Best restaurants in Victoria with a view
If there’s one thing better than a delicious meal, it’s one with a killer view. Here’s 26 restaurants with some of the best views in Victoria.
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Looking for a feast your eyes as well as your tastebuds?
Read on for good food, great wine and killer views.
OAKRIDGE
With a glorious vista across the vines that create its multi-award-winning wines, Oakridge has firmly established itself as one of the Yarra Valley’s favourite spots to lunch — and lunch long.
Like one of the elegant estate wines, Oakridge just gets better with each passing year.
PT LEO ESTATE
Spend any time at Pt Leo Estate and you’ll soon be checking the local real estate pages.
The vast arc of the building spans fine-diner Laura at one end, the no-bookings wine terrace at the other and the 110-seat Pt Leo Restaurant in between, all with killer views of the winery’s sculpture park, Western Port Bay and a distant Phillip Island.
WICKENS AT ROYAL MAIL
Some things never get old. And the view from Wickens, the signature restaurant at Dunkeld’s Royal Mail Hotel, is as timeless as it is spectacular.
The rugged Australian bush and craggy faces of Mounts Abrupt and Sturgeon, framed by the elegant dining room, provide the perfect backdrop for a meal that makes the daily-changing most of the famed kitchen garden.
FULL WICKENS AT ROYAL MAIL REVIEW
VUE DE MONDE
Vue de monde is still one of the most expensive dining experiences in the country and the wine list needs a redraw facility to properly explore, but for a for a clear vision of contemporary Australia on the plate, there are few that do it so well, so consistently.
And the view of Melbourne, in all its expansive glory from 55 levels up, is as twinklingly beguiling as ever.
DINNER BY HESTON
Sit back, drink in million-dollar views of Melbourne while marvelling at the kitchen wizardry, where each creation leaves you hungrily anticipating the next.
LAKE HOUSE
This refined restaurant and retreat might be well into its fourth decade but Lake House is as relevant as ever, rarely missing a beat under founder and culinary director Alla Wolf-Tasker and her phalanx of honed wait staff.
Dishes are cutting edge but comforting, and always a pleasure on the eye — as is that view over Lake Daylesford.
TARRAWARRA
Tarrawarra has long been famed for its pinot and chardonnay and modern art museum but, thanks to chef Mark Ebbells, this Yarra Valley stalwart is now also worth visiting for some of the most creative and downright delicious food you’ll find in a winery setting.There’s no better way to enjoy picturesque Yarra Valley views across the sprawling vines than with a glass of that award-winning wine in hand.
SEVILLE ESTATE
Picture this: a cellar door in the Yarra Valley where you sip and savour some of Victoria’s best wines while drinking in a view that takes in vineyards, paddocks and misted mountaintops.
That’s what you get at Seville Estate … and that’s before you even sit down to a meal.
PORT PHILLIP ESTATE
On a clear day, you can see Phillip Island from Port Phillip Estate.
But the best views at this stark ’n’ stylish winery are sometimes right in front of you.
Behold the suckling pig with celeriac and boudin noir, the roasted pumpkin souffle with chai ice cream, the fig mille-feuille.
FULL PORT PHILLIP ESTATE REVIEW
MONTALTO
Some come for the sculpture. Others don’t get past the cellar door and pizza oven. That’s a shame because Montalto’s restaurant is the hero of this renowned Red Hill estate.
Seventeen years young, the big, rustic dining room — with bucolic vineyard views — is humming with creative energy and managed by a cracking front-of-house crew.
CAPTAIN MOONLITE
Who knew a little-loved fish could beat the view from the Anglesea Surf Club’s dining room in the spectacular stakes?
But there they are, a half dozen whole sardines fresh from Port Phillip and straight into the pan, nowt but a dusting of flour to help them to crunchy perfection. Teamed with the sweet earthiness of beetroots in yoghurt with a hit of horseradish heat, it’s surf and turf for a new generation.
Despite their best efforts, service is more sweet than sharp so expect to wait, but who’s in a rush when there’s that view to drink in?
POLPERRO
The winding path that leads to Polperro Winery’s restaurant is fringed with spotted gums but the herb and vegetable garden, near the front door, sends the strongest signal that to eat here is to eat locally.
PARINGA ESTATE
Lindsay McCall’s Mornington Peninsula winery, Paringa, is one of the area’s loveliest little rooms and enjoys one of best vineyard views across three-decade-old pinot and chardonnay vines.
Simply set tables allow a blank canvas for the set courses that come from chef Simon Tarlington.
THE BATHS MIDDLE BRIGHTON
Great views, fab food and decent value might be hospitality’s elusive triple threat, but the upstairs restaurant at The Baths Middle Brighton makes good on all fronts.
Its glass elevation takes in those unimpeded bay and city views, and with a new chef installed, menu tweaks have enlivened the seafood-skewed mod Oz menu that’s full of Euro technique.
SUN KITCHEN
Unashamedly pitched at the pointiest end of Melbourne dining, Sun Kitchen is the new Sichuan/Cantonese rebrand of what was Albert Park’s fancy fine diner, The Point.
The wine cellar is built for Black Amexes in the market for big, showy gestures, while the view across the lake remains as glorious as ever.
HOGGET KITCHEN
If Paynesville’s Sardine serves Gippsland’s (actually, Victoria’s) best seafood, then Hogget Kitchen has the paddocks covered.
Service can tend towards a lazy Sunday vibe and the dining room is a tad tired, but that lamb, a spectacular local wine list and views of vines with a backdrop of West Gippsland’s rolling hills more than evens the ledger.
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