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| Recommended Restaurants in Oz | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 27 2007, 06:46:15 AM (4,839 Views) | |
| KimInMellie | Oct 18 2008, 08:59:18 AM Post #21 |
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In the interest of getting the little things restored, I'm re-posting my restaurant recs for the western suburbs in Melbourne: Jasmine Inn Yarraville Village, near the Sun Theatre $ lunch (Wed-Sunday only) $$ dinner Jasmine Inn has a sort of 'fresh Thai' concept, I guess. Michael & I go here at least once a week. Every item on the menu is great, all the chicken is white meat (no bits of gristle -- I hate gristle lol) and the noodles are sooo fresh! My favourites are the red chicken curry and the hot box noodles, and Michael likes the hokkein noodles and the satay chicken, but as I said, every item is stellar. Yum Yum! The Gravy Train cafe Seddon, on Gamon Street $$ breakfast/lunch A great place for a late brekkie (they serve it til 4pm)! The Spanish eggs with chorizo and the fluffy Canadian pancakes are our faves. Good coffee and chai lattes from scratch, not that icky powder. Yum Yum too! |
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| (gordon38555) | Oct 26 2008, 10:23:01 AM Post #22 |
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I'll repost my Adelaide guide from right before the crash. Tandoori Oven-Indian food. Unley, just out Adelaide CBD What can I say...it's the best. A bit dear but if you like Indian food then this is the absolute best I've had. It's a fantastic dining experiecen, everything from the service to the food. Cork n Cleaver: Glenunga, just outside Adelaide CBD Steak house modeled after an American restaurant in Colorodo. Again a bit dear, but the steaks are tender and oh so good to taste. Danny's thai bistro: Norwood, The Parade Very good thai food. The salt n pepper soft shell crab is heaps nice. |
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| STLAUS | Oct 28 2008, 01:18:44 PM Post #23 |
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For anyone who loves Tex-Mex, I've found a great little Authentic Mexican Restaurant in Christie's Beach (about 30 minutes southeast of Adelaide - in the suburbs): Margarita's, 19 Beach Road, Christie's Beach. Closed on Mondays Dinner - $$ (most mains are $14.95 & come with rice, beans) Recommendations: Enchilada's with Green Sauce (The green sauce is made locally by an American man, but the tomatillos from which it's made are imported from New Mexico) The food has a true Mexican flavor...nothing like the processed taste of some of other Adelaide Mexican Restaurants. |
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| (gordon38555) | Oct 30 2008, 08:37:23 PM Post #24 |
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Wow that's got to be the best first post I've ever seen. I good reccomendation for mexican. I do believe it may be time for a road trip. |
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| CheekyOne | Dec 12 2008, 05:03:25 PM Post #25 |
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Heres another Mexican restaurant in Brisbane  Dos Amigos 185 Moggill,Taringa ph: 3870 8092 Dinner: 7 Nights ,Lunches: Wednesday through Sunday 11:30-3:30 Take-aways welcome!! http://www.dosamigos.com.au/ In my opinion this is the best Mexican restaurant in Brisbane!! Also if you go during lunch or happy hour they bring you complimentary chips and salsa (yes you read that right,FREE!!) My favourite dish here is the burrito,enchilada style with Fajita chicken.It is HUGE and SO tasty!!It comes with rice and beans. It has a hint of a smokey flavour to it (as does the rice) which reminds me of the restaurants back home.The salsa is really good as well (even my picky husband liked it alot) |
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| Lisa66 | Jan 20 2009, 11:42:17 PM Post #26 |
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We've recently been to a few places on Glen Huntly Rd in Caulfield / Elsternwick that are in Cheap Eats - both of which I highly recommend: Simmer 452 Glen Huntly Rd Elsternwick 3185 VIC http://www.yourrestaurants.com.au/guide/simmer/ Really nice pastas, risottos, etc. They have a lot of tapas-y type entrees so you can put together a meal by sharing a few and they have a KID'S MENU! Wild Ginger 680 Glen Huntly Rd Caulfield South 3162 VIC http://www.yourrestaurants.com.au/guide/wild_ginger/ We ate there tonight - the proprietors are so nice. The food is delish - really exquisite flavors. We did BYO ($4 corkage). Whyte @ 1122 Glenhuntly Road Glenhuntly 3163 is not in Cheap Eats but it has THE BEST COFFEE around. (And, it is around the corner from our house ... stop by after your flat white!) They do great brekkie. Dinner is more $$$ but nice. Edited by Lisa66, Jan 20 2009, 11:43:02 PM.
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| shylady | Aug 16 2009, 05:52:15 PM Post #27 |
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Wudinna, South Australia... Gawler Ranges Motel and Caravan Park YES I am posting this in Recommended Restaurants, because I heartily want to recommend their restaurant! *Anyone driving the A1 across SA towards WA and the Nullarbor* (thinking of you, Dev!) The town of Wudinna is 580km west of Adelaide (100km west of Kimba), and 700km east of the SA/WA border, so it's a good spot to stop overnight. The town is not much more than a pub/hotel, a huge grain elevator/silo, an implement dealer, and this place, and oh yeah, the Great Australian Farmer Granite Sculpture (which isn't finished yet, but the sheep are cute around his feet). So, who'da reckoned their food would be the best we'd eaten in 12,500km??? And the motel was tops for the money, too. The deluxe rooms were nearly new, immaculate, and humongous, for $114. The caravan park was clean and quiet and had good facilities. But the FOOD! OMG Fresh oysters, a massive bowl of garlic/sweet chilli FRESH huge prawns, and about a kilo of Porterhouse steak that melted in your mouth. At TOTALLY reasonable prices, like less than $20/main.
 Four Thumbs. Lisa eta: link Edited by shylady, Aug 16 2009, 07:12:31 PM.
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"I could’ve turned a different corner, I could’ve gone another place... " ku,'09 | |
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| shylady | Aug 16 2009, 06:41:09 PM Post #28 |
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Second-best food we ate in 12,500km: Monto, QLD... The Colonial Motor Inn Monto is a mining town on the Burnett Highway, inland from Bundaberg, south of Rockhampton, and north of Toowomba. Beautiful area.
Wow, again, who'da thunk! There were half a dozen miners who obviously have weekly rooms there, and I asked them how the food in the restaurant is, and they said, "It ain't bad, it fills ya up." The Roast of the Day was pork, heaping slices, fork-tender, surrounded by 5 veggies all done separately, to perfection, nothing overcooked. $12.95, would damn near have fed us both! The T-bone special on the blackboard in the pub was a perfect, huge steak, surrounded by the same 5 veggies, and you can include chips or a salad, but I don't know where anyone could have put them. And ppl claim that America has huge portions! The motel is your average motel, but clean and neat, and only $87 for a queen-size bed, not bad at all. The owner/Mrs says she has a "makeover" planned, whenever she wants to spend $100,000, but for now it's adequate and the food is worth it! The dining room was too pretty to touch, cloth tablecloths&serviettes, antiques, local artwork. The bar adjoined it, sports on tv and miners drinking with the owner/Mr, and the price was the same in either.  Three thumbs and a beer! eta: link Edited by shylady, Aug 16 2009, 07:14:18 PM.
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| shylady | Aug 16 2009, 07:06:51 PM Post #29 |
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 Does anyone else find it strange that 2 of the best restaurants I've eaten at in 10 years of traveling in Australia, were in outback, out-of-the-way places, when the quality/cost of their food was worthy of a spot in any city, with prices twice as high? eta: or maybe I was just high on endorphins due to traveling through a gorgeous country Edited by shylady, Aug 16 2009, 07:19:06 PM.
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"I could’ve turned a different corner, I could’ve gone another place... " ku,'09 | |
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| Pamm | Aug 16 2009, 07:27:34 PM Post #30 |
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Not really, the best food I've had so far on a road trip was a restaurant in a gas station we hit in Norseman on the way back from Albany That was the *best* hamburger I've had here!
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| shylady | Aug 16 2009, 09:03:55 PM Post #31 |
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oh HEY! Norseman was my next review~! We ate there going both directions, the BP roadhouse you're talking about with the motel behind it, and the other rammed-earth motel/lodge/caravan park, past the tin camels! I should write them BOTH up!
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| TerritorianTori | Aug 17 2009, 01:22:21 AM Post #32 |
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Thanks for posting your recommendations, Lisa! 
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| Pamm | Aug 17 2009, 01:31:06 AM Post #33 |
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GMTA, Lisa  I *really* love this place in Merriden called Cafe 56. It's just a little shop, but they have the best sammiches, and tea stuff. We ate there when we drove over that way with Dad for my medicals, as well as on the trip down from Perth with Mum when I arrived |
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| Lisa66 | Nov 5 2009, 01:33:29 PM Post #34 |
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Siam 1 in Carnegie (SE of Melbourne) - delish!! A Thai wine bar restaurant with gorgeous food and a v. nice wine list. DH and I had a surprise date night last night (DD stayed at a friend's for dinner). We had tried to go to Siam 1 once before with another couple but it was a Friday night and was totally booked out. So we got an early table last night. We share 4 "tasting" size plates (barramundi, squid, green papaya salad and curry puffs) and I had 2 very nice glasses of white from the Margaret River (Stella Bella Sem / Sauv Blanc was lovely). Service was a bit uneven, but they were very nice. And not too $$$. Their website: http://siamone.com.au/ Review in the Age: http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/epicure/restaurant-review/siam-1/2009/02/19/1234632945700.html |
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| Deleted User | Nov 15 2009, 01:13:15 PM Post #35 |
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For a taste of southern food try South Restaurant in Neutral Bay (Sydney). They have real cornbread, hush puppies and real tortilla chips with guacamole. Jambalaya, Pork BBQ ribs and Shrimp Creole to name a few mains. It can be a little pricey if you get a starter and a main but well worth it. Leo, the owner if from New York and very friendly as is all the staff. It's a tiny place but cosy. We have been there about four times and I never fail to hear an American accent from another table. Reservations recommended. The address is : 222 Military Road, Neutral Bay. Ph: 0299085225. |
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| Riley | Dec 1 2009, 05:37:01 PM Post #36 |
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Cafe Pacifico Level 1, 95 Riley Street Darlinghurst, Sydney. http://www.cafepacifico.com.au/index.php?s=contact This is the only Mexican Restaurant in Sydney that has real 100% California/ Mex Food. It's a little pricey, but when your really hanging out for real American Mexican food, cocktails and Latin atmosphere, music and dancing just like in the US, it's totally worth the money. |
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| shellybeach | Apr 1 2010, 10:13:11 PM Post #37 |
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When I lived in Sydney (Manly) My faverite restaurants were Out Of Africa. The food is amazing!!! It is Morroccoan. Also, try beaches pizza also in Manly. If you feel like beef don't miss Ribs and Rumps (also in Manly) I now live in Brisbane and have been to many of the recommended restaurants and I agree. It is so funny that us Yanks end up at the same spots!! If you are going for mexican please don't get sucked into Montezumas it is horrible!! Stale chips no spice and everything is so bland and lardy! yuck! |
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| Dev | Jun 13 2010, 05:17:42 PM Post #38 |
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Bluecorn 205 Barkly Street, St Kilda $$-$$$ All I've had here is their "signature" breakfast burrito, but MY GOD was it good! Perfect blend of beans (yes, folks...even black beans!!!), cheese, the best chili sauce I've ever tasted and all the other goodies you would find in a real breakfast burrito. From what I could see on the menu, the prices range from about $10 to $30 depending on what you order. Their coffee is also quite nice (Genovese Super Brazil for those that keep track of such things) and they know how to make it properly. I would highly recommend giving it a go, if only for the breakfast burrito. (I'm still a very happy Devon over here hours later!) |
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| staylor8383 | Jul 5 2010, 03:51:30 PM Post #39 |
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Hanuman 93 Mitchell St, Darwin NT 0800 ph: (08) 8941 3500 http://www.hanuman.com.au/ $$-$$$ loved the atmosphere and the food and cocktails were awesome! It's a great mix of thai, indian and nonya. The tasting plate is very good if you want to try a few different things:) |
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| TerritorianTori | Jul 7 2010, 01:36:16 AM Post #40 |
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Ah, I've seen that place many-a-time, but never eaten there. Maybe we'll give it a whirl! Thanks!
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