Ebenezer Place

Having only discovered Ebenezer Place recently, I was so surprised at how a little Melbourne-​esque laneway could have found itself tucked in between Rundle St and Grenfell St in the bustling CBD. The atmosphere in the laneway is my favourite part with non of the noise from the cars or endless foot traffic like Rundle Mall where you are elbow to elbow with complete strangers.
There is a range of different shops including some that are a little eclectic. However, there are your basics including a hair dressers and beauty salon, homeware store and a couple of boutique for yourself or your female friend. The Belgian Beer café is also down here (I always wondered where it was) and across from that is Nano café which is spacious and has heaps of nice outdoor seating. Definitely check it out if you haven’t already!

All the hipsters around the world, throw your hands up for Ebenezer Place! Amen for this hidden gem!
Ebenezer Place is a hop, skip and a jump away for Rundle Street and definitely worth a stop in. Head down Union Street and you’ll hopefully see Burger Theory parked up at the beginning on Ebenezer. Continue on to adventure around some of the cutest vintage, indie, and unique boutique stores for men and women to empty their wallets in.
Don’t expect bargain shopping here, it’s more hipster chic with specialised stores supplying high quality unique gear to please a stylish crowd.
Grab a bite to eat, a beer, and a new outfit all in one little area.

An ever-​changing playground for the hip and young. All things here are either vintage or delicious. It”s a hidden, but completely obvious gem of the East End.
This delightful little alley has some of the most refreshing cafes/​restaurants and continually progressing fashion outlets. It’s home to the especially ‘street’ art work on the side.
Grab some cool threads from Mid West Trader and RHD. Once your all shopped out take a bite at the Belgian Beer Café or Nano Ready 2 Go.
Next time you’re in the East End don’t miss out on a gander down here.

Don’t be hipsterphobes, people! Embrace hispters! (Well…not literally. Ok, maybe literally. Hugs are always fun).
Yeah yeah it’s easy to throw around words like «hipster» and «trendy» and «yuppy» and «fixed gear» etc etc etc, but people are people and whatever the «target demographic» of Ebenezer Place may be, I for one love that it has personality, individualism, charm and a theme of sorts to unite it all together.
Adelaide, being the teensy place it is (not bagging it out), can be kind of well, not generic exactly, but a lot of places can look/​feel the same. Understandable: we don’t have established neighbourhoods/​areas like, say, London does, where every new area feels completely different and unique and home to certain identifiable kind of person. It’s cliquey or snobby it’s just a side effect of having a huge city, like attracts like.
I like this! And until recently Adelaide has lacked this (again, not bagging it out). But lately certain areas are getting personality, areas like Queen St and areas like Ebenezer Place. Tucked in from the main drag of Rundle, it’s got a rad mix of apartments (yes I’d like one please), coffee shops, beer, food and fashion.
It has cool shit. It’s warm and welcoming. You can get beer. Yep, I like it. *hugs a hipster*

Named after the same ‘Place’ in Scotland, which is in itself historical for being the shortest street in the world, this one is longer than that record-​setting six and a half feet.
It is a purpose built owned and operated ‘trendy space’ inside the older East End Market warehouses, or at least what remains of them. It is a strong mixture of commercial and residential dwellings and managed very well by the Maras Group who have offices on level 3 at 31 Ebenezer Place if you are interested in investing in the dream.
The ‘Place’ is well staged-​managed as it were, and all of that secret business is taken care of by a division of the Maras Group; check out the website here:
Ebenezer Place is certainly one of those rare spots you will find in Adelaide where it all seems a little obviously purpose built to suit a particular clientele; upmarket inner city singles is definitely the target appeal. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with this at all, just that the magic you may stumble upon elsewhere is a tad more authentic, and that’s hardly a strong criticism, just an observation.
Given that most of the city is bathed in a historical wash of stone masonry and lace cast iron or stained glass windows this little area is all red brick and somewhat odd by contrast. If you were in the market for a two bedroom unit in Ebenezer Place or adjacent to it you would be starting out around the $ 415 000.00 mark.
The living spaces are high density, and relatively spacious compared to similar flats or units in Melbourne or Sydney. The built stores are small and trendy with relatively high price goods, not always, but most often, and the notion of sitting outside still runs through the street culture here as much as anywhere else around, but it is obviously more self conscious than other areas because it is a designer space intended to attract and contain a particular demographic of the overall market.
It is not very often you’d be asked for bus money around here; partly because it is off the main drag of Rundle Street and partly because with all it’s quirky character it doesn’t have the inherent warmth that is evident elsewhere.
Not a bad place, and when you consider the Beer Café and the regular street vendor market (transportable) stalls, quite a lot of character involved; but maybe all too coordinated and designed to suit a particular taste. It gives me the impression of a place where people would grow out of it and move on to a less unforgiving place as their life developed; if I were a kid this is not where I would want to grow up. Having said that it is not a bad place for kids to pass through at all.

For many people, this is the coolest place in Adelaide. For the rest, it’s a bunch of latte-​sipping yuppies riding around on fixed gear bicycles trading stories about where they got their jeans. Ebenezer Place is a little corner of quirky street culture, full of varying niche fashion, trinket shops and cosmopolitan cuisine.
Tucked away just behind Rundle Street, Ebenezer shuns almost all motor traffic for pedestrians and bikers. It’s a terribly social area, and the cliques are obvious from the second you step into the alleyway. Store owners and workers hang out the front of their shops watching it all go by, and duck back inside to help out any ailing customers.
Aside from shopping, Ebenezer offers some interesting dining options. Nano is a great coffee shop providing mediterranean styled dishes. The Belgian Beer Café extends right out into Ebenezer and serves a litany of great beers and Belgian food (mussels and fries. mmm). Chocolate Bean caters to the dessert lover with a big range of vegan confectionery as well as the obligatory chockies.
Every Friday of the Summer, Rundle street is shut to allow for ‘Summer Fridays in the East End’. Head down to Ebenezer Place on a Friday night to check out some nice little market stalls and street food vendors. There’s a street barrista. It’s like, pretty cool, man.