Mount Gambier Restaurants

This place has the reputation as being THE place to get a steak. They have many different cuts on the menu.. and one chicken and one fish dish! Not the place to go if you are a vegetarian. I think you would just be able to get a salad.

Favorite Dish: Tuscan Chicken is unreal!! The wine list is so huge it is fantastic - and most of it local from Coonawarra. My fave to go with the chicken is Hollicks Savignon Blanc Semillion. Yummo!!

As well as having many really good restaurants and cafes, you can still get a typical pub meal at the many pubs in town. Rather than give them each a separate tip, here are a list of my fave places to get a decent pub meal at a decent price!

Jackson's at The Commersh - Commerical Street West
Bertha's Grill at the Park Hotel - Commerical Street East
Jens Hotel - Commercial Street West - enter opposite the Cave Gardens
The Federal Hotel - Commerical Street West

Favorite Dish: Chicken snitzel and chippies!

Great newish restaurant, first Indian one in town. I love indian, and these guys do a great job. The decor is nice, welcoming service and very friendly. It is not by any means a flash or very attractive looking restaurant, but the food is great!

Favorite Dish: I love Chicken Tikka, last time I went my friend had extra hot Beef Vindaloo and it really was hot. Butter Chicken in nice too if you don't like hot. Papadums with mint ratia are the best!

This is right up there in the Mount as one of the best places to eat in style. The decor is traditional without being too old fashioned, with a cosy log fire and beautiful woodern chairs.
Not a huge restaurant so it is not over crowded and loud.

Favorite Dish: They change the menu fairly regularly, but my all time fave is the Marengo Skin, which is brest chicken pieces simmered in a tomato based sauce, and served in a wholed out potato. Delicious!!

Open on Wednesday & Thursday. Open for dinner Tuesday to Saturday nights, seats 65.

Great food is the hallmark of this cafe. Australian native flora, berries, nuts, jams etc, hence their name Muntries, this is an aussie berry found in the bush.

Favorite Dish: my mum loves the local buffalo, which by a strange conincidence actually live in the paddock next to our farm,
rissotto pollo is my fave, plus lasagne. Desserts are to die for! They have an ever changing and undated special baord, you wont miss it, it takes up half the wall!

The best pizza and pasta in town. The place can get a bit busy so it pays to book.The waiting staff have a reputation for being dizzy (blonde) and unintelligent, but it is a nice meal and nice atmosphere.

Favorite Dish: Any gormet pizza from the wood fire oven, or pasta, Rococos Rigatoni is good, anything really!

Really nice modern restaurant, sit out the front in the atrium on a nice day. Right across the road from the cave gardens. a nice mix of asian and mediteranean styles, great flat breads, pastas, risotto, and soups. Great seafood specials.

Favorite Dish: I really like the flatbreads, bruscettas and salads for a lunch. For tea go for the pasta, risotto or a stirfry.

A great new restaurant in the heart of the city. Uses local ingredients to create a rather interesting mix of flavours. I like to drop in here for a coffee and relax on the couches in the upstairs areas.

Favorite Dish: I didn't find too much that I really loved, there is not a lot of chicken on the menu. But if you like beef you will be fine. For lunch the other day I had a sensational Moroccan Lamb open sandwich. Really worth having.