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Adelaide Grapevine November December 2022

Posted: November 7, 2022

Featuring: Ballaboosta, Arkhe, Botanic Gardens Restaurant... THE opening of a second suburban Ballaboosta has given an enormous culinary boost to Adelaide’s eastern suburbs, given that it is often pretty well packed even on “quiet” days. The original Ballaboosta, which continues...

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Adelaide Grapevine September October 2022

Posted: September 1, 2022

Featuring: Fire by Soi 38, Glen Ewin Estate, Magill Estate Kitchen... WHEN owner-chef Terry Intarakhamhaeng opened his Pulteney Street restaurant Soi 38 in 2014 his plan was to serve street food snacks and dishes that couldn’t be found on the...

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Adelaide Grapevine July August 2022

Posted: July 22, 2022

Featuring: Sukhumvit Soi.38, Ragi’s New Deli, The Caledonian... THE opening of the original Sukhumvit Soi.38 in 2014 was a terrific tribute to the famous street food market in Bangkok, now long closed due to redevelopment. Co-owner and chef Terry Intarakhamhaeng...

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Adelaide Grapevine May June 2022

Posted: May 15, 2022

Featuring: Maylands Hotel, Bistro François, SiSea... ADELAIDE doesn’t have a great record in recent years as far as classic French restaurants is concerned. Perhaps the closest has been Hey Jupiter, in the heart of Adelaide’s East End, where you can...

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Adelaide Grapevine March April 2022

Posted: March 15, 2022

Featuring: Normanville Kiosk and Café, Star of Greece, West Beach Surf Club Cafe... FOR the hospitality industry the year starts no better than 2021 ended, with severe constraints on the number of customers able to attend restaurants. Those best able...

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Adelaide Grapevine Annual 2022

Posted: January 11, 2022

Featuring: Joe’s Kiosk, Saha, Scenic Hotel... WHAT was once a humble beach café known as Joe’s Kiosk, that started life some 25 years ago as an ice cream and drinks shop, has taken on a new life since it was...

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Adelaide Grapevine November December 2021

Posted: November 20, 2021

Featuring: Peel St, Eleven, Press Food & Wine... THERE’S always going to be a level of anxiety when the both the ownership and chef of one of the city’s best-loved restaurants both change at the same time, but in the...

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Adelaide Grapevine September October 2021

Posted: September 15, 2021

Featuring: Harvest Kitchen, Uraidla Hotel, Crafers Hotel... SOME wineries add on a food component almost as an afterthought. After all, it keeps people in place for longer if they have a plate of food in front of them, even if...

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Adelaide Grapevine July August 2021

Posted: August 12, 2021

Featuring: iTL, SkyCity, Daughter in Law... IT’S rare that a restaurant of the quality of Aurora opens with so little fanfare, trumpets blowing and so on, but that’s consistent with the very understated manner in which its surrounding business and/or...

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Adelaide Grapevine May June 2021

Posted: May 5, 2021

Featuring: Spaghetti Island, Oceanique, West Beach Surf Club Cafe... YORKSHIRE-BORN chef Toby Gush grew up with a deep understanding of fish and chips, especially fish, but when he moved to Australia, he spent nearly two decades creating top quality Italian...

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Adelaide Grapevine March April 2021

Posted: March 4, 2021

Featuring: Sol, Fishbank, 2KW... THE sun is certainly shining on Sol, the restaurant and bar recently opened on the top of SkyCity Adelaide’s $330 million expansion that includes the Eos hotel and eventually four new restaurants and two new bars....

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Adelaide Grapevine December 2020

Posted: January 19, 2021

Featuring: The Guardsman, Jasmin, The Lane Vineyard Restaurant... ADELAIDE’S SkyCity casino has done us all a favour with the restoration of Adelaide Railway Station’s former Great Dining Hall, transforming a once grand space more recently degraded to a storage area...

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Adelaide Grapevine October 2020

Posted: October 1, 2020

Featuring: ShoSho, Nido, Salopian Inn... IT takes a great deal of confidence to open a new restaurant in the middle of a pandemic and all the business constraints that involves, but Adelaide restaurant czar Simon Kardachi is nothing but confident...

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Adelaide Grapevine August 2020

Posted: August 12, 2020

Featuring: Summertown Aristologist, Fino Vino, Lantern by Nu... IT’S the dream of many a restaurant to have its own kitchen garden, but in the case of the Summertown Aristologist, a tiny hyper-local Adelaide Hills diner, it became a commercial lifesaver...

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Adelaide Grapevine May June 2020

Posted: April 24, 2020

Featuring: Apoteca, Sidewood Estate Restaurant and Cellar Door, Mum Cha... FOR nearly 20 years the Apothecary 1878 has remained a somewhat secretive oasis in the darkest depths of Hindley Street, winning many awards for its extraordinary wine lists curated by its remarkable...

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Adelaide Grapevine March April 2020

Posted: March 3, 2020

Featuring: Fino Vino, Mayflower, Little Wolf... ONE of the most anticipated Adelaide restaurants of 2019, it scraped in just a few days before Christmas, is Fino Vino the latest venture by co-owners chef David Swain and front of house maven...

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Adelaide Grapevine Annual 2020

Posted: January 8, 2020

Featuring: Fino Vino, l’Italy, Nido, La La La Osteria ... THE opening of Fino Vino in the Adelaide CBD in December is the latest and much anticipated venture by Fino Seppeltsfield partners David Swain and Sharon Romeo. And while they...

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Adelaide Grapevine November December 2019

Posted: November 29, 2019

Featuring: Ragini’s Spice, Paloma, l’Italy... BACK in the days when banks managed to have personal relationships with their customers, the conventional wisdom was to “follow your bank manager”, wherever he or she went. These days it’s probably much more sensible...

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Adelaide Grapevine September October 2019

Posted: September 5, 2019

Featuring: Nido, Sparkke at the Whitmore, Lot 100... RESTAURATEUR Simon Kardachi built his considerable Adelaide empire (Press Food & Wine, Melt, Shobosho, Osteria Oggi, SeaSalt to name some of it) on his first restaurant, the Melting Pot, a tiny but...

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Adelaide Grapevine July August 2019

Posted: July 1, 2019

Featuring: Mallozzi, The Den, Henry's Table... HE’S one of Australia’s most celebrated chefs and a pioneer of Australian indigenous cuisine, with his landmark Adelaide restaurant Orana last year named as Australia’s best restaurant. But Jock Zonfrillo is also half Scottish...

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Adelaide Grapevine May June 2019

Posted: May 2, 2019

Featuring: ORSO, Serafino, Coccobello... ORSO has been Adelaide’s most exciting restaurant opening for the year so far, having been two years in the making by chef-restaurateur Andre Ursini. Ursini’s previous, and ongoing restaurant, Andre’s Cucina & Polenta Bar, has long...

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Adelaide Grapevine March April 2019

Posted: March 1, 2019

Featuring: 2KW, Longview Vineyard, Herringbone, Coriole... UNDER the guiding hand of McLaren Vale legend Mark Lloyd, Coriole has always been noted for its impressive range of new varietal wines, along with its better-than-average cellar door platters. The dining area itself...

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Adelaide Grapevine Annual 2019

Posted: January 10, 2019

Featuring: Red Chilli, Est Ovest , Bai Long, Hey Jupiter... ALMOST submerged under a huge carpark it’s easy to miss Red Chilli, or even worse to dismiss it’s bland facade as a front for a less than significant restaurant. But...

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Adelaide Grapevine November – December 2018

Posted: November 2, 2018

Featuring: Maxwell’s, Sea Salt, Spaghetti Crab, Red October... IT has a new name and its menu is constantly evolving, but Maxwell’s - formerly known as Ellen St - continues to display the same outstanding quality and value. Nor has there...

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Adelaide Grapevine September – October 2018

Posted: September 1, 2018

Featuring: Hispanic Mechanic, Sunny’s Pizza, Bocca di Lupo... McLAREN Vale continues to raise the bar when it comes to the number and quality of its restaurants, lifting its culinary offering - not to mention its wine - to become among...

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Adelaide Grapevine July – August 2018

Posted: July 1, 2018

Featuring: Amalfi, Level One, Electra House... ANYONE who’s been around Adelaide restaurants long enough will remember Marco Furlan as the best Italian waiter in town when he commanded the floor at the long-established favourite Amalfi. Then he reappeared as the...

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Adelaide Grapevine May – June 2018

Posted: May 1, 2018

Featuring: Low & Slow American BBQ, Pike & Joyce, 2KW... IT’S an almost inevitable progression that the most successful food trucks will sooner or later be forced to find bricks and mortar premises due to popular demand. So it was...

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Adelaide Grapevine March – April 2018

Posted: March 1, 2018

Featuring: Jolley's Boathouse, Stone's Throw, Longview Vineyard... JOLLEY’S Boathouse is yet another of those Adelaide restaurants that have quietly, unassumingly clocked up 30 years, but Jolley’s has more of a story than most because its roots extend back into the...

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Adelaide Grapevine Annual 2018

Posted: January 5, 2018

Featuring: Caledonian Hotel, Star of Greece, Serafino... TO the casual visitor the Caledonian Hotel is nothing exceptional. It has a good dining room, Bartons restaurant, with above average pub food and a strong focus on high-grade steaks. A further clue...

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Adelaide Grapevine November – December 2017

Posted: November 1, 2017

Featuring: The Apothecary, Cos, Lantern by Nu... AFTER a veritable roundabout of restaurants, cooking multiple styles of food in several countries, Thai chef Nu Suandokmai has gone right back to his roots - back to the sort of cooking his...

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Adelaide Grapevine September – October 2017

Posted: September 1, 2017

Featuring: The Pot Food and Wine, Shobosho, Crafers Hotel... FOR nearly 20 years The Pot Food and Wine has been a comfortable and popular institution with a loyal, largely local, clientele. At times it’s been a stepping stone for some...

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Adelaide Grapevine July – August 2017

Posted: June 27, 2017

Featuring: Coal Cellar + Grill, Gaucho’s, Pepe Cucina, The Cellar Kitchen Restaurant and Bar... FINDING a good steak isn’t a difficult thing to do in Adelaide, especially given many of the local steakhouse owners’ familiarity with star South Australian waygu...

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Adelaide Grapevine May – June 2017

Posted: April 11, 2017

Featuring: Hardy’s Verandah Restaurant, Ichitaro Dining, Satoshi Omori, Nagomi Japanese Kitchen, Takumi Yakitori... WHILE everyone is waiting to see what sort of restaurant will evolve as part of Chester Osborne’s $14 million d’Arenberg Cube project in McLaren Vale, another wine...

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Adelaide Grapevine March – April 2017

Posted: February 22, 2017

Featuring: The Lane, Summertown Aristologist, Star House... YOU don’t need to arrive by helicopter, but if you do you’ll have swooped in over cabernet sauvignon vineyards, rolling hills, gum trees, dams and grazing cows. If the view was the only...

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Adelaide Grapevine Annual 2017

Posted: February 22, 2017

Featuring: Blackwood, Jasmin, Le Mistral, Magill Estate Kitchen... ADELAIDE super-chef Jock Zonfrillo has won national recognition for his unique Orana restaurant, where he and his kitchen team have created exquisite dishes featuring native Australian produce. That’s the upstairs restaurant, but...

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Adelaide Grapevine Special Edition 2016

Posted: February 22, 2017

Featuring: The Currant Shed, The Henry Austin, Uraidla Hotel... THEY may be the driving force behind Adelaide’s small bar revolution, but it’s still rare to find a “sommelier-led” restaurant, but that’s how it is at McLaren Flat’s The Currant Shed...

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Adelaide Grapevine November – December 2016

Posted: November 1, 2016

Featuring: Bartons Restaurant, Georges on Waymouth, Ballaboosta... SMALL, independently-owned hotels can often provide surprisingly good food and wine offerings, and the Caledonian Hotel, on the edge of Adelaide’s CBD facing the northern parklands, is one of them. Its Bartons Restaurant...

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Adelaide Grapevine September – October 2016

Posted: August 1, 2016

Featuring: The Apothecary, Ellen Street Restaurant, Orana... FOR all the excitement generated by the temporary relocation of Swedish restaurant Noma to Sydney recently, one can’t help but suspect those eager Sydney punters would have been far better rewarded had they...

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Adelaide Grapevine July – August 2016

Posted: July 1, 2016

Featuring: Level One, Pepe Cucina, Chloe’s Restaurant… To read the full article click here.

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Adelaide Grapevine May – June 2016

Posted: May 1, 2016

Featuring: Windy Point Restaurant, Andre’s Cucina, Peel St… To read the full article click here.

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Adelaide Grapevine March – April 2016

Posted: March 1, 2016

Featuring: Osteria Oggi, The Locavore, Crafers Hotel… To read the full article click here.

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Adelaide Grapevine Annual 2016

Posted: January 19, 2016

Featuring: Assagio, Coal Cellar & Grill, Gondola Gondola… To read the full article click here.

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Adelaide Grapevine Special Edition 2015

Posted: December 1, 2015

Featuring: Botanic Gardens Restaurant, Bar Torino, Hentley Farm, d’Arry’s Verandah… To read the full article click here.

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Adelaide Grapevine November – December 2015

Posted: November 1, 2015

Featuring: Bridgewater Mill, The Lion, La Buvette Drinkery… To read the full article click here.

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Adelaide Grapevine September – October 2015

Posted: September 1, 2015

Featuring: Magill Estate Kitchen, Chianti, Cork and Cleaver… To read the full article click here.

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Adelaide Grapevine July – August 2015

Posted: July 1, 2015

Featuring: Africola, Bread and Bone, Maybe Mae… To read the full article click here.

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Adelaide Grapevine May – June 2015

Posted: May 1, 2015

Featuring: 2KW Bar and Restaurant, Mayflower, Madame Hanoi Bar & Bistro… To read the full article click here.

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Adelaide Grapevine March – April 2015

Posted: March 1, 2015

Featuring: Fino at Seppeltsfield, Mothervine, Cliché… To read the full article click here.

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Adelaide Grapevine Annual 2015

Posted: January 14, 2015

Featuring: Golden Boy, Africola, Peel Street… To read the full article click here.

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