Why you goPining for that sweet little cave du vin you stumbled across in Paris’s ninth arrondissement last summer? Wally’s is here to help. Hugging a street corner in Albert Park, this chic and compact place is so French it’s practically smoking a Gauloises and wearing a beret. Opened by wine merchant Baxter Pickard, it’s really more like an enabling device for his French wine habit, which stretches here to more than 300 bottles with some rare vintage gems and a whole lot of accessible drinking fun. He’s commandeered chef Damon McIvor, an alum of Waxflower and Vex, to command the food-friendliest menu, and the whole operation is steeped in some serious design flair. In short, it’s the bar equivalent of a triple threat and a hot contender for your drinking and dining dollar.
