Today, you’ll find an established venue in Adelaide’s local music scene, serving folky ambience and creations from its own on-site brewery. This innovation goes alongside a mix of imported craft beers, local wine producers and a list of boutique spirits.

While there’s no kitchen on site, you’ll find food trucks outside four nights a week. There’s also an outdoor beer garden, live music and poetry, plus a number of other surprises.

The Exeter Hotel has laid claim to serving patrons the perfect mix of “cold Coopers Ales, delicious pub grub, and live music. No pokies, no bullshit.” No bullshit is correct.

In fact, rumour has it that the venue hasn’t received an upgrade since 1929, when green tiles were added to the outside façade. Everything else here remains as it always has been.

This is the suburb of Port Adelaide's oldest existing building, established in 1849 on Black Diamond corner – clearly they’ve been doing something right, because Port Admiral has been impressing patrons ever since.

It's pub dining as it was back then, adapted to contemporary audiences. The hotel now serves as a front bar, saloon, beer garden, outside terrace and a bottle shop – nailing the balance required when you serve as the suburb’s main drinking jaunt.

Whether it’s a happy hour beer with mates, dinner with family, or a coveted special event, this hotel has served South Australians for over a century – all in the comfort of a grand Victorian building.

Stop here for modern Australian food, as well as your favourite pub classics.

If you hear someone refer to this place by its ‘given’ name – The Cumberland Arms Hotel – you could probably make an educated guess that they aren’t an Adelaidean.

To pretty much everyone in the area, The Cumby is part of their colloquial vocabulary, a permanent fixture of the CBD dining scene – both pub and otherwise.

Following a pretty schmick refurbishment, punters can choose from the alfresco beer garden for pub grub and drinks, or the more upmarket bistro dining option inside. Whichever you choose, the Cumby is well worth the visit.

A haven for local musicians, who use the pub stage as an entry point to the ears of listeners. And that’s just the way they like it.

The online events calendar is packed to the rafters, though Monday is reserved for Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam, an open mic night and jam session hosted by Billy Bob and the BBQ Boys.

Moscow-born co-owner couple, Roman Tazhdynov and Marina Tazhdynova, have combined the best of both worlds in Red October.

The food menu utilises local produce, drawing inspiration from the 16 republics that once comprised the Soviet Union. Combine this with taps that pour Australian beers, a delicious array of cocktails and a setting that pays homage to its 1890’s façade.

Through 12 rotating taps, staff at The King’s Head pour local craft beer and cider – including some small batch brews you’ll find nowhere else.

They also showcase the best and most varied fruits of the surrounding wine regions, none of which you will find anywhere near a Dan Murphy’s sales bin.

At its core, this place offers everything you’d expect from your local pub, a comfortable front bar, atrium eating area, spacious beer garden and many flexible function spaces.

Top that off with a location that puts you a short walk from Adelaide oval and it’s the perfect place to celebrate into the early hours post-match.

Once renowned for cheap pub-grub – favoured mostly among young people – new management has seen the old Earl of Leicester find a new lease on life.

It now serves generous portions of delicious food, varied beers and boutique wines, all in a historic 1890’s setting. Just make sure you try the schnitzels. They’re massive in scale, and equally as delicious.

Housed in the back streets of Adelaide’s East End, this is what a local pub ought to be. There’s a cinema right next door, but the space also hosts live entertainment in the upstairs bar every Friday and Saturday night.

And with over 30 draught Beer and Cider taps, there is sure to be a drink for everyone to enjoy.