{"id":886,"date":"2026-04-29T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/886\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:29:09","slug":"adelaide-hills-restaurant-destroyed-by-fire-with-damage-bill-upwards-of-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/886\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Hills restaurant destroyed by fire with damage bill &#8216;upwards&#8217; of $2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A fire has destroyed a restaurant at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills with a damage bill estimated at &#8220;upwards&#8221; of $2 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to The Mustard Seed Indian and Mediterranean restaurant at about 8:30pm last night, where flames were coming from the windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The restaurant on Mount Barker Road was closed at the time and was fully engulfed in flames when police arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">CFS state duty commander Ben Pettman said 12 CFS crews attended the blaze with approximately 70 firefighters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Upon arrival, crews were faced with a extremely significant blaze in the restaurant,&#8221; he told 891 ABC Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;[They] quickly called for additional resources to support them and crews managed to bring the fire under control in just over an hour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CFS battle a fire at a Hahndorf restaurant\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01a327f340d6e9ce7aab5c37701d0595.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The CFS battle a fire at a Hahndorf restaurant on Tuesday, April 28. (Supplied: CFS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Unfortunately, damage is estimated at being upwards of around $2 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Pettman said the cause of the fire was unknown at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Firefighters, due to their great work, were able to limit the spread of fire to neighbouring properties,&#8221;  he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Fire cause investigators attended the scene last night and are currently investigating the cause of the fire with the support of the South Australian Police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mount Barker Road was closed between Pine Avenue and Auricht Road while fire crews fought the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Investigators have called for witnesses who may have seen any &#8220;suspicious activity&#8221; in the area or anyone who may have CCTV or dash cam footage to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire has destroyed a restaurant at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills with a damage bill estimated at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,1693,1692,1691,844,1694,1695,1056,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adelaide","8":"tag-adelaide","9":"tag-adelaide-hills","10":"tag-blaze","11":"tag-cfs","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-hahndorf","14":"tag-restaurant","15":"tag-sa-police","16":"tag-the-mustard-seed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}