Best Bars in Windsor
The best bars in Windsor Melbourne. We’ve scoured this south-eastern ‘burb to find out just which bars serve the coldest beers, the ritziest cocktails, the smoothest wines and the most distilled spirits (and we’re still paying for it with a thumping headache). Whether it’s Friday knockoffs, drinks with friends or wines with mum, we’ve got you sorted.
The Windsor Alehouse
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The Windsor Alehouse is now one of Melbourne’s premier craft beer destinations, with 19 taps pouring a range of Australian and international beers. The menu has been redesigned to include beer pairing suggestions – so you can enjoy your favourite brew with the perfect dish.
Lucky Coq
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Lucky Coq is a Chapel Street institution. After all the shopping, browsing and exploring, make sure to stop by for drinks with friends or an intimate dinner date.
The menu offers hearty pub grub to delicate French cuisine. Cap off your day than with some drinks and laughter at this famous Windsor beer garden bar.
The Wolf Windsor
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The Wolf & I is a modern Australian pub, restaurant and bar in the heart of Windsor. A favourite for locals, The Wolf Windsor offers an extensive menu from hearty pub favourites to gourmet burgers, salads and seafood dishes.
There’s also a large selection of wines, beers and cocktails available.
Borsch Vodka & Tears
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Borsch vodka & tears Windsor bar in Victoria Australia is a restaurant, café and bar in Melbourne. The menu offers Polish cuisine and over 100 vodkas from Eastern Bloc countries.
There are also infusions of vodka available to try straight up, on the rocks or in hot-vodka tea. For drinks with alcohol content, there are classic cocktails as well as house creations that come decorated with fruit, which makes them both pretty and delicious!
Tusk High Bar
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Tusk High Bar is a sophisticated affair with live jazz and cabaret performances. The Windsor bar offers drinks from trained mixologists, premium spirits and formal service. Tusk’s atmosphere of art deco minimalism provides sophistication to the bar scene in Chapel Street, Melbourne.
It’s modelled off Manhattan bars of the 1930s, with art deco inspiration. A cocktail experience awaits guests who want to escape the hustle and bustle of city life for an evening at this hidden gem in the heart of Chapel street!
Chacho’s Windsor
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Chacho’s is a bar with a tequila-heavy cocktail list. The Silk and Smoke is complex but fresh, with smoke-infused grapefruit mezcal, lime and house-made basil agave.
The Espresso Mariachi mixes Patron XO Café with vanilla and mint, and there’s a crackling fire to enjoy outside on the decking in good weather. The food menu has appetizers like Chacho’s Nachos (a combo of tortilla chips, cheese sauce, guacamole), tacos (fish or pork).
Galah
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Galah is a bar, restaurant and music venue in the heart of Windsor. The space has a five-metre high ceiling, velvet booths and an outdoor courtyard with orange trees.
There’s also plenty of good food including dishes from chef Anthony Smith (ex-Rockpool). The drinks menu features cocktails by co-owner Steph Mauer (ex-Bird Watching Society) that are inspired by different eras in Australian history.
Lover
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Lover is a smallish, roped-off cocktail lounge with a kitchen. It`s on the Windsor end of Chapel Street and it does not open until late in the evening.
The cocktails are served by waitresses dressed in long skirts and white gloves. Ornate chandeliers hang from high ceilings and birdcages sit on the bar countertop. Crystal shards glint off gold-roped bollards that line one wall, while curtains of dizzying length stretch across another.
Windsor Castle Hotel
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The Windsor Castle Hotel is a big green building with pink elephants walking along the roofline. The hotel’s loyal subjects are those who love the greenery in the beer garden, drool over excellent pub grub and spend an idle Sunday afternoon cradling a beer whilst catching up with mates.
You’ll find this south side icon nestled in back streets of Windsor, minutes from Windsor train station and only a short stroll from Chapel Street.
Ines Wine Bar
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Ines Windsor wine bar is a new drinking spot named for Matteo Bruno’s nonna. The furnishings are new and the menu has been refined, but meatballs among other favourites from Matteo’s old place will still be found.
Ines is located on Chapel Street in what was formerly called Matteo Bruno’s Meatball & Wine Bar. It features small plates which can also be enjoyed with different wines or cocktails.
Neptune Food & Wine
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Neptune Food & Wine Windsor. A restaurant that celebrates Mediterranean cuisines from Spain, Italy, Greece and beyond.
Head chefs – Nic Coulter and Simon Blacher (Hanoi Hannah, Saigon Sally and Tokyo Tina), Dave and Michael Parker (Pastuso and San Telmo) – have created a menu of delicious dishes that will transport you to the coastlines of the Mediterranean. With wine lists packed with bottles from some of the best winemakers in the world.
Yellow Bird Cafe
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Yellow Bird has been a Windsor institution for over 10 years. Its doors are now open in Chapel Street, with their kitchen serving and taps flowing with cold beer.
This cafe is more than just a place to have breakfast or lunch; it’s perfect for dinner as well! The menu is extensive, ranging from Death Benedict for breakfast (hash browns, bacon, eggs and hollandaise) to salt and chilli squid, chicken enchiladas or funghi risotto. It’s funky, loud and casual at Yellow Bird.
The Woods
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The Woods of Windsor is a new whisky bar in Windsor, ON, that offers an excellent selection of scotch and other whiskeys, as well as a unique atmosphere and great service.
With its old-world speakeasy ambience and swing soundtrack, The Woods is the perfect place to relax after a long day or night. Co-owned by whiskey and music aficionados Dean Bowden and Clint Hyndman (who also own nearby rock-and-roll hangover joint Yellowbird).
Her Bar
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Her Bar is a hidden laneway cocktail bar located at 2 Windsor Place. Her offers cocktails with an intimate atmosphere, yet lively with exposed brick walls, raw iron art deco bars and high end marble tables.
From dualities nature has to offer such as the raw iron cage-style bar top contrasted by brass finishes that we create an inviting space for anyone looking for a drink or two on their night out!
Bar Villanelle
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Bar Villanelle space with a capacity to host 29 people. The food is sourced from exceptional producers and their wine list co-ordinates with each dish beautifully.
You can enjoy this in the considered room or exceptionally intimate weatherproof courtyard, where they play music uniquely sound tracked each day as though it were as important as any other of the stimulation of smell and taste and sight in a restaurant.
Tusk High Bar
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Tusk High Bar, Windsor’s hidden gem for cocktails and live entertainment. A 1930s inspired bar is the perfect place to relax and enjoy a drink with friends.
Mixologists are trained in the art of cocktail making, and our premium spirits selection will leave you spoilt for choice. Be sure to check out live jazz and cabaret shows on Friday and Saturday nights!
56 Bricks
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56 Bricks is a hip hop and RnB bar on Chapel Street is the perfect place to catch up with friends over a wine or pint, and chill to a soundtrack of your fav old school and new school music artists.
With comfortable street seating, artwork by amazing local artists, and a dance floor that lets you get up close and personal with a rotation of Melbourne’s best DJs Friday through Sunday nights, 56 Bricks is sure to have you feeling good!
Jungle Boy
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Jungle Boy is one of Chapel Street’s best-kept secrets. Hidden behind the fridge door at Boston Sub, this contemporary, plant-filled bar serves tropical cocktails in tiki mugs.
With relaxed lounges and a beer garden, jungle paradise. The Jungle Boy bar has been designed with an eco-friendly mindset by interior designer Madeline Parnum and features recycled timber, bamboo fixtures, sustainable lighting and handcrafted botanical wallpaper that was inspired by the tropics.
Wonderland Bar
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Wonderland is an intimate and stylish Windsor bar, with a laid-back art deco style. Weekends see some of Melbourne’s best DJs spinning the decks from 7pm and playing everything from disco to funk to hip hop.
Happy Hour specials run throughout the week too – Monday through Friday from 4pm – 7pm you’re invited to $5 house wines, $6 house spirits, $5 schooners and $9 pints. On Tuesday nights from 7pm – 1am it’s 2-for-1 beers!
Hoo Haa
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Chapel St. hidden gem, look no further than Hoo Haa. This 3-in-1 venue has something for everyone. Come up for dinner at our pop up restaurant Kuku Mama.
Stay for drinks at our well stocked bar, and then dance the night away with DJs on Friday and Saturday nights playing funk, soul, hip hop, rnb and house music.
The Social
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The Social Bar is a Melbourne bar, restaurant & nightclub located on lively Chapel Street in Windsor, serving up a large selection of drinks, a tapas-style menu designed for casual dining with friends.
The Social Bar has been doing it for over 20 years and loves it as much as day one. We are a relaxed lounge bar early in the evening and turn it on Friday and Saturday for a great party with DJs from 10pm.