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Montalto

The very definition of a long lunch spot.

Prawns with seaweed butter.
1 / 7Prawns with seaweed butter.Supplied
Lunch with a view.
2 / 7Lunch with a view.Matt Wilkinson
Carrots with  fava bean dip.
3 / 7Carrots with fava bean dip.Wayne Taylor
Montalto piazza’s dishes.
4 / 7Montalto piazza’s dishes.Annika Kafcaloudis
Confit chicken.
5 / 7Confit chicken.Annika Kafcaloudis
Pizzas at the vineyard.
6 / 7Pizzas at the vineyard.Supplied -
Assorted dishes.
7 / 7Assorted dishes.Supplied

Good Food hat15/20

Contemporary$$$

It’s easy to turn lunch at this winery into an outing. Follow the sculpture trail through vines and wetlands, explore the pretty kitchen garden, or head to the lawn that unfurls like a green rug for a glass or two.

When you do sit down in the fine diner, it’ll be for 10 or so dishes designed around estate-grown produce and the red gum wood-fired grill. Cauliflower with charred edges is splashed with a delicate vadouvan curry sauce the colour of sunshine. Dill-dressed pine mushrooms with fluffy pearl barley play sidekick to tender lamb rump, expertly licked by flames.

Bare tables and weathered timbers in the dining room match the rustic cooking, a generous showcase of what’s growing now. A fetching dessert of blood orange granita, Meyer lemon curd and frozen yoghurt brings it home.

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