Lot 100, Adelaide Hills: What food and drink can I try?

Lot 100 in the Adelaide Hills is a multi-business food and drink destination. You can dine at the Lot 100 Restaurant, and try drinks from Hills Cider, Vinteloper, the Adelaide Hills Distillery, the Mismatch Brewing Co and Ashton Valley Fresh.

Lot 100 in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, is the sort of collaboration you’d usually see in a city food hall. In Hay Valley, just north of Nairne, Lot 100 is what happens when several small businesses pool together on a single 84 hectare property.

On a former cattle pasture, six food and drink producers have come together and created something greater than the sum of its parts.

Lot 100 restaurant

The lynchpin of these businesses is arguably the Lot 100 restaurant, run by head chef Shannon Fleming. The Lot 100 restaurant has a more relaxed courtyard area serving woodfired pizzas, but the signature offering is the $90 lunch menu. This menu changes daily, and emphasises seasonal local produce.

If you splash out an extra $70, you can also include a ‘discovery experience’, tasting offerings from the beverage producers at Lot 100. This discovery experience is deliberately heavily curated, and includes cocktails, wines, beers and ciders. Pairing with the menu is an integral part of the plan.

You can, of course, visit those beverage producers individually. Vinteloper is a winemaker with its vineyards in Lobethal. The most interesting bottles in its range are the Park Wine white and red, which are specifically designed for drinking in parks.

Hills Cider at Lot 100, Adelaide Hills

Hills Cider, meanwhile, was born when many Adelaide Hills apple producers were despairing. The supermarkets wouldn’t accept apples with slight blemishes, so huge amounts of apples were going to waste. Hills Cider saw an opportunity – slight blemishes don’t matter when you’re turning it into cider – and went from there.

The Adelaide Hills Distillery is best known for its 78˚ gin, but it also produces whisky aged in muscat casks.

Completing the set are the Mismatch Brewing Co – the Strawberry Sour is the headliner here – and Ashton Valley Fresh.

Ashton Valley Fresh at Lot 100

Ashton Valley Fresh specialises in fresh fruit juices, with flavours including cherry, pear or apple and mango. It also makes balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

For further information, visit the Lot 100 website.

Other Adelaide Hills food and drink hotspots include the Uraidla Hotel, Crafers Hotel and Hahndorf Inn. Also worth visiting are the Applewood Distillery and Unico Zelo wines in Gumeracha, the Lane Vineyard in Hahndorf, Golding Wines in Lobethal and the Howard Vineyard in Nairne.