deVine Food & Wine

Food and atmosphere is great! Good location for casual, intimate lunch. I had grilled prawns and it was delicious~ highly recommend this dish to those who wants something light, but tasty and good portion. It is from appetizer menu. Service was alright. The restaurant was busy, so little slow on service.

Wine library any day over this! Food is just not good enough for the price they are charging. Understand it is the city but that doesn’t mean below par food, not very exciting. Ambience is pretty cool — 2 star for that. Value for money– questionable.

Seriously good. Had a bottle of grenache from Orange, it was fantastic paired with a cheese and jamon platter. Cannot fault this place at all. Will be heading back as soon as the wallet allows.

deVine is an old fave for wine and good conversation. I have had many an evening here with colleagues nestled in a chair with beautiful wine and a prawn pizza!
The food is good however slightly more $$$ than maybe it should be. The wine is always delicious and staff although very busy do take time to get you the perfect table and provide efficient table service.
If you are in the mood for good wine give deVine a try.

Stopped in for a glass of wine with a colleague — it was a little on the later side and they were starting to close up so I guess I can’t be too critical here but serivce was so-​so and the wine list was too … we didn’t have any food.
Maybe the best option for wine in this neighborhood but I was a little disappointed..

I love this place, it is one of our regular Friday night red wine and nibbles haunts.
The range of wines by the glass varies regularly, with a good range in two sizes. They have some great Barbera d’Alba, a variety I currently besotted with.
Their pizzas a wonderful, and they will very the toppings if you ask nicely (not like me, I was a bit rude — sorry guys!) and the antipasti platters are very good — see my check-​in pics for a squiz.
Tables can be hard to get Fridays, need to get there before 6, and maybe prepared to share a communal table. But generally a drink at the bar is all that is needed before someone leaves. Outside tables are good but passing flotsam and jetsam can be an issue as the night wears on and the passers-​by get more, erm, lubricated.
The owner is always on the floor (dude with a ponytail) and seems agreeable to by-​the-​glass of one or two not on the list if you press him.
Recommended!

Great wines! The food was good but not worth the $ price tag attached to it.

What a great wine bar. My experiences here are usually just for a glass of wine before or after dinner elsewhere. The Tuscan Chianti’s are fantastic and it all goes down well sitting on the comfy seating in the dimmed little room. I love the fact that the menu provides a description of the wines, which helps you make an informed decision, especially for people like me with poor wine knowledge.
I’m actually coming here tomorrow night for dinner so I will update this review with the verdict, but as a wine bar De Vine is devine! (sorry I had to put that in there)

De Vine is the best downtown wine bar for awesome food, friendly service and an impressive selection of vinos.
This corner bar-​come-​restaurant is a low-​lit den of a place, with high stool and a casual eating area at the front of the room and a more formal dining section with banquette seating and linen clad tables through to the back. The menu has a modern European feel to it — on my first visit, my dining partner had a slow-​cooked lamb shank with tomato sauce and roasted vegetables, while I tried a dish from the specials board of pan-​fried ocean trout with prawn and tomato ragu (which turned out to be a rich, cream-​based sauce despite the waitress’ description). During a return visit, a friend and I took to the tapas menu — a little bowl of green Sicilians from the dedicated «olive and nut selection» and the cheese platter with muscatels, dried figs and wedges of black sesame seed-​dusted crackers adorning a wooden chopping board were definitely worth the trip back.
But the real lure behind this place is the extensive selection of old and new world wines, put together in an easy to navigate menu designed to help you make the best drinking decision: a French riesling is described as «exotic fruit and citrus peel aromas, very tightly woven with intense stonefruit flavour. Very vibrant with distinct mineral notes» while «cassis and blackberry fruit, very silky and fine fruit on the palate, great intensity of flavours with full to medium body» is the blurb for an Austrian cabernet merlot. If these poetic descriptions aren’t enough, the knowledgeable waitstaff are also on hand to help you make up your mind.

I remember feeling very grown up the first time I stepped into deVine. A food writer friend of mine took me there (which is recommendation enough) for a quick glass of pink and a bite to eat before we rushed back to the Sydney Film Festival.
The bar is comfortably cavernous and cosey, with lots of dark woods and elegantly placed wine bottles making it the perfect place to settle in for the night — if only we had the time!
I left it to my friend to order, though a quick look at the wine list made me want to take it home and study. From the bar menu we received some tasty olives and even more perfect pizzas. They were crisp and flaky, with the combination of flavours from the salami, roasted eggplant, artichoke, smoked chili singing together in sweet harmony.
I have yet to venture back into the restaurant proper, but if the bar menu is anything to go by, I’m sure it’s divine (sorry).