A modern Thai triumph
Add MiMi to your list of good noshing options on a Sunday night.
Add MiMi to your list of good noshing options on a Sunday night.
Beady eyed smiling vivid-green frog cakes, tarts filled with wobbly natural custard, giant choc-topped doughnuts, and square pies. Ah, let the good memories flow — but it wasn’t always the case for Balfours.
WHEN someone, who usually displays better manners, asks for a spoon and finishes up the sauce as if it’s soup, you have to credit the kitchen. Its clear evidence that some great cooking is going on at 82 Thai
TOPIARY serves breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea under French provincial-style sandstone arbors amid greenery, and chef Kane Pollard’s menus make fine garden-time reading.
THIS is a simple lunch shed, stylishly done. A cafe window wall frames our sunny view, past lush citrus gardens to Shottesbrooke vineyards.
FOUND one! After much bemoaning the lack of beachy eateries, where you can wriggle toes in our fine South Australian sand, we spy a West Beach gem.
SUNDAY lunch starts quietly. Rest assured a good vibe builds as a mixed crowd eventually fills the large dining space adjacent to the Penny’s Hill cellar door.
MICK O’Shea’s teams a warm Irish welcome with a proper old-school pub menu.
THREE years on, this not-so “new” diner still delivers fresh, clean flavours in a location serving hungry hordes, before sport, rockers, divas or perhaps the ballet.
ABOUT 100 years ago, caring local called Joan made tea for cricketers playing on Hawthorndene Oval. Her tea stand evolved into a mini grocer and tiny diner, and now it offers all-day breakfasts and lunches, and even Friday dinners.
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