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Welcome
to the first stage of Galaxy Guides on–line
Adelaide
South Australia 2008 — Shanghai
Guide and
small and select list of recommendations for other Australian
cities.
With Galaxy
Guides there is no rummaging through hundreds of establishments
and we don't have to wait till our next publication
to change things. With the web it can be as soon as
we come back from lunch or dinner or our hotel room
anywhere in the world. All anyone needs are few
reliable recommendations. Galaxy Guides offers concise
information for the food and wine obsessed to have
a good time. It doesn’t mean
there won’t
be criticisms from time to time, but wouldn’t you rather know
what’s good and what’s not? It is important to remember just
being included in Galaxy Guides means the establishments
are the best from a very large pool of contenders.
Just in case you think we have forgotten South Australia’s
Kangaroo Island, we definitely have not and we’ll
be spending some time there in the coming months adding
the information at the beginning of November just in
time for summer.
Restaurants cannot pay to be included on Galaxy
Guides and our reviews are free to users. New reviews
are also published weekly in Adelaide’s Independent
Weekly Friday
paper and on their web site.
We need your help to drive traffic to our site so please forward
this email to all your like–minded food and wine obsessed friends and
recommend us to them.
A huge thanks to my friends and wine editors Dr Alexandra Burridge
and Duane Coates (Coates Wines) for their generous unpaid support
with this project and to the gorgeous Vicki Vidovic who
always talked me out of giving up and provided moral
and financial support without question whenever needed!
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Books we are
obsessed with them and we welcome you to our extensive
book
review section Topics are clearly listed and range
from
food
politics and climate a great book for children,
some thing French, something philosophical; we have it all and
we'll be adding to it every month with the new the interesting,
even the bizarre. We welcome review copies
especially obscure and limited edition books with and interest
in preserving food and wine culture or tackling moral and ethical
issues. We also have a deep fascination with science and the
changes in food; better to know than not, how else can you have
an opinion?
In July, we’ll we'll be opening up our first forum/blogg
- check
out the topic We expect this conversation to be opinioned!
And, just in case your are wondering if Ann Oliver can really
cook you might like to join her for lunch and take up the
optional complimentary cooking class.
Thorn
Park Country House in the Clare Valley South Australia,
Sunday July 27. The weekend/day is hosted by Thorn
Park Country House’s David
Hay and Michael Speers and Mount Horrocks owner and
winemaker Stephanie Toole.
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 On
Adelaide click on the $20, $60, $80, $100 plus banners and a menu
will drop down indicating the restaurant name and style of cuisine.
Click on your selection to go straight to the review. Other topics
go straight through to another window.
In books click on your topic and go through to the reviews.
To go back to the index page click on the top left of the window
where it will say return to ……
wine
dinners and events are just as important for the local
as the visitor. Having met and made friends for life at wine dinners
in strange cities with people we had never met before, we think
it is just this type of insider information that improves a city
experience. A great dinner, a fat truffle breezed across (no lavished
amongst) some fresh hand made pasta, some fabulous oysters that will
confirm to a European (even a Frenchman) that there is nothing better
than a freshly shucked
South
Australian oysters. Equally who wants to eat expensive
every night? We love the full spectrum of the eating and drinking
experience and know travel is embellished with
the right contacts, the bizarre, the fabulous, the exciting and the
experimental. We are all of those things! The truth is, if
you are the type of traveller who stays in your hotel room and eats
safe, we are probably not for you. On the other hand if,
you are food
and wine and life and travel obsessed (like us) you'll
have much more fun if you go out with us!
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counted the cost so far, but our bank manager doesn't share our passions
and eventually we have to prove Galaxy Guides is a business. Making
full use of our site and subscribing to our newsletter is all we
ask to keep Galaxy Guides free to user, but most
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editorial independence.
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