Fat Chicken – Plympton

Every suburb in Adelaide has at least one local Chicken shop. For Plympton, it’s the Fat Chicken franchise, which is located in a small complex on Anzac Highway. The menu is fairly stock standard with chickens, burgers, seafood, salads and hot packs. The chicken shop is more spacious than some of the others. It has…

Biga Cafe

Biga is a cafe and bar located on the popular Hutt Street cafe precinct. Serving an all day breakfast menu from 7am to 3pm, the offerings are good with light and classic dishes, croissants, toasted sandwiches, toasties and omelettes. Lunch goes from 11:30am to 3pm and offers mains, burgers, salads, wraps and bruschetta. The decor…

Verve Bar & Kitchen

Verve Bar & Kitchen is located on the second floor of Westfield Marion Shopping Centre just below the cinema complex and is surrounded by other eateries. The menu consists of some simple breakfast and lunch options and then the rest is categorised into bruschetta, pizza, burgers, pasta and mains. I thought the decor was modern,…

Edge Cafe

Every Sunday morning, the Edge Cafe opens up it’s kitchen and caters for the multitude of church goers. The menu is small and changes every week. They also have another section that serves up your usual hot beverages. This is not the first time I’ve been inside the Edge Church building. There’s a bit of…

Lickety Chick

The start of the Fringe has seen numerous pop-up food vendors come out of the woodwork. Anyone venturing out to Surrender this year will no doubtedly come across Lickety Chick, which is the only place serving food at this location. There are exactly 8 items to choose from and include a chicken or mushroom burger,…

Blue Fish

Blue Fish is a local seafood and chicken shop situated in a small shopping complex on Brighton Road in Brighton. Their offerings are typical of this type of store with fried seafood, roast chicken, burgers, hot dogs, steak sandwiches, yiros and salads. The decor is neat and well presented, and the floor to ceiling windows…

Esplanade Hotel

The Esplanade Hotel, better known as the Espy, is located opposite the jetty on the picturesque shores of Brighton beach. As far as dining goes, there is a cafe on the ground level and a bistro upstairs towards one side. Today, I decided to eat at the cafe as it had better lighting for the…

Seacliff Beach Hotel

About a decade ago, the Seacliff used to be my usual hangout for drinks on a Friday night. I used to live a few suburbs away and I had friends that lived in the area. Of course, things change and so do people’s circumstances, and I found myself not frequenting this place anymore. Fast forward…

Schnithouse – Adelaide

What was once Alfresco on Rundle, and Sliders on Rundle, is now the Schnit House. Having made many first day appearances at this address, I was a bit skeptical as to whether this place would be any good. Gourmet schnitzels are nothing new as a place called House of Schnitzel already has a similar concept….

Hampshire Hotel

The Hampshire Hotel has been around for well over a century, but in recent times, it had been closed. Less than 6 months ago, the doors had reopened, and it was good to see the pub back in business again. The food offerings here are limited with a handful of starters, salads and mains. Compared…