Du Fermier
This coveted country French-style farmhouse restaurant is low on pomp, high on pleasure.
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42 High St, Trentham
(03) 5424 1634
dufermier.com.au
This coveted country French-style farmhouse restaurant is low on pomp, high on pleasure.
It’s just the spot to settle in, get cosy and let someone else do the cooking – that someone being Annie Smithers, the indefatigable chef, owner, baker and farmer behind Du Fermier.
There are no menus but know you’re in for three or four generous – and great value – courses that stick to the paddock-to-plate ethos with meats and poultry from the Trentham region and vegetables plucked fresh from Smithers’ garden.
Served as a shareable feast, mains will be something like Western Plains pork –succulent meat and generous of crackling – with a blueberry gastrique adding a slightly acidic sweetness for cut-through, and plenty of roasted parsnip, potato, carrots and brussels sprouts.
It might be bookended by a gruyere and leek souffle and French cheese or a toffee-apple flaugnarde.
Pop out the back and you’ll get a wide smile from Smithers toiling in the kitchen, in her element, or venturing out to serve a course or two under the eye of front-of-house pro Bronwyn Kabboord (ex Merricote).
Country charm never tasted and felt so good.
Book well ahead.
Must-eat dish: Gruyere and leek souffle
Cuisine: French
Chef: Annie Smithers
Price: $$
Open: Lunch Fri-Mon
Bookings: Yes
Instagram: @du_fermier