Bear’s Wine Bar in North Melbourne.

Order kangaroo dimmies and salty potato cakes with caviar at this North Melbourne wine bar

Bear’s is everything you’d want in a neighbourhood wine bar.

  • Tomas Telegramma
The urban dining area at Young’s Wine Rooms in Hawthorn East.

Young’s Wine Rooms

Swish suburban crowd-pleaser.

Wild,housed in a former country fire station,has generous windows that open to the street.

Wild

Crowd-pleaser for locals and daytrippers alike.

The spacious tavern is great for groups.
14.5/20

This city laneway favourite has fed up to 650 diners a night since 1968. Is it on your radar?

I was doubtful about this boisterous beer-hall in Chinatown,but I’ve been disarmed and charmed,writes Dani Valent.

  • Dani Valent
The Cashmere cocktail.
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Spicy Wicket

Roomy restaurant for great-value lunch set and more.

Tartine gives toast the bistro treatment.

Tartine

Handsome corner spot draws a following for its namesake open sandwich.

The firelit dining at Tanswell’s Hotel,Beechworth.

Tanswell’s Hotel

Grand heritage hotel with fresh ideas and broad appeal.

The box of nine small bites at Sakedokoro Namara.

Sakedokoro Namara

Transportive,with top-notch sake on tap.

Don’s “pasta on a spoon” might be a duck raviolo with mandarin butter.

Don’s

A natural wine bar serving snacky bites including “pasta on a spoon”.

  • Dani Valent