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Order kangaroo dimmies and salty potato cakes with caviar at this North Melbourne wine bar

Bear’s is everything you’d want in a neighbourhood wine bar.

Tomas Telegramma

Bear’s Wine Bar in North Melbourne.
1 / 2Bear’s Wine Bar in North Melbourne.Photograph by Chris Hopkins
A warm, homey feel.
2 / 2A warm, homey feel.Photograph by Chris Hopkins

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Warm and welcoming for punters from all walks of life, Bear’s is exactly what a neighbourhood wine bar should be. There’s a gamut-running wine list, penny-pinching pint-sized cocktails, kangaroo dim sims and souped-up chicken salted potato cakes topped with creme fraiche and caviar.

The Queensberry Street hang-out is run by North Melbourne local Austin Kangket and his sommelier friend Nathan Schofield, who met while working together at hatted Flinders Lane restaurant Supernormal.

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Tomas TelegrammaTomas Telegramma is a food, drinks and culture writer.

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