280 Skenes Creek Road, Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia.
+61 3 5237 6411.
Did your mother warn you about restaurants with great views? Telling you the food wouldn’t be any good because it didn’t need to be? In this case, she’d be wrong, and would be the first person to admit it. Beacon Point has an amazing view over one of Victoria’s great assets, the Great Ocean Road. It’s also a remarkably handsome restaurant, unassuming and spacious, and its food owes much to the flavours of Greece and southern Victoria as interpreted by owner/chef Chris Talihmanidis, who has been part of the scene here for many years. Mussels and crayfish are especially good – but the lamb dishes (perhaps a clever twist on souvlaki, depending on the season) are superb, the desserts richly flavoured and perfumed. The wine list is very good, too. Perhaps it’s wise to book accommodation and sleep over. That way you also get to enjoy an excellent breakfast.
Open: breakfast, lunch, dinner daily. Licensed. Mains (dinner) $34-$55.Website Source:
Qantas The Australian Way May 2008
Updated: August 2008