2025 Dining Out or Eating In
September 14, 2025
Your Local Guide to Eating Around Hepburn
Breakfast and Lunch
- Lotte - modern café serving fresh, local produce and specialty coffee, 97 Main Rd, Hepburn Springs (walk)
- Cliffy’s Emporium - bustling local café with great coffee, sourdough and seasonal plates, 30 Raglan St, Daylesford (drive)
- Wombat Hill House - garden café with pastries and sourdough from Dairy Flat Bakehouse, Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens, Central Springs Rd, Daylesford (drive)
- Harvest Café - light meals, vegetarian-friendly, excellent takeaway coffee, 29 Albert St, Daylesford (drive)
Dinner
- Hepburn Pizza - traditional Neapolitan wood-oven pizzas with quality ingredients, across the road (walk)
- The Surly Goat - country restaurant and bar with a daily changing four-course prix fixe menu, built around seasonal local produce and paired with small-scale wines, 3 Tenth St, Hepburn Springs (walk)
- Rubens - Italian favourites with generous portions and woodfired pizzas, 70 Main Rd, Hepburn Springs (walk)
- Bar Merenda - intimate wine bar with a weekly changing menu and shared plates, Daylesford (drive)
- Winespeake - wine bar & deli with charcuterie & cheese boards, local and international wine by the glass, and casual food in a cosy setting, 4/26 Vincent St, Daylesford (drive)
- Daylesford Hotel - country pub with hearty classics and a lively atmosphere, 2 Burke Square, Daylesford (drive)
- Hepburn Harvest Vietnamese Kitchen - Fresh, flavourful Vietnamese in the RSL, 20 Vincent St, Daylesford (drive)
- Kadota - refined Japanese dining in a Kaiseki-style experience, 1 Camp St, Shop 3, Daylesford
Takeaway (Dinner)
- Hepburn Pizza
- Spice of India
- Beppe Pizza
- Hepburn Harvest Vietnamese Kitchen

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