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The Apothecary 1878
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Bar
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Adelaide
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Open:
From 4pm Mon-Fri, from 6pm Sat-Sun
Price:
Moderate
Score (/20):
15
Reviewed By
Sue Dyson And Roger McShane
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Phone Number:
+61 8 8212 9099
Address:
118 Hindley St
Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Country:
Australia
E-Mail:
1878@senet.com.au
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First impressions are that you're in territory where good wine is loved and nothing that happens is likely to change that first opinion. The selection of drinking options is driven by passion and interest not by the bottom line. This is a great venue before or after dinner. You could use it as your base for meeting other people - no matter how many times you come here it's unlikely you could try all of the interesting drinking options before the list was changed again. South Australia is Australia's most famous wine producing area and South Australian wines are well represented but there's no local bias here. There are plenty of interstate and imported wines as well, some of them rarely seen on Australian wine lists.There's a small menu of bar food which we couldn't try (our stomachs were crying out for a rest when we finally made it here) but it looked good - parmigiano, prosciutto and anchovies, for example, or even a bowl of minestrone soup.There is now also a dinner menu with some very smart food on offer. At a recent visit we tried a visually appealing, tasty carpaccio, a great escabeche of sardines, some pleasant lamb cutlets and a lovely honey semifreddo with candied walnuts.The Apothecary 1878 holds tasting events as well so if you're an Adelaide local you'd be crazy not to keep in touch with what's happening here and if you're a food tourist planning a visit to this food friendly city, it may be worth contacting them in advance to see if anything interesting is coming up. It would certainly be worth calling in for a drink to get some ideas on where to focus your wine tourism. There are several significant wine regions all within day trips of Adelaide so local advice is invaluable.The Apothecary does cigars too and the music's just right, real not thumping, and not too loud to interfere with conversation about what you're drinking or, equally as importantly, what you might have next.
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