Food & Wine
Bars & Restaurants
Slick service, sweet surprise
A SMALL North Adelaide dining room is the scene of some heroic table-waiting - and a most satisfying meal.
Down by riverside
THE ADELAIDE Convention Centre's restaurant arm, Regattas, offers a solid new menu.
Full Italian experience
BIG is the word all round for Campbelltown's cafe sister to the prized Assaggio Ristorante of Hyde Park.
Wine cellar at your door
WINING AND dining at a cellar-door no longer means a weekend drive. Could CBD cellar restaurants be an emerging trend?
Happy little corner find
A SUBURBAN Chinese venue offers a menu full of exciting dishes from Shanghai to Szechuan style.
Adelaide's Masterchef runner-up Poh Ling Yeow shares some of her favourite dishes in our Recipes section.
Recipes
Delights of noodle night
Fresh and exciting ingredients lift simple noodles to heady heights, explains Notebook magazine's SARAH HOBBS
Easy-peasy pea dishes
No matter if they are fresh or frozen, Notebook: food editor SARAH HOBBS sings the praises of the humble pea
Full steam ahead for Poh
Far from slowing down since MasterChef, Adelaide's Poh Ling Yeow tells SARAH MACDONALD of delicious magazine it's been one crazy ride.
Mediterranean mezes a Greek classic
Simple and healthy, Greek cuisine perfectly suits our climate and lifestyle, says Notebook: magazine food editor SARAH HOBBS
My steamy secrets (for cooking fish)
Light and healthy fish is a perfect summer staple. Delicious. magazine's VALLI LITTLE shares her secret to cook it perfectly.
Search for our national dish
THE signature dish at the Prairie Hotel in South Australia's Flinders Ranges is its Road Kill Grill ($30) - a mix of kangaroo and emu fillet on mash with a camel sausage tossed in for good measure.
Chocolate heaven
BROWNIES OCCUPY a heavenly space between chocolate and cake - silkier and substantial.
Table for 10
IN THE middle of party season, we asked the master of catering for a crowd, Adelaide Convention Centre executive chef Tze Khaw, for some ideas.
The Great Australian Bite
OUR CULTURAL mixed inspired Adelaide food consultant and stylist CHRIS STEPHAN when devising lamb recipes for entertaining friends and family this Australia Day.
Leftovers . . . in good taste
There's more than one way to build a feast. As the fridge bulges with Christmas leftovers, KARENA ARMSTRONG has some tasty suggestions for feeding the New Year hordes.
Drinks
ABS crushed by wine state error
DON'T throw your number plates away just yet - South Australia's still the wine state, despite a major blunder by national statisticians who said we'd been overtaken by NSW.
Mix it with the best
IF YOU haven't been to a party this week, welcome the breather. Life after the Christmas, New Year party circuit might be a little quieter now, but in Adelaide it's a momentary lull.
Easy does it as an icon lightens up
COOPERS Brewery has joined the big dry. Coopers Clear was launched last night with more than 550 guests at the National Wine Centre, but not for reasons drinkers might suspect, executive chairman Glenn Cooper said.
Grinning from beer to beer
BEER BROWSING is a minefield of choice over summer. Sales are up, with beer comprising 50 per cent of the drinks market in South Australia.
Top of the poppers
END-OF-YEAR parties will be even better once you pop a cork from our top 25 sparklers.
Healthy Eating
Red wine, chocolate 'are cancer killers'
CABERNET and chocolate are potent medicine for killing cancer, according to research presented in the US.
Zucchini flowers
ZUCCHINI FLOWERS: In the Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan explains that attraction to flowers is a common human trait. Yet we rarely eat the enticing blooms.
Hot tropic of conversation
IT'S HARD for pineapple to be elegant. Its tropical origins lead people towards gaudy Hawaiian shirts, cocktail umbrellas and sculpted pineapple ``boats''.
In the markets for freshness
SUMMER FRUITS and rosy cherries abound at Adelaide Central Market. Samela Harris explores this treasure.
Get to know your onions
ONIONS ARE ubiquitous; they're an integral part of our culinary landscape. So it wasn't until I read Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle last year that I had a revelation about their seasonality.
News
River of cash for Torrens
PREMIER Mike Rann has pledged almost $400 million to redevelop the Torrens precinct, potentialy trumping a popular Liberal plan to rework the riverfront,
Sport
World Cup glory at last for Kookaburras
REVENGE was sweet as the power-packed Australian men's field hockey team downed Germany 2-1 in the World Cup final overnight.
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Elephants at Taronga Zoo
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