https://fireadl.com/ 54 Pulteney St, Adelaide SA 5000. (08) 8310 0393 It’s been a long time between entries in this here blog, and that’s because I now have a second child, a full time job, I haven’t slept for a year and a half, and I’ve lost the ability to construct sentences. Apart from that one. In fact, all my brain power has been dedicated to make this opening paragraph comprehendible, and using words like comprehendible means that I may have a breakdown at ab8 secni= nhhhhhhhhhh My wife and I managed to get away for the night and we decided to try the restaurant aptly named Fire, as it ..read more

https://sky-restaurant-cafe-dessert.business.site/ 41-43 Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide SA 5015. 0439 977 227 Ignore the combination of words that involve ‘pizza’ and ‘Vietnamese’ for a moment and just look at the picture. Doesn’t it look enticing? The melted gooey cheese? The crunchy fried anchovies? The generous slices of calamari? Just try to refrain from imagining it all swimming in a pho, or slowly seeping through a bun bowl. Who am I kidding? I’d still eat that shit happily. Pizza in broth has somehow flown under everyone’s radar and I’m glad to be the one to bring it to the surface. Obvi ..read more

https://www.portadmiral.com.au/ 55 Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide SA 5015. (08) 8341 2249 This is the second meal I’ve eaten at the Port Admiral, with the first being the Korean-devised kimchi dumplings. Now it’s the Japanese-inspired chicken katsu sandwich. Someone should tell the Port Admiral that they’re not in East Asia and that, being in Port Adelaide, they should really be serving meat pies garnished with a sumptuously baked Chiko Roll amidst a generous drizzling of fag ash and Keno tickets. Their lack of local loyalism is upsetting. The flavours were there but I think I would have prefer ..read more

https://uraidlahotel.com.au/ 1198 Greenhill Rd, Uraidla SA 5142. (08) 8390 0500 Firstly, I really enjoyed this share platter tasting board. Secondly, the menu states that, amongst marinated olives and spicy nuts, this board contains ‘Zaatar Coco Labne’ and I just want to say that I really think she should have won Eurovision this year. The Uraidla Hotel really does seem like a lovely spot. To set the scene, we ate outside (my wife, my two children, and I) and in between my daughter playing on the quaint swing set and slide, she also was able to help feed a baby goat wearing a nappy that a fam ..read more

https://www.cremornehotel.com.au/ 207 Unley Rd, Unley SA 5061. (08) 8272 9746 This burger is the least photogenic burger I’ve ever encountered. Honestly, it’s flat, pale, and all of the flavoursome fillings are almost completely obscured within. It’s a shame because I actually really liked it. It’s like the burger equivalent of if you tried to describe The Big Lebowski to someone in a sentence. “A guy tries to get payment from someone who damaged his rug.” But then you watch the film and there are amputated toes (beetroot), nihilists (pineapple), and John Turturro as a paedophile (a squirt of ..read more

https://mr-fox-espresso-bar.business.site/ 36B James Pl, Adelaide SA 5000. Just the existence of vegan croissants is cause to celebrate but I’ve tried some that are far too bread-like, when you really want something buttery and flaky. That’s why I’ve always thought, with my sweaty, salty, eczema-ridden skin, I would make the perfect croissant. It’s not just me, either. In high school they voted me ‘Most Likely To Pass As A Croissant If Caught Halfway In An Unfortunate Scientific Experiment Reminiscent Of The Jeff Goldblum Film ‘The Fly’’. It was a surprise to me that category was even on the b ..read more

http://thewholesomefoodco.com.au/ I am constantly asked, and I assume you are as well, what food I miss most as a vegan. I don’t really have a set answer because it all depends on my mood. Sometimes I miss seafood as I used to be a big lover of shellfish. Sometimes I miss home cooking, like my mum’s fried chicken or my late grandmother’s cream puffs. But one constant craving that has never gone away, and will be with me until my dying day, is cheese flavoured chips. All cheese flavoured chips, too. Cheese Twisties which are so far better than chicken Twisties that you can only measure the dist ..read more

https://thelostdeli.com.au/ 38 Charles St, Norwood SA 5067. (08) 8123 4687 I think I’ve lived my whole life with a constant craving for onion jam and not realised it. I mean, it’s not a food that’s constantly on offer, and so it’s never really been apparent to me how much I’m drawn to it. Once again, however, I’ve picked a burger on the basis that it has onion jam. Relatedly, I’ve recently become aware of how many people in my life pronounce it ‘ongion’. Disgusting. The pronunciation that is, not the jam. In addition to the onion jam, this burger also has a beef-style patty, bacon, cheese, pi ..read more

https://www.mettasol.com.au/ 98b Goodwood Rd, Goodwood SA 5034. The idea of this website was to inspire vegans in South Australia to explore the vegan options at various eateries and restaurants around this fair state. To show that creativity and variety exists and that living a vegan lifestyle does not mean you need to resign yourself to the same bland meals time and time again. What then followed was me ordering salt and pepper fried food ad infinitum. And so, at a dinner with my wife celebrating our seventh wedding anniversary, I decided to try something new. A new meal, that is. I didn’t t ..read more

https://www.thesouthernhotel.com.au/ 23 Murray St, Gawler SA 5118. (08) 8522 1065 Regardless of what I say in the remainder of this post, we should all just be really glad that veganism has progressed to the point that there’s a dedicated vegan burger available in a pub in Gawler. I mean, it was only a few short years ago that the main attraction at a Gawler pub was a bloke in the corner wearing stubbies singing old, racist folk songs as his teeth fell repeatedly into his schooner. I am basing this entire stereotype on my experiences of people I’ve met from Gawler, like my wife, for example ..read more