Forget the old days of the grungy Beehive Hotel - Barkers Wine Bar & Bistro represents a complete reinvention of the space as a polished gastropub. There are also rumblings in the kitchen, where Michael Lambie and Tony Twitchett, from the much-acclaimed Taxi Dining Room, turn their toques torwards the wonderful world of pub food. It's all about keeping the standards high and the prices low, and Lambie and Twitchett's menu fits the bill nicely with a straightforward selection of pastas, woodfired pizzas, steaks, oysters, salads and seafood dishes. As with Taxi, Barkers displays an Asian bent in a few dishes, like the Szechuan-spiced crispy duck with sesame and tamarind sauce, and the Asian chicken salad with hot mint and pickled carrot. This is one gastropub, or "wine bar and bistro", that shows off the possibilities of pub food.
Asian, Breakfast, Modern Australian, Pizza and Pub Grub
Signature dish: Giant lemon and parsley-crumbed schnitzel with hot mustard coleslaw
Entree: $13-$18.50
Mains: $18.50-$36
Dessert: $13
Set menu:
3 courses,
$75
Set menu includes a glass of sparkling, red or white wine
Payment accepted: MasterCard, Visa, American Express and EFTPOS
Licensed with bar. Wine is available by the glass.
This venue accepts bookings. It is advisable to make a reservation ahead of time. Group bookings are supported. Bookings required for restaurant only, bar areas also available for meals
Seats 40
Outside dining area
Wheelchair access
and wheelchair-accessible toilets
Gourmet Traveller Feature Review - "Melbourne’s enjoying a gastropub revival as big-name chefs – Mangan, Lambie and Wilson – lend their talents at glammed-up watering holes. It’s pub food reborn."
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Posted by:
Stefez
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14 January 2011, 3.34pm
Food is the bees knees
Well it's been a long time since the 80's hanging out drinking with friends at the old Beehive...no more sticky carpet and beer swilling comps!! this is way gone and has been replaced by a swish professional food and wine focuss with the same friendly atmosphere expected in a local pub. It looks like they (management) have recruited one of Melbourne's culinary skilled chefs, hailing from past places such as Agrodolce and Circuz. We were already impressed and new that the food would be excellent and it was! Not much more to say other than the staff were not attentaive and will do better once some training is given and the atmosphere was definitely on the pub (noisy) side...but it is the old Beehive and we will be back again and again!
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Visit: Fri 24 December 2010
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