Avida - Wellington New Zealand

Had some lovely tapas hear earlier this week with some work colleagues. <br/ <br/ I was pleasantly surprised; having walked past many times but not gone in I was amazed.The venue and decor is wonderful, classy, but not overly so. Staff are very friendly and knowledgeable. <br/ <br/ The food was very nice too, being a tapas bar the focus is on smaller share plates, but that is OK. We had some chicken skewers, goats cheese and honey puffs (my favourite), some fries, a share plate of Spanish meats, and some olives.<br/ <br/ All the food was great, and the beer selection was fantastic too. Highly recommend.

Enjoyed the drinks and nibbles yesterday. Surprisingly family friendly for an inner city bar catering mostly to the after office crew. Nice little private nooks around the place. Great service too.

Pretty good! Attentive humorous service and a great range of tapas for sharing or hogging to yourself whichever you fancy. The empanadas were s little pastry heavy but when you got to the filling it was fab!

We had to evacuate the hotel just when we're about to prepare dinner due to a fire alarm. So we thought of going to Avida while the firemen were busy checking out the hotel. Service was prompt and friendly. We love the empanadas, meatballs and roasted pumpkin.

I have to be honest I am having a rather intense love affair with this place.  I 'm generally there at least once a week for a drink after work.  I just can 't help myself I TRY to share myself around, but it 's now become my firm 'go to ' place.  It 's the ridiculously good service (I 've even had the tapas menu read to me in 'Sam Hunt ' poetry style to be fair, I had initially asked for it to be done as a rap, but the Sam Hunt version was even better .  And the impeccable wine list.  And the faultless food (as a vegetarian I often draw the short straw when I 'm dining out but never at Avida Goat cheese puffs drizzled with honey?!  Roasted pumpkin and feta?!  Parkvale mushrooms in sherry vinegar!?!!  what 's not to love?!    The only thing that drives me a little crazy is that everyone else seems to love it as much as I do, so unless you 've reserved a table well in advance, or arrived ridiculously early in the evening, it can be a little difficult to get a seat.  Having said that the wonderful people at Avida have always managed to find me a spot somewhere.   Don 't change a THING, Avida this really is true love.  X