Teller

Teller occupies the former State Savings Bank of Victoria, a 1918 heritage building on Lygon Street in Brunswick East that has been reworked into an all-day diner and bar. The room keeps the bank's bones under modern, warm decor and opens out to a front bar, a leafy beer garden and an upstairs function room, with a serious bar stocking around 11 independently brewed beers on tap. The kitchen leans into elevated pub food with a Mediterranean tilt, spanning brunch through to atmospheric dinners.

The non-alcoholic offering is a genuine, printed part of the drinks list rather than an afterthought. Five zero-proof cocktails carry named builds and ingredients: 'Rumour Has It' (A$15) with Brunswick Aces Sapiir Diamonds gin, yuzu, pomegranate, mint and lime; 'The Spritz You Miss' (A$17) on Lyre's Italian Spritz with soda and Plus & Minus prosecco and orange; the 'Bloody Mojito' (A$14) with Four Pillars Bloody Bandwagon; the 'Rustic Verve Spritz' (A$13) using NON #9 blackberries and Stanley plum; and the 'Wildwood Shrub' (A$14) with a house-made berry coulis and lemon-and-ginger shrub.

The fridge and wine list back it up. Non-alcoholic beers include Heaps Normal Quiet XPA (A$11), Guinness 0.0 (A$13), Blackman's Zero lager and Capital Pacific Ale, plus Perla sparkling mate tea. Alcohol-free wines run to Altina 0% sparkling brut, Leitz Eins Zwei alcohol-free chardonnay and NON #9, so a non-drinker can move across sparkling, white and aromatic alternatives.

EatDrinkPlay called Teller a standout local, and NoLo Life lists it as a five-star alcohol-free favourite for its curated AF range and casual bites in a relaxed indoor/outdoor setting - the kind of neighbourhood all-day venue where the zero-proof drinker gets a real list rather than a token soda.