Signature Oysters: Media
Signature Oysters: Media
SMALL BUT PERFECTLY FORMED BY: KEVA GOCHER
28 APRIL 2015
Picture: Pat Scala
Doors Open: Morgan McGlone, Miranda Campbell, Adam Shoebridge, Peter Jo and George McCullogh at Bar Clarine
T
he hotly anticipated natural
them with cucumber, bay oil
Manning the wine collection
wine bar sidekick to Belle’s
and white pepper is chef Adam
(cellared off-site in Collingwood)
Hot Chicken, Bar Clarine,
Shoebridge, an ex co-worker of
is George McCullough, the young
McGlone’s from Husk in the US.
sommelier with strong game
opened a few weeks ago. The menu
courtesy of time at the Builders. It’s
will change every 10 days, and every second you spend reading
It’s wine-food menu that maintains
an international cellar with minimal-
this decreases your chances of a
the Southern accent of next door,
interventionist heart, which McGlone
seat. The new project by Morgan
though mildly so. That might look
has been building since October,
McGlone and Miranda Campbell
like sardines on toast with a tomato
and currently features rare French
is tiny, with just 22 seats and no
gravy (cornmeal cooked down with
cuvees and bonus non-wines such as
bookings.
tomatoes) or salad-meets-cheese-
Laurent Cazottes tomato eau de vie
plate hybrid mignonette hearts with
made with 72 types of the plant.
But if it’s small, it’s also ambitious
a malted onion dust and big curls of
and spry, a place of minimal
beaufort cheese. Other cheeses and
150 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, 9077 0788,
intervention wines and maximum
terrines are being made in-house,
Tue-Sat 5pm - 11:30pm (later when the
fun for oenophiles who have
while the fresh produce driving the
license expands).
reached peak hot chicken.
menu is being negotiated with a
Shucking signature oysters, serving
farm collective in Monbulk.