Dante's Grill and Tapas Bar

Dante’s is a great new tapas restaurant that has opened up in Cremorne - just near the Orpheum Theatre. With plates that span the cunerilary horizon from east to west there will be something here for everyone. Also as BYO it is a great place to come, have a bit to eat, drink a glass or two and then head in and catch a movie. What was great about here for the two of us was that they have designed a banquet meal for 2 - meaning that you get to try a lot of dishes without having to sacrifice date night and invite the whole gang to dinner. At less than $50 per/person with dishes of calamari, halloumi, zucchini flowers, meatballs, scallops and black pudding and a main of one of the most tender and greatly seasoned lamb backstraps we have tried - this is the best option on their menu. Finish it off with one of their signature desserts and you will leave feeling immensely satisfied. Whilst there have a chat to the staff and you will find a real passion for good food and ...read more

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” my dining companion whispers as we climb the stairs into Dante’s Grill & Tapas Bar. It’s a quote from Italy’s most famous poet, Dante Alighieri, from Dante’s Inferno, the first part of The Divine Comedy. Appropriately the darkened doorway opens up into cavernous surrounds, with rich red curtains, distressed exposed brick walls, candlelit lanterns and waterfalls of dripping wax.

The questions now haunting me are what does an Italian poet have to do with a quasi-Spanish tapas bar in Cremorne; and what do Duck Pancakes ($17/3 pieces) have to do with either of these motifs? ...read more