"An Australian icon where the beautiful rhythm of life
is emphasised and honoured."
— Luxury Travel Magazine
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Sunday 27 September 12pm | $595 pp
This spring, we’re honoured to welcome maison Bollinger for an intimate collaborative lunch – and the launch of La Grande Année 2018. Hosted by Sophia Luduvice & Thibaut Jaubert, Bollinger.
Join us for a very special celebration – intimate storytelling, considered food, and the wines of an iconic house almost two hundred years in the making.
Make sure your accommodation is sorted. You’ll want to linger a little longer over this one.
"An Australian icon where the beautiful rhythm of life
is emphasised and honoured."
— Luxury Travel Magazine
Lake House Restaurant
Two Chefs Hats
The Good Food Guide
Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards
Gourmet Traveller Annual Restaurant Guide
Special Menu – Friday Lunch
Due to popular demand this menu will continue throughout September.
$250 for two
Our Friday lunch menu for two includes: O’Connors 4-week dry aged Rib Eye (600g); condiments; two seasonal sides featuring our Dairy Flat farm produce; the much loved slow fermented spelt sourdough from our bakehouse with whipped butter. Paired with a glass of wine from one of our premium vignerons, we’ll be featuring a different maker each week.
Settle in and enjoy the landscape through the vast windows towards the lake.
Additional daily items are available for your selection. Book a group and enjoy a leisurely lunch together. Retreat to the library for post lunch drinks (the Piano Bar opens from 4pm each Friday).
Please note: this menu is limited and available only by pre-order.
Our Seasonal Lake House Menu continues to be available as normal.
Lunch out of the city is looking to be a very fine idea this spring ….
We’re frequently asked to bring back some of your favorite menu classics.
This year we’re doing just that with a special three course Classics Menu.
Classics Set Menu ( min 2 guests)
New season asparagus, sauce Maltaise, hazelnuts, tarragon
From our bakehouse – our Spelt Sourdough
Pithivier of Bundarra chicken, leek and mushroom, with spring peas
Salad of Farm greens, mustard dressing
Chocolate Souffle Blood Orange ice cream
Selected Tea, St Ali Coffee
Available for weekend lunches (Sat and Sun) right through spring.
Limited numbers apply (so book early)
Our much loved seasonal a la carte, multicourse, menu continues as normal with many new dishes echoing the daily harvest from our beautiful Dairy Flat Farm
After a long Central Victorian winter, spring is when Daylesford’s gardens finally stir back into life — the first tender shoots of peas and broad beans, the rush of asparagus, and blossom breaking across the orchard signal months of abundance ahead. For cooks and gardeners alike, it’s the season of renewal and possibility: the moment the soil warms and the planting begins in earnest.
Join us for lunch on Mondays and make it a real farm to table experience with an optional, complimentary guided tour of our Dairy Flat Farm – just minutes away – followed by a multi course a la carte lunch at Lake House.
At Dairy Flat we now produce wine, cider, honey, olive oil , pesticide free vegetables, fruit, herbs and of course slow fermented our sourdough.
Your 45 minute tour (approx.), commencing at 11.30am takes you through the regenerative farm gardens, orchard, olive, grove, vineyard and hedgerows. You may meet our bakers and probably run into our guinea fowl, geese, alpacas, our Maremmas Luna & Leo, and British White cows from our friends at Brooklands Regenerative Farm.
Please select “Farm Tour” when making your Lunch Reservation, and please note: your selected restaurant reservation time will still apply.
In the four decades since Alla Wolf-Tasker and husband Allan set up shop in the then-neglected Central Victorian backwater of Daylesford they’ve run the gamut from being dismissed as deluded dreamers to being lauded and awarded as visionaries who pioneered destination dining in Australia.
The trajectory of Lake House from small, self-built restaurant carved from a blackberry-infested plot in a depressed town to internationally recognised resort championing regional food, art, wine, spa culture and a unique style of relaxed luxury accommodation is well documented. It’s become one of the origin stories of the Australian hospitality industry. A trophy cabinet overflowing with awards and accolades, not least for the original restaurant’s unfailingly impeccable achievements, is recognition of that.
But for all the professional and critical acclaim, perhaps the pinnacle of Lake House’s success is best measured by the way it has so consistently resonated with the non-professionals, those who choose to come and spend their time and money here year after year and increasingly, from generation to generation.
Winning Gourmet Traveller’s Readers’ Choice Icon Award, the only award decided by popular vote, is proof that Lake House’s pursuit of excellence has always been – and continues to be – in service of keeping the enjoyment of its customers central to everything it does.
Lake House has never rested on its laurels. Every one of its 40 years of operation has seen change, even though the dreamy, other-worldly effect it exudes the moment you drive through the front gates has never wavered. Even when the changes have been major, such as the recent addition of a working farm that loads the restaurant’s menu with ingredients pulled from the ground mere hours before they appear on your plate, these changes are made with one particular purpose.
That purpose is hospitality, the most obvious of terms that’s also the hardest to get right. It’s the sense of being cared for, that you’re genuinely welcomed and appreciated. These days it is daughter Larissa and her husband Robin Wilson who lead that welcome, maintaining the warmth and commitment to quality that has been a Lake House signature since the beginning.
In a troubled world, Lake House offers an oasis of calm, a place where you can eat, drink and sleep beautifully, and be reminded that life can be good too. And that’s truly iconic. Gourmet Traveller Annual Restaurant Guide
The Lake House in Daylesford, for yet another year, remains one of the shining lights in high-quality, country hospitality in this country. While the setting may be bucolic, the wine list is truly international, and it also covers a profusion of great Australian producers, as well. The list is tightly curated and very impressive, and leaves almost no stone unturned in its pursuit of excellence in winemaking and site expression. With four pages of this list dedicated to Chardonnay – four pages well spent – this list beyond offers an abundance of choice, both of wines from close to home and from across the globe, but also between non-wine beverages (i.e. cocktails, beers, premium spirits, non-alcoholic, and everything in between). A pleasure to read through this, and even better to be doing it while sitting in the restaurant. Bravo.
Enjoy a multi course a la carte lunch or dinner in the award-winning Lake House restaurant for two.
Restaurant Vouchers are a monetary amount of $490 towards lunch or dinner in the Lake House Restaurant.
If you would like to increase the amount to cover additional courses, beverages, an overnight stay etc: you may select a Bespoke Voucher which can be for any prescribed amount.
In this book, Alla Wolf-Tasker shares her love for the region and Lake House, her admiration for great producers both local and across Australia, with wonderful recipes, captivating stories and magnificent imagery.
The Good Food Guide
Icon Award
Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Awards
The Australian Wine List of the Year Awards
Cancellation Policy
All reservations require a credit card number to secure the booking. No deposit is taken, however, a cancellation policy does apply. Click here to view our cancellation policy.
Children at Lake House
Lake House is pleased to welcome families and to accommodate younger guests where possible. Specially designed children’s menus are available should they prefer alternatives to the à la carte.
Please be advised that premium evening sittings in the restaurant on weekends are a fixed price of $255 per person. Families travelling with children may wish to take advantage of alternative arrangements: children’s menus are available at lunch or via in-room dining in the evening. Babysitting services may also be organised with prior notice.
For the comfort and safety of all guests, we ask that children remain seated throughout the dining experience, as our service team is handling hot food and beverages.
A Note on Allergies
Food Allergies: Lake House makes every effort to do whatever is possible to accommodate guests with food allergies.
Please note: Flour, dairy, fructose, onion, garlic, and other similar traditional cooking ingredients are routinely used in our kitchen as part of our normal daily preparation. As a result, a complete lack of any trace of any of these routine ingredients cannot be guaranteed.
Please also note: Not all dietary preferences are able to be accommodated.
Parking at Lake House: We offer free car parking on site for hotel and restaurant guests.
Vehicles are left at guests’ own risk, Lake House does not take responsibility for any damage, theft or incidents. By making a reservation, you agree to these conditions.
Credit Card Surcharges
Visa & Mastercard 1%, Amex & Diners Club 1.75%. No surcharge for EFTPOS.
