Lune Croissanterie team opens Butler Wine Bar in Brisbane - Restaurants

by Sonya Gellert

Sep 08, 2022

And the culinary offerings are as alluring as the natural wine varieties.

There’s something in the air in South Brisbane, and it’s not just the scent of flawlessly baked croissants emerging from Lune Croissanterie in Fish Lane.

A flourishing food landscape and nearby cultural precinct has seen West End’s neighbour become a go-to dining destination for Brisbane’s fervent gourmands.

Butler Wine Bar. Source: Supplied

Now, the team behind Lune has opened sophisticated Butler Wine Bar, an intimate and warm, wooden-accented space that embodies all the same attention to detail as its founders’ sibling venues across the east coast’s capitals.

Keen-eyed Lune founders Kate Reid and her brother Cameron Reid, restaurateur Nathan Toleman and Lune’s general manager Ryan Butler recognised a vacant space nearby their successful croissanterie as the ideal blank canvas for a wine bar, and, before long, they were making plans to bring their night-time venue to life.

Designed by architects Hogg & Lamb, the narrow bar has been converted into elegant yet welcoming space that makes clever use its petite structure.

Naturally, those who’ve spent mornings queued outside Lune will be eager to discover what’s on the menu at Butler. And, as you’d expect, the food and wine offerings here are every bite and sip refined. Plates of playful, flavoursome fare see the likes of prawn tartare paired with a macadamia cream; a mushroom tart with tarragon mayonnaise; pork belly with gochujang and puffed buckwheat; and, to finish, a spiced madeleine with brandy caramel.

The bar’s wine list is equally fun filled and showcases some of the country’s finest boundary-pushing producers – from Konpira Maru to Jilly Wines, and from Unico Zelo to Delinquente. Beers are also locally centred, with West End’s The Catchment Brewing Co. leading the charge. Then there’s the cocktails. The Miso Old Fashioned combines miso caramel with bitters and Plantation Dark Rum; the Pumpkin Highball blends Starward Twofold, spiced pumpkin syrup and soda; and a refreshing Yuzu Paloma marries Tromba Blanco, Illegal Mezcal, yuzu and lime.

The community-focussed neighbourhood bar takes limited reservations and welcomes walk-in patrons.

Butler Wine Bar cocktail. Source: Supplied