Provenance Ph: 5728 1786 ; 86 Ford St, BEECHWORTH 3747 www.theprovenance.com.au Modern Australian, $$ + Open Lunch Sun noon-3pm Dinner Wed-Sun 6.30pm-9.30pm; Licensed; AE MC V EFT Chef Michael Ryan (6-9-10) Owner Michael Ryan & Jeanette Henderson (30-06-09)

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Gourmet Traveller 2011 Australian Restaurant Guide Score: ** "Locals, tourists and food lovers have never had it so gastronomically good in historic Beechworth. Excellent local wine and produce dominate, with chef Michael Ryan and partner Jeanette Henderson creating a special restaurant to showcase all that and more"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2010

Gourmet Traveller 2010 Australian Restaurant Guide Score: ** "Beechworth has long been considered one of Victoria's key food and wine destinations, and Provenance adds further weight to that claim. Housed in a grand goldrush-era bank building. Provenance marries some of the area's best produce with the impressive cooking skills of owner/chef Michael Ryan"

Herald Sun Stephen Downes, 4-08-09 Score: 40/50 "Mouth-filling, complex dishes that are full of flavour and plated without pretension is what you'll find here. From first to last. I was served offerings that would make the efforts of several of Melbourne's alleged top chefs appear amateurs' stumblings. The rules of cooking are followed, the hard hours of preparation put in. And everywhere I looked, flavours were balanced, balanced and balanced again. The night we visited, a couple of specials enhanced an already extensive list beginning with half-a-dozen tasting plates, the same number of entrees and another sixer of mains"

Age 30-06-2009

The Australian "Provenance, an 1850s former bank in a region producing some of Australia's best wine, is the restaurant this guy's often surprising food deserves. Ryan is a champion of local produce where many just trade off familiar rhetoric."