Carlisle Wine Bar
Editorial
Emerging as one of Melbourne’s ‘it’ streets, Carlisle Street, Balaclava, is home to one of Melbourne’s classic café/bars in the form of the Carlisle Wine Bar. A cosy interior of polished timbers, red leather booths, a rich stone bar top and bentwood furniture adds further European flavour to Balaclava’s already multi-ethnic main street.
A menu of Italian food compliments a brilliant wine and cocktail list comprising local and European sparking, wines, stickies, sherries, beers and cocktails. Bottles of wine start at around $34 and travel upward from there. Glasses of wine are priced at around the $9 mark, while cocktails range between $12 - $16. The Carlisle Wine Bar is perfect for the solo adventurer or those that travel in packs.
Stools along the bar lend themselves perfectly to propping with a glass of wine and an antipasto plate while the window-box-booth than can seat up to eight, suggests a special occasion boozy lunch or long, loud dinner. The room reverberates with the buzz of swiftly gesticulating staff, streams of smartly dressed customers and a certain Italian ambiance that is so reinforced with words on the menu such as Pecorino, Vincotto, Agnolotti, Strega and Frangelico.
Owner, Steven Milic, has captured the best of Melbourne and rolled it up into a gutsy little package bursting with local tradition and European flair.
Brenton Geyer, Citysearch
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