You don’t need to stay here to eat here, but you might change your mind once you’re settled in with an Old Fashioned in the lounge by the fire, surrounded by bushland.

A five-course lunch (seven at dinner), starts with a snack duo of golden potato bake topped with yuzu mayonnaise – salty, tart, creamy and crunchy – and a crisp tart shell filled with whipped ricotta and soft, juicy fresh persimmon. Citrus-heavy kingfish ceviche is softened with whipped coconut cream, and while a blue-eye trevalla wrapped in zucchini on a bed of diced confit potato, dressed in buttermilk and topped with salmon roe is a lesson in ‘more is not always more’, wagyu rump cap is perfectly seasoned, the richness cut with caper and peppercorn sauce.

Hazelnut ice-cream on chestnut puree and salty-sweet pistachio praline heralds the end of the meal, but there’s no reason you can’t retire back to the lounge afterward.

Best for: A good old-fashioned road trip broken with a long lunch.

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