Top 5 places to eat in the Hunter Valley

1 Rock Restaurant

What Set in the Poole's Rock Winery estate, Rock by day offers light lunches and wood-fired pizzas from the restaurant's showpiece oven.
Cuisine Contemporary Australian/Classic French. A flexible menu allows each dish to be enjoyed as a tasting option, an entrée or as a main.  

2 Bistro Molines at Tallavera Grove

What The new restaurant from Pepper Tree and Briar Ridge wines owner John Davis at his Tallavera Grove vineyard.
Cuisine French Bistro. The menu fluctuates daily, often playing with game, seafood and offal - crumbed lambs' brains with tomato and baby caper butter sauce - before arriving at some more classic options for mains.

3 Margan

What A new restaurant attached to the decade-old Margan estate, the restaurant is constructed with rammed earth and features a tasting room flooded with natural light.
Cuisine Mediterranean. Margan aims to provide seasonally inspired dishes - the menus are changed monthly - with an added focus on simplicity and sharing. All dishes are matched with a fresh glass of Margan wine.

4 Leaves and Fishes

What Their seafood is fresh farmed from the lake over which the restaurant looks.
Cuisine Contemporary/Fusion. A mostly seafood oriented menu crosses from the more Asian-inspired flavours through Western European staples to arrive at fish and chips. There is a two-course minimum at $57.50.

5 Mojo's on Wilderness

What A cosy, family-run restaurant that caters to everyone.
Cuisine Contemporary Australian/European. Wine and food are woven together seamlessly on an innovative menu that perfectly showcases the region's local produce.

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