Sandalford - CAVERSHAM

What an amazing placeFood , service and ambience all excellentWe were there for lunch todayBest dining experience.

A wet and wintery Saturday we arrived for lunch and were greeted at the door an ushered into the dinning room with warming fireplace and the cold just

As you drive into Sandalford Estate, you are greeted by a majestic entrance and welcomed by lush greens and vineyards.

We've visited Sandalford a number of times over the years and the food is always top class. This visit was no exception. We started off with foccacia and oil with the warmed bread being delicious. There was a good range of mains on the menu but one of my favourites (lamb) got the nod from me while one of my wife's favourites (seafood risotto this one was just shellfish) got the nod from her. We foolishly ordered two sides potatoes with parmesan, and Brussels sprouts which meant we both ate far too much during the meal. The food was lovely. Highly recommended. Our wines were both to our tastes and we ended up purchasing some bottles of each at the adjoining cellar door after the meal. Staff were very attentive and helpful at all times. Recommended.

Delightful upscale winery restaurant in the Swan Valley. Lovely décor inside and out. We ate indoors because it was too hot for the terrace. Very sophisticated menu, so much so that it almost seems that some of it is contrived for linguistic effect. It is also rather expensive. Nevertheless, the food was tasty and the service efficient and pleasant. We shared a zucchini flower tempura and I followed with a very tasty red snapper at $50. Generally, everything we had was very tasty but overly contrived and complicated with too many different flavours. It was as if you recognized everything on the dish you were ordering they had failed. A serious foodie might revel in this. Me, not so much. But I don’t want to leave the impression that this was anything but an enjoyable lunch. We won’t be back; we will look for something simpler.