Reviews by AdelaideGirl

This review is for Photodeals, Glen Innes NSW

verified email - 10 Apr 2013

I bought scoopons for A4 calendars and 20x15 hard cover photo albums.

The online tools to create the book + calendar layout was easy to use. It took a while to load, and there are a few extra unnecessary steps to upload photos, but once you have used it a couple of times you learn the quickest ways to do things. It helps to have all your photos selected and ready.

The finished products were excellent. The calendar I couldn't fault; glossy thick pages, well bound, well wrapped for delivery; excellent. The books were also great quality pages; beware that when designing the cover, you need to allow for the 1cm-ish 'crimp' in the middle, where the book is bound; on the screen, it just shows as one big page, so remember that you need to allow for the spine. Position everything on the 'front' page a bit to the right. Books were packaged well for delivery.

Postage was quite fast. I didn't need to use the support, but I noticed that they were 'online' for chatting quite often during the day.

Overall an excellent experience and products. Register with them even if you don't want to create a product immediately, and you'll be on the list for some excellent promotions they run occasionally as well.

This review is for Gringos Mexican Cantina, Glenelg SA

verified email - 02 Apr 2013

Gringos was a Glenelg institution - I reckon the first time I went must have been nearly 20 years ago...

It's recently been renovated and has unfortunately lost some of it's charm & atmosphere. The new decor is nice; I noticed one of the Latin American countries on the wall painting was spelt incorrectly (and it would have been incorrect in spanish or english so it wasn't a translation thing); but then I think I'm the only person that notices these things. In fact why I mentioned it on Womo I don't quite know....

Anyhoo, the furnishings are ok, the new plates and table accessories were definitely a nice improvement, but overall atmosphere has suffered.

The food as well is not quite as nice as it used to be. It was always formulaic, but in a good way; overflowing nachos etc. Now the nachos is just kind of slapped together and there's more tortilla chips than topping. Other plates were just average.

Service was ok, but nothing standout. The place wasn't that busy but service was still a bit slow; they did help us out with extra napkins though which was nice (baby was in tow).

Having the baby in pram was ok, though I think we were lucky it wasn't busy as we might not have had room to maneuver - as it was we settled for the table closest to the entrance to not have to try and navigate the tables and chairs. I'd say don't try with a pram if it's packed.

Overall - it's just another new restaraunt with mediocre food in a great location. Don't come here expecting the old Gringos and you'll be fine.

Approximate cost: $20.00


verified email - 27 Mar 2013

We had a couple dozen tshirts printed with Adelaide Embroiderers.

The service was very friendly and helpful; they assisted us in deciding what type of t-shirt print we would need and what kind of fabric for the t-shirts.

The end result was excellent; vibrant, true colours, thanks to the advice we were provided. The tshirts were also turned around in faster than the quoted time, which was excellent.

The price was a little higher then we wanted to pay; a per shirt price + $60 graphic design processing fee, however for the great service I guess you have to pay a little more.

Overall very highly recommend; consult with them during your project planning to take advantage of their expertise and it might end up saving you $$ in the long run.

This review is for Your Child's Nursery, Adelaide SA

verified email - 25 Mar 2013

We've been to YCN a couple of times, mainly in search of a special baby item, such as a mattress for a Boori cot (they are a little larger than normal cots).

The store has a great range of products, lots of prams, nursery furniture, and a great range of organic food including organic formula (only the second organic formula I've seen).

There's always plenty of staff working, and they are all mums so you get advice from someone who's been there.

Remember to go upstairs, that's where all the furniture is. Also note, if you're going with a bub in tow, forget bringing your pram in; the store is so jam packed with products I couldn't maneuver my own pram around and so had to just leave it in the aisle and carry bub myself. Annoying since i spent a good while in store today.

Pricing is ok, some items are very expensive, yet there are absolute bargains to be had as well. They had a 15% off everything in store on today; they've had a minimum 15% off everything every single time I've visited the store, seems like the norm.

Overall, one of the better baby stores if you're after something specific/no nonsense shopping for baby.

This review is for Floors Plus, Marleston SA

verified email - 23 Mar 2013

I got my unit floors done with Floors Plus. I originally was going to have them do both carpet and floating floors but their prices for floating floors was way over my budget.

I bought a good quality wool carpet for the two bedrooms, which are quite small in measure; both rooms would have been easily done with a roll-end but this was never mentioned to me in the sales process despite me mentioning that I was renovating on a budget. If only I'd known about Carpet Mart on Grange Road at the time, I never would have bought from Floors Plus.

The carpet quality was good, very highly priced for what it was (I carpeted my entire 4 bedroom house with carpet mart, with top quality wool in the living areas, at a fraction of cost when compared with what they charged for my two small unit bedrooms).

The installers were done in about 10 minutes I reckon; very quickly done with an air pocket (not sure what it's called - when the carpet is not 100% stretched tight across floor) in the main bedroom, the installer certainly wasn't worried about attention to detail or finesse.

Wouldn't recommend unless you want to shop in a fancy showroom; get yourself over to Carpet Mart for a better deal, better service albeit in a not-so-shiny showroom.

This review is for Zootz Kitchen Bar, Henley Beach SA

verified email - 23 Mar 2013

This place has so much promise; I've been here for lunches/brunches/late lunches etc many times with 1 or up to 8 people at a time. It's just hit and miss as to whether you get a good experience; most of the times it's a miss.

The food is fairly standard cafe stuff, though their pizzas have some different and interesting ingredient combinations. Unfortunately it's just not cooked that well so the food is a bit of a let down.

You have to order food and drinks at the counter, which is a nightmare when it's busy.

The location is great - Henley Square, the decor is nice, a few little boho touches, so the place has atmosphere, it's just let down with apathetic service and food that's as poorly cooked as if it'd come from my own kitchen. And why would I pay for that when I can undercook things in the comfort of my own home :)

This review is for Hyde Park Tavern, Hyde Park SA

verified email - 23 Mar 2013

Lunched here with a friend. The menu was more inspired and different to standard pub fare, which was good; I had a chicken pie with lovely roasted veggies which were actually real veggies not just frozen veggies boiled and thwacked onto the plate. Real care was taken to arrange the food on the plate and the pie was just sensational. My friend ordered the pasta and while we both had menu envy, we were also perfectly happy with our own dishes as well!

The prices were a little high but the food was higher quality than you'd get in a cheaper pub. You still had to go up and order at the bar though, no table service which always irks me.

We were able to sit in a little side alcove away from the 'main' bar bit with the TV's etc, with a nice window view of King William St.

Would eat here again definitely.

Approximate cost: $20.00

This review is for Patritti Wines, Dover Gardens SA

verified email - 21 Mar 2013

YOU MUST VISIT ADELAIDE'S BEST KEPT SECRET! This winery is a hidden gem - in a place where you wouldn't expect it, right in the middle of suburbia!

Patritti Wines make a good range of wines and juices. I don't drink but I still love holding a glass of bubbly at parties and on special occasions at home - so I buy Patritti's SPARKLING SHIRAZ grape juice. It's 100% pure juice, NOTHIHNG ELSE added. You can buy sparkling grape juices from the supermarket but there's always stuff added to it. This is pure delicious grape juice that has the added benefit of coming in a wine bottle, complete with cork and foil wrapping - so it feels special and I certainly don't feel like I'm missing out on anything when drinking it. I actually found these juices during my pregnancy and they are that good that I'm not ever bothering to start drinking alcohol again, I just don't need to with such delicious sparkling drinks - pregnant ladies, check this place out and buy a few cases!

The sparkling juices come in a range of flavours - dark grape, shiraz, golden muscatel (I'm not 100% sure if that's right, but it's a white juice not red), plus another white variety. They also have apple juice. They also do all of their juices in normal as well as sparkling.

The best part? The price - from memory it's LESS THAN $5 A BOTTLE!!! I think it's around 4.50 for the shiraz, I think even less than $4/bottle for the dark grape juice (my favourite).

You can pick up from the cellar door or you can get cases delivered for a few dollars - less than $10 to adelaide metro area for a case!

Service is friendly and just impeccable at the cellar door - staff always bring my cases to the car for me. The winery/cellar door is lovely and has that winery atmosphere, incongrously juxtaposed though it may be with yawny suburbia.

Absolutely 100% totally recommend. I haven't tried the wines but I bet they're great as well - seriously though, why wine when you can sparkling juice?

Approximate cost: $4.00

This review is for Lakes Yiros, West Lakes SA

verified email - 20 Mar 2013

This is a yiros stall in the food court. They do other things aside from yiros, but the main element are the yiros-es (Yiri? Yiros'? Yiroes? =).

I usually have a lamb yiros with the lot and wasn't dissappointed. The filling was plentiful and looked fresh, it was very tasty.

Unfortunately, like everywhere in West Lakes, the food is overpriced. Again, suspect Westfi_ld is charging a huge amount for their retail space, so the food court has no choice but to pass it on, but still - it makes a lunch out while shopping nearly unaffordable.

Approximate cost: $10.00

This review is for Sushi Chan, West Lakes SA

verified email - 20 Mar 2013

Sushi Chan is a sushi kiosk located in the West Lakes Shopping Centre Food Court. The sushi is fantastic - a wide variety of flavours and ingredients, they have the standard fare as well as some interesting different rolls. You can have rolls made up with brown rice as well!

While the quality and taste of the rolls is excellent, you are also paying top price for a roll - average 3.50 compared to the usual 2.50ish. Good for an indulgence every now and again but unfortunately not every-day prices.

Service was fine, good looking display - great place if you can afford it.

Approximate cost: $7.00