Beer and Burger

Exeter Hotel (Rundle St)
246 Rundle St Adelaide 5000
Ph:(08) 8223 2623

Well we recently visited the Austral, so it was time to visit the across the road neighbour. I don’t know about you but, with the Exeter’s grungee styling, its never looked all that inviting to me as a place to eat. It’s also not a place people have come up to me an said “for a great meal go try out the Exeter”, so my expectations were not high.
But as I’m one not to judge a book by its cover, it was time to get some Exeter food into me.
The menu exists on a black board only. Sorry about my blurry pic but there were many hungry patrons surrounding me and the one and only black board.

I ordered the burger as I often do ;). There was a choice between beef and tofu and another choice of Chilli tomato sauce or mushroom sauce. I went the tomato. ($9.90)
We sat out in the beer garden area. Not really much of a garden, more a table and chair area with a few pot plants.
The staff were friendly and gave us a basket of bread and butter. I like that at a pub. A fly decided to die on one of the bread and butter plates. Not really the Exeter’s fault that one, but something the staff should keep and eye out for.

For beer I went for a Pint of Coopers Pale Ale. ($5) Pretty good out of the tap… perhaps a tiny bit flat.

Our meals arrived after 20 minutes or so. They came out in a rather staggered fashion though. Strangely enough the 2 steaks came out first and then the rest of us waited several minutes before the rest of the meals slowly appeared.
First impressions of my meal. Looked ok… it had a large piece of green stuff oozing from it though… The chips were not hot, just warm and little bit soft. I removed the green stuff as I do and got into the burger. From the first bite I knew that this burger was nothing special. The almost untoasted wholemeal bun was very ordinary. It gave the burger a “mums sandwich” kind of taste. The meat had a bit of flavour but was soft and became bland fast. I asked around the table to the others who ordered the mushroom sauce on their burgers… Unimpressed all around. What about the fish and chips? Yeah its ok. What about the steaks? I got one average and one yeah not too bad. So there you have it.

Overall I thought the Exeter should be kept for drinking purposes only and thats how it turned out… sometimes I guess you can read a book by its cover.

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