Where are you having dinner tonight - Spoon. Where? Never heard of it. It was amazing that no one had heard of Spoon in Adelaide. A colleague had booked it for us and so I had to research it before we got there. Spoon is a new restaurant wine bar by Aramis vineyards from McLaren vale. It basically bring the celler door experience to down town Adelaide. A small but funky restaurant that my Adelaide colleagues felt reminded them of Sydney restaurants. A huge wine list of their own wines and other wines as well by the glass or bottle. Wine flights and tasting add to the celler door kind of experience. Very few tables and a kitchen that was smaller than our dining table but a great and innovative modern Australian menu. The spoon tasting option was a good way to start as you got to try most of the dishes on the menu at a go. But the partridge got me as it is not often that you see that on the menu. I had to try it and even thought it was cooked well, the cabbage was too strong and sour for me and couldn’t finish the dish for the first time. The lamb was a stand out, the saganaki decedant and the chocolate good.

 

Spoon Tasting:
Cajun limestone coast lamb loin
Seared ocean trout
BBQ pork neck
Roast cherry tomato, grilled polenta, marinated goat chevre

Saganaki - pan fried kefalograviera cheese

Roasted Redgate Farm Partridge with spatzle, salt and pepper legs, braised aramis black label shiraz red cabbage, creamed watercress

Warm Mediterranean seafood salad:
Pan fried coorong mullet fillets, spencer gulf prawns, scallop, radicchio, grapefruit, olive tapenade, lemon and parsley

Mayura station wagyu fillet 8+ score - crisp onion rings and pink pepper sauce

Coconut crème, grilled fig and strawberry salad, vincotto, sesame snap

Belgiun chocolate brownie, dark chocolate sorbet, romcaffe and frangelico soup