This week – exciting new openings, your best coffee tips, sustainable seafood and more.
Openings, openings
Many years have passed since Universal Wine Bar ruled Rundle Street but now, finally, the East End looks like it has another destination wine bar.
Street ADL opened to the public last night, with an extensive and impressive wine list, longneck beers, and a bar menu a cut above most in town (think pork scratchings, burgers made with dry-aged beef, BBQ pork ribs, and other treats).
The team behind Street ADL is led by former Penfolds Magill Estate executive chef Jock Zonfrillo, who is also opening an intimate restaurant upstairs from the bar, known as Orana.
The restaurant, which is already booking up fast, takes on board some of Zonfrillo’s interests in Indigenous ingredients and has an even more impressive wine list than Street.
UPDATED: Steven ter Horst’s new Rundle Street chocolate cafe and patisserie, was due to open this Friday – but it has been postponed. We’ll provide an updated opening date when it’s available.
However, the new Coffee Pot, off Rundle Mall, is opening on Friday.
The old Coffee Pot will be remembered by Adelaideans of a certain age as an old-fashioned cafe, with wood panelling, booths and plenty of newspapers to peruse. The new version, run by the people behind the Tuxedo Cat, will operate as a bar.
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Coffee tips
Readers have not been backward in coming forward with tips for reliably good coffee around town.
Mel tells us she loves “Bar 9 and Exchange on a similar kind of level that teens love Justin Bieber“. However, she hastens to add that The Stranded Store in Colonel Light Gardens is at least as good. “They have a standard selection of four different types of coffee and their strongest blend remains the best cup of coffee of my life,” she says. That’s some endorsement.
Matthew has a list including Sad Cafe in Ebenezer Place (The Forager can endorse that tip), the Howling Owl in Frome Street (ditto), and Paddy’s Lantern in Gilbert Street (also endorsed by reader Michael).
First Pour in O’Connell Street is also in the votes, along with Please Say Please on Grenfell Street.
Jenny is a long black aficionado and gets her work brew from Hudson’s at Flinders Private Hospital. Otherwise, she favours The Blessed Cheese at McLaren Vale and 3 Monkeys in Willunga.
Festival feastings
Some intriguing food and drinks opportunities are opening up for Mad March next year.
While the magic of South American-influenced Barrio is gone, the Festival’s replacement sounds intriguing – if more South Aussie in flavour.
“Lola’s Pergola” will carve out its patch on the Elder Park lawns, with “a backyard picnic on the ultimate quarter-acre block”.
Sounds like some sort of picnic – degustation dinners are on the agenda.
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Over in the revamped Victoria Square, the team behind the “Little Miss” bars will join with the Fringe and the city council to run the “Royal Croquet Club”.
The team is promising “the style and decor of a truly British royal garden party”.
There will be white rustic garden furniture and candy-striped lounges scattered around a central croquet field.
Sounds like the place to sip gin or Pimms as the hot sun goes down.
Healthy seas, healthy fish
If you’re interested in sustainable seafood, get along to the SARDI Aquatic Sciences open day this Sunday, from 10am to 4pm.
The open day, at 2 Hamra Ave, West Beach, will show off the research organisation’s quietly impressive work to keep our marine environment healthy, so we can enjoy some of the world’s best seafood.
Visitors can chat to marine biologists, view displays on aquaculture and wild fish, and learn about marine biosecurity and threatened species.
Chef Simon Bryant will be conducting “super seafood” cooking demonstrations.
Entry is free. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
Small bites
Langhorne Creek Vignerons’ Day is celebrating its 20th anniversary this Sunday at Strathalbyn Racecourse. Get along for plenty of local wine (Bremerton Wines will be launching its new sparkling at the event). Food will be provided by local restaurants, including Giovanni’s Wood Fired Pizzas, and the Low and Slow BBQ food truck will make the journey from Adelaide. The Eden marquee will show off local regional produce.
The boom in Latin American food is continuing with the opening of Candela Latin American Restaurant at 120 Goodwood Road. The restaurant promises a fusion of flavours from Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina and Colombia.
McLaren Vale’s impressive Sustainable Winegrowing Australia program is the only one of its type in the country – and a new report shows participation has boomed over the past year. Forty per cent of the region’s total vineyard area is now represented in the program, which covers areas such as soil health, pests and disease, biodiversity and water use.
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