Brae has three Good Food Guide hats. It was named 44th in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. Its owner Dan Hunter could fill a barn with ‘chef of the year’ awards. So, you would expect this five-year-old country restaurant, two hours west of Melbourne, to be very, very good. What you might not anticipate is how great it makes you feel.
Dani Valent. Read more.
Dining in this sprawling, converted weatherboard house is all about deep, unhurried comfort from immaculate service, a roaring fire in the lounge, onsite accommodation complete with vinyl record collection and a pre-dessert stroll through the gardens, backlit by the setting sun.
Good Food. Read more.
Dan Hunter’s talent and experience would predict a quality dining experience no matter where he set up shop, but it’s in the country, a gorgeous part of the world 90 minutes from Melbourne, where his sincere, emphatic and uncompromising embrace of the seasonal and regional really pays the best dividends. And Brae just keeps getting better.
Gourmet Traveller. Read more.
Brae has mastered the art of food and wine matching, finding synergy between unlikely partners to provide the diner with an exhilarating experience.
Gourmet Traveller Wine. Read more.
Australia’s top chefs and restaurateurs have voted Dan Hunter’s rural Victorian fine diner Brae number one for a second year running in a triumphant night for regional dining at the Financial Review Australia’s Top 100 Restaurants awards.
Australian Financial Review. Read more.