City Wine Shop

Ph: (03) 9654 6657; 159 Spring St, MELBOURNE 3000 www.citywineshop.net.au

wine bar-bistro, $$ -
Open Breakfast Lunch and Dinner 7 days; Licensed; AE DC V

Mietta's Review
Separate from, but part of, the Melbourne Supper Club is Con Christopoulos' recent venture housed in what was Stella. It sells wine to take-away or to taste on the premises. Its a cute little bistro with a range of snack food and a selection of good value mains. Wines you buy are opened on-premise for $15 corkage and the selection is huge. The place looks as though it's been here since Federation. A fabulous addition to the city.

Other published opinions

Herald Sun 10-06-08 Score: *** "lean on the bar or sit at the communal table beyond and this place will delight"

The Age Cheap Eats 2008 "Con Christopoulos holds a prime slice of Melbourne's Monopoly board with his Euro trio: the European, the Melbourne Supper Club and the brilliant City Wine Shop, which shares an effortless, old-continental ambience with its counterparts"

The Age Cheap Eats 2007 "City Wine Shop's deliberately cryptic name obscures all manner of strengths. For while CWS does, of course, sell wine and take its coffee seriously, the food here is also splendid."

Herald Sun Eat, Simon Plant, 19-7-06 "Working people heading home from the city get a yearning for a big red or a lively white. So on their way to Parliament station, they call by the City Wine Shop on Spring St.They usually find what they want the "wine wall" here is enormous but many decide to taste first. The Wine Shop has plenty of drops by the glass.Propped at the front bar, they invariably order some nibbles as well pickled onions and cheddar or pork rillette with cornichons."

The Age Cheap Eats 2006 There aren't many places as classy, cosy and likable as this one

The Age Epicure Matt Preston 19/4/05 "The omelette is far less forbidding. It's stuffed with a wide, white seam of heat-softened goat's cheese that marries well with spears of asparagus and a salad of rocket and parmesan. The omelette's texture is soft and yielding rather than leathery, the pared asparagus wet and fresh. Good stuff. In fact, the omelette exemplifies the City Wine Shop. Simple stuff, well done. A most welcome combination."

The Age Cheap Eats 2005 "First you'll want to taste some wines, perhaps match a few with duck rillettes or brie de Nangis from the bar list"

The Age Melbourne Magazine 15/12/04 John Lethlean "A coffee, a snack, a three-course meal footpath dining doesn't come much better than this."