Supporting local business

Published 8th December 2023
Options in the Port this weekend

While we are incredibly disappointed to have to cancel Dockside Festival, the City of PAE has been working with local businesses and suppliers to help them make the most of the situation. Without great people, nothing would be possible! Here is what they will be offering over the weekend!

  • The Banksia Tree Cafe and Restaurant will be selling Maine-style lobster rolls using local lobsters, supplies from local bakeries and pouring their famous Bloody Marys or a glass of Prosecco. Grab a special between 8am and 3pm on Saturday and Sunday.
  • The British Hotel Port Adelaide will have live music indoors across the weekend alongside their usual service.
  • Parissos Seafoods will be open on Saturday and is the place to go for your Christmas seafood.
  • La Popular Taqueria will be open as usual and has a special on Baja Style King Prawn Tacos all weekend.
  • Carmine & Co is the place to go for a taste of calamari fritti and Port Lincoln mussels bought in especially for Dockside.
  • Port River Cruises will continue to offer their maritime history cruises on the coming weekend to learn about the rich maritime and cultural history of Port Adelaide including interesting landmarks and vessels.
  • The Lighthouse Wharf Hotel has cancelled their outdoor activations but will still be open inside for food, drinks and good times.
  • Milledges Distillation will be open as usual, with live music on Friday and Saturday night.
  • Pirate Life Brewing will be open as usual with a selection of beers, wines, spirits and food.
  • Mayfair Bakery and Patisserie will have their specially created Dockside pies available across the weekend, “rum and mutton”, and “rum, cayenne pepper, and spatchcock”
  • The Handmade Markets have been cancelled for this weekend, but some of these stallholders at next Friday’s Coastal Festival.
  • Brindabella Sailing the much-adored 80 foot maxi yacht, will also be at Adelaide Coastal Festival next Friday.
    SA Sailing League will continue with the sailing competition on the Port River on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
  • The team at Post Office Projects Gallery + Studios will reschedule the Open Studio and Art Fair but will be open as usual from 12pm to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday with a current exhibition by Brianna Speight and Dani Reynolds.
  • “Heart Lines” will be at the Visitor Information Centre with a public exhibition celebrating a community arts project that has been in active development for over 3 years, sharing personal connections to the waterways, landscapes and streets of Port Adelaide and its surrounds by creating a collaborative embroidered map of the region, all of which falls within Kaurna land.