Places To Eat
Restaurants are astonishingly good value compared with Britain and North America, particularly as many restaurants are BYO (bring your own): you buy your own wine or beer and bring it with you - you're rarely far from a bottle shop (the Australian term for an off-licence or liquor store). There may be a small corkage fee, but it's still better than paying inflated restaurant prices for your drink: even many licensed restaurants also allow you to BYO. You should have no problem finding an excellent two- or three-course meal in a BYO restaurant for $22 or less, though a main course at a moderate restaurant is around $15-19. There are also lots of excellent cafes and coffee shops - Italian ones, continental patisseries/bakeries, and places that serve English-style Devonshire (cream) teas and cakes. In the cities and resorts, cafes will be open from early in the morning until late at night, serving food all day; in the country, they may stick more or less to shop hours. The hotel counter meal is another mainstay, and at times may be all that's available: if it is, make sure you get there in time - meals in pubs are generally served only from noon to 2pm and again from 6 to 8pm, and rarely at all on Sunday evening. The food - served at the bar - will be simple but substantial and inexpensive (usually around $10 or less): steak, salad and chips, and variations on this theme. Slightly upmarket from this is the hotel bistro or restaurant in a motel, where you sit down to be served much the same food; these places often have a help-yourself salad bar, too, which is always a good alternative for vegetarians. Usually the most expensive thing on the menu is a huge steak for $12-15. Fast food is widely available, with all the usual burger, pizza and chicken places offering a quick bite for as little as $5. Fish (usually shark or snapper) and chips can be excellent in coastal regions. In cities and bigger resorts you'll find fantastic fast food in food courts , often in the basements of office buildings or in shopping malls, where dozens of small stalls compete to offer Thai, Chinese, Japanese or Italian food as well as burgers, steaks and sandwiches. On the road, you may be reduced to what's available at the roadhouse, usually the lowest common denominator of reheated meat pies and microwaved ready meals.
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