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Bar Midland

Our Review

Boomtown is set within a Castlemaine winery.

The Good Food guide to a road trip in Castlemaine from beers to bang-on banh mi

Castlemaine has lately become a destination in its own right – particularly for anyone who’s hungry. These 15 bakeries, bars, coffee windows and fine diners are our top picks.

  • Dani Valent and Emily Holgate

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Spinach, dill and goat cheese pasta with honey-candied walnuts
Good Food hat15.5/20

Bar Midland

Come for the ethics, stay for the hospitality.

Baked ricotta, lemon and almond cake, quince, burnt honey custard.
Good Food hat15.5/20

This hatted tasting menu can’t use sugar, pepper, chocolate or coffee. But it’s still a treat

Bar Midland, a 16-seat country restaurant, serves food and drink strictly from within state lines.

  • Dani Valent
Grilled blue mussels on a bay leaf spear.
Good Food hat15/20

Pioneering dining at Bar Midland in Castlemaine's grand dame

With climate change in mind, the tasting menu is built within tight parameters: no refined sugar, and only wild introduced species for meat.

  • Gemima Cody