African-inspired bar polēpolē expands food offering
African-inspired Melbourne bar polēpolē has refined its operation across two levels to offer a full-service dining space downstairs and a bar upstairs serving 12 of the best African beers and cocktails.
Owners Dean and Jeanelle Mariani have mixed modern Australian cuisine and traditional African recipes and ingredients for their venue on Lt Collins Street in the Melbourne CBD.
“The ethos behind polēpolē was to blend our love of African flavours with Melbourne’s stylish Food and Wine culture – the result has been something incredibly unique in Melbourne’s thriving restaurant scene,” they said.
Brazilian born head chef Felipe Bley has returned to the team following a one-year culinary adventure in Switzerland, and is evolving the menu which will feature African inspired Game dishes using unusual ingredients such as fresh crocodile, roasted buffalo and char-grilled wild-boar, to name a few.
Sheridan Randall, 9th October 2018
