Chefs on Wheels

Chefs on Wheels is a business created during COVID lockdown. When the restaurants were shut due to the COVID lockdown, three of Adelaide's best Chefs banded together to start a take-out business. Chefs on Wheels has gone from what was supposed to be a temporary solution to a temporary problem to a permanent and highly successful enterprise. 

Chefs on Wheels prepares restaurant quality food at an excellent price and it can be delivered to your door on your schedule. We have been ordering from them for a few months. It is like ordering TV dinners beyond your wildest expectations.

We had the opportunity to get 15% off an order so we placed a big order. No sooner we placed the order and applied our discount, then they announced a new product line of sauces. We placed a second order for one each of three sauces. We wondered if they would deliver both together. They delivered both orders in the same box! We barely have room to store the order.

The large trays are 3kg. We typically get three to five servings per tray. This time they were out of the large size of CJ's favorite, the Thai green curry and he purchased two of the smaller meal size orders. 

Shown is only part of the order.

Fruitful Pursuit - Seb and Colleen Hardy

We return to La Buvette for another Fruitful Pursuit event. This one is a Winemaker and Me evening. It is a sit down wine tasting hosted by Seb and Colleen Hardy. They make wine in the US and Australia.

We met Seb years ago at K1, when he was a young lad learning his craft from his father Geoff. We met again a couple of years ago when we attended his grandmothers 90th birthday black tie event at Adelaide Uni. 

His wife Colleen is from the Finger lakes region near Rochester. They have a winery on the K1 property and another in Hammonsport, NY. They have a tasting room in downtown Rochester.

It is a marvelous evening. They pour good white wines from New York but the star of the show is a Nero d'avola from South Australia. This is the line up of wines to be tasted.

Seb and Colleen

Question time

Our first jabs!!

 

Awaiting second jabs second week of August.

National Wine Centre

One of our neighbors is part of a photography exhibit at the National Wine Centre which is why we visit for the first time in a decade.

There is a version of this signpost in McLaren Vale that includes Napa. All of these are in Europe. Bad form. What about the US east coast, US west coast, Chile, Argentina, and South Africa?

The wine centre has the expected wine cellar.

One could not visit without sitting for a couple of tasting flights.

The architecture of the building is in the form of a wine barrel.

Botanical Gardens - Used as a Shortcut

Following our visit to Victoria Square for a Taste of Australia, we jump on the tram for the first time in over a year for a ride to the Botanical Gardens. When we lived on North Terrace, we rode the tram daily, often many times a day; and then COVID struck. Although the tram continued to run throughout the pandemic, we did not feel comfortable riding in public. 

By the time it was safe to return to riding, we had moved cross town and no longer had a tram stop within sight of our door. It was now half a town a way, in either of two directions. Today, as we depart the event in Vic Square, the tram station is a mere 100 feet. A quick tram change at the train station stop and the tram delivers us to within a stones throw of the Botanic Gardens.

We will use the Botanic Gardens as a shortcut to the National Wine Centre.

Taste of Australia

There is ALWAYS something on in Adelaide. Today we walk to the center of Adelaide (literally). The Adelaide CBD is a square. There are five squares in the city. Victoria Square is at the center with four parks equally spaced in the four quadrants.

The epicenter of Tasting Australia is occurring in Victoria Square. There is the Grand Dame standing in the middle of her square.

Half of the square is cordoned off for the event. There are food booths, an entertainment pavilion, a special events dining pavilion, and a masterclass pavilion, and entry is FREE.

After a quick look, we settle on Indian for lunch.

While in line CJ recognizes a celebrity voice. One of the three hosts of Australia MasterChef , Andy Allen, is standing next to us in line.

We find a place to sit and eat. Coming in from the wrong end we miss the signs designating it a smoking area. Fortunately, we are outdoors and the smokers have gravitated to the other side.

There is a lot going on here including music.

This sounds far too good to pass up the next time. We must seek this place out.

This is our favorite Thai restaurant. Eat there all the time so did not select it.

Farther into Daughter-in-Laws Menu

Our first couple of trips to Daughter-in-Law, our new favorite restaurant in the city have been menu selection repeats. Today we venture farther into the menu; but first, one cannot pass on the Balls of Happiness and designer cocktails.

Oh those balls. Bit in to once they are wholly in your mouth, they explode in an amazing array of flavours.

When the local restaurant reviewer panned this place, (he was apparently on drugs when he dined here), he panned the barramundi. Since then they have been sold out most nights. Since we are dining early, before a movie, CJ orders barramundi and Carol prawns.

That restaurant reviewer is clueless! The food farther down the menu is as good as the appetizers.

Lunch in Chinatown

When we lunch at the Central Market, Revolution Mexicana Adelaide and Fernando come to mind.  From time to time you need a change. Today we lunch in Chinatown in the adjacent block. One of the best places is the detached purpose-build food court. We have two favorites. Today we both get adventuresome and try two different places.

Carol selects a place offering dumpling soup.

CJ selects another serving a spicy stir fry.

We have now tried four of the establishments and have been happy each time. The food in this food court is better than some of the adjacent free standing restaurants.

Nice Evening

From time to time we get interesting cloud formations at sunset. Enjoy.

Skyline of downtown Adelaide. We walk to there all the time.

The view toward the Adelaide Hills.