Just Open: Meat Fish Wine, Melbourne CBD

Meat Fish Wine sounds more like a shopping list than a restaurant name. But as marketing director Vanessa Green explains, they tossed aside plenty of clever, tricky and meaningless names in favour of the restaurant's mission statement: good meat, good fish and good wine.

It's the latest business from the owners of Red Spice Road and Burma Lane, and repurposes the former Orchid Room events space next to Red Spice Road QV off Russell Street in the CBD.

A bar with long tables takes care of the wine aspect while the restaurant behind is all about sustainable and locally sourced protein, says Green.

Malcolm Wright (ex St Katherine's, Maha) is taking a broadly European approach to the food: octopus carpaccio with red grapes and Pedro Ximenez turns up on the entree list beside caramelised shallot tarte tatin, and among the mains, a kilogram of dry-aged rib eye steak with sides ($140) will feed two.

It's open Tuesday to Saturday 11.30am-11pm.

Meat Fish Wine, 31 Artemis Lane, Melbourne, 8660 6333, meatfishwine.com