Gilbert Street Hotel

Adelaide


The best place in Adelaide to catch some live jazz (on Tuesday nights, at any rate) the Gilbert is a renovated old pub but continues to ooze soul. Order a vin rouge at the bar and dig the scene with the goateed regulars. Soul and acoustic acts Thursday and Sunday.


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