Fortune Duck Restaurant Gouger Street Adelaide

Address
65 Gouger St
Adelaide
SA, 5000
Australia

This is not a review of the food offered at Fortune Duck, rather its simply a post about our experience of dining there this week. There's a couple of reasons why this is not a review, firstly, we are not food critics. Secondly, we never actually got to taste the food we ordered, but read more to find out about that bit..

This place opened recently in Adelaide and we had noticed it being renovated a couple of weeks ago. In the front window you will notice Roast Ducks hanging up, rather fitting as its called Fortune Duck (the ducks hanging there are more like unfortunate ducks though)

The service was OK, but we did notice a few tables did not get menus when they were seated and they had to ask for them. Now to why we didn't get our food. We ordered a few dishes, stuffed tofu hotpot, salt and pepper squid and half a roast duck. We received the duck quite quickly on its own. However after that, things didn't go too well. To sum it up, the food never showed.. 15 minute wait became 30, 30 minutes became 45, still with no sign of the food.

After the 45 minute wait without the food (it was more like an hour), we decided that was enough and left to pay for what we had already had eaten. So there goes, a rather unfortunate meal at Fortune Duck and of what we had eaten, the duck wasn't that good and other dishes didn't look that enticing either. We think it was quite unfortunate we had this experience, being a new restaurant and all, we can only wonder what the future of this place will be. The fact that there are other really great Chinese places in this area does not help them either.

Fortune Duck really is living the ethos of "SLOW FOOD" but for all the wrong reasons...