Sensational-Adelaide.com

Back to the future for Bethany
David Washington | 11 June 2014

For 11 years, chefs Bethany Finn and Spencer Cole kept their Rose Park restaurant, Urban Bistro, near the top of any list of Adelaide’s best dining experiences.

But the exacting, and physically and financially demanding, work of running a fine-dining restaurant became too much. After trying hard to sell the business, the couple decided in late 2012 to shut up shop, to the dismay of the bistro’s regular customers.

After some low-profile gigs, Finn – who was the Hilton’s executive chef 14 years ago in the glory days of Cheong Liew and the Grange – is making a return to Adelaide’s dining scene, overseeing the kitchens at the Mayfair Hotel.

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As for the 170-room Mayfair, Finn says there will be a ground-floor cafe, a restaurant and a banquet space for functions.

The final concepts are still under wraps, but Finn says the food will go well beyond the regular hotel offerings. She wants the Mayfair to become a dining destination in its own right.

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pushbutton wrote:Perhaps they still have some sort of window treatments to apply which will complete the effect and make it look like the render?

If not I agree it looks tacky and disappointing.

At least it's an original design though and not just another beige / glass box.

But supporters of the development had mocked users of the bus stop prior to its removal, on a web forum run by Sensational Adelaide which promotes development debate in the CBD.