Cru Restaurant (Outlook Hill )
Advertisement
97 School Lane
Healesville VIC 3775
Australia
Mobile: 0425 785032
Email: snowshil@tpg.com.au
Website: Cru Restaurant (Outlook Hill )
CRU restaurant on the terrace at Outlook Hill has gained a reputation for some of the best food in the Yarra Valley (Victoria's Dandenong Ranges) and the wondrous panoramic views over the heart of the valley. CRU has been embraced by locals as an affordable relaxing alternative to some of the more high profile wineries, and is highly recommended in the current editon of both The Age Good Food Guide and Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide 2007.
Chef Leonard Kusnezow's rustic style and superb command of flavours ensures everyone can find something to suit their tastes. Menu prices range from $15.00 for entrees and $26.00 for mains. All deserts are $11.00.
Sourcing locally grown produce is an integral part of CRU's ever changing blackboard menus.
CRU's wine list is centered around the estate wines produced by Outlook Hill vineyard with other varieties from the Yarra Valley and other regions further a field also available.
Regions
- Melbourne Surrounds (VIC)
- Yarra Valley (Wine) (VIC)
- Yarra Valley, Dandenongs and the Ranges (VIC)
- Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Open for Lunch- Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Opening Details: 12 noon - 3 pm
Open for Dinner- Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Opening Details: from 6 pm
- Thursday
Benefits and Comments
- Map Reference (Melways or similar): 268 H12
Map Reference (Vic Roads or similar): UBD 144 A19 ; YV Map: J4
Characteristics
- Licensing
- Licensed
Cuisine
- Chef(s): Leonard Kusnezow
Food Style- Modern Australian , Regional Cuisine
Meals Served- Lunch
Dinner
General Facilities
- Accommodation Associated
Functions and Conferences- Capacity: 70
Weddings- Capacity (Weddings): 70
- Capacity: 70
Yarra Valley, Victoria: Eating Out by Michael Harden read more
Peter and Lydia Snow invite you to share their rural retreat at Outlook Hill Vineyard, located between the two wine touring highways—Maroondah and Melba that wind ... read more
Become a Member today
Want more from your wine and food travels? Receive benefits, exclusive offers and discounts. Become a VisitVineyards.com Member - click here find out more now..
Subscribe Now - it's Free
Subscribe now - for news and reviews, our newsletter (optional), to join our forums, and more.
Enter your email address and click the join button. We respect your privacy.
Become a Member today
Want more from your wine and food travels? Receive benefits, exclusive offers and discounts. Become a VisitVineyards.com Member - click here find out more now..
Log In
Browse
Members' Offers
The effervescent and creative Gillian Haig will guide VisitVineyards.com Members through a tasting of some fabulous regional wines, chocolates and olive oils of the Mornington Peninsula.
Discover the art at Manyung Gallery, stay for a meal at the Boyz at Manyung and enjoy a complimentary glass of Peninsula wine with any main course
VisitVineyards.com Members will be well rewarded when they purchase from the Original Oz Art Gallery.
Subscribers' Offers
Le Figaro calls her "the undisputed mistress of the kingdom of wine". All VisitVineyards.com subscribers receive an immediate A$40 discount on access to Jancis's exclusive Purple Pages - now totally redesigned - including full online access to the 3rd Edition of the Oxford Companion to Wine. A bargain at only A$99 p.a. Subscribe to VisitVineyards.com now - it's free - and save A$40 with Jancis immediately. Our special November-December offer - join JancisRobinson.com and get VisitVineyards.com Membership for only A$39 extra (A$49 overseas).
All VisitVineyards.com and Winepros.com.au subscribers and Members receive a 12.5% discount when you purchase via our book partners Seekbooks. Simply become a subscriber to get your immediate discount. Find out more here.
Advertisement
Competitions
You could be savouring three outstanding South Australian shirazes for Christmas. Other prizes include two copies of Seasonal by Steve Manfredi and three copies of Hilary McNevin's Guide to Fish. Enter our subscribers' competition - closes 30th November - it's free to enter.
Fancy spending a day with someone special tasting over 30 fabulous Pinots on the Mornington Peninsula? This month one lucky Member will win two tickets to the Garden ... Enter before the 30th November for your chance to be sipping pinot noir.
Were you an October winner? Find out of you are one of our lucky Members or subscribers. Think you never win anything? Then check here.....
Tasting Notes: The New Australian 250
Jancis Robinson
In the next part of our series covering Jancis Robinson's tasting notes on The New Australian 250, she enjoys a pinot noir from Henschke, the winery that never disappoints her palate, and is impressed by the range of styles in the single vineyard chardonnay bottlings from Kooyong on the Mornington Peninsula.
