LOCATIONKing Street Wharf, walk down King Street from the CBD.
Profiled by de GrootsWho would’ve thought that a chain of Latin clubs would have started in Japan? Salsa Sudada opened in Tokyo in 1991, and was so successful that a second venue opened in the Philippines four years later. In 2003 the Latin fever spread to Sydney, when the company opened La Cita in our very own King Street Wharf. This two level restaurant, bar and club has a live satellite link to the original club in Tokyo so you can see your Japanese counterparts swinging their hips and salsa-ing the night away. La Cita offers Latin dance classes four nights a week, these are highly social events usually followed by a few hours of mingling in the bar. La Cita does some incredible cocktails and has a full range of tequilas, imported beers and cigars.
The restaurant offers Central and South American cuisine with an emphasis on seafood and meat (this is Sydney after all). The kitchen boasts a flame grill, wood-fired oven, and imported chillies and spices for that authentic Latin flavour. For breakfast try a real Spanish Omelette or have a light lunch of white corn tortillas topped with guacamole, eggplant, roast capsicum, refried beans, baby spinach and fetta. Carnivores will love the mixed grill platter for dinner, but you have to have the spicy chocolate chicken at least once just to say you’ve tried it.
Sarah Theeboom, April 2007