Now here’s an excellent idea – premium quality, local food and produce including seafood, meats and handcrafted cheeses carefully selected, packed and delivered straight to your door. I like it! But that’s not all – there’s also sauces, relishes, pastas, olives and other Read more
How would you feel if you just opened up your first ever restaurant, a Thai restaurant, only for someone to come along and open another Thai restaurant weeks later, literally just down the street from you? Having only opened around five months ago, that’s exactly what happened to the owners of Social Street S2 on Read more
SINCE WRITING THIS, THE HENRY AUSTIN IS NO LONGER OPEN
This place had so much hype leading up to its opening I was intrigued. And the official opening went on for days. It’s a bar, it’s a bottleshop, it’s a restaurant, no wait – it’s a takeaway joint… this place is actually everything all at once. Tess Footner and Max Mason, hospitality veterans and very well-known characters Read more
I recently went to the new Thai place in Hutt Street – Kin Kin Thai Eatery (not to be confused with Kin Thai in Waymouth Street, where I still haven’t been yet). It’s down at the southern end of Hutt – next to Kenji. It’s a pretty cool, simple fit out with a wall of happy and colourful photos of Thai scenes, people Read more
The Currant Shed used to be just that – a shed used to prepare and dry currants for exporting to the UK. When I booked into The Currant Shed for lunch recently, from my past experience I was expecting a good meal, but what I didn’t realise was just how good it was going to be. Unbeknownst to me, since my last Read more
On the weekend I took a trip down to Willunga to dine at the new restaurant that’s taken over the old Fino location. With Fino’s high standards, multiple awards and accolades, it took some brave people to take on the space, and those people are Tarik Marco and Sandrine Maltret a French couple who twelve months Read more
Fish Head seemed to pop up out of the blue. I hadn’t heard anything about it until someone told me after it had opened. It’s another venture from Walter Ventura and it’s in the same location as another one of his restaurants, British India in Morphett Street. Out with the old, in with the new Read more
It’s quite apparent to me why Rockpool is sitting in the number one position on the Gourmet Traveller Top 100 list. And when I say Rockpool, I’m not talking Rockpool Bar and Grill. This Rockpool is the original flagship restaurant established in 1989 at The Rocks and re-locating to Bridge Street Read more
Firstly, let me say that Automata is pronounced Au-TOM-ata, not Auto-MA-ta, so please everyone, stop trying to correct my pronunciation. Yes, I used to think it was the latter too, but a magazine review told me otherwise, and when I dined there, I double checked with them. Automata theory is the study of abstract machines – machines Read more
If you happen to follow me on Facebook and/or Instagram you may be aware that on Saturday May 7th I finally fulfilled my long term quest and dined at my 100th and final Gourmet Traveller Top 100 restaurant on the 2016 list. So, I thought it was timely to pull together a list of my own favourites based on the ones I’ve dined at over the last two to three years Read more
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