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Due to COVID-19 protocols we currently offer 2 sittings per service with very limited capacity. Reservations are available: Lunch 12pm or 2pm. Dinner 6pm or 8pm. In order to ensure the best experience, please arrive on time for your reservation. Earlier reservations are for a two hour period. We appreciate your understanding in regards to current limitations. We look forward to welcoming you to Lake House.
To the Lake House community,
We are temporarily closed until further notice due to government requirements in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We completely understand the necessity for this action and thank you to all our guests, for all your kind messages and good wishes.
Our intention is to reopen and welcome you back, as soon as government bodies declare it to be safe to do so.
We will keep you updated as often as possible via our website and social media.
Thank you for your support, consideration, and patience.
~The Lake House team
"An Australian icon where the beautiful rhythm of life
is emphasised and honoured."
-Luxury Travel Magazine
"What matters here is space, fresh air and sunlight,
elements in abundance that encourage vitality and health
in ways that many could only dream."
-B Magazine Singapore
The Hepburn Wildlife Shelter is a 24–hour, self-funded volunteer wildlife rescue and treatment centre, established to assist and care for injured, orphaned, sick and distressed wildlife in and around the forested Shire of Hepburn.
Lake House assists in raising funds for the Hepburn Wildlife Shelter through the sales of Toy Kookaburras on-site (raised $10,045 as of January 2020). The kookaburra is a special native bird at Lake House. Each evening they fly into the restaurant terraces and are hand-fed by the team. A Toy Kookaburra is placed in each of the hotel rooms and is used to indicate a ‘preferred sheet change’ throughout guests’ stay. So, not only do they help with our environmental mission but also raise funds for a very worthy cause.
The Country Fire Authority (CFA) is one of the world’s largest, and most highly regarded community-based emergency services organisations. They respond to fire and other emergencies 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In regional Victoria, we are particularly grateful to this organisation and its volunteers. As a result, the CFA is one of our top priorities when it comes to fundraising (raised $30,000 as of January 2020). In recent years, our efforts made it possible for the Daylesford CFA to upgrade their communication systems and assisted in the purchase of new vehicles; making volunteer coordination and dispatch more efficient in high-pressure situations.
One of Culinary Director Alla Wolf-Tasker’s great passions is education in regards to food. Not only what we’re eating but also where it comes from, how we grow it and how we cook it. The Daylesford Primary School Kitchen Garden project started with a $40,000 investment which was raised through a joint fundraising effort between Lake House, Alla Wolf-Tasker and the Open Gardens Project. This cash injection allowed for the development of the Primary School Kitchen and garden plot.
The DPSKG Cookbook (Grow. Cook. Eat) was a collaborative effort between Alla, Kitchen Garden Coordinator and Lake House Chef Andrew Stone & the kids at the Daylesford Primary School. Grow. Cook. Eat is a cookbook for little kids, big kids and anyone with the smallest of veggie plots – a great gift and even better, all book sales go to the DPSKG project (raised $1,465 as of January 2020).
All proceeds from the Dairy Flat Farm Open Day last December 2019 also went to the DPSKG project (raised $2,000).
The Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens are situated high on top of an ancient extinct volcano overlooking the pretty village of Daylesford. It is one of several extinct volcanoes in the region and the original inhabitants imbued these locations with magic and mystery in their story telling.
In the 1850s every Victorian town wanted a botanic garden. It was THE civilised status symbol, and a useful place to demonstrate what plants/trees suited the district. As they grew, botanic gardens became a cool retreat in cities and in rural towns.
In 1860 the new borough of Daylesford wanted to create its Botanic Garden and asked the Government for a piece of the paddock at the goldfields Government Camp on the top of Wombat Hill.
Huge white-trunked trees were felled. The hilltop was ploughed, and paths and beds laid out, many plants being donated by the community. Trees planted included oaks, ash and elm, poplars, cypresses, with blue gums round the boundary.
Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, the early Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens contributed. As Government Botanist he was interested in collecting plants from around the world, growing them on and giving them away to see how they acclimatised to a new land.
Now The Friends of the Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens is a volunteer based organisation who tends to the gardens and raise funds for the maintenance and beautification of the gardens.
Their shed is alongside Wombat Hill House – our café.
The Friends is largely a Volunteer organisation and their operations rely on the sale of plants, the open garden scheme and generous donations from the community.
The Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens are situated high on top of an ancient extinct volcano overlooking the pretty village of Daylesford. It is one of several extinct volcanoes in the region and the original inhabitants imbued these locations with magic and mystery in their story telling.
In the 1850s every Victorian town wanted a botanic garden. It was THE civilised status symbol, and a useful place to demonstrate what plants/trees suited the district. As they grew, botanic gardens became a cool retreat in cities and in rural towns.
In 1860 the new borough of Daylesford wanted to create its Botanic Garden and asked the Government for a piece of the paddock at the goldfields Government Camp on the top of Wombat Hill.
Huge white-trunked trees were felled. The hilltop was ploughed, and paths and beds laid out, many plants being donated by the community. Trees planted included oaks, ash and elm, poplars, cypresses, with blue gums round the boundary.
Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, the early Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens contributed. As Government Botanist he was interested in collecting plants from around the world, growing them on and giving them away to see how they acclimatised to a new land.
Now The Friends of the Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens is a volunteer based organisation who tends to the gardens and raise funds for the maintenance and beautification of the gardens.
Their shed is alongside Wombat Hill House – our café.
The Friends is largely a Volunteer organisation and their operations rely on the sale of plants, the open garden scheme and generous donations from the community.
We’re proud supporters of The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation’s fundraising campaign – Turning the Tables – which is dedicated to raising much-needed funds to help teach Australian children positive food habits for life.
All funds raised go directly towards the Foundation’s work supporting the delivery of pleasurable food education in schools and centres all over Australia
Each year we are proud to support DineSmart – an initiative created by the team at StreetSmart – that is designed to help restaurants and their diners take action against homelessness.
With the support of our guests we have raised over $25,000 which has helped fund a number of vital local projects including seed funding and supporting Eureka Mums, and WRISC, who have used the funds to support their counselling, therapy and support program for children fleeing domestic violence.
Established in 1993, Starlight Five Chefs Dinners are Starlight’s signature fundraising events and are supported by some of Australia’s best chefs. Incredible degustation menus are created and matched with the finest wines, all peppered with stories of inspiration and hope in a beautifully themed room. Lake House Culinary Director Alla Wolf-Tasker AM has supported this great event for a number of years as a participating chef.
The Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute is a world class cancer research facility based in nearby Ballarat, Victoria. Australia’s only regionally based cancer research centre, it relies on the generous support of the community to continue research into more effective ways to diagnose and treat cancer. We were proud to partner with them in their Restaurants for Research initiative and to help raise funds so they can continue their very important work.
