For restaurants on Gouger Street and around Chinatown, along Rundle Street East and O'Connell Street, on The Parade at Norwood, King William Road at Hyde Park and Jetty Road at Glenelg: a site that books the table, keeps each menu current, gives a function planner what they need, and describes drinks, footpath tables and specials in the terms your South Australian licence allows. We're based on Hutt Street, so this is home ground.
Someone picking between Gouger Street and Chinatown before a Fringe show wants tonight's menu, a price guide and a free table at six. An office manager booking the end-of-year lunch wants the private room, the set menu and the deposit terms. In South Australia, the licence behind your drinks list shapes more of that website than most owners expect: the licence category, what counts as a function, what can be poured on the footpath and which drinks offers are off limits.
A restaurant and catering licence carries the condition that supplying meals is the primary service at all times, and the Act defines a meal as a genuine meal eaten while seated at a table. CBS's guidance describes a grill that stops taking meal orders at 10pm, then trades on cocktails and music until 3am, and says that breaches the licence. So your hours table shows the kitchen open until close, and late drinks are offered only if you hold a licence that allows them, such as a small venue licence in the CBD.
Under the Act, a function is a gathering for which the premises, or part of them, has been booked in advance, and the licensee must have at least 24 hours' notice. At a function where food is provided, guests can be served standing, so a canapé party for a 50th is fine. A ticketed cocktail night you organise and promote to anyone who turns up is not a function, and CBS uses exactly that example, advertised on Facebook. Your functions page invites groups to book, and off-site catering appears only if your licence carries that condition.
The Commissioner's General Code of Practice is a condition of every licence. It rules out promotions that tend to encourage rapid or excessive drinking or encourage minors to drink, and it bans gender-based promotions involving free or discounted liquor, so a free-cocktail ladies' night can't go on your specials page or your Instagram. The code also requires free cool water and at least one non-alcoholic drink priced no higher than your cheapest alcoholic one. A drinks list online that prices the house soda or zero-alcohol option shows you meet it.
Pouring drinks on the footpath needs an extension of trading area from CBS, and CBS asks for a copy of the council permit, issued in the applicant's name. In the city, the City of Adelaide takes outdoor dining applications from food and drink businesses on the ground floor with street frontage, needs a footpath at least 3.2m wide and allows only removable furniture. Outdoor dining areas in South Australia have been smoke-free since 1 July 2016 whenever food is offered there, and the council reminds traders that this covers e-cigarettes, shisha and hookah. Describe the outside tables you hold a permit for, whether drinks go out there, and that they're smoke-free.
SA Health's Food Safety Rating Scheme turns a routine council inspection into a certificate: three stars for good, four for very good, five for excellent. Councils choose whether to join, and SA Health lists the 21 that have, among them Adelaide City, Unley, Holdfast Bay, Charles Sturt, Port Adelaide Enfield, West Torrens and Marion. Norwood Payneham & St Peters isn't one of them, so a restaurant on The Parade won't have a certificate, and SA Health says a missing one doesn't mean a business is unsafe. If you hold one, a short line near your hours gives the current rating, and you send us the new certificate after each inspection.
South Australia keeps part-day public holidays from 7pm to midnight on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, a Proclamation Day holiday on 26 December and Adelaide Cup Day in March, which falls on Monday 8 March in 2027. In 2026, 26 December is a Saturday, so Monday 28 December is a public holiday too. If you add a weekend or public holiday surcharge, the ACCC says the menu must carry the words 'A surcharge of [percentage] applies on [day or days]', as prominent as the most prominent price, so the same line belongs on the online menu. Card surcharges on Visa, Mastercard, American Express and eftpos payments have been banned since 1 October 2026, so a 'card surcharge applies' note left on an old menu PDF should come down.
Liquor licensing in South Australia sits with Consumer and Business Services (CBS) under the Liquor Licensing Act 1997. Here is the part of it that reaches a website. The restaurant and catering licence (opens in a new tab) lets you sell liquor to people dining on a meal you provide, to guests at a function where food is provided, to anyone seated at a table and to people doing a cooking course you run, and CBS says names including the word 'bar' are generally not permitted under it. CBS's guidance on that licence (opens in a new tab) works through five examples, from serving a diner who has finished eating to catering away from the premises. On the list of licence types (opens in a new tab), a small venue licence covers selling liquor in a small venue in the Adelaide CBD without having to provide food, while takeaway and direct sales by phone or online are what the packaged liquor sales licence is for. An unlicensed restaurant can't simply let diners bring their own, either: the Law Handbook (opens in a new tab) notes that drinking on unlicensed regulated premises, such as a restaurant or café, is an offence under section 129. CBS puts an application that draws no submissions from the public and no police intervention at about six to eight weeks. Questions about your licence, BYO included, go to CBS on 131 882 (option 5); our part is a site that claims no more than the licence allows.
People search Adelaide by street. In the City of Adelaide that means Gouger Street (opens in a new tab), where the Central Market's southern entrance and the archway into Chinatown on Moonta Street sit among Italian, Argentinian, Malaysian and Vietnamese restaurants; Rundle Street East, the stretch from Pulteney Street to East Terrace; O'Connell Street in North Adelaide; and Hutt Street, where our studio is. Beyond the Park Lands, the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters counts more than 250 shops, cafés and restaurants on The Parade (opens in a new tab), the City of Unley presents King William Road in Hyde Park as a premium destination for dining and shopping, and Jetty Road in Glenelg falls under Holdfast Bay. Each council issues its own outdoor dining permits and decides whether to join the star rating scheme, which is why that question has different answers a few kilometres apart. In Norwood Payneham & St Peters and four other eastern council areas, food inspections are carried out by the Eastern Health Authority (opens in a new tab) rather than the council. Your page title, the opening line of the home page and your Google Business Profile should name the street and suburb diners type in.
Gouger Street has a long job ahead of it. The City of Adelaide's Gouger Street revitalisation (opens in a new tab), covering King William Street to Morphett Street, has early works and service investigations from October to December 2026, then construction from January 2027 to mid 2028. For the investigation works, the council says Gouger Street businesses will remain open with safe pedestrian access, though traffic, parking, loading and pedestrian access may change around work areas, and it plans to talk with businesses about access before construction. For a restaurant on the strip, that calls for a short, dated note near the top of the home page saying you're open, how to reach the door and where to park or drop off, revised as each stage moves along the street.
The city's calendar sets the hours on a lot of Adelaide booking pages. The bp Adelaide Grand Final, the Supercars finale, runs from 26 to 29 November 2026 on the street circuit in the East Park Lands (opens in a new tab), which uses Wakefield Road, East Terrace and Bartels Road. Adelaide Fringe (opens in a new tab) runs from 19 February to 21 March 2027, WOMADelaide fills Botanic Park from 5 to 8 March, and AFL Gather Round (opens in a new tab) comes back from 8 to 11 April with games at Adelaide Oval, Barossa Park and Norwood Oval, on the corner of The Parade and Woods Street. Tasting Australia (opens in a new tab) follows from 30 April to 9 May 2027 across Adelaide and regional SA. Pre-show sittings, match-day set menus and special dinners go on the home page for those weeks, with the same times entered as special hours in your Google Business Profile.
We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St. Most of our projects, Adelaide ones included, run by phone and email, which suits owners who can only talk between lunch and dinner service; if you'd rather sit down before we start, a meeting can be arranged. We haven't built a restaurant site yet. You send the menus, photos of the room, your booking link and your licence category, we send a draft to check on your phone, and you pay once you approve it.
Neither of these is a restaurant. Both are South Australian, and each does a job a restaurant site does: one takes booking and gift voucher requests on a single page, the other explains a licensing subject in plain English and takes a long application in stages.
A charter business working out of Cape Jervis, seven days a week. Its single page asks for a date and group size through a booking request form, takes gift voucher requests, and answers the usual questions in an FAQ before anyone rings. On a restaurant site the same form asks for the date, the time and how many at the table, and the voucher request earns its place at Christmas.
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The not-for-profit that holds South Australia's only Special Club Licence, passing gaming machine revenue back to community clubs and groups. One of its seven pages sets out how gaming machine entitlements work, and grant applications come in through a form split into four parts. A restaurant borrows both ideas: a plain-words page on your licence category, corkage and drinks policy, and a functions enquiry taken one step at a time.
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One page with the menu as text, opening and kitchen hours, a Book a table button, your corkage terms if your licence allows BYO, and directions with parking. Enough for a neighbourhood restaurant with one menu and no functions.
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A home page with booking, holiday hours and any roadworks note, a menus page with the drinks list and a priced non-alcoholic option, and a functions page whose enquiry form asks for the date, numbers and seated or standing.
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Room for private dining, off-site catering if your licence carries that condition, gift vouchers, a Fringe or Gather Round page, your star rating and reviews, your story, or a second venue on another street.
Check your licence with CBS first. The SA.GOV.AU summary of the restaurant and catering licence covers diners, function guests, people seated at a table and cooking class students, while takeaway and direct sales are listed under the packaged liquor sales licence. The pandemic arrangement that let restaurants send limited alcohol out with takeaway meals ended at 11.59pm on 30 June 2022. If you do hold a licence for sales by phone or online, the licence number must appear on your promotional material, websites included, and you need the buyer's date of birth at the time of purchase unless they've given it before. We can link your ordering platform or build ordering and payment into the site, quoted for the job.
A ladies' night with free or cheaper drinks, no. The General Code of Practice (opens in a new tab) bans gender-based promotions involving free or discounted liquor, including free or discounted entry. A happy hour isn't ruled out by name, but the code prohibits any promotion that tends to encourage rapid or excessive drinking, and between 12.01am and 7am no liquor can be supplied free. Shaping the offer is your call, made against the code; we publish the times and prices exactly as you give them.
Not without thinking about your licence. CBS says the name of a venue on a restaurant and catering licence mustn't mislead people about how it can trade, and that names including 'bar' are generally not permitted. It makes sense for the page title and tagline to describe the place the same way your licence does. A CBD venue that wants to pour without food can look at the small venue licence, and the general and hotel licence covers drinks on the premises and takeaway. Once you know your category, we word the home page and menus to match.
A short note near the top of the home page: that you're open, how to reach your door from the footpath, and the nearest parking or drop-off point while work is under way outside. The City of Adelaide lists early works to December 2026 and construction from January 2027 to mid 2028, and says businesses stay open with safe pedestrian access during the investigation works. Email us when a stage moves and we'll change the note; text changes to existing pages are part of the $30 monthly hosting, and we reply within 24 hours.
Usually before the licence comes through. CBS puts an application with no objections at about six to eight weeks, while most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos; bigger sites (up to 8 pages) take 2–3 weeks. We can launch with the menu, the opening date and a booking or mailing-list form, keep the drinks list and any corkage terms ready in the draft, and publish them once the licence is granted.
Yes. We're at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide SA 5000, and a meeting can be arranged. Most projects, Adelaide ones included, run by phone and email: you send your menus, photos and licence details, we send a draft link, you ask for changes until it's right, and you pay once you approve it.
Tell us your street and suburb, send your menus, a few photos of the room and your booking link, and let us know which licence you trade under. We'll quote and build the draft, and you owe nothing until you approve it.
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