RAISING THE BAR
Sydney’s Odd Culture Group has headed south, with its first Melbourne venue opening on a prime corner in Fitzroy. The new Odd Culture bar and craft bottle shop has the same fixation on fermentation as its sister in Newtown and, luckily for Melbourne, the original’s cult pâté has made the migration, too. It comes laced with fish sauce and studded with potato chips for easy scooping.
ODD CULTURE
Shop ½96 Brunswick
Street, Fitzroy
@oddculturefitzroy
Merrick’s SHOUT
Merrick Watts on his latest drinks discovery.
With spring on its way, I find myself bingeing on the last crumbs of winter. Hot pies will soon be replaced by fresh greens. Peaty whisky by tequila sunrises; dark stouts for pale ales. But before I say ‘sayonara’ to the doona,
