June 2014
This is the big sports area at the front of The Arkaba.
The room is like a hall, and its walls are festooned with sports paraphernalia, and televised sports.
There's no fancy service here. My buzzer will start madly vibrating when my feed is ready.
I've now been to every fancy restaurant in or near Adelaide that serves dinner, and has a rating of 70%+ on Urbanspoon. "Fancy" means the restaurant is in the "$$$" or "$$$$" category on Urbanspoon.
My next leg will be to visit the best of the restaurants in the "$$" category. Any restaurant with a score of 85%+ will be included. This is probably around 100 restaurants.
This is disproportionately Asian restaurants, with an overabundance of comical or punulent names.
It's time for Frugal Feeds!!!
In the Adelaide Hills, I drive into a hotel complex. I drive up a hill lined with upmarket holiday bungalows, and reach the newly-built restaurant at the top.
Inside, the place is spacious and new, and feels like a cross between a ski lodge and a convention centre.
There's a lot of pedestrian stuff (steaks, pasta, pizzas) on this menu, but the waitress is happy to go through the other choices with me.
I'm assured that the pork ribs are excellent.
This place is warm and homely, with an open fire.
The menu has a lot of $10 options, and of the rest, most of the items are steaks.