Hunt around and you’ll find a growing number of BYOs with a difference cropping up around Melbourne – the difference being these places invite you to bring your own food while you enjoy their drinks. One of the longest-running is this little gem in Mordialloc that’s helping bring high quality homegrown beer to drinkers outside the inner-city.

In fact, thanks to a defiantly pro-local philosophy developed over its seven years in existence, you’ll only find craft beers from Australia and New Zealand at the Mordy Cellar Door. Similarly, it’s predominantly local wines on offer too.

Inside, you can pull up a pew at a table or barrel, pick from the wide selection of beers, wider selection of wines – with an extensive list that changes every fortnight available by the glass – or just grab a Genovese coffee and cake and pore over the day’s papers. They also offer wine flight nights, hold regular free wine tastings throughout the year and serve up gourmet cheese platters for those who haven’t found anything to take their fancy at the local takeaways.

It’s the sort of place where neighbours come to meet and people enjoy games of chess over a brew; the sort of place that inspires loyalty from the first time you walk through the door and clearly has dedicated regulars. In fact, the first time The Crafty Pint visited, a customer walked in to pick up a six-pack of a beer only released that very day, a pack the owners had placed in the fridge for him as soon as it arrived knowing he’d be in as soon as he finished work. Now that’s service!