Close-up of a craft cocktail with botanical garnish
The Bitter Season — Autumn/Winter 2025

The Menu

Our menu rotates four times a year around a single hero ingredient or botanical family. This season: amaro, alpine botanicals, and fermented stone fruit. Every syrup, tincture, and bitters is made in-house.

Allergen information available on request
Vessel bartender preparing a seasonal craft cocktail
Made in this room

Signature Cocktails

Original compositions built around house-made ingredients. Prices include a complimentary water.

Contains tree nuts
$26
$24
$22
$25
$23
$22
Dark moody cocktail glass
Familiar, reinvented

Classics Reimagined

The canon, approached with a lab mentality. Every ingredient re-examined.

$21
$24
$23
$22
$20
No mixer required

Spirits-Forward

Flights and solo pours for the spirit-curious. Let the distillery do the talking.

Three 15ml pours
$38
Three 15ml pours
$42
Four 10ml pours
$44
30ml · Seasonal allocation only
$85

Additional expressions available from our Spirits Library. Ask your bartender — they know it well.

Minimal alcohol, maximum flavour

Low-ABV & Zero Proof

Built with the same rigour as everything else. House ferments and botanical distillates.

$14
$13
$14
$13
Curated selection

Beer & Wine

Craft Beer

Stomping Ground Gipps St Pale

Collingwood, VIC

$10

Moon Dog Lager Lager

Abbotsford, VIC

$10

Mountain Culture Status Quo IPA

Katoomba, NSW

$12

Wine & Sparkling

Ochota Barrels "Texture Like Sun" Rosé

Birdwood, SA

$16 /glass

Delinquente "Screaming Betty" Vermentino

Riverland, SA

$14 /glass

Lucy Margaux Pinot Noir

Adelaide Hills, SA

$18 /glass

Stefano Lubiana Brut Rosé NV

Granton, TAS

$16 /glass
200+ Expressions

The Spirits Library

Behind the bar sits 200+ bottles of whisky, mezcal, rum, and gin — mostly rare, often small-batch, occasionally unrepeatable. The full list lives behind the bar. Ask Declan; he wrote it.

Tasmanian Whisky

200+ expressions behind the bar — ask your bartender for the full list.

Lark · Overeem · Hellyers Road · Sullivan's Cove · Nant · Shene Estate

Scotch Whisky

Curated selection of single malts and blended expressions.

Springbank · Ardbeg · GlenDronach · Glenfarclas · Compass Box · Benriach

Mezcal & Tequila

Small-batch palenque expressions with terroir.

Real Minero · Koch El Mezcal · Vago · Del Maguey · Siete Misterios

Rum

Aged agricole and traditional column expressions.

Appleton 21yr · Diplomatico Reserva · Foursquare Criterion · Rum Nation Panama

Flight options available — our bartenders build guided flights around your palate. Just ask. Minimum 3 expressions. Prices vary by selection.

Ready to drink something remarkable?