THE STORY BEHIND THE BAROSSA RESTAURANT NAME 1918 THE HEART OF THE BAROSSA In 1918 the Great War was drawing to a close when, Friedrich Carl Gottleib Wallent, put the finishing touches to his fine home in Tanunda, not knowing it would become an iconic Barossas restaurant. The year 1918, was chiselled into the foundation stone by the front door and remains there to this day. More than 70 years later in 1992, a group of locals turned the proud Wallent home into the Barossas first restaurant. A... Read more