East of Everything
Melbourne's century-old dry zones meant a new pub in these suburbs had to be voted in by local residents, so almost none ever were. This bar takes its name from the beer desert those laws left behind.
Why go
Michael and Gen Cotter opened the cocktail bar Bar None in 2004 because, in his words, I grew up in Camberwell and I was kind of sick of going into the city to enjoy places like Supper Club and Gin Palace
(The Crafty Pint). A fire gutted the three-storey building in 2012 and they turned the top floor into a craft-beer bar, naming it for how fast good beer ran out a few kilometers east of the city. Broadsheet counts about twenty bottles, five rotating taps and one for cider, and notes that Genevieve came up in wine, which shows in the list (Broadsheet). The family now runs three venues in the one building, with the dive bar and bottle shop Rosalita's sitting between the other two.
Order this / avoid
- Order: whatever went on the taps most recently, and use the cider line if it appeals, since it is a dedicated tap. The wine is worth asking about. Food comes from the family's Louisiana kitchens, so a po' boy travels well with a beer.
- Avoid: looking for signage. The street entrance is an unmarked blue door and a staircase with worn carpet.
What locals & experts say
- Will Ziebell, The Crafty Pint (2019):
The tongue-in-cheek name was a reference to how quickly craft beer offerings dried up just a few kilometres east of the city centre.
1 - Broadsheet on finding it:
An unremarkable blue door. A staircase with worn carpet. East Of Everything looks more like the entrance to a dodgy accountant than anything. Only a few beer kegs on the landing hint at something more interesting.
2 - The venue on itself:
opened in 2011 as one of Melbourne's first dedicated craft beer venues... Our tap list changes constantly.
Both press sources date the opening to 2012, so the year is contested.3 - No award, no critic, no chef vote. Checked on 1 August 2026.
Good to know
- Where: top floor of the Camberwell building that also holds Bar None and Rosalita's, near Camberwell Station. No critic, guide or the bar's own site publishes a street number, and two directories name two different streets, so none is given here.
- Timing: no current hours published anywhere reachable. Check before you go.
- Booking: walk-in.
- Food safety: no entry for this business on Safe Food Victoria's register of convictions as at its 21 July 2026 update.4
- Near MCEC: no. Camberwell, about 10km from South Wharf.
Verdict
could-visit — Worth an hour if you are already in the east, which is exactly the point of the name. Melbourne's dry zones meant new pubs in these suburbs had to be voted in by local residents and so nobody built them, and siblings Michael and Gen Cotter opened Bar None in 2004 because, as Michael puts it, he was sick of going into the city to drink. After a fire gutted the three-storey building they turned the top floor into a craft-beer bar and called it East of Everything, a joke about how fast good beer ran out a few kilometers from town. Five rotating taps and a dedicated cider line sit alongside about twenty bottles, and the wine list is real because one of the owners came up in wine. Find the unmarked blue door and the worn staircase. It holds at could-visit because the beer list is small by the standards of the venues above it, nobody has reviewed it, and neither its address nor its hours are published anywhere we can verify.