July 2014
I haven't been particularly happy with my Frugal Feeds. It's been a lot of scores of 5-6. Also, it's less interesting for me, and for readers, as the food in this "$$" category is often very mundane. I need new material for Feed Reports, but Adelaide has a fixed number of restaurants. Novelties like Hills of Feed and New Additions were good, but didn't last long. I could endlessly decline into cheaper and cheaper restaurants, but that's not going to be interesting or tasty.
Future Feeds:
Mmm… dirt…
Nepal is not very tasty.
This is a fairly large place. I'm starting to get the feeling that there's a correlation between restaurant size and restaurant quality. There are certainly a lot of good small places, but I find that the larger places are consistently fairly good. I guess they wouldn't get big unless they were good.
After a quick coriander interrogation, I choose the duck.
I think Thailand is the epicentre of both spiciness and coriander, so I need to be careful here. :)
I never even noticed this place before. It looks like a cafe or delicatessen, but on Friday and Saturday, they serve dinner.
The place is full, so I have to sit outside, on the porsch.
I've been given a number (actually a raffle ticket.) I asked for it, after seeing some other numbered people be shown to a table.
The place is brightly lit like a delicatessen, and is full of trendies, Asians, and trendy Asians.
Patrons sit around a central food preparation area, and between the two is a conveyor belt with a hundred or so dishes circulating.
The place is packed, so I go for a half-an-hour walk while I wait for a table to be freed up.
Being Chinese, coriander infestation isn't too bad, but I still have to dodge the really spicy dishes. The waitress aids me on this quest.
This is a very highly-rated Indian restaurant.
The Thali Room itself isn't open, but it's actually just an annexe of the British India restaurant. I'm sitting in the British India, but I'll be feasting from the Thali Room menu.
Things are very ornate in here. There are wood panel walls, and all kinds of trophies and artefacts line the rooms.
For a suburban restaurant on a rainy night, there's a lot of people here. At least fifty.
I'm recommended two tapas dishes. I'll consume them from the lounge-like seat I've been allocated.
This place does pizza, typical mains, and tapas. Having two tapas dishes gives a better indication of the quality of the restaurant than one dish would.
I was going to make some "satay" gags about De Sate, but I think Sate actually means "satay". :|
I think Urbanspoon has miscategorised this restaurant. The prices here are horrifying low. Main course isn't even a two-digit number! And there isn't any Diet Coke. I'm reduced to experimenting with "Pepsi Next". :|
I'm recommended the soup. De Sate is currently out of satays.