Restaurants in Southwest
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Beach House
The views from Beach House are amazing, ensconced in the Surf Life Saving Club’s former function room – sip your cab sav whilst watching the surfers and yachts below. It’s a bit daggy, with plastic chairs and tables and grubby carpet, and the food’s more good than outstanding, yet there’s something really nice going on here. If things aren’t busy the wait staff will sit down for a chat, and there are highchairs and crayons for the kids, as well as a palpable good vibe. Gourmet burgers, pastas, Thai red seafood curry, occasional live music and no haughty pretensions.
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Portofino
Portofino does high-end Mod Oz-cum-Mediterranean food with style – one of the best restaurants in western Victoria. Roast duck over couscous with a dried fig and radish salad, or venison with Moorish spinach and potatoes Catalan style – sounds OK huh? Portofino offers splendid vegetarian dishes too, and local seafood is a feature.
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Saltra Brassiere
Saltra, a Mod Oz restaurant that becomes a late-night lounge bar, is new on the Port Fairy scene and has made quite a splash. With a funky modern interior and courtyard, superb food and live music at weekends, it’s getting people out of the house.
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Pippies by the Bay
A fine restaurant in the Flagstaff Hill visitors centre; make an evening of it with a meal and show, or just pop in for a weekend breakfast and admire the view.
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Sandilands
This elegant manor’s imposing facade suggests stiff sophistication, but it’s a relaxed fine-dining choice. Steak and seafood is the speciality, but vegetarians are well catered for here with stir-fry, pasta and risotto dishes.
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Caledonian Inn
Known to locals as the ‘Stump’ and claimed to be Victoria’s oldest continuously licensed pub (1844), the Caledonian is a good place for a beer (Guinness on tap) and has an impressive menu of pub food, including local seafood.
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Kokopelli’s Kafe & Ice Bar
This loungy cafe cum ’70s cocktail bar does meals all day, but shines as a restaurant and bar in the evening with tapas plates, pasta and steak dishes, an open fire and cute little courtyard out the back.
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Bella Claire
This café and gourmet provedore does outstanding coffee, ice cream and lunches. Just try to get away without buying some chutney or mustard or olive oil or cheese…
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Sullys Café & Wine Bar
Sullys Café & Wine Bar ‘Safe, sustainable cuisine’ is the ethos at Sullys, a narrow and pleasant nook across from the waterfront.
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Wisharts at the Wharf
Wharfside dining doesn’t come prettier than this. The restaurant serves the real thing – gourmet fish and chips, whole baby snapper and tiger prawns in filo.
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Rebecca's Cafe
Excellent for breakfast and light lunches, Rebecca's has interesting items on the menu including rich wild-rice porridge topped with rhubarb as well as the usual cakes, muffins, slices, scones and biscuits.
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Whaler’s Inn
It’s a family-friendly setup here. Meals are tasty and generous, and prices include an all-you-can-eat salad bar.
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The Hub @ Port Fairy
This popular corner cafe moonlights as an upbeat Mod Oz restaurant with a good wine list, pasta dishes and cakes.
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Bojangles
This spiffy licensed pizza restaurant does great pastas and wood-fired pizzas, as well as steaks and grills.
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Fishtales Café
A cheery cafe serving burgers, fish and chips and vegetarian specials, with a sunny courtyard out the back.
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Siamese Restaurant
This place serves authentic Thai food – noodles, soups and rice dishes. Eat in or takeaway.
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Cobb’s Bakery
Locals come here for fresh-cut sandwiches, pies, pasties, burgers and, naturally, fresh bread.
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Wyton
Come here for sophisticated breakfasts, excellent coffee and healthy lunches (including spiced carrot and risoni pasta) that you can take-away.
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The Hub
On weekends this corner cafe is packed with people enjoying spicy gourmet breakfasts featuring locally made chorizo sausage, and good old bacon and eggs. The menu steps up a notch for mostly seafood dinners.
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Merrijig Inn
This is superb dining and the menu changes according to what's seasonal. You might get duck breast, leg brik, baby beetroot, pickled rose, rhubarb and chard one day, and yabbies with asparagus, almonds and nasturtiums the next.
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Donnelly's Restaurant
This smart restaurant makes a big deal of its steaks and seafood, and it's no wonder: both are as local as you can get and very satisfying.
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Deegan Seafoods
This fish-and-chip shop serves up some of the freshest fish in Victoria.
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