Canary Club
Inspired by the tapas bars of Barcelona, Canary Club offers a simple, Spanish menu with an Austrailian twist, as well as an extensive cocktail list. The upstairs of Canary Club invites customers to casually lounge in daybeds, whereas the downstairs is comprised of white walls and dark wooden tables.
The menu features items such as rabbit rillettes with cornichons and pickled cherries, or a corn-fed roast chicken on a chickpea salad.
Canary Club
6 Melbourne Pl
Melbourne VIC 8001
Phone (03) 9663 1983
Lorca Cafe
Offering a mixed menu of Spanish, Portugese and Western styles, Lorca Café welcomes customers to a casual spot. Benches by the windows and outdoor tables on the footpath invite patrons to eat leisurely as they soak in the scenery and the bustle of Melbournians.
Lorca Café is open for breakfast and lunch Monday through Saturday, and dinner on Friday, when they open a bar with a variety of cocktail selections.
Lorca Cafe
7 Centre Place
Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone (03) 9650 6337
MoVida
The first of the franchise, MoVida delivers an authentic Spanish atmosphere through both its menu and its setting. Ensuring novelty by changing its menu nightly, MoVida continues to surprise its patrons with its innovative Spanish cuisine. While seated in the upscale environment, customers choose from items such as croqueta tapas, aceitunas racions and, for dessert, churros and flan con pestinos.
Movida is open daily for lunch, dinner and late night. Reservations are strongly encouraged. MoVida also offers catering services.
MoVida
1 Hosier Lane
Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone (03) 9663 3038
http://www.movida.com.au/
MoVida Next Door
In a more traditional Spanish bar style, MoVida Next Door offers a laid back environment in which customers can dine on such dishes as entremeses, sardinas, ostra and cordoniz. This welcoming, casual location invites customers to people-watch while enjoying tapas. Allowing the first location, MoVida, to operate as a more upscale dining room, MoVida Next Door gives Melburians the opportunity to enjoy Spanish cuisine in an informal atmosphere.
MoVida Next Door is open Tuesday through Saturday and does not take reservations.
MoVida Next Door
1 Hosier Lane
Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone (03) 9663 3038
MoVida Aqui
Overlooking the Terraza, MoVida Aqui offers a more open environment than its other MoVida counterparts, for example, by providing supplemental outdoor dining in addition to their spacious dining room. Aqui features much of the other MoVida menu items, with even more options.
Aqui is open for lunch Monday through Friday, and for dinner Monday through Saturday. This location takes reservations, and is open late night.
MoVida Aqui
Level 1, 500 Bourke St
Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone (03) 9663 3038