Brisbane hospitality group Anyday has arrived in the city’s CBD with the opening of its seventh venue, Golden Avenue, evoking a Levantine garden terrace.
Leaders of Middle Eastern and wood-fired cookery have shaped the menu, including Anyday co-owner and culinary director Ben Williamson, and group executive chef Adam Wolfers (Gerard’s Bistro, Etelek). “My past work in Middle Eastern cuisine is what really brought Ty (Anyday co-owner Tyron Simon) and I together in the first place. It’s a fun, vibrant cuisine type which makes it perfectly suited to be our first offering to the CBD,” Williamson said in a statement. Head chef Tim Yates, who was most recently at popular London restaurant Scully, oversees the multiple wood ovens and charcoal grills in the kitchen.
The broad and diverse culinary inspiration (described as spanning “from the Levant to the Maghreb”) is delivered in dishes like kibbeh nayyeh with urfa chilli and sheep curd; fried quail with chilli oil, carob molasses, verjuice and za’atar; and swordfish shish with hawaij spice and aromatic oil. House-made breads (saj, pita and potato bread) are cooked to order in the wood-fired oven, which also gives the high-heat treatment to Spring Bay mussels (cooked in a clay pot) served with fennel, roasted rice cream and lemon, as well as a 700-gram machoui lamb shoulder.
Desserts look like Lebanese luqaimat doughnuts with saffron anglaise or a baklava millefeuille, while the drinks list packs textural and bold wines to complement the big flavours on the menu. Cocktails also integrate on-theme elements, like saffron, green chilli, sumac and rose.
The new-build, 500-square-metre venue at the City Botanic Gardens end of Edward Street hosts textural concrete surfaces, mature trees and plants, soft green tiling, and pink granite surfaces, with seven retractable roofs and skylights lending natural light and fresh air. Pillars, slabs of stone, and the muted palette bring a temple-like feel to the space — which is otherwise bustling. A dedicated, walk-in-only bar called GA has its own entrance from the street, plus a menu of mezze and snacks.
“This venue brings a new cuisine to the group while staying true to the Anyday experience: warm, vibrant, welcoming, and built around the joy of hospitality,” says Tyron Simon. Anyday’s portfolio includes Agnes (Gourmet Traveller’s 2023 Restaurant of the Year), Same Same, Hôntô, Biànca, LOS bar and bakery/café Idle.
Golden Avenue is now open from 11.30am daily at 67 Edward Street, Brisbane.
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