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Aire Valley Restaurant - Organically grown food
PLEASE NOTE THE RESTAURANT IS CURRENTLY CLOSED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND ONLY OPEN FOR IN-HOUSE GUESTS. We look forward to welcoming you in the future.
Fresh ingredients is the main focus for the restaurant. Our fish and meats are locally sourced.
Our menu is kept small to ensure the ingredients are fresh. Enjoy a romantic candlelit dinner by the log fire in winter, and in summer, dining is on the verandah overlooking the lakes of the Great Ocean Road and the Aire River Wildlife Reserve, (sometimes known as our own African plain).
Some restaurants measure their ingredients in food miles. With our vegetables, fruit and herbs is is usually measured in steps. Often, while you are reading the menu, your salad and vegetables are still growing.
The Aire Valley Restaurant Garden
Our position on the Great Ocean Road provides a sheltered position perfect for an abundance of fruits, berries, vegetables and herbs. To be able to grow and then pick our kitchen produce daily gives our restaurant the freshest ingredients available along the Great Ocean Road. Seasonal changes along the coast means a wide range of ingredients can be grown at different times of year.
Our garden is watered with rain water or our own natural spring water. Mulch is provided by a farmer from Hordern Vale. Our neighbour provides sheep manure from his farm to enrich our soil. Our soil is pretty amazing as it has had 80 years of sheep wandering over the grass, a perfect start for an organic garden.
What is in the Restaurant Garden?
At different times of year there will be different produce in the garden.
So here is a list of what you may find throughout the year in the garden. Broad beans, dwarf beans, baby beets, beetroot, cabbage, cauliflower, egg plant, several varieties of lettuce, leek, onions, peas, potatoes, parsley, chives, rocket, silverbeet, spinach, rhubarb, parsnip, sugarsnap peas, thyme, coriander, tomatoes, basil, rosemary, carrots, radish, strawberries, sweet corn, zucchini, squash, turnip, pumpkin, capsicum, cucumber, peaches, plums, apples, grape fruit, lime, lemon, oranges, gooseberries, blackberries, raspberries, mulberries, pears, mint, spearmint, garlic, red currant and probably many more that I've forgotten this is hiding in corners of the Restaurant Garden.