Lunch Hour: 2KW Bar and Restaurant
In this edition of Lunch Hour, we treat ourselves to a meal at Adelaide’s best known rooftop: 2KW.
I, on behalf of CityMag, would like to issue an apology to the general public and most specifically, our avid CityMag ‘best of’ readers.
As you may know, for every print edition of CityMag, we venture across the city to find the ‘best’ of one particular item. We’ve found the best negronis, the best pool tables, and most recently, we found the best ramen in Adelaide.
In issue 46 of CityMag, our annual festival edition, we supposedly told you where to find the best side potatoes in Adelaide.
Selecting our ‘best of’ listings is no easy feat. We don’t just Google places with potatoes and pick the first six that pop up. No no, we wine, dine and taste test every option available. We then measure each player based on our seriously strict metrics.
For Adelaide’s best potatoes, the metrics included: crunchiness, saltiness, tastiness, pillowiness, location and Grammable (how we’d post it on Instagram if we were food influencers).
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But somehow, in never-before-seen, unexplained circumstances, our rigorous and thought-provoking research was skewed. We missed out on one very crucial player.
2KW and its triple-cooked salt and vinegar potatoes.
If I can do my part in rectifying this mess, please let it be this Lunch Hour feature (because it’s also a banging, yet upmarket, restaurant to grab lunch)!
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If you’re after a place – perhaps to take the clients out for a work lunch, or even to drop by for a quick bite with a mate – but are still after those same values I harp on about every week, then you could do far worse than the lunch offering at 2KW.
Firstly, the feed me option is speedy – the place was filled with people on the day I visited – and gives you a range of different items like a vegan eggplant that’s battered and fried with cashew cream and a chicken liver parfait eclair.
My favourite dish I ate was the lamb merguez sausage with hazelnut romesco and caraway vinegar. It came at the same time as the vanella burrata with green olive tapenade, salt baked beets and zucchini. A little bit of sausage with a little bit of burrata together was a perfect mouthful.
Although I didn’t eat it this time around, the best dish on the 2KW menu – it even surpasses those tasty spuds – is the slow-cooked 1.2kg lamb shoulder with mint caramel and edamame. That sauce (!!!!!!!) is to die for (so perhaps not a lunch rec but more a general 2KW rec).
The scenes, the drinks, and most importantly, the food is top tier at 2KW.
But the question still lies: if 2KW is in, who is out (of the coveted ‘Adelaide’s best side potato’ list)? Well, that’s one secret I’ll never tell.
What’s your favourite CBD Lunch Hour spot? Let me know.
2KW Bar and Restaurant is located at 2 King William Street, Adelaide and is open every day from 12pm until late.
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