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Simon Wilkinson is the restaurant reviewer at The Advertiser and plays a lead role in compiling the delicious. 100 list every year. While living and working as a journalist in London, he has followed the food trails of Europe from Sardinia to Scandinavia. He lives in Adelaide’s beachside suburbs where he is an enthusiastic home cook.

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1/2/19 Source SA Cover The vanilla ice-creams - our panel tastes all the supermarket tubs.Ben, 13, with some of the ice cream. Picture MATT TURNER.

The great ice cream taste test

In a show of good taste, we took 12 of the most popular vanilla ice creams – including dairy free – and subjected them to a blind taste test. Which one came out on top?

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Young couple enjoying romantic meal together

Valentine’s Day date? SA’s most romantic tables

Need to find a restaurant for your Valentine’s Day romantic date? Here are the best South Australian restaurants for two. So where will you be taking your loved one today?

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New Bavarian restaurant by Rockpool in Tea Tree Gully / Tea Tree Plaza

The Bavarian – where the best is not the wurst

A link to one of the biggest names in Australian restaurants adds extra intrigue to a rowdy tavern with an Oktoberfest theme

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5/2/2019 Prohibition co-owner Adam Carpenter with Bartender Gretel Ramsay at Prohibition, Adelaide. Picture MATT TURNER.

Fighting spirit fuels awards rivalry

The state’s new wave of artisan distillers will be on display when the second Tasting Australia Spirit Awards are held during the festival in April.

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7/6/16 Owner Simon Flocco with of his signature milkshakes at 50 Six One on King William Road in Hyde Park. Picture: MATT LOXTON

As one 50SixOne store fails, another begins

The expansion of high profile dessert bar chain 50SixOne has hit a bump in the road with the failure of its shop in the Hills resulting in liquidation – just as a new outlet opens at Henley Beach today.

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Fishing for likes, and getting them too

A third-generation family restaurant takes a simple, Greek approach to cooking seafood and solves one of the city’s great conundrums.

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20/12/2018 Source SA cover story - Seafood bbq for Australia Day at Sea Salt restaurant. Picture MATT TURNER.

As-salt the senses with seafood feast

Sunshine and swimwear are such symbols of our national identity. So are the beach and barbecue. So here’s some tips on bringing the two together.

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Javitri chops. Photographer: S. S. Guliani

Culinary mangling feels like a backward step

A new modern Indian restaurant in the southern suburbs tones down the spices and over-complicates the plating.

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Kathrin Dressler and Alan Varney from Victor's Place. Picture:Supplied

Simon Wilkinson finds a charming eatery at the gateway to the Fleurieu

A couple’s heroic vision has transformed the crumbling remains of a barn into a charming eatery and cellar door at the gateway to the Fleurieu.

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TASTE Top 20 recipes 2019. Healthier chicken chow mein. MUST CREDIT Nigel Lough

Hottest recipes for 2018

It was the year that home cooks tried to make their lives easier and healthier while still leaving room for the occasional indulgence. A time to feed your amigos a Mexican fiesta, but also to explore the subtleties of Japanese flavours.

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