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Georges on Waymouth
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Restaurant
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Adelaide
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Open:
Breakfast and lunch Mon-Fri, dinner Fri
Score (/20):
14
Reviewed By
Sue Dyson And Roger McShane
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Phone Number:
08 8211 6960
Address:
20 Waymouth Street
Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Country:
Australia
Food Style:
Italian
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Oh to have a chance to visit Georges for a long lunch or Friday night dinner, when there would be time to relax and make the most of this great venue and delicious food. As it was, we've had to suffice with a breakfast and an embarrassingly quick lunch without (horror of horrors) wine. Both meals, though, were delicious, and on both occasions we were struck by the professionalism with which owner George Kasimatis, formerly of the renowned Grange restaurant, oversees the operation.For breakfast we had house-made white beans cooked in a rich tomato sauce and served on good toast and a second dish of toast smothered in fresh ricotta and topped with slow oven roasted roma tomato halves. The tomatoes revealed a chef not afraid to season confidently with strong flavours such as oregano ensuring this apparently simple dish was lifted out of the ordinary, which is of course, what Italian is usually about. Our rushed lunch comprised what we'd anticipated would be a light starter of baccala fritters with peperonata followed by light and well-seasoned veal meatballs cooked in tomato and served with papardelle and fillets of baked tommy ruff, a fish most commonly found in south Australia, served with polenta, an excellent salsa verde and zucchini.Other dishes would have loved to try included the whole baked stuffed artichokes (it's painful not to order such a treasured dish on the rare occasion is makes it to an Australian restaurant table), carpaccio of beef with fried capers, braised chicken or the chocolate crepes with chestnut cream. And there were more. Another time when there's more time! By the way, the light starter of baccala fritters turned out to be two perfectly cooked but huge baccala and potato cakes, well matched with the slightly sweet peperonata, that seriously dented our appetites. As a starter, they were a great main course. We don't think you leave Georges hungry!Others report on a great wine list. Unfortunately we can't comment - there was no time for that - but we'll definitely be back.
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