Oakridge

Best place and friendly service. Food was good wine was good. Good friendly service. Very good environment. View is amazing.

We had an absolutely amazing lunch here, with not one criticism!
We booked a week out to have lunch on a Saturday and were greeted immediately and taken to our seats. Facing the vineyard, water and hills. Great setting!
The whole lunch the staff were extremely prompt, never bugging but always coming at the perfect time. I was very surprised that every member of staff has such a friendly attitude and was more than happy to have a chat or a laugh. Interesting to see some of the other reviews call this place sterile or snobby — we had the complete opposite experience! All tables full but not once did we feel forgotten or a burden!
For starters we ordered the asparagus Danish and kangaroo loin. The danish was superb! The pastry had an almost sweet croissant taste to it with lovely layers of asparagus and goats cheese on top. It was all topped with a herb salad. The kangaroo was a take on an Asian salad with punchy flavours and beautiful herbs you could see throughout the gardens.
Next we ordered the duck Breast with Beetroot and the rainbow trout. Both dishes were cooked to perfection with the duck as the standout winner. Such perfect flavours and crispy skin! We ordered the potatoes on the side which complemented both dishes perfectly.
We had a few wines throughout the dish, recommended by the staff and walked away with a few bottles to have later also.
All in all an amazing lunch, great atmosphere and again want to commend both the chef on the meals and the staff on their amazing attitudes.

Overly sterile, defunct of personality, snobby and that’s just from walking in, walking around, and never being acknowledged. Go to a smaller winery where they appreciate the fact that you have taken time to stop at their place of business. Somewhere you can learn about and taste the wines.

One of those «destination» tourist traps in wine country. Its setting and architecture is phenomenal! Clean-​lined contemporary and sprawling grounds. That said, one can’t help but cringe a bit at the overtly sterile and clinical atmosphere of the interior. The wine merchants — or whatever those folks behind the mile-​long tasting counter are called — have perfunctory and detached business-​at-​hand personalities. This place sorely lacks the intimacy of the numerous smaller wineries in this beautiful valley. No doubt, with busloads of tourists being shoved into that place like clockwork, there’s probably little time for these bar-​hands to give anything but small-​talk (if that) to the minions. We didn’t have time to try its restaurant — which was packed! — but, overlooking the menu, unsurprisingly everything was priced for the nouveau-​riche in mind. The place reeked of a stuffy, entitled crowd… If we do decide to ever return (which I highly doubt, esp. with all the other more inviting wineries around), maybe we’ll splurge on a lunch. As I said, it was all very perfunctory — and not even a tour of the wine-​making process, or even a drive around the grounds. Yawn!!! (The gratis bacci ball and ring toss outside kept the kid amused while the adults drank…)

It was our first visit, and we really enjoyed it. The restaurant is beautifully ultramodern and a sharp contrast to the neatly arranged rows of green in the surrounding vineyard. The views are exquisite. The food was a taste adventure — we chose the shared tasting plate featuring local produce, and it was scrumptious — salmon, prosciutto pork terrine, olives and hummus were featured. My wife ordered vegetarian and really enjoyed the raviolo (yes, singular, it was an outsized one) with lovely goat’s cheese, but thought there was too much beetroot to accompany. My lamb was delicious, interestingly fused to a strip of chicken and served with veg greens. Our desserts were chocolate truffle and raspberry panacotta — both were a pleasant surprise in their presentation and flavour. I guess you could say we really enjoyed it. We’re coming back.

This place looks amazing from the outside. Such beautiful architecture. We entered in hoping to sample some wines, however service inside seemed abit snobby, we weren’t greeted and left to aimlessly wonder around. We stayed for a little while, but left due to the lack of anyone welcoming us and running us through their wines.

If you’re after a boozy lunch in the Yarra Valley, head to Oakridge Estate. The restaurant has some great views, great food and of course, an excellent wine selection.
Oakridge is a mid sized winery, but has all the charm of the smaller boutiques and often has wedding ceremonies and private functions on, so if you’re dead set on going there (which you should be) it may pay to make a quick call