SINCE WRITING THIS, BISTRO DOM IS NO LONGER OPEN
Bistro Dom is on the Waymouth Street restaurant strip and I’m amazed that so many people I speak to have never been. There’s always been a real European bistro feel to this place but there’s something new happening and it’s not just the refurb. Yes, the bench seating and tables have moved to the other side of the restaurant, the bar has been shifted from the front to the back of the restaurant, and there’s now a 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
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
Let’s get straight to the point – I’m a fan of Jock Zonfrillo’s food. Orana is up there in my top 4 restaurant experiences, so I was extremely keen to check out Restaurant Blackwood which is kind of the ‘little sister’ of Orana and resides directly underneath it in Rundle Street, replacing Street ADL and Read more
If you haven’t tried Level One, the new restaurant that’s replaced Greek restaurant Olea on the first floor of Electra House, you should definitely go. I only went to Olea once when it first opened, part of the $10m development of heritage listed Electra House in King William Street, just north of the Read more
Paul Baker’s originally a Sydney boy and at seventeen, after having worked a stint at an Italian restaurant, he scored an apprenticeship at the famous Aria and it was here, working for Matt Moran, where he developed his eye for detail and pursuit of perfection. After four years there he moved on Read more
Well, well, well… how great it was to head back to The Lion Hotel restaurant after a few years and find that the food is not only good, it’s REALLY good! I should clarify that the food here has always been good, but it didn’t really give me that thrill. But what I found on this visit was an exciting Read more
Well, here’s a place that’s been around for a while. Rigoni’s Bistro opened in 1979 and has remained a popular Adelaide CBD venue for both traditional and modern Italian food. Being in Leigh Street, it’s in the heart of the bustling eating and Read more
There are some places I’m truly grateful for – like Payneham Chinese Restaurant which is only 1km from my house. I love their food and it’s my regular takeaway spot. So good, and so close to my home. It was simpy meant to be. Another such place is Little Canton Read more
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