Farmer’s Daughters, Melbourne

Farmer’s Daughters in Melbourne CBD is a three level deli-restaurant-bar concentrating on food and drink from the Gippsland region.

Farmer’s Daughters is a bar-restaurant-deli hybrid spread over three levels in Melbourne CBD. It is the baby of Peruvian chef Alejandro Saravia Pastuso, who was also behind the celebrated Pastuso Peruvian restaurant.

The inspiration this time is not Peru, but the Victorian region of Gippsland. Pastuso apparently went on a produce tour of Gippsland and was so won over, he wanted to make a restaurant devoted to it.

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The rooftop bar at Farmer's Daughters in Melbourne — The rooftop bar at Farmer’s Daughters in Melbourne. Photo courtesy of Visit Victoria.

Farmer’s Daughters deli and restaurant

The ground floor deli offers small dishes designed for sharing. Options include Cherry Tree Organics lamb rump and an Eaglehawk Creek pork & leek pie. There’s also a pantry selling coffees and Gippsland goodies to take away.

The restaurant on the first floor is more formal, and works with a multi-course set menu. This degustation-style meal costs $110, with an extra $75 for paired wine-matching. The food cooks over a camp fire-styled open fire.

Dishes are subject to change, but include things such as Baw Baw river alpine trout, Lakes Entrance crudo and Terramirra Park venison.

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Great Ocean Road tour – with koalas 🐨.
Brighton Beach, Moonlit Sanctuary and Phillip Island tour – with penguins 🐧.
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Grampians National Park tour – with bushwalks and LOADS of kangaroos 🦘.
Mornington Peninsula tour – with hot springs bathing 🛀.
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Dandenong Ranges steam train ride – plus wildlife at Healesville Sanctuary and chocolate-tasting in the Yarra Valley.

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Farmer’s Daughters rooftop bar

The top floor of Farmer’s Daughters is a rooftop bar. Here, native herbs grow in a vertical garden and Gippsland botanicals pep up the cocktails. There’s also a commendable effort to use craft distillers rather than resorting to mass market spirits.

Your cocktails might, therefore, include Bass & Flinders Maritime Gin, Grainshaker Wheat Vodka, Gospel Solera Rye or 4 Pillars Bloody Shiraz Gin.

Tap beers at Farmer’s Daughters include the Stomping Ground pale ale. Wine options have a commendable Gippsland focus, too. On the menu, amongst others, are the Lightfoot & Sons rosé from the Gippsland Lakes and the DIN V15 pinot noir from Leongatha.

This Gippsland-themed restaurant, bar and deli is at 95 Exhibition Street in Melbourne CBD. Full menus are available on the restaurant website.

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