Dining and Drinking

Great girls' night out on Thursday at the Golden Grove Tavern. We try and do this about once a month, and post up details on the forums so anyone that may have just arrived can come along, and we had about ten of us this week. Great to meet Sue for the first time and welcome Georgie who wins the prize for newest arrival, and nice to see some familiar faces too. As usual, we were the last ones in the bar, with the landlord having to shoo us out and lock the doors behind us! The Golden Grove Tavern is actually one of the better places as far as this is concerned, we went to the Tea Tree Gully Hotel a couple of months ago and were made to feel like complete dirty stop-outs for being out past 9:30pm!

Felt a bit hungover going into work in Port Adelaide on Friday morning, but a great celebration lunch at the Argo Hellenic Greek Restaurant, (http://www.portenf.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=716&c=25816) celebrating the Enterprise Centre our office is located in having won "International Incubator of the Year" award recently, and our boss having just come back from the awards ceremony in Kansas. Great food, and apparently it's huge fun on a Friday night when they have live music and greek dancing. Can highly recommend the Mixed Platter for Two - which had more than enough for four of us!

Out again in the evening with some friends of OH to a restaurant in Norwood called Manto's - http://www.mantocafe.com.au/ - have to say this is one of the best Italian restaurants I've been to with some really nice things on the menu, good atmosphere and friendly staff. I had the Pollo Spinaci, which was chicken breast with baby spinach, pears and walnuts - just the right size portion (after stuffing my face at lunchtime as well!) and extremely tasty. Norwood Parade is full of restaurants and cafes and has a real buzz in the evening, and this place is definitely worth checking out if you haven't been -it's opposite the Hoyts cinema. Upstairs from the Cafe is Maxim's where there was live music from a couple of R&B bands, open till late - I dragged OH away at nearly midnight and it was still going strong! Perhaps we should have one of our next girls' nights out there (there were certainly lots more men than girls there last night!) - they won't throw us out at 11pm! http://flightcentre.agfg.com.au/guide/sa/adelaide/adelaide-surrounds/norwood/restaurants-dining/maxims-wine-barbistro

Feel like I need a bit of a rest from bars and restaurants now for a few days, but our oven and grill are still out of action - mouse number 9 caught in the humane trap in the oven overnight - I don't think I ever want to eat anything cooked in there again!