The bistro, with its stylish bentwood chairs and smart Edison lights, is the place for dinner and relaxed weekend lunches. The menu is a balance of traditional with modern dishes with a large proportion of gluten free dishes, including gluten free pasta. The wine list is everything wine lovers could wish for, sommelier Steve Scullin chooses wines that best suit the Italian menu. Pick any wine from the hundreds of labels available, and add $10 to the bottle shop price to savour with a meal.

Italian foodlovers can rejoice in the cuisine. Start with prosciutto from Italy, and salami from Australia, sliced to order, or the daily changing antipasto selection. Enjoy some of Melbourne’s best soft cheeses. Feast on hand-made pasta. There are house-made pickles and preserves, pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven, and a bistro with its own menu.

“The menu is a comfortable balance between traditional and modern,” the General Manager Frank Chilelli says. “It’s important to allow the fresh air of creativity into traditional Italian cooking.”The woodfired oven that cooks the pizze on the bar menu is also used for seasonal dishes like the slow-roasted kid, or the spicy roast chicken.

Enjoy a glass of wine. Choose a bottle. There are so many choices at The Grosvenor. The blackboard wall in the bar, like the list on the menu, shows all the wines available by the glass, and the Sommelier’s Selection. But for those who want to make their own decision, diners can browse the hundreds of wines on display.