I have a confession to make...I ate out all of TWICE while I was at home and in Adelaide (not counting the 2 excursions to the Coffee Club).
The only time I ventured out into the big bad world of mainland resturants at night I went to the pub. Yes thats right, I had a pub meal with my mum, dad, a good friend from the UK and her mother.
Mind you the Gap Tavern isnt ANY old pub. Its a quite nice tavern built into an old quarry about 20 minutes from mum and dads place and it does do a half way decent meal. Four people, four mains (2 steaks, a chicken and a fish) $200. I had a Wagyu steak with mushroom sauce, and although the sauce was a litte bit salty, the steak was actually cooked PERFECTLY medium rare. Although I am still trying to work out WHAT the appeal of Wagyu actually is..(I suspect it ws psuedo-wagyu) Mrs G's steak was a perfect medium well so the kitchen got something right.
Decent sized serves, no load music and get your own drinks - overall a decent meal.
The only meal I had out during the day was at the Kuta Cafe at the top of Mt Cootha. I'll say it now...MASSIVE MASSIVE tourist trap. The meals however were massive. The BLT was advertised as being on inch thick bread - I ordered it thinking it was hyperbole - nope - each still was literally a doorstopper. Lucy's burger was a good hand high, complete with beetroot, fried onion and salad, which made her very happy. The two chicken burgers were not QUITE so big, but coupled with the fries had both Mum and Mrs G struggling to finish. The meal however was expensive - something like 90 dollars for the 4 meals, and drinks (no alcohol). Hence the tourist trap warning. I suspect we may have been better off heading to the resturant which was offering a 2 course set menu for 32 a person.
In Adelaide the sum total of my eating was 2 nights of Taj on Raj takeaway which had NOTHING on ANY of the indians down here, and a late Sunday breakfast at Billy Baxters - whose french toast was bland and nothing on Steve and Becs.
It was definately nice to get home to the promise of good fresh food and decent comfy non commercialised resturants. This weekend its either Mee Wah or 373 - undecided as yet...I'm pushing for Mee Wah as I need some fried rice. Will let you know!
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Welcome back Tassiegal.
Yes, Adelaide seems to be losing a bit of soul.
We were disappointed by most of the eateries we visited there and the price of drinks was astronomical.
The bloody food courst were like factory canteens circa 1970 Britain.
People hunched cheek by jowl at tiny plastic tables.....oh, no....not for us.
Thanks Sir G. I have a soft spot for Brissy and its food as I grew up there, but Adelaide really has lost some of its Zing.
The Japanese one at the Adelaide Hyatt??
Dear Anon,
Japanese at the Hyatt in Adelaide? I went about 2 years ago I think. It was truely lovely. If you meant Billy Baxters it was the one on the PArade in Norwood.
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