Heaps of your favourite restaurants are still open, serving the heartwarming dishes you miss the most. Here are a few of our favourites.
April 29, 2020
Habits
CityMag’s favourite meals and where to get them during COVID-19
SPECIAL REPORT: COVID-19 ADELAIDE
With the rate of new café, bar and restaurant openings in the city now slowed to a trickle, many food focussed Adelaideans have been left only to reminisce on dining experiences of days gone by.
Inspired by a torrent of throwback posts, CityMag decided to delve into our intermittent series charting our own favourite dishes in the city and beyond – Just one thing.
The series was designed to help you navigate the menus of some of our favourite eateries – both popular and lesser known – and give you one absolute must-have menu item.
Sometimes that was a serve of toast or a cup of tea – we’re a twee bunch, after all – but in all cases it was delicious.
While sifting through the Just one thing archive, we’ve decided to collate the options that are still available to purchase in this new, COVID-19 takeaway-only reality.
If you’re looking for a dinner, lunch, or lunch-dessert option (shout out to Dough’s Golden Daytime cheesecake) – or maybe you just want to recall a time when dining out didn’t mean emptying plastic containers into your own boring crockery, please scroll through and enjoy.
Asian Gourmet’s Sarawak laksa (with ginger beer)
As the weather begins to turn stroppy, comfort yourself with a generous serving of Asian Gourmet’s Sarawak laksa. Our writer found an accompanying bottle of Bundaberg Ginger Beer pairs nicely, but that’s really up to you. Find Asian Gourmet trading in the Central Market.
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Stall WR6, Adelaide Central Market, Adelaide 5000
Big Wang BBQ’s smashed cucumber salad
To say Big Wang’s smashed cucumber salad is a lesser-known menu item is to admit that we glossed over the restaurant’s culinary main event: Dongbei-style barbecue. Partake in the smokier, meatier section of the menu if you must, but rest assured this “light, salty, sweet and spicy” salad is worth adding to your order.
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311 Morphett Street, Adelaide 5000
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Dough’s Golden Gaytime cheesecake
Just look at it. Are you salivating? You are. It’s hard to pick just one item at Dough – everything is equally tantalising, but the Golden Gaytime cheesecake has deliciousness and heady nostalgia going for it.
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Stall 45, Adelaide Central Market, Adelaide 5000
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Hey Jupiter’s continental breakfast
Ebenezer brasserie Hey Jupiter has changed a lot since this visit, back in 2016, when it was a cute café daring to dream of life with larger borders. Ordering the continental breakfast now might involve a bit of mixing and matching of individual menu items, but some simulacrum of this fine breakfast experience can be achieved. Otherwise, owners Christophe Zauner and Jacqui Lodge will surely have something else delicious up their sleeves for you.
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11 Ebenezer Place, Adelaide 5000
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Honki Tonki’s chicken and mushroom dumplings
The dumplings are, of course, amazing – as you can clearly see – the tip we had to share with you, dear reader, is to order extra sauce. Good God that sauce. How to describe it? Easy: “The sauce is comforting, it’s homely, and it’s got a bit of kick to it. Not a big kick, the type to creep up and make your nose run, but the kind to make you smile and nod. It’s like when you make a cup of tea and hop into bed. It just feels right.”
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38 Hindley Street, Adelaide 5000
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Kopi Tim’s Hainanese chicken rice
Our visit to Kopi Tim in 2016 did not quite go as we had planned – the chicken rice that accompanies the chicken rice dish was supplemented with coconut rice, then with regular steamed rice – but it was to no detriment of the meal.
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168 Gouger Street, Adelaide 5000
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Mamak Corner’s roti canai
Get your roti, dhal and curry fix on Bank Street – we remember Mamak’s roti to be oily and doughy, and the dhal just salty enough to cut through said oiliness.The curry packed a punch, and – yep, time for a Mamak fix.
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8 Bank Street, Adelaide 5000
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Mandoo’s bibimbap
Known, of course, for its mandoo – Korean dumplings – our lesser-known (kind of) pick from this Bank Street restaurant is the bibimbap – beef or veggie, whatever floats your boat. It’s comforting, warm, and at least superficially healthy (please don’t break our hearts by correcting us).
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3/26 Bank Street, Adelaide 5000
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Sunmi’s Sushi’s kimchi chigae (with bindaedok and green tea)
We cheated – it’s not just one thing. But the kimchi chigae is exactly what is needed on a cold autumn afternoon, with the wind barreling down Grote Street and very few pedestrians to block it before it gets to you. The eponymous proprietor of the shop, Sunmi Kim, also has an impressive backstory – in 1980 she made the South Korean Olympic volleyball team, but the country boycotted the games, held in Moscow that year. She quit volleyball after that, and her path inevitably led her to the Adelaide Central Market. We can’t be more thankful.
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Stall 1, Adelaide Central Market, Adelaide 5000
Gaganis Warehouse’s tarama dip
Controversially not the souzoukaki in pita available to all Gaganis visitors at the warehouse’s entryway, our tip for what to pick up when you’re there for your quarterly run of barbecue supplies, Greek coffee and empty wine bottles is the delicious Millennial pink treat that is tarama. This is an essential for any occasion the calls for dip, and you can buy it by the trolley-load at Gaganis.
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9/13 Bacon Street, Hindmarsh 5007
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Kalymnos Pastries’ finikia
The story of Kalymnos Pastries spans four generations, starts in Greece, travels to Russia, and continues to this day behind a shopfront on Henley Beach Road. The finikia is a biscuit dipped in honey and citrus shortly after being baked, and would traditionally be eaten around Christmas time. But you can have it whenever you like.
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3/158 Henley Beach Road, Torrensville 5031
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Lobethal Bierhaus’ hot wings
The menu at Lobethal Bierhaus has been changing weekly lately, so we can’t guarantee this will be available when you next take a trip out to the brewery, but we have seen Buffalo wings pop up in recent weeks. Pair with a creamy nitro stout for best effect.
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3A Main Street, Lobethal 5241
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Loveon Café’s infamous chicken cobb sandwich
What makes this sandwich ‘infamous’? We can’t say. We can say that it is a very good way to spend a lunch break. Inside its soft Turkish bread exterior, the sandwich is filled with roast chicken, Swiss cheese, sautéed spinach, fresh avocado smash, and onion jam.
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39 Gladstone Road, Mile End 5031
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