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Adelaide Sphere

About us

About Adelaide Sphere

An independently edited guide to Adelaide’s local businesses, neighbourhoods and city life.

The Adelaide city skyline across the River Torrens
Photograph: Yu Chu Chin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Who we are

Adelaide Sphere is a local directory for Adelaide, South Australia. It brings the city’s cafés, trades, clinics, shops and services together in one place, alongside guides to the suburbs they sit in and stories about the city around them.

Businesses don’t hold accounts or upload their own listings. Our editors research each one, check that it operates in an area we cover and publish it only once its details are complete. When something changes, anyone can tell us, and an editor updates it.

That is slower than an open submission form, and it is deliberate: a directory is only useful while people can rely on what it says.

Our mission

To make Adelaide’s local businesses easier to find and easier to trust — one checked listing at a time.

Leigh Street, a tree-lined laneway of cafés and small bars in the Adelaide city centre
Photograph: Pangalau, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Explore by area

Start with the neighbourhood you know, or one you are about to visit.

Talk to our editors

Request a listing, report something out of date or ask us a question.

What we offer

Whether you live here, have just arrived or are visiting for a weekend, the site is built to help you find the right place quickly.

  • Business listings

    Hours, contacts and services, checked before publishing.

  • Browse by area or category

    Find what’s nearby, in the words locals use.

  • Guides and local stories

    Written and edited by our team; paid guest posts are clearly labelled.

  • Moderated reviews

    Read by a person before they appear.

How a listing gets here

Every business on the site follows the same four steps. There is no charge at any point.

  1. Details reach our editors

  2. We check it’s in an area we cover

  3. It’s published to search and its area

  4. Anyone can send a correction

Our editorial standards

The same rules apply to every listing, review and comment, and they are the reason the site stays useful.

  • Checked before publishing

    An editor reviews every listing first.

  • Reviews read against guidelines

    Nothing appears until a moderator approves it.

  • Anyone can report a review

    Reports go to a person, not an algorithm.

  • No “verified customer” labels

    We don’t claim what we can’t confirm.

Why Adelaide Sphere

One city, covered properly, by people who know it.

Fruit and vegetable stalls inside the Adelaide Central Market
Photograph: Pangalau, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Adelaide, and only Adelaide

  • Edited, not uploaded

  • Reviews and comments moderated

  • No business accounts to game

Be part of Adelaide Sphere

However you use the city, there’s a place for you here.

Around the city

Explore Adelaide

Find your way around the city and its neighbourhoods.