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ADELAIDE
Share Fare
The Sparrow Kitchen & Bar takes flight with the most appetite-inducing tapas around. Highlights include duck doughnut and porcini salt, and guanciale (pork jowl) with scallops, polenta and lemon butter sauce. Yum. Settle back with a cold beer or a selection from the restaurant’s short-but-sweet wine list.
Sparrow Kitchen & Bar, 10 O’Connell St, North Adelaide, tel: +61 (0)8 8267 2444, www.sparrowkitchenandbar.com.au
BANGKOK
High Society
Located in a cosy, chandeliered space, Tumdai Tumdee looks more French bourgeois than local Isaan. Try delicacies such as Isaan sausage or somtam poo mah – papaya salad with blue crab. Tumdai Tumdee, 7/27 Chokchai 4, Soi 54, tel: +66 (0)2 932 9589
SYDNEY
Easy Does It
Fix St James is all about simplicity. While the menu is constantly evolving, you’re sure to find the likes of vitello tonnato (a traditional Italian dish of veal soaked in tuna mayonnaise) and deep-fried zucchini flowers stuffed with cheese. Fix is the ideal place for a post-shopping bite and on weekdays offers an AU$35/S$44 deal – five plates to share with friends. If you’re heading to the theatre, grab your… err… fix here first. Fix St James, 111 Elizabeth St, tel: +61 (0)2 9232 2767, www.fixstjames.com.au
BANGALORE
Scientifically Proven
Caperberry amounts to a “kitchen lab”. Take, for example, the salad caprese, which is separated into tomato basil sorbet, orange balsamic jelly and soft mozzarella balls topped with spice foam. Caperberry Restaurant and Tapas Lounge, 48/1 The Estate, 121 Dickenson Rd, tel: +91 (0)80 2559 4567, www.caperberry.in
MELBOURNE
Think Different
The team at Coda aims to keep the menu concise and ever-changing, so it’s unlikely that even regular customers will end up sampling the same thing twice. This new eatery is run by Adam D’Sylva, a specialist in inexpensive, Asian-inspired sharing plates. Try dishes like eggplant and tofu lettuce delight, with enoki mushroom, crisp garlic and black vinegar. Or sample the chicken wings stuffed with pork, glass noodles and spring onion relish. Coda is not the place to take your mum. But it makes for a fantastic Friday night out with your mates.
Coda, Basement, 141 Flinders Ln (Cnr Oliver Ln), tel: +61 (0)3 9650 3155, www.codarestaurant.com.au
SINGAPORE
Season’s Eatings
With the holidays in full swing, Chef Luca Pezzera is giving the gift of truffles – white truffles from Alba, to be precise. And though they may not come in pretty packaging, these rare and rich delicacies – known as the king of truffles – do come in homemade raviolis, Wagyu carpaccio and angel hair pasta, as well as at least 11 other dishes. Bonta Italian Restaurant, 01-61 UE Square River Wing, 207 River Valley Rd, tel: +65 6333 8875, www.bonta.com.sg
2 HIPPO
This cosy loft bar with slick décor, including nests of banquettes, has all the classics but it’s best known for its tiki drinks (mai tais, daiquiris, pina coladas) and Champagne cocktails. It’s the ideal place to hunker down for an evening of imbibing or as a pre- or post-prandial destination. The staff is highly talented and if you’re flying solo, they’re just as happy to converse as they are to mix you a drink. 17 Garema Pl, tel: +61 (0)2 6257 9090, www.hippobar.com.au
3 KNIGHTSBRIDGE PENTHOUSE
As you might expect, this penthouse bar is custom made for late nights. On Saturdays, DJs spin a mix of 90s hip hop and indie tunes. Be prepared to queue up but once you’re in, you’ll discover that the bartenders are eminently well-trained in the art of the cocktail. They do an extremely good double Dark and Stormy (that’s rum, ginger beer and hunks of fresh lime). 1/34 Mort St, Braddon, tel: +61 (0)2 6262 6221, www.knightsbridgepenthouse.com.au
Somsak Sintubua, head bartender at Sawasdee Classical Dance & Restaurant
Your ideal customer?
Young Japanese women tend not to know much about cocktails so I like to analyse their personalities and suggest suitable drinks.
Your nightmare customer?
I don’t like customers who yell at me, tap their glass on the bar or wave their arms wildly to get my attention.
Favourite drinks at the Sawasdee Classical Dance & Restaurant?
I would say the Sawasdee Delight. It has Mekong (Thai whiskey), Malibu, vodka, orange juice, pineapple juice, syrup and Sprite.
The most underrated drink?
To me, the Bloody Mary is underrated because of its name.
What three words sum up the ambiance at Sawasdee?
Charming Thai hospitality. Sawasdee Classical Dance & Restaurant, 66 Soi Sathorn 6, Sathorn Rd, Bangkok, tel: +66 (0)2 237 6311, www.sawasdeebkk.com
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