Bar Alto Lamington StreetClose your eyes, click your heels three times and say "there's no place like Sydney". Or just take the CityCat to New Farm Park, because in a town where a good water view is generally accompanied by a surf 'n' turf smorgasbord, and where dining at a performing arts venue is something you previously only did after a matinee with Nanna, Bar Alto is dramatically removed from your Brisbane preconceptions. On the first floor of the Powerhouse Live Arts Centre, with the precinct's trademark graffitied brick and concrete walls, it's also about as unpretentiously chic as it gets (on a council budget, anyway). The spectacularly open kitchen means there's as much theatre in the galley as there is on the stage outside, but the real star here is the food.
Head chef Pablo Tordesillas - formerly of Otto in Sydney - is Spanish, but the heart of his kitchen is unmistakably Italian. Raise a smug glass of Valpolicella to the folks aboard the Kookaburra Queen; exorcise your demons by devouring a voodoo-doll-like quail saltimbocca; or test your powers of strategy as you mobilise cutlery forces towards your partner's perfect goat ragu. If half a bottle of Chianti Classico doesn't get you giggling, then the ridiculously low prices will, and if there's a better restaurant manager than Rachael Duffield they must be working the floor at Alain Ducasse; with her at the helm, service is polished and friendly and standards never slip.
Suite The Powerhouse 119 Lamington Street
New Farm QLD 4005
Phone: +61 7 3358 1063
Opening hours
Daily 11am till late
http://www.baralto.com.au/
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