Bar Septimus

Bar Septimus Tucked beneath the old East End Market archway, Bar Septimus is Adelaide's East End neighbourhood wine bar. Made for slow afternoons and late nights.

French and Australian wines by the glass and bottle, artisan cheese boards, charcuterie, and hi-fi sound.

Price’s have farmed the same McLaren Vale dirt for twenty years. For most of that time the fruit went into other people’...
11/09/2026

Price’s have farmed the same McLaren Vale dirt for twenty years. For most of that time the fruit went into other people’s bottles, a lot of it into names you would recognise. This year it goes into theirs.

Nick is bringing the range in this Sunday, 2 to 6pm. Vineyard rows you can point to on a map, poured by the family who pruned them.

Growers are doing it hard right now. Drinking what they make, from people you can meet, is the most useful thing any of us can do about that.

220 Grenfell Street. East End. Drop in 🍷

Blue hour, Liberman Close.
22/08/2026

Blue hour, Liberman Close.

EXAMINE WINDOW.The bar glows warm. Seven cheeses on rotation, most of them French.INVENTORY: 1x glass of Chablis. 1x wed...
20/08/2026

EXAMINE WINDOW.

The bar glows warm. Seven cheeses on rotation, most of them French.

INVENTORY: 1x glass of Chablis. 1x wedge of Comté. 1x candle, burning low.

ENTER.

Who should we be talking to? Tag a winemaker or importer who ought to be pouring at Septimus.The whole idea behind this ...
18/07/2026

Who should we be talking to? Tag a winemaker or importer who ought to be pouring at Septimus.

The whole idea behind this bar was to close the gap between the people who make wine and the people who drink it. Our room is warm, the lights are low, and the questions are good. Half the crew behind the bar have made wine themselves or studied it, and the other half just love it, so when a bottle gets opened here it gets talked about properly. Where it’s from, who made it, why it tastes the way it does.

That only works if the right wines find their way to us. So if you make wine, or you import French wine, we’ve set up a simple form. Five minutes and it lands straight with us. Glass pours, the bottle list, or get in front of the room yourself with a masterclass or portfolio tasting. Link in bio.

And if you’re a maker reading this over a coffee, send it to whoever books your tastings.

Harold Septimus Power was a celebrated painter of horses and one of Australia’s official war artists, the kind of figure...
15/06/2026

Harold Septimus Power was a celebrated painter of horses and one of Australia’s official war artists, the kind of figure whose work hangs in national collections yet whose name has quietly slipped from view. We borrowed it because his world and ours overlap. The East End was once home to the Adelaide Fruit and Produce Exchange, where draught horses like the ones he painted hauled their loads through these very streets before the markets moved on.

Each booklet folds that history into the food and wine in front of you. Turn a page between courses and you’ll find the paintings, the produce, and the people who shaped this corner of the city long before we poured a single glass here.

Come in, settle into the candlelight, and let the story unfold across the table.

Adelaide. January 2025. The sign had arrived before the wine. The bicycle belonged to nobody in particular.
04/06/2026

Adelaide. January 2025. The sign had arrived before the wine. The bicycle belonged to nobody in particular.

Seven Master of Wine candidates. Four countries. One Monday night at Septimus.The evening before they sat their exam, se...
04/06/2026

Seven Master of Wine candidates. Four countries. One Monday night at Septimus.

The evening before they sat their exam, seven Master of Wine candidates spent the night with us, in from Japan, China, Israel and around Australia. A few stayed on to put their palates to the test in SAWOL, our monthly blind tasting.

If you don’t know it, the Master of Wine is the toughest qualification in wine. Fewer than 425 people in the world hold it. To put that in perspective, more people have been to space.

That the ones chasing it chose to spend their last night before the exam here means a lot. Good wine and learning are what we’re about, and supporting the trade and the people building careers in it is the heart of it.

Wishing our candidates every success on their journey🍷

Maison du Fromage et du Vin. East End, Adelaide
29/05/2026

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24/05/2026

💎 Made Google’s Top 10 Adelaide Gems. Number six, out of thousands of venues across the city.

What an honour to be on a list that includes .adl .adelaide .bistro .adelaide .adelaide . Some of the best rooms in town.

But honestly, this one’s on you. The regulars, the first-timers, every mate who told a mate. Fourteen months of pours and good chats and here we are.

Open Thurs to Mon. Come say hi to the team. 🍷

Looking for a venue with a pulse? Private functions at Septimus, from intimate dinners to full venue hire. DM to enquire...
20/05/2026

Looking for a venue with a pulse? Private functions at Septimus, from intimate dinners to full venue hire. DM to enquire.

Address

220 Grenfell Street
Adelaide, SA
5000

Opening Hours

Monday 4pm - 9pm
Thursday 4pm - 10pm
Friday 3pm - 11pm
Saturday 2pm - 11pm
Sunday 2pm - 9pm

Telephone

+61881665171

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