Brick Lane Market | Brick Lane Brewing Co

Brick Lane Market | Brick Lane Brewing Co brings beer, food and a market setting together in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market Precinct. The two-storey venue is designed around several ways to spend time there, with an upstairs dining room, an upstairs terrace and a downstairs taproom. Its kitchen focuses on market-fresh food, while the bar centres on Brick Lane’s own range of beers, making it a practical choice for a meal, a drink or a longer catch-up in Melbourne CBD.

There is a clear weekend focus, with brunch offered on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 10am to 2pm. Monday nights are set aside for a quiz, with cash prizes and beer prizes, and tables can be booked for groups of roughly two to eight players. That makes the quiz a natural fit for a small team of friends or colleagues, while the different rooms and functions offering give larger groups another way to use the venue. The website also lists separate menus for the dining room, terrace and taproom, suggesting that each area has its own style of visit rather than being one undifferentiated space.

Brick Lane Market is part of the wider independent Brick Lane Brewing operation, a Melbourne-born brewer with its brewery in Dandenong. The brewery is B Corp certified and places emphasis on sustainability, efficiency and reducing its environmental impact. Its production approach includes technology intended to reduce energy and water use, while its packaging focuses on recyclable glass, aluminium and fibre rather than plastic. The business also says that around 98 per cent of its finished-goods mass is sourced from Victorian producers, including malt, water, most hops, fibre and primary packaging.

The venue’s stated approach is inclusive, with Brick Lane describing its community as including beer drinkers, partner brewers, suppliers and independent brewing peers. That makes it suited to people who want to explore a local brewery brand in a central location, as well as groups looking for brunch, a casual beer, a quiz night or a private function. Brick Lane Market is listed as open Tuesday to Sunday, with later trading on Friday and Saturday and Monday closed. It is located at 466 Queen Street, Melbourne, close to the Queen Victoria Market precinct.