LOCATION
ECQ is located in the Quay Grand Hotel, Circular Quay.
DETAILS
With wrap around views to Circular Quay and the harbour, ECQ Bar is one of Sydney's favourite meeting places. With a fabulous light luncheon menu served from 12.00pm through to 6.00pm you can call in at any time either entertaining a client or drop by to relax and catch up with friends at the end of a busy day.
DETAILS
ECQ has to be the best spot in Sydney where you can sit back and have a glass of wine and something as simple as potato wedges or choose from a great selection of dishes on their tapas menu with a combination of four dishes costing only $26.00. Menu includes eggplant dip, hommus, marinated olives, tapenade, taramasalata and guacomole all servied with chargrilled turkish bread. Their traditional beer battered fish and chips, thai fish cakes, or the Quay Grand club style baguetteare all delicious. With a bar menu all under $20 this has to be the best spot in Sydney to enjoy a light snack at great value. The light snacks menu served from 6.00pm to 10.30pm includes a variety of foods at excellent value. Tempt your tastebuds with tempura oysters and dipping sauce or four cheese pizza with prosciutto, all while enjoying a cold glass of wine or one of the many cocktails while taking in the views of Circular Quay and Sydney Harbour.
FUNCTIONS
ECQ is available for private functions for up to 100 with cocktail canape menus starting from $28 per person. Please contact the Functions Department on 02 9256 4000 for further enquiries.
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ECQ is the more casual bar to the Quay Grand All Suite’s fine diner, Quadrant. Chef Ross Barrett services both menus, and the Quadrant dessert menu is now available at ECQ bar as part of a post-show special. The idea is that you have an early dinner at Quadrant, nip down to that white, funny-shaped building a few hundred metres away, and then return for something sweet and an aperitif. There is also a dessert tasting platter in the works, which means you’ll be able to try both the coconut pannacotta with confit pineapple and pandanus sago, and the steamed chocolate pudding with bitter lime syrup and rosewater gelato. Quite a tempting offer, say my thighs. The rest of the bar menu is a combination of nibblies and light meals with Asian and Mediterranean accents.
Toast the water views with lime-dressed oysters or a refreshing plate of tuna and salmon sashimi. If you’re after lunch or dinner you may want something from the grill such as t-bone with cafe de paris or garlic buttered king prawns. A selection of four tapas plates plus Turkish bread is available for $24 and will suit those opting for a liquid dinner. Speaking of which, the entire Quadrant wine list is available up at the bar which means a good selection of high-end drops from Australia and New Zealand, and French bubbles.
Sarah Theeboom, September 2007
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