Barragunda Dining​on March 10, 2025 at 6:19 am

Barragunda’s 400 hectares provide Simone Watts (ex-Coda, MoMo) and her team with lamb, olives, nashi pears, rye grain, lemongrass, Angus beef, garlic, honey, grapefruit – the list goes on. When guests arrive, they walk past a wall of brightly coloured preserves: green almonds, baby radishes, slender fennel.

Mussels from Flinders supplier Harry’s are served in a spiced white wine reduction, with fried mussels and sunflower miso.

Small merguez sausages made with the estate’s lamb (reared for longer than usual to get more flavour and yield) are paired with ezme, the Turkish salsa featuring diced tomatoes, cucumber and peppers. The sausage is smoked over a large wood-fired hearth that was shipped in from the much-celebrated Adelaide Hills restaurant The Summertown Aristologist.

The 40-seat dining room, with its pitched roof of spotted gum, feels a little like a barn. Terracotta tiles, earthenware plates, and arrangements of grasses and flowers grown on the property give a strong sense of the natural world.