Restaurant · Fire-led
Le Foyer
Hearth-led dining and a cocktail bar on Queen Street, French-leaning plates cooked over open flame, from the team behind The Woodhouse.
Queen Street · 5 min driveTue – Sat
Zalm / About Bendigo
A Zalm Guide
A quietly opinionated guide to our town, the long-table restaurants we love, the morning bakeries we send everyone to, the galleries to set aside an afternoon for, and a small handful of day trips worth borrowing the car for.
Eat & Drink
The handful of restaurants we send guests to without thinking.
Hearth-led dining and a cocktail bar on Queen Street, French-leaning plates cooked over open flame, from the team behind The Woodhouse.
Bendigo's redgum charcoal grill, dry-aged steaks and a wood oven on Williamson Street. Book ahead for dinner.
Pizza and pasta on View Street, in the middle of the arts precinct. The easy Italian for the second night.
The morning coffee. A proper brunch menu and a counter of daily-baked things in a 1920s former grocery on Hargreaves Street.
The neighbourhood café on Bridge Street, near the lake, coffee, breakfast and lunch among recycled timber and shelves of house-made pantry things. Dog friendly.
Piadina, Italian flatbreads filled to order and cooked on the flat pan, opposite the old Golden Eagle flour mill on Williamson Street. Dark-roast coffee.
For after dinner, a laneway bar and diner in Gold Rush–era Chancery Lane, with a serious gin shelf, cocktails and an Asian-leaning menu.
See & Do
The neighbourhood lake, an easy 1.5 km lap, rowers at dawn, picnic lawns. The closest walk to the house.
The town's tree-canopied centre. A walk past the Poppet Head and down to the 1897 conservatory.
An honest, fascinating descent into the real underground workings. The right tour for a grey morning.
The arts precinct, theatres, La Trobe Art Institute, boutiques and cafés, with bookshops a short stroll away. (The Art Gallery is closed for its rebuild until 2028.)
Day Trips
A small cluster of family vineyards making some of Victoria's best shiraz. We can pre-book a flight at three of our favourites.
Mineral springs, slow Sunday markets, restaurants worth the drive. Pair with a bathhouse afternoon at Hepburn.
The art-and-furniture town, the Castlemaine Art Museum, The Mill complex, and several excellent op-shops.
An easy wander through box-ironbark forest in the national park’s Whipstick section, a slow morning, a flask of coffee, a notebook.
Slow Walks
Down to Lake Weeroona, a slow lap of the water and home again. About 45 minutes with a coffee.
From the house into View Street and the arts precinct, about 25 minutes each way, flat the whole road.
A full circuit, Lake Weeroona, the creek trail into town, Rosalind Park, and home. About 90 minutes.
How to Get Here
Bendigo is about 150 km north-west of Melbourne, about 1h 50m by car, or 2 hours on the V/Line train direct from Southern Cross. The house is a 5-minute taxi from Bendigo station, or a 20-minute walk if you've packed light.
The Address
Thunder Street, Bendigo
Victoria · 3550
Exact address shared at booking confirmation.