Eleonore's - Yering (VIC)

Booked and then discovered they were shut and hadn’t told fork. Pathetic!

Nothing like we have experienced on previous visits, very disappointed, won't be back unfortunately...

If a place is more renown for their wine than their food ... Well there's a reason. The food wasn't bad but it just wasn't very tasty. It's as though the chef had an aversion to salt. Presentation was beautiful though and their wine pairings were excellent and truly enjoyable. <br/ <br/ Service was very slow the day we went and the waiter warned us about that so at least we got a heads up. It took us 4 hours for 3 courses. We'd normally only take that long for 8 course degustations or something and I almost fell asleep by the time dessert came around. <br/ <br/ We had the following:<br/ 1) Wagyu tataki entree: small portion. Nice mustard sauce but the meat slices themselves were quite bland. 3/5<br/ 2) pork belly entree: very nice crackling one of the least salty cracklings I've ever tasted which I actually liked. I don't like crackling that's overly salted but my dining partner was not a fan and started lathering large amounts of salt on it. Not too oily despite it being pork belly. Sauces were a bit bland. 4/5<br/ 3) 200g sirloin steak: steak was pretty bland. Sauces were too sweet. A little overcooked for medium rare. 3/5<br/ 4) pan fried John Dory fillets: generous portion. Smelt fishy at first but it wasn't when you actually ate it. Very well done. The bean purée was very bland but the chef actually seasoned the fish this time so thumbs up. 4/5<br/ 5) chocolate brownie: beautifully presented and came together well. 5/5<br/ 6) cheese platter: 4 different cheeses of which two were OK, 1 was bad and 1 was inedible. But nothing wrong with the cheeses themselves, I think I just don't like goats cheese. It's too overpowering and smells too much like animal. Dehydrated grapes were nice but they had seeds in them, which I wasn't expecting. Walnuts were really nice ... They had this subtle sweet caramel on the outside but my dining partner said it was all in my head and it definitely wasn't caramelised. 3/5

Hands down best restaurant in the Yarra Valley. We had the degustation with matching wine which was just delightful. The Moreton bay bugs went down beautifully with a carefully selected wine from Spain. My main of snapper just melted in my mouth and was topped of with the most beautiful creme brûlée. Bravo. We will be back again and again. Service was on point

Fantastic night out, excellent service from some very kind and down to earth staff. Classy without being snobby. Amazing food, swordfish entree and suckling pig were delicious. Venison was wonderful, sirloin was a tad dry. Pre-entree and pre-dessert tasters a delight as was dessert. Will be heading back here very, very soon.