Our latest print magazine is out now just in time to keep you well-fed and well-read all spring.

Allow us to state the obvious for a moment: CityMag loves food.

Food is at the core of most of our best memories and bookends conversations between our team. Monday mornings start by recollecting the cafes we visited over the weekend, Friday afternoons are for namedropping the restaurants or bars we’re going to hit that night.

After a difficult year of observing venue closures and hearing from hospo owners about the challenges they’re facing, we were craving a helping of joy and that’s what we’ve poured into this mag.

We’re highlighting the power of food and how it brings us together. These values are prominent in our number one most powerful restaurant. We often wax lyrical about the best of Adelaide – hot chocolates, dumplings, negronis, and plenty more – but we looked beyond ‘best’ for this, instead looking at the venues that have true influence on Adelaide’s hospitality scene.

For our power rankings, we thought about values, longevity, consistency, culinary and design influence and of course, if it’s actually any good. We’ve started counting them down from 20–11, but to see the top ten you’ll have to pick up the magazine from our stand on Grenfell Street or at various locations around town.

This powerful restaurant is so good we’d eat their food off a broken plate that hit the floor. This GIF: Jack Fenby. 

Our beautiful cover was photographed by Jack Fenby at a very special location revealed in the pages of the mag. Our graphic designer, Jayde Vandborg made it pop on the page, and it’s just begging to jump off the stand and into your hands.

Gorgeous food photography was a must for this issue, and no story exemplifies this as well as our deep-dive into how Italian immigrants shaped Adelaide’s food culture.

Journalist Claudia Dichiera spoke to experts, a Central Market icon (and the first pizza bar in Australia) and her own Zia (Aunty) Fulvia about hanging onto homeland culinary traditions. What better way to do so than over plates of meatballs, gnocchi, lasagna, cotoletta and a glass of red?

We’ve curated the best shopping bag filled with local goodies fit for a night in, walked through new and old food precincts, picking our favourite places and people inside.

This magazine is also three for the price of one (the price being free, as always). Inside you’ll find Marmalade, a mini-mag detailing the beautiful craft and design from JamFactory, and the first printed version of The Post, a media partnership between our publisher Solstice Media and the Government of South Australia. The Post explains hot topics, breaking down policies on things like vaping, the Voice to Parliament and buying your first home.

Use our handy map to pick up your copy of the latest mag, and if you love it – which we’re sure you will – snap a pic and tag us on socials. CityMag is completely free and can’t wait to be in your hands. Happy reading!

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