Our story

Cumbia is run by Salvatore and Julietha Burgos, sharing the flavours, music and colour of South America with Adelaide. Two food cultures that both live around the table, long, loud and generous, meeting over saffron rice and a jug of sangria.

We set up inside the Adelaide Central Market, Australia's best food market, because it's where the best produce in the city changes hands every morning. Our seafood, our vegetables, our herbs, most of it comes from a few steps away. That's why paella is our signature: a dish that only sings when the ingredients are this fresh.

The room takes its cue from the market too, the deep green mosaic in our fit-out is where the olive green you see across everything comes from. Warm, unfussy, a little bit loud. Exactly how we like to eat.