week. Everything sits on one page: a booking request form, gift voucher requests, a catch photo gallery, an FAQ, customer reviews, an embedded map and tap-to-call. Put plates and the counter where the catches are and gift card requests where the vouchers are, and it's close to a one-page cafe site.
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A licensed South Australian renovation builder working across Adelaide, the Hills and the Fleurieu. The site runs to 30 pages: seven service pages, seven service-area pages, five planning guides, a project gallery, an FAQ and a seven-step quote form. For a cafe group, those area pages become one page per venue, each with its own hours, map and photos.
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For a coffee van, a cart or a beach kiosk: hours, a short menu, this week's spots or the nearest stop, a map and tap-to-call, all on one page.
Our suggestion for most Adelaide cafes
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A home page with today's hours and directions, a menu page with prices and dietary markers, and a third page for catering, Fringe shows or the van's schedule.
$1,499
For a group with cafes in several suburbs, or a roaster that sells wholesale: a page per venue with its own hours and map, plus catering, wholesale and your story. Selling beans online is an online store, priced at $799 or $1,999.
Because of where you trade, not how you run the kitchen. Food inspections in Norwood Payneham & St Peters are done by the Eastern Health Authority, which also covers Burnside, Campbelltown, Prospect and Walkerville, and none of those five councils is on SA Health's current list of councils in the Food Safety Rating Scheme. SA Health's own consumer page says a business without a certificate isn't necessarily unsafe. Your website can simply leave ratings out.
Yes, if you'd like it there. Displaying the certificate is your choice, and since SA Health and councils don't publish individual scores, customers only see it where you put it. We show the stars with the month of the inspection. Routine inspections may come around once every 12 months, so when you get the next result, email it to us and we update the page; text and image changes are covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
In Norwood Payneham & St Peters an outdoor dining permit can't be transferred to a new owner, so you lodge a fresh application in your business name, and EHA asks for a new food business notification when the ownership, ABN or business name changes. For the website, we register a domain in your name (about $20 a year), set up email and build from your menu and your photos rather than the previous owner's. Until the new permit comes through, the site mentions only the seats you can use.
Give it a schedule page and email us the changes. In the City of Adelaide nobody can reserve a spot and you keep 25 metres from an open cafe unless it agrees in writing, so locations can shift from week to week; event bookings go through each organiser, and we list those under their own heading. Text changes are covered by the $30 monthly hosting, and we reply within 24 hours.
Only where it changes something for customers. On Sunday 24 January 2027 the final stage leaves The Parade at 10.40am for the men and 12.10pm for the women, climbs through the Hills via Woodside and Hahndorf, and finishes with a lap of Stirling, so cafes along that route may want a note about opening times that morning. Fringe venue registration is free, and cafes are among the venues it invites; if you host a show, give it a short page with times and a ticket link. Festival notices come down when the event ends.
Either. We're a web design team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide, working with businesses Australia-wide, and most of our projects run by phone and email, Adelaide ones included, because that fits around a 6am start. If you'd rather sit down before we begin, that can be arranged. There's no deposit: we build the draft, you ask for changes until it's right, and you pay once you approve it. Most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos.
Email your menu, your hours (including what you do on Proclamation Day), the nearest tram stop or car park and a few photos of the room. We'll reply with a quote, build a draft you can open on your phone, and you pay once you're happy with it.
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