The cellar bar is the shopfront to Grossi Florentino, a high traffic area where the mood is always changing. Whether bustling and business like in the morning, assertive and noisy at lunchtime or sexy and romantic in the evening, it’s the stage upon which Melbourne cafe society struts its stuff. From the day it re opened in the mid 1950s it has been a magnate for the habituates of high and low bohemia, politicians, artists, taxi drivers and actors. The menu, eclectic, offering snacks to substantial meals and pastry- fitting the moods of its clientele morning day and night.
The small slice of authentic European sophistication that is the Cellar Bar is firmly cemented in its authentic cafe society, one that is thriving but still maintains its links to the past.