The Best Places to Eat Near SLATE Restaurant, by the Record

Sitting among the vineyards on Polish Hill Road, this modern Australian restaurant at the Pikes winery puts Clare Valley produce at the centre of everything, down to vegetables cut from the kitchen garden out back. The menu shifts with the seasons, and the wine list runs deep into Pikes' cellar. An Australian Good Food Guide Hat confirms what the regulars already know. Relaxed enough for a long lunch, considered enough to earn the drive.

1. Australian Good Food Guide 12/20 · One Chef Hat

Perched inside Paulett Winery in the Clare Valley, this alfresco Modern Australian restaurant draws its menu partly from an on-site Indigenous bush food garden you can wander before sitting down. The chef folds native ingredients into dishes that lean global without losing the landscape, and the estate wines are right there if you need a reason to order another round. It holds a one hat rating from the Australian Good Food Guide.

1. Australian Good Food Guide 13/20 · One Chef Hat

The beer garden wraps around a wood oven and an Argentine-style grill, which tells you something about the ambitions of this old Clare Valley pub. Much of the produce comes from the hotel's own organic farm down the road, and the kitchen runs everything from a casual a la carte to a six-course degustation. The Australian Good Food Guide has given it a Chef Hat, and the setting, a lovingly restored country hotel, makes it easy to stay longer than planned.

1. Australian Good Food Guide 12/20 · One Chef Hat

Stone walls and timber beams meet a sleek bar stocked with the estate's own wines, which sets the tone for what follows. Hentley Farm is a fine dining destination in the Barossa where the menu is a surprise each visit, built around foraged, caught, and garden-grown ingredients from the property and its surrounds. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it Three Chef Hats. No printed menu to fuss over, just whatever the estate offers up that day.

1. Australian Good Food Guide 17/20 · Three Chef Hats

1. Australian Good Food Guide 14/20 · Two Chef Hats

1. Australian Good Food Guide 15/20 · Two Chef Hats

1. Australian Good Food Guide 13/20 · One Chef Hat

1. Australian Good Food Guide 13/20 · One Chef Hat

1. Australian Good Food Guide 12/20 · One Chef Hat