Sunset Food & Wine

Kangaroo Island


Awesome view! If you can't make it up the steep driveway, there's another access around the back. Either way, expect brilliant modern bistro fare. Expect the likes of KI squid with pickled carrot, chorizo, cucumber and fennel salad. Saturday night is a six-course degustation menu ($89, plus $59 for wines).


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Kangaroo Island attractions

1. Browns Beach

3.25 MILES

A lovely protected beach, around 14km southwest of Penneshaw en route to American River and Kingscote. Good for a quick dip.

2. Penneshaw Maritime & Folk Museum

3.37 MILES

Inside a 1922 stone school house, this salty museum displays artefacts from local shipwrecks and early white settlement (check out those girthsome…

3. Kangaroo Island Farmers Market

3.68 MILES

Has baked goods, chutneys, seafood, olive oil, honey, eggs, cheese, yoghurt and of course wine and dodgy buskers (including, once, a certain Lonely Planet…

4. Frenchman's Rock

3.81 MILES

When intrepid French explorer Nicholas Baudin surveyed the KI coast in 1803, he came ashore at what's now Penneshaw for a look around. He left his mark:…

5. Island Beach

6.05 MILES

Loong beach between Penneshaw and American River, backed by rows of fancy beach houses. Go for a wander and see what's washed in on the tide.

6. US Schooner Independence

7.31 MILES

In a big tin boatshed near the American River jetty, the timber ribs of the new US Schooner Independence are slowly starting to resemble a hull. A…

7. Flour Cask Bay

14.17 MILES

Down a well-maintained dirt road south of American River, this remote beach is just the spot for a little soul-searching, a breezy paddle in the brine or…

8. Cape Willoughby Lightstation

14.38 MILES

About 28km southeast of Penneshaw (via an unsealed road) on a treeless headland, this tidy white turret started shining out in 1852 (SA's first lighthouse…