Foodie Experiences
Dinner at Cafe Brio
Fort Street's Italian-leaning West Coast institution: house salumi, 300 bottles of wine and a room that makes three hours vanish.
Harris Green, Fort St
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Fort Street's Italian-leaning West Coast institution: house salumi, 300 bottles of wine and a room that makes three hours vanish.
Harris Green, Fort St
More infoTwenty-five years on Fort Street and Cafe Brio has figured out proper dinner: house-cured salumi, fresh pasta, island seafood, and a wine list 300 bottles deep that will quietly terrify you until you ask the staff for help. Ask for help, that's the move. The room runs warm gold all evening, the colour that makes everyone look better-rested than they are. Book a weekend table ahead.
Settle into the warm gold room and put the 300-bottle wine list in the staff's hands, telling them what you like is the whole move here. Order the house salumi to start, then one more course than you meant to (the fresh pasta and island seafood both earn it), and block around two hours because this dinner runs long by design. Book a weekend table ahead; you'll roll out onto Fort Street relaxed and in no hurry.
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