Wine takes centrestage at two new Melbourne bars but the finely tuned menus by no means play second fiddle, writes Michael Harden. It was a game of wine-bar snap when Embla and Marion opened within ...

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country right now. Embla, the wine bar brought to you by Christian McCabe and Dave Verheul from The Town Mouse and French wine guy, ...

We order the “aged flounder”. You’d do it for the name alone, wouldn’t you? A waiter tells us our favourite flatfish is gutted, brined for a few days before drying and hanging for another seven, then ...

Chef Dave Verheul and co-owner Christian McCabe will open Lesa in August.Penny Stephens The Embla team finally has a name and an opening date for their long-awaited Melbourne restaurant. Lesa will ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Created at Melbourne's Embla restaurant, this green tea infusion is bright and complex, matching ...

THERE’S a new contender for Melbourne’s best bread — and it’s just one of the sibling rivalries found at Lesa, the new restaurant above Embla. But has the CBD newcomer hit its stride yet, asks Dan ...

A year on and Lesa – the quieter, more refined upstairs yin to ever-bustling Embla’s downstairs yang – has shaken its little sibling status and is proudly, definitively, making its own mark on the ...

Right from the get-go, Embla was everyone's go-to for every occasion demanding food and wine. It could be somewhere for a quick bite, a fancy meal, or just wine and cheese if you landed between ...