Oakridge
The estate’s best produce, on the plate and in the glass.
Oakridge
Contemporary$$$
If you’re lunching in the country, you may as well do it right. Set a course through rolling hills and past sheep-dotted paddocks before turning up a winding driveway to this handsome cellar-door restaurant.
Floor-to-ceiling windows offer views of birds dipping and swooping above vine-covered slopes. As ever, the kitchen garden, nearby producers and a sustainability mindset underpin the menu, more Euro-leaning under new chef Daniel Snooks (ex-Cumulus Inc).
Eager young staff blanket the table with shared entrees, such as crazy-tasty charred Brussels sprouts tossed with ’nduja under toasty breadcrumbs, swatches of sweet Corner Inlet calamari amid bitter puntarelle leaves, and hunks of fluffy focaccia.
A choice of mains might include a tranche of Murray cod whose elegant sauce showcases the house blanc de blancs. Naturally, there are e-chargers in the car park to power your drive home.
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