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Lake House

Forty years on, still a pinnacle of dining.

The restaurant boasts a hyper-seasonal menu.
1 / 8The restaurant boasts a hyper-seasonal menu.Supplied
The Lake House dining room.
2 / 8The Lake House dining room.Supplied
Dessert at the Lake House
3 / 8Dessert at the Lake HouseSupplied
Murray Cod, trout, eel and yabbies.
4 / 8Murray Cod, trout, eel and yabbies. Supplied
Fresh ingredients.
5 / 8Fresh ingredients.Supplied
A taste of what to expect.
6 / 8A taste of what to expect.Supplied
Seafood special.
7 / 8Seafood special.Supplied
Inside the dreamy space.
8 / 8Inside the dreamy space.Supplied

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So you’ve come to worship at the Alla Wolf-Tasker altar. Four decades ago, Lake House’s culinary director pioneered the hyper-seasonal, ultra-local movement, and today her handle of all things homegrown is as impressive as ever.

Few others can produce a potato veloute this velvety, made with Dutch creams from the restaurant’s nearby 15-hectare farm and clutching a single sweet, pickled mussel. Padron pepper granita provides welcome zing to southern bluefin tuna, which is cut into crimson sheets that shroud chopped belly. Kimchi brings enduring heat to Murray cod, while fresh blood orange and sticky sherry gel brighten fatty bricks of crackle-topped Berkshire pork belly.

The beauty of this natural bounty plays well with lake views from the recently refreshed dining room, its plush carpets and cloud-like Fandango lights as refined as the choreographed duos that deliver each glorious plate.

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