Graduates Training Restaurant

Graduates is only open for dinner Wednesday to Friday, but boy, is it worth making a booking — and you’ll need a booking — and you’ll probably need to make that booking more than a month and a half in advance. That, by all rights, should make this one of the most exclusive restaurants in Adelaide, right? Well, it is, and it isn’t — if you go there once, you’ll want to go again — but the waiting list isn’t because of the horde of A-​listers queued up to get in, it’s because the place is an absolute bargain.
As a ‘training’ restaurant, this is part of the Regency Park TAFE hospitality course. As they say, you’re supporting the future of hospitality ambassadors around the world, and the trainee’s here are absolutely second to none. The menu is constantly changing, based on seasonal produce, and probably to help keep the staff on their toes, however I’ve had beautiful seafood, beef, duck (tea smoked, omg delicious) and rissotto here on different occasions. The desserts will melt in your mouth, too.
Mains run at $ 17.50, and you would comfortably pay $ 30 in a similar restaurant in the CBD for the same level of food, often more. Entrée’s are around $ 8 – 9, and desserts are $ 7.50 — dinner in a five star restaurant for two for under $ 100, including drinks — you’ve got to be happy with that.
I’d give them five stars, but they’d need to be open every night for that :)