Neighbourhood Kitchen & Cocktails

Head down Tudor Street towards Cathays and you'll find this place doing something refreshingly unpretentious. It's the kind of restaurant where the cocktail list doesn't read like a chemistry textbook, the staff know what they're talking about without being annoying about it, and the food arrives looking like people actually want to eat it rather than photograph it. You get the sense they've thought about what makes a neighbourhood restaurant work—proper drinks, honest cooking, a room that feels lived-in rather than designed to death. It's become exactly the sort of place locals keep coming back to.