Lamb neck with fermented honey and roast cashew cream.
1/9Lamb neck with fermented honey and roast cashew cream.Supplied
The dining room at the craft brewery.
2/9The dining room at the craft brewery.Eddie Jim
Choose from seafood or vegan laksa.
3/9Choose from seafood or vegan laksa.Supplied
Cured trout with guanciale.
4/9Cured trout with guanciale.Simon Schluter
Sweet potato and black fungus spring rolls.
5/9Sweet potato and black fungus spring rolls.Eddie Jim
Inside the brewery.
6/9Inside the brewery.Amanda Santamaria
Wok-fried char kwai teow.
7/9Wok-fried char kwai teow.Simon Schluter
Baccala-stuffed chicken wing.
8/9Baccala-stuffed chicken wing.Simon Schluter
The chef’s table is a front-row seat to the kitchen.
9/9The chef’s table is a front-row seat to the kitchen.Sarah Anderson

Critics'Pick

Contemporary$$

Leave any preconceptions you have about brewery food at the door. Molly Rose’s genre-bending plates are full of surprises. Tartare is so beefy you’d never guess it’s watermelon,roasted into shreds then made carnivorous with an ’nduja through-line.

Char kwai teow is appropriately wok-kissed,the bouncy rolled rice noodles subbing out lap cheong for mortadella. Pork jowl satay skewers buddy up to a refreshing swipe of smoked yoghurt.

Convivial staff add soul to steely blue surrounds,hosting tableside beer tastings. Opt for one with your meal and get dinner and a show,with yarns about oddball brews such as one made from a local baker’s surplus sourdough,and a cinnamon-spiced amber ale that’s surprisingly fresh.

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The kitchen gets into the house booze,too;the caramel crowning coconut rice pudding is like liquid gold,and crafted from sour beer.

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