With a focus on natural wine, this Northbridge bar-cum-restaurant will keep you coming back again and again.
Nab one of the streetside tables outside this former shopfront, preferably on an afternoon when they’re dappled in sunlight, and you’ll be tempted to linger for more than just a short while, chilled red in hand. Inside is just as welcoming – the intimate wood-floored space lined with wine bottles you can take home, with a communal table for convivial groups and a scrawled chalkboard detailing the day’s selection of minimal intervention wines, hailing mostly from small-scale organic and biodynamic vineyards in Europe and Australia.
Attentive staff are skilled in recommending something if you can’t choose or if natty wine is not your thing (there’s also artisan beers and cider). With chef Jack Short at the helm, a regular rotation of chefs pops in for residencies, takeovers and events, but the theme that’s consistent is a focus on local seafood and vegetables and nostalgic home-style Mediterranean flavours: think delicate white beans with bottarga, casarecce tossed with braised greens and stracciatella, or crisp cotoletta. The blueprint is very much of the wine bar scenes of London and Paris but after several years it feels quintessentially West Australian.
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