Cielo Rooftop, Fortitude Valley Review

Visit one particular Fortitude Valley building, and multiple options await. If you feel like sitting behind a heritage facade and eating Italian bites, then La Costa has you covered. It also doubles as a bar, too. But, upstairs on the rooftop at the same Brunswick Street address, Cielo is doing its thing as well. It focuses on cocktails, with good reason. When you’re pouring drinks curated by one of the best bars in the world — Sydney’s Maybe Sammy, which was named the 11th best for 2020 — then you want to make a big deal of it.

Accessed via an internal lift, this rooftop spot also takes inspiration from the Italian riviera like its downstairs neighbours. That means cocktails like the Portofino ($24, with vodka, mango,…