Two sibling venues offering a day-night double act will open this autumn in a pocket of South Melbourne generally starved of drinking and dining options.

Daytime venue Clementine will open mid-April, followed by the more debaucherous underground restaurant Castlerose in May.

Glen Bagnara, Philippe Perrey and David Yuan, the hospitality trio who originally established Bar Bianco and Hemingway’s Wine Room, are behind the new spots, just 500 metres from Albert Park Lake.

Clementine sits beneath an upmarket commercial development, but it will turn away from foyer cafe stereotypes, according to Bagnara.

Yuan’s menu combines restaurant-style techniques on plates such as a fungi and lettuce salad with chicken poached in vin jaune. Cured salmon millefeuille takes its cues from a salmon bagel, with cream cheese foam, capers and candied lemon between the pastry layers.

“We felt the Melbourne-esque cafe is everywhere, but there’s room to shake it up a bit,” says Bagnara.

Interiors eschew the minimalist trend of recent years in favour of warm tones and textures, such as sandy red tiles, a raw timber and concrete counter, rattan chairs and tiled tabletops.

Coffee is from Dukes, while a forthcoming liquor licence will be used for brunch cocktails through to late-afternoon happy hours.

Then, from early evening, the 40-seat Castlerose will pour European and Australian wines against a supper club-inspired backdrop of marble, dark timber and leather banquettes.

While there won’t be entertainment, there will be theatre provided by a cheese trolley roaming the room and cigar boxes that reveal pastry fingers filled with confit duck and more.

Tapping into the hunger for old-school European dishes, lobster and foie gras will join simply cooked proteins such as wagyu rump cap and roast chicken with black garlic.

The developer, Fortis, also built the site of Neil Perry’s two-hatted Margaret and its neighbour, Baker Bleu, in Double Bay, Sydney.

67-69 Palmerston Crescent, South Melbourne, clementine3205.com.au, castlerose.com.au