March 2014
After a year of eating at all of Adelaide's 110 fanciest restaurants, then re-eating at the top fifty of those, then the top twenty, then the top five...
The Feed Report awards Jolley's Boathouse the title of "Best Feed in Adelaide".
The final destination in The Feed Report Top 5.
The streets are packed with university revellers of some sort. Parking is almost impossible.
The second to last restaurant in my Top 5.
Place is full of people in their Sunday best. It's possible that I look out of place in my multi-coloured Adidas streetwear. :)
The third restaurant in my Top 5.
This restaurant is very much on the fancy side. You can tell how fancy a restaurant is by how close the tables are to each other.
The second restaurant in my Top 5 series.
This is the casino's restaurant. Parking in the actual Casino car park takes you a long way away. I recommend just parking across the road, on North Terrace.
The first restaurant in my Top 5. This place does simple, tasty food. This would be my first choice for someone who wants a nice meal, but isn't into fancy stuff.
Greetings feeders! The Feed Report Top 20 has concluded, and the Top 5 has begun.
The Feed Report began with me going to 110 of Adelaide's fanciest restaurants - every restaurant in Urbanspoon's "$$$" and "$$$$" categories, that had a score of 70%+.
I then took the top fifty of those (all restaurants I gave a score of at least 6.6 to) and revisited them. I then took the top twenty of those (the cutoff for this was a score of 7.0), and now I'm doing the Top 5, which is the five restaurants with scores of 7.5 or more.
Despite not being at the absolute top of my Scores page, this us probably the place I look forward to coming to most. It's definitely Adelaide's fanciest restaurant. It's the only place I've been to where degustation (many small courses) is the only menu option. It is also, unsurprisingly, the most expensive place I've been.
The staff greet me by name at the door. They even prepared a special menu just for me. (Their normal menu hadn't changed since I was last here, and I don't want to re-eat the same food.
Maybe I'm getting special service. :)
This place is extremely popular. Always book here. Almost anywhere else, you'll just be able to walk in the door, and get a table. Not here.
There are only a handful of fancy French restaurants in Adelaide.
Back at Matsuri. Their sliding door is crap, but the food is good.
Actually, their main courses are extremely good, and their desserts are very mediocre.