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Food & Drink

One of the pleasures of food and drink is that they are often a shared experience – think about the times you’ve gotten together with friends and exchanged interesting ideas and opinions. In addition to having enjoyed a good meal, you left the table better informed with most senses more than likely fulfilled. Our Food and Drink section is all about the unique, best practice experiences on the Mornington Peninsula. In this section we like to inspire and inform readers with a mix of stories from around the Pen.

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Red Hill Brewery

Brewers, Food & Drink
Ale, BBQ, Beer, Brewers Cottage, Brewery, Craft Beer, Eat, Food, Golden Ale, Harvest, Hop Garden, Local, Mornington Peninsula, Red Hill, Red Hill Brewery, Stout, Victoria, Weekend
Many beer-lovers have, under the romantic influence of a well-crafted boutique beer, indulged in thoughts of trying their hand at brewing.  For Karen and Dave Golding, the influence of countryside pubs and microbreweries they visited while travelling across Germany, Belgium and England in the early 1990s was so strong that they bought a fertile plot of land in Red Hill to grow hops and set up a full-scale brew house.

Merricks General Store

Food & Drink, Winemakers
Cellar Door, Coffee, Eat, Exhibition, Food, Gallery, Garden, general store, Horse Riding, Kitchen, Local, lunch, Merricks, Merricks General Wine Store, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Produce, Restaurant, Shop, Victoria, Vineyard, Weekend, Wine, Winemakes
Back in the days before impersonal supermarkets and oversized shopping centres, the humble general store was a community hub, a place that served an important social, as well as supply, service. In 1924, Merricks General Wine Store opened to serve a variety of needs of the local community. Built in a prime location on Hastings-Flinders Road, between Balnarring and Shoreham, it was a central point where locals could stock up on household items as well post mail, make phone calls at the phone booth, do banking and fill the petrol tank – a one-stop shop with friendly, familiar faces.

Green Olive at Red Hill

Food & Drink
Australia, Cafe, Cellar Door, Children, Coffee, Cooking Classes, Farm, Farmgate, Food, Garden, Green Olive, Horse Riding, Kitchen, lunch, Mornington Peninsula, Red Hill, Restaurant, Shop, Vineyard, Weekend, Wine
The olive trees on Sue and Greg O’Donoghue’s farm take three years to bear fruit, but when they do, one tree can provide up to 35 kilograms of olives. Similarly, patience and passion are key ingredients to bringing a big idea to life.

Tucks Wine

Food & Drink
blind wine tastings, Cellar Door, Coffee, fabulous food, Farm, Food, Kitchen, Local, lunch, Main Ridge, montalto, mornington, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Red Hill, Restaurant, Ridge, tasting, terrace views, Tucks, Vineyard, Wedding, Weekend, Wine
At Tucks you’re offered a diverse range of experiences beyond the cellar door that match the fabulous food, spectacular terrace views, a tempting menu and just enough quirk to remind you of your unique surroundings – for example, Tucks blind wine tastings encourage you to write your opinions on the tasting bench.

The Red Hill Kitchen

Food & Drink
Flinders, Food, Garden, Home, Kitchen, Local, mornington, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Preserves, Shop, Vegetables, vintage, Weekend
Towards the end of an inconspicuous unsealed road in Red Hill there is a kitchen in a quaint weatherboard house surrounded by a prolific vegetable garden, where Bernie Furness creates some of the most delicious take home food available. The Red Hill Kitchen is something of a closely held secret to locals, who make up about ninety per cent of the business. So renowned is it in these parts though, that after being closed for six months a couple of years ago, when they reopened word spread quickly and business resumed as if they’d never closed.