Dining, drinking, and dancing. That’s the party-alliterative outing at Frankie Italo Dining & Disco Lounge (Frankie for short), a cool al fresco eatery at Mitolo Wines in McLaren Vale town. If Mitolo Wine represents the middle sibling, and Little Wolf next door is the elegant and urbane loner, Frankie is the off-kilter, exuberant youngster.

The tables are realistically sized, so ideally take a seat a lot away from the crowd for the Fleurieu wine tour. The menu featuring superior-quality pizzas, pastas, proteins and sides was created by the Little Wolf kitchen’s chef Vincenzo La Montagna, and is available three ways.

Take along a short refreshment break between wine tastings or visit the Sit Down menu if you require more nourishing cuisine. Small plates and Roman-style pizzas with fresh toppings like potato and onion are on the menu. If you prefer to chat while you eat, decide on a dessert or gelato from the traffic cone, which is filled with homemade delicacies. The Get Comfortable menu’s Handmade Pasta setting adds a pasta dish along with an itty-bitty climate, along with the Be Quiet & Eat setting offers a protein and something like a porchetta or cotoletta.

Naturally, the bottles of Mitolo, Peroni, and Ichnusa Non Filtrata (an unfiltered Italian beer) are in demand in the grocery shop’s wine aisle. As well as bottles of Italianate cocktails consisting of a house Negroni with whipped orange juice. Studio Gram’s interior design is fresh and vivid, contrasting with Little Wolf’s ties to the darker side of life, with punchy pastel-flecked marble tabletops, pearl-gray ceramic tiling, and raw pine paneling.

There ‘s also a lively disco ball, and a small facility for dancing (though not a dance floor as such), if you want to break the move to Italian disco playlist on the speakers.