Tag: restaurants

Rockpool Bar & Grill

It is a Friday afternoon. The week has been long. The week is especially long for some when work has called you in on your rostered day off. Ugh. The city on a Friday afternoon, is awash with drunken suits; corporate crapulence at its best. Rockpool Bar & Grill is […]

Eightysix

Although the nation’s capital may be seen as a bit of a sleepy hollow (with a few headless horsemen galloping around, the victims of the latest political war) one corner of the city is certainly anything but sleepy. It’s Friday night, 9pm and the otherwise sedate Elouia Pl has one […]

Playground

Playground – one definition is thus: A place where a particular group of people choose to enjoy themselves. Bang on. Visiting the nation’s capital is something I have done three times in my life: for the obligatory, if not national rite of passage, where year 6 goes to visit Canberra […]

Chuck Wagon 175

Just when you think a woman so small could not possibly eat another large burger, she does… After a long day of classes studying medieval iconography in relation to culinary history, I thought a brisk rather lengthy walk up to Chuck Wagon in North Adelaide was in order to revive […]

Press*

Stop the press! Now having had two burgers in Adelaide, today’s burger at Press* Food & Wine is definitely, without a doubt, the best burger in Adelaide. But didn’t I say that yesterday about another burger?! Am I just a burger-whore going around telling every burger they’re the best I’ve […]

Mandoo

You can tell from the crowds that this wee dumpling house on Bank St in the Adealide CBD is serving something the people cannot get enough of. It is a Tuesday night, and there is luckily one table left. Modest in its decor, Mandoo is all about fresh, fast dumplings […]