All-day cafe and wine bar Harvest arrives in South Yarra

• Update: the Harvest is over for Tim Martin

​Damned if The Handmaid's Tale hasn't made us hear "Blessed be the fruit" at the mention of the word "harvest". But no dystopian horror awaits you at ex-European chef Timothy Martin's first all-day cafe and wine bar, opening on Wednesday in South Yarra. Just granola, pasta and possibly some Uruguayan wine.

Harvest has been long-delayed (it was due to open in April) and even longer in the dreaming for Martin, who has been plotting his own restaurant since business school. It's pitched as pro-produce, European-leaning and progressive on the wine front.

Breakfast will be light on during the week: pastries, granola and their own specialty coffees, escalating to heavier smoked trout omelettes and baked eggs at weekends. The wine bar food at night will include octopus with squid ink sauce and 'nduja, white anchovies and pickled garlic on roasted tomato bread, and pasta made using sourdough culture, dressed with an oxtail ragu and bone marrow.

It's a new build space on Claremont Street, near Zumbo's Cafe (undergoing renovations) and Two Birds One Stone. The room is mostly industrial but centres on a kitchen island with big metal gates separating a private dining area and gallery space, opening in a couple of months.

To run the floor, Martin has recruited ex-Atlantic sommelier Stuart Quinn, whose list champions low-intervention winemakers such as Bill Downie, Luke Lambert and Uruguay's Juan Carrau. Ex-Borsch Vodka Tears' Scott Bailey will run the bar.

Open Mon-Fri 7am-late; Sat 8am-late; Sun 8am-3pm.

2 Claremont Street, South Yarra, 0385820890, harvestmelb.com