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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
Lake House Restaurant
Daylesford, Victoria
A team passionate about hospitality delivers beautiful cutting edge, seasonal food matched with an internationally acclaimed wine list. Under the direction of Culinary Director Alla Wolf-Tasker AM, the kitchen work from the ground up producing virtually everything, from house baked breads to an extensive charcuterie range, on the premises. And Alla’s dream of a raft of excellent small scale local suppliers has finally come about – due in no small part to her own efforts. Several excellent organic farms are now located within minutes of Lake House.
Produce is often hand picked for a morning delivery. Local lamb, rare breed pork, grass fed beef, fresh water fish, sheep and goat’s milk cheese, heirloom fruit from old orchards and windfalls from local gardens arrive at the kitchen, which since the early eighties, has fostered an open door policy, mentoring and supporting small sustainable producers and growers and developing a local food culture amongst fellow restaurateurs, chefs and residents.
Regular guests will tell you of their favourite season and of memorable dishes. Perhaps the butter poached pheasant with chestnuts and Farrow in Autumn, the spring lamb with asparagus and morels. The duck with orange braised witlof; the golden roasted free range chicken of summer with corn and yabbies, or the truffled Pecorino tart with artichokes Barigoule, eel, Murray Cod and trout; rabbit and hare, speak of local waterways and fields.
Wild damsons, Winter Nealis pears, quinces and yellow crab apples feature in fabulous desserts and, in time honoured country fashion, are also made into delicious preserves for enhancing leaner seasons. Each seasonal menu takes you on a trip down country lanes, through the orchards and across the farm paddocks of the region.
During the day, the sunlit restaurant offers magnificent views through wonderfully large windows. Guests enjoying drinks at dusk on the outdoor terraces will witness the daily ritual of our resident kookaburra family flying in to be fed.
Menus are generally altered twice each season, according to best available produce. These changes generally follow the seasonal calendar, although Mother Nature, marching entirely to her own drum frequently throws some surprises at us.
As part of our policy of developing a direct relationship with our growers and producers – much of the produce used at Lake House is sourced from nearby including from our own Dairy Flat Farm.
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
The Australian
Luxury Travel Gold List
The Australian Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide
The Australian Wine List of the Year Awards
Cancellation Policy
All reservations made over our premium times 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
In the Lake House restaurant, we try to accommodate children where possible. Special menus are designed for our younger clientele in mind should they not wish to try the a la carte menus. Families, please note that premium evening sittings in the restaurant over weekends are fixed price $165 per person. If you are travelling with children, there are several options if you wish to avoid this per person price for young ones. Children’s Menus are offered at lunch or in the evening delivered to the comfort of your room. Babysitters can, of course, be arranged with notice.
When dining in the restaurant we ask patrons to remember that waiters are working with hot food & liquid and we require all children to remain seated throughout the meal.
A Note on Allergies
Lake House makes every effort to do what’s possible to accommodate guests with food allergies. However, 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.
Further, given the nature and complexity of our dishes not all ‘diet’ preferences & intolerances can be accommodated. Vegetarian dishes and those that can be modified to be gluten free (note traces may still occur) are noted on our menus. We also offer a specifically designed 8 course vegetarian menu for your enjoyment.
Parking at Lake House
We offer free car parking in our public car park. Vehicles are left at guests own risk.
Credit Card Surcharges
Visa & Mastercard 1%, Amex & Diners Club 1.75%. No surcharge for Eftpos
