Adelaide food – Part I

Adelaide food is Heaps good! (That's an Adelaide saying!)

I was going to do just one post about the food we had in Adelaide but then realised there were 7 places I wanted to tell you about which was too many for one post.  So there will be two.

Bistro Dom

Bistro Dom was the fanciest restaurant we went to in Adelaide.  It had a very French feel.  It was a long narrow room and was like a railway carriage.  There was interesting modern art on the walls.   The highlight for me was the fantastic amuse bouche – burned peppers  - this doesn't sound divine but it was.  Crunchy on the outside and melting in the middle – I think they were red bell peppers.  I tried to find out how it was done but apparently it is a state secret.

We happened onto a good local sparkling wine – Deviation Road Loftia from the Adelaide Hills

As with other things in Adelaide, there was a quirk to this restaurant.  To go to the bathroom you had to go out onto the street along a bit, into an office building, up in a lift and down a corridor – glad I didn't have to go but my better half found it a strange experience – especially being towed there by the French maître d' – she said "Come, I'll take you…"  I thought she might be offering rather more than he bargained for!

Jasmin Restaurant

Seeing a restaurant called Jasmin, you might have thought it was Thai or Chinese – but no – it is a modern Indian restaurant specialising in North Indian cuisine.  It was incredibly popular – full at 6pm! And it was a basement type restaurant too! The food was good, the service friendly – what more could you want?

The Sushi Train restaurant we went to is part of a chain.  But it was cheap and cheerful and the food was good.  What more can you ask for.  The concept of a sushi train is also fun with little dishes of food whisking by your table on a little conveyor belt and you just pick up whatever you fancy.  The different coloured dishes indicate the prices and when you've finished they just total the empty plates up.