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Pour Diane

A ’70s time warp with house party vibes.

Pour Diane is a ’70s time warp
1 / 4Pour Diane is a ’70s time warpJoe Armao
The bar is decked out like a ’70s living room.
2 / 4The bar is decked out like a ’70s living room.Joe Armao
A circular tiger print sofa bed greets you at Pour Diane.
3 / 4A circular tiger print sofa bed greets you at Pour Diane.Joe Armao
Outside the North Melbourne bar.
4 / 4Outside the North Melbourne bar.Joe Armao

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It’s a ’70s fever dream at this northside newcomer, co-owned by wine importer and maker Andy Buchan. The house party vibes are bona fide and service is appropriately easy-breezy. Pick a lo-fi bottle from the wine wall and nuzzle in wherever there’s space: perhaps on the round tiger-print sofa bed, or at a cherry-red table for a game of Connect 4. You might even catch an episode of Baywatch, beamed onto the wall.

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