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About a week ago we posted a popular blog report on the Adelaide Central Market. With all those scents, sounds and fresh produce stalls offering beautiful food and flavours to its customers we had to make sure we tried one of their cafés. After walking around the market we decided that Zuma Caffe was going to be our lunchtime stop.

Zuma Caffe is at 56 Gouger Street Adelaide, and the store’s rear backs into the Adelaide Central Market. The shop has seating inside the market, along Gouger street and around ten small tables inside the café. Zuma Caffe is popular with the patrons that attend the markets and it is usually difficult to get a table. Some patience may be required.

Zuma Caffe interior — Zuma’s a small shop with a few tables inside, with photos on the walls

The inside of the shop is two colours, bright yellow above and blue below which gives the small shop a feeling of a brighter larger space. There are various photo frames on the wall and a nice art piece above the service counter to give it an urban flavour. The tables are small so some repositioning of drinks and food may be required to fit everything ordered.

Wall art above the service counter — Art above the service counter

Zuma Caffe has breakfast and lunch menus available. Breakfast is served Monday – Friday from 7am to 11:30am and Saturdays from 7am to 3pm. The breakfast menu has a good selection of food ranging from AUD$4.90 for a piece of toast to AUD$17.90 for a “Full On”. Their lunch options are a little more limited. The day we were there the Braised Pork Roll and the Chicken Schnitzel were unavailable. Although the selection is limited there was still enough dishes to choose from. Lunch meals range from AUD$12.90 to AUD$19.

Today we selected the Caesar Salad with Chicken, which contained Cos lettuce, crispy bacon, gluten free croutons, parmesan, anchovies and poached egg, topped with Zuma’s house made dressing. The Caesar salad was large and filling, with nice sized chunks of chicken. The dressing had a nice flavour and the egg was poached well. I had trouble locating the anchovies and the croutons were a bit hit and miss. Some were very hard, so hard that I was worried I’d break a tooth, whilst the others were nicely crunchy. I would have no trouble ordering the dish again, but next time without the croutons.

The other selection for the day was the mushroom, spinach and roast capsicum frittata with fetta on their specials board. The frittata came out with a lovely Greek salad which was quickly consumed. The frittata itself had good flavour and although reheated and a little spongy, it was still a nicely presented vegetarian meal.

Overall Zuma Caffe is a small, thriving eatery in the Adelaide Central Market with decent food. They make do with the space they have and the service is quick and efficient. The store is clean and the staff are friendly. The café is licensed so if you would like a glass of wine or beer with your meal then that’s also fine. It is a busy café, so you may need to time your meal to avoid the lunchtime rush.

We liked Zuma Caffe and we are sure you will like them too. So have breakfast or lunch and tell them, Simon from Ourworldinreview sent you!

Zuma Caffe rating: 1-10 (1=very poor, 10 = excellent)

Decor =6
Atmosphere = 7
Service = 7
Price = 8
Food =7

Overall = 7

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We have recently had some helpful comments from our readers telling us that the reviews and photos we are posting is making them hungry. Here’s this posts disclaimer. Warning this upcoming post may cause hunger pangs, and a genuine desire for you to go to your local produce market! With that out of the way, if you’re in Adelaide or travelling there soon, head to the Adelaide Central Market and purchase some of the fresh local and internationally sourced produce available.

The Adelaide Central Market is located in Chinatown, between Grote and Gouger Streets in the city centre. There are many small Asian shops leading into the main market area with a popular Asian food court. Once in the market, take a walk around and experience the hustle and bustle of local chefs and shoppers purchasing their produce for their restaurants and families. Our recommendation is to make sure you take your time discovering what’s on offer.

Continental Smallgoods — A large selection of mettwurst, salami, and sausage. Everything has its place, everything in its place.

Fresh Fruit and Vegetables — All stacked neatly, how can you resist this fresh fruit.

The market has a large assortment of quality goods, and you don’t have to go to far for that hard to get recipe ingredient. On our discoveries we found whole fresh truffles at a mushroom vendors.

Proudly Kangaroo Island selling local KI products including Mulberry Gin

Whilst there you will notice trendy business people sitting at the many eateries around having a quick bite to eat or conversing over freshly made coffee.

Everybody wants to eat at Le Souk, quick get those four seats before someone else does!

The Coffee Bean Shop — Which coffee bean would you select? Choices, so many choices.

The Adelaide Central Market’s range of stalls doesn’t just revolve around food. Shoppers have the opportunity to purchase wine, flowers or books as well.

Adelaide Market Florist — Did I miss an anniversary? Better buy flowers, just in case

The Olive Tree — Maybe a nice bottle of wine to go with those flowers

Books for sale — Wine and flowers might not be enough, I’ll just grab a book, what does she read again.

The market has a little bit for everyone. Street art murals, cooking classes from some of South Australia’s best chefs and chocolates, and sweets for the children.

Wall mural — Adelaide is full of great street art

Sweets and chocolates — Can’t go past the raspberries and pineapples

Charlesworth Nuts, a local nut institution

When is it open?

The Adelaide Central Market trades from Tuesday to Saturday and is closed Sunday and Monday.

Tuesday – 7am – 5:30pm
Wednesday – 9am – 5:30pm
Thursday – 9am – 5:30pm
Friday – 7am – 9pm
Saturday 7am – 3pm

For more information visit their website here. Depending on how much time you have available, you could easily waste a day exploring and enjoying the Adelaide Central Market. So do yourself a favour and indulge in some of South Australia’s local produce. Remember, when you’re purchasing from the stalls, don’t forget to tell them, Simon from Ourworldinreview sent you!