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adelaide grapevine

IT takes a great deal of confidence to open a new restaurant in the middle of a pandemic and all the business constraints that involves, but Adelaide restaurant czar Simon Kardachi is nothing but confident that restaurant life will return to normal, sometime.

With a dozen or so establishments now dotted around the city, including high flyers Osteria Oggi and Shõbõsho, it’s hardly surprising that after a rare misstep opening a rather fancy chicken shop Joybird which didn’t take flight, he’s, a sort of little sister to Shõbõsho.

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