Three delicious new reasons to visit the famed strip include a cabaret bar on Bayswater Road, an Italian-leaning wine bar on Kellett Street and an ‘exciting’ incoming tenant at the former home of Gourmet Life. August 12, 2024 You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more.
Save this article for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Kings Cross: there’s a sweet Italian scent wafting your way. In the streets around the famed strip, veteran restaurateur Maurice Terzini has confirmed he’ll open a cabaret bar on Bayswater Road in spring, while a block over on Kellett Street a wine bar with an Italian-leaning menu opened last week.
And there’s strong speculation the team behind Potts Point Italian stalwart Fratelli Paradiso will join the party, with a new venue on Roslyn Street. All three sites are within 100 metres of each other, in the Kings Cross-Potts Point precinct hit hard by the lockouts laws but recently bouncing back. “Kings Cross has a lot of that beautiful history we want to embrace,” Terzini says of the area, and the site he and business partner Peter Shopovski (House of Mince) have chosen for their venture, Mirage KX , has some edge and infamy.
“It used to be dancers,” Terzini says. “We really believe in the Cross, it’s coming back.” They are calling Mirage KX a residency, because the building is slated for development in the long term, but the Italian-Australian .