Oak and Vine Is Melbourne CBD's Newest Eatery

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Does your crew struggle to pick a cuisine for group dinners? There's a cute new eatery in the CBD called Oak and Vine, and they've got one heck of an eclectic menu — sure to suit all preferences. Best of all, while it's undeniably fancy, it's also super reasonable.

Oak and Vine's menu takes a paddock-to-plate approach in celebrating local, homegrown and small batch produce and pairs it up with boutique beer and wine, but don’t expect that to limit the scope at all. This shiny new eatery boasts one of the most widely-ranging menus we’ve seen in a long while, pulling the best parts out of your favourite cuisines and somehow making them work cohesively.

You’ll find crab tacos with green mango slaw ($14) alongside arancini balls with porcini mushrooms ($14). There's chicken parma served with house Napoli and buffalo mozzarella next to po’ boy sandwiches with Korean fried chicken and Asian pickle ($16). The dessert menu features an Eton mess (with passionfruit, baby meringue and toasted pistachios, $14) and a banana-fritter with house made coconut sago and green tea ice-cream ($16).

Steak and seafood and pasta and classics and tacos. It’s a Mecca for big groups of people who crave different cuisines and refuse to compromise. And to simplify your night even more, the menu is divided up in a way that makes intuitive, emotional sense to most food-lovin’ people: bar food, all-day comfort food, substantial food, on-the-side food and sweet food. Mmm sweet, sweet food. Why aren’t all menus this easy?

Oak and Vine is quickly settling in on Market Street and establishing itself as one of the CBD’s must-do night spots for those among you who thrive on variety (although you may have a hard time picking just one).

Find Oak and Vine at 60 Market Street, CBD. Bookings (03) 8631 1111. Open daily from 11.30am to late.