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Anada Bar & Restaurant

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New wave Spanish goodness.

Editorial


Diners been raving about Anada since it first made its presence felt on Gertrude Street, Fitzroy in early 2008. And rightly so. The owners have invested an appropriate degree of their life experience in creating an Andalusian, Southern Spanish menu of tapas and raciones dishes that may be ordered to individually graze over or banquet up. Such is the popularity of Anada that two sittings are offered (6.30/8.30pm) each night ,and for those who are guided more by their stomach clock rather than their brain clock, there's the bar.

In addition to the brilliant range of tapas ($2.50 - $6.50 per piece) and raciones ($9.50 - $30 per dish) a set menu of either 9 or 12 courses ($49/65) is offered. In keeping with the theme, the drinks list features a range of Spanish sherries, ports, wines, brandies and of course local and imported cerveza to cool the palette.

Gertrude Street is a quintessential hip Melbourne experience, where a diversity of cafes, bars, restaurants, boutiques, bookshops and designer-ware outlets nudge up against an old-guard of dusty shop fronts, industrial suppliers and rooming house residents. The street is in the midst of an extreme makeover. Slowly, the old worker-men pubs are being taken over by a new groove and the customers of the traditional Greek barbershop are now more likely to be fancying a fauxhawk over a crew cut.

Anada, translating from the Spanish 'vintage' or 'years harvest', presents as earthy, cosy, welcoming and reassuring. Both its long narrow bare brick interior with copper-topped bar and rear courtyard dining areas beckon with a sense of family, community and goodness.

Brenton Geyer, May 2010

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