1. Inside the restaurant there are wooden floors, tables with white tableclothes, low hanging light fittings, and a waiter in a waistcoat walks through serving a cocktail
    Photograph: Supplied/La Vetta
  2. There is a birds eye view of a white table which has a plate of oysters, salumi, burrata, sashimi, and several glasses of wine
    Photograph: Supplied/La Vetta
  3. On a table there are several dishes of food including prawns and calamari, next to two glasses of wine, and you can see a person in a grey shirt holding onto one of the glasses of wine
    Photograph: Supplied/La Vetta
  4. A view of the outside of the estate shows a large two level wood and glass building with the sun setting behind it
    Photograph: Supplied/La Vetta
  5. On a white table there is a large plate of pasta next to a cocktail, and some has a knife and fork in their hands about to cut a piece of pasta
    Photograph: Supplied/La Vetta

La Vètta

Come for the inventive Italian cuisine, stay for the picturesque setting
  • Restaurants | Italian
  • Melbourne
Lauren Dinse
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Time Out says

Marnong Estate's sophisticated contemporary Italian restaurant has fast been gaining critical acclaim, especially since the appointment of Greg Feck as executive chef. 

From the picturesque rolling hilltop views and crowdpleasing Italian-inspired eats to the great wines produced on-site and cosy lounge spaces, this restaurant is perfect for a long and indulgent lunch. 

Get the seasonal mushroom risotto if it's still on the menu – it was one of the most generous, comforting, flavour-bomb takes we've ever tried. Other highlights include the Ora King salmon gelato served in a charcoal waffle cone (it sounds weird, but it's genius), the tonno crudo with nashi pear and stracciatella and the ‘Vittore’ carpaccio inspired by the famous painter from Harry's Bar, Venice. The latter comes as a gleaming display of Wagyu beef, spiced walnuts, Warragul greens and 1950’s ‘Universal Sauce.’ 

All pasta is either hand-folded or bronze extruded 'fatto in casa', with free-range eggs sourced from the chooks of the estate. Most of the restaurant's meats are grilled over coal and local woods (think red gum or jarrah) to lend a distinct complexity to each dish.

La Vetta is open Thursday to Sunday, for lunch (excluding Thursday) from noon and for dinner from 5-9pm.

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Details

Address
Marnong Estate
2335 Mickleham Rd
Mickleham
Melbourne
3064
Opening hours:
Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat noon-9pm, Sun noon-6pm
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