Adelaide Restaurants and Bars - Eat Drink
From morning to midnight and back again, EAT/DRINK is FiveThousand's guide to cafes, bars and restaurants in Adelaide. We know the best coffee because we drink 20 a day (each), we know the good restaurants because we can't cook, and we'll tell you where to find hidden bars and other places that still let you smoke so that we can ask you for a cigarette when you get there. EAT/DRINK is as voracious as our appetites and a much better filter than our livers, which stopped working a long time ago. Email your EAT/DRINK suggestions to: talk@fivethousand.com.au
African Twilight Market
I purposely didn't eat much today because I knew that I was going to the African Twilight Market for dinner. For those who don't know, it's a small market run by the African Community Organisation of SA, there's loud African music, amazing food and a bunch of stalls selling various ‘wares', all run by Africans - get it, it's an African Market.
Tincat Cafe
It's really pleasing when you personally organize a meal with a group of friends and everyone's satisfied with what they eat. Not only does the eatery get a good rap but you come across as a person who is totally ruling at life. This can be difficult to achieve though, as there's always that one person who's disappointed with their meal.
Format Survival
With all the amazing shit that is happening over the two or more weeks of Format driving you to distraction, you might think it hard to maintain the basic necessities fundamental to sustaining life. Yep, food! But we have some good news straight from the highly scientific Format School For Not Eating Only Drinking and Having a Great Time (FSFNEODHGT).
Bliss Organic Garden Cafe
When I grow up, I'm going to find a home in a narrow alley running off a hip, busy street in the western part of the CBD. My joint will be a tiny oasis in the middle of the city's hustle and bustle, with mismatched retro furniture inside and a cosy garden with lots of dappled sunlight outside.
Every first Wednesday I'll screen an obscure film and invite all my friends around to watch, although they'll be dropping by all the time anyway to peruse the book store and clothes swap I'll have going on (and sponge off my WiFi).
Tuxedo Cat Rooftop Bar
Last Fringe, a friend and I went to a show and, since we're both young writers with all of the tastes and habits that implies, decided to go for (yet) a(nother) drink. We walked through the university without a care. But upon reaching Pulteney Street, we were suddenly confronted by a carload of dicks.
Arcade Lane
I'm not entirely sure how it happened, but we no longer have any mainstream cinemas in the centre of Adelaide. One turned into a church; another, a block of apartments; and, above the Regent Arcade on Rundle Mall, the old Regent Cinemas lie dormant and unused. This sucks, for with their grandiose chandeliers and wide open spaces, those cinemas were by far the most extravagant we had.
BBQ City
While you're hanging on to dreams of BBC and salt & pepper squid from delicious It-eatery Ying Chow, freezing or sweating your ass off in a queue, a select few are down at 'The City' getting salt & pepper eggplanted, BBQ ducked, and Tsing Tao'd out of their minds.
As long as there are a bazillion Chinese eateries in the area, it can be hard to know were to find the goods and, to be honest, BBQ City is a little scary.
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