STH Restaurant — Restaurant in Adelaide

Dinner at @sth_restaurant: they just started doing dinners this week, and we went to their opening night! The food was absolutely amazing, and the service was super friendly 🙂🙂. The ambiance is relaxed but trendy. Really great dining experience 😍😍. . Lemongrass Prawns - chargrilled Australian king prawns, marinated with lemongrass and chef flavours on a bed of pickled berry salad: this dish was soooooo good! The prawns were cooked to perfection. Amazing flavours 😍😍. . Salmon Tartare - Served with green goodness puree, fresh avocado, potato puree, pickled shallots, lemon split dressing, caramel croutons: refreshing dish, and those croutons were delicious!! . Kingfish Sashimi - Kingfish, passionfruit with fresh herbs: another refreshing dish with nice tangy flavours 😊😊. . Roasted Cauliflower - Oven roasted cauliflower, almond paste, spinach puree: can't go wrong with a nicely roasted cauliflower! . The Orange Duck - Confit duck leg served with potato pave and orange duck glaze: omg we absolutely loooooooved this dish! The duck was super super tender and juicy, and the flavours were incredible. The presentation was also really beautiful. Almost too pretty to eat 😅😅😍😍. . Pork Belly - Crispy skin pork belly, marinated with Asian flavours and fresh herbs served with apple pork glaze and a pickled berries salad: the crackling was 👌👌👌. Soooooo tender and soft 😍😍😍. . Holo Mushroom - Sautéed mixed mushroom, serve with almond paste, short crust pastry ring, spinach purée and drizzled with Basil Oil: the presentation looked great! Flavours were good, but I think overshadowed by the duck and the pork belly 😅😅. . Crispy Baby Potato - Salted crispy potato with mixed herbs: omg I loved these potatoes! They were just perfection 😋😋. . Why Not Share - Choose 3 desserts and share them on your table. Served on one plate: Lemon, Lime and Bitters - White chocolate mousse, lemon & lime cream. bitter gel, honey & thyme meringue: this dessert tasted exactly like lemon lime bitters! It was sooooo good 😍😍😍😍. My favourite dessert of the night! Such a unique dessert 😋😋. Sun-Kissed - Mango & lime jelly, milk chocolate mousse, passion fruit cream, caramelized coconut. hazelnut dacquoise & crunchy coconut base: tasty mango flavour! Chocolate Lover - Chocolate mousse served with chocolate gelati and raspberry sauce: very rich and smooth mousse, and not too...

Extremely Disappointing! Stale Seafood and Poor Service

I recently dined at STH Restaurant and had a very unpleasant experience. The grilled prawns in my entree were obviously not fresh; they gave off a foul, fishy odor and the meat was soft and mushy rather than firm. When I pointed this out to the waiter, instead of apologizing or addressing the issue, he asked me if I still wanted to order the seafood pasta for my main course, mentioning that if I also ended up returning that dish, it would “cost him a lot of money.” I can’t help but question: if the seafood is already spoiled, shouldn’t the restaurant remove those dishes from the menu immediately? This is not only about food quality but also basic food safety.

Unfortunately, the rest of the meal didn’t fare much better. The lamb gnocchi had an overpowering gamey flavor, and the prawns in the seafood pasta, while slightly less off-putting than the grilled prawns, still broke apart easily, indicating they, too, were not fresh. The roast duck was another letdown—its fat hadn’t rendered properly, and the meat was tough and sinewy. Ironically, the best item I had was the fried potatoes, which speaks volumes about the quality of the other dishes.

Overall, STH Restaurant failed to meet even the most basic standards of freshness and safety, and the service was disappointing. If they wish to retain customers, they need to urgently address their seafood sourcing and staff training. This experience was extremely frustrating and regrettable. I hope the restaurant takes steps to improve soon.

reply to owner: I have never eaten such a fishy and stinky shrimp since I was born. Good...

What a find STH is! We had such a beautiful meal and a lovely evening there last night. There were 4 of us and we sat in one of the central booths; it felt as though we were in the classy dining car of a long distance train in Europe. The food was so good I promised to spread the word and to come back with other friends. We didn’t go for one of the “Feed Me” options which seemed quite reasonably priced for the amount of food offered. Between us we chose King Prawns and Calamari as starters (a big tick for both), scotch fillet medium rare (my husband said it was the best he’d had for a loooong time), Lamb Ragout Gnocchi (that was mine, I loved it), and Barramundi that our friends said was delicious. We squeezed in desserts - Chocolate Brownie, which looked decadent, and was apparently delicious, a generous serve of Affogato, and my Bird’s Nest, a light dessert that was beautifully presented. This was all high quality food, and you could say this is reflected in some of the prices. The owner of STH spent time chatting with us, a very personable man with interesting stories to tell of his time working in the US and some of the challenges in running restaurants these days. I know I’ve gone on a bit long here but really Sth deserves to be a great success and if you go there, you’ll see...