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Tarrawarra Estate Wine Bar & Cellar Door
Ph: (03) 5957 3510; 311 Healesville Rd, YARRA GLEN 3775 www.tarrawarra.com.au
Contemporary, $$
Open 7 days 11am-5pm (Mon-Tue limited menu; Licensed; AE, BC, DC, MC, V, Seats inside 70
Mietta's Review
Pass sculptor, Jeff Thompson's tin cows and proceed up the curving, tree lined drive. The cafe is the dramatic rammed earth building designed by Allan Powell. You're in a hot-bed of art here - the Beson family's collection is on display in the gallery. The cafe offers a short simple menu designed to go with the Estate's wines, at very reasonable prices and served by polite and careful staff.
Other published opinions
Age Good Food Guide 2008 "The vineyard, art gallery, cellar door, breathtaking architecture and wine bar all combine for a sensory experience here"
The Age Good Food Guide 2006 score 13/20 "First, there's the visual impact of the restaurant's striking rammed-earth building rising amid vines and eucalypts. Then, there's the Riedel glassware and Med-inflected food, which benefits from the region's famed produce."
The Age Good Food Guide 2005 score 13/20 "The gallery displays the Besens' excellent collection of post-war Australian art. The cafe, a striking rammed-earth and glass structure with a rock feature wall, does modern Australian of the edible kind. The food is inexpensive but poised, and designed with the TarraWarra wines in mind."
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