Country dining with an eye on sustainability, just an hour from Perth CBD.
With its light-filled dining room overlooking the lake and the rolling Jarrahdale hills, Millbrook is up there with the scenier Margaret River wineries. ‘Have you had this before?’ may be the opener to a brief explainer of varietal character. By-the-glass is generally estate wine but by-the-bottle offers the wider portfolio of sibling wineries such as Deep Woods. The menu, characterised by a refined but rustic direction is wholly appropriate to a country restaurant with an acre producing veggies. A long established Monday No Waste lunch and garden tour are a popular fixture. Lunch on other days starts with the kitchen’s choice of entrees, a creative assortment of dishes like silky estate pork liver mousse (a crowd favourite) and what one server describes as ‘all things rainbow chard’; a vivid chard pesto draped with a blanched chard stalk and dressed with miso chard sauce (a dish where ‘eating your greens’ isn’t a chore). A new spin on ‘eat your greens’. A choice of main may take you to that estate pork again or ‘all things zucchini’. Picanha, or beef rump cap, is a cut appreciated for its robust flavour. Paired with a hearty slaw and deeply savoury sauteed mushrooms it’s crying out for a glass of pinot. And it’d be rude not to.
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