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A small, neighbourhood trattoria. The menu celebrates the myriad regions and traditions of Italy while expressing the seasonality of the shire. Very authentic and quality Italian fare.
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Spaghetti Bar
58 Piper StA small, neighbourhood trattoria. The menu celebrates the myriad regions and traditions of Italy while expressing the seasonality of the shire. Very authentic and quality Italian fare.
Blurring the lines between urban winery, cellar door, neighbourhood wine bar and beer garden - this is a cellar door with a difference.
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Musk Lane Wine
1 Turner's LaBlurring the lines between urban winery, cellar door, neighbourhood wine bar and beer garden - this is a cellar door with a difference.
Relaxed café on Piper Street in Kyneton, serving fresh, delicious breakfast and lunch.
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Little Swallow Cafe
62 Piper StRelaxed café on Piper Street in Kyneton, serving fresh, delicious breakfast and lunch.
A bar, Diner, Beer Garden, Music VENUE, Burger Joint, Watering Hole, Record Spinning Friendly Place! Check out for music events.
21 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Major Tom's
57 Piper StA bar, Diner, Beer Garden, Music VENUE, Burger Joint, Watering Hole, Record Spinning Friendly Place! Check out for music events.
Brings a modern and vibrant south east Asian cuisine to life in an historic gold rush era pub. Fook Shing is named after the infamous Chinese Detective who was posted to the goldfields during Victoria’s Gold Rush.
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Fook Shing
82-84 Piper StBrings a modern and vibrant south east Asian cuisine to life in an historic gold rush era pub. Fook Shing is named after the infamous Chinese Detective who was posted to the goldfields during Victoria’s Gold Rush.
A premium small batch gin distillery. They use the highest grade of 100% Australian grain spirit, triple filtered using our custom gravity-fed carbon filter system, to provide the purest base for capturing the soul of botanicals. They grow many of the botanicals on their property, and use a vapour pressed production approach for distillation.
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Animus Distillery
89A Piper StA premium small batch gin distillery. They use the highest grade of 100% Australian grain spirit, triple filtered using our custom gravity-fed carbon filter system, to provide the purest base for capturing the soul of botanicals. They grow many of the botanicals on their property, and use a vapour pressed production approach for distillation.
Tansy Good’s restaurant, Tansy's, in Carlton North and later Spring Street was one of the heaviest hitters of the '80s and '90s. The menu is built on what she can get her hands on including from her gardens outside, with rigorous French technique underpinning it all. This garden-girt cottage on Piper Street lets you bathe yourself in nostalgia, and a properly made sauce while you're at it.
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Tansy's Kyneton
91 Piper StTansy Good’s restaurant, Tansy's, in Carlton North and later Spring Street was one of the heaviest hitters of the '80s and '90s. The menu is built on what she can get her hands on including from her gardens outside, with rigorous French technique underpinning it all. This garden-girt cottage on Piper Street lets you bathe yourself in nostalgia, and a properly made sauce while you're at it.
The hotel has been slowly renovated, refurbished, and resurrected by its current owners. Comfortable, cosy, eclectic and eccentric inside, the choice between the front bar, parlour bar, main dining room, private dining room or laid-back lounge/library is sometimes just too hard to make, especially since each of these offers a crackling fireplace. Often a swaggy band will be playing as you enter through the front foyer. Avast garden around the back for exploring.
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Radio Springs Hotel Bed & Breakfast
1 High StThe hotel has been slowly renovated, refurbished, and resurrected by its current owners. Comfortable, cosy, eclectic and eccentric inside, the choice between the front bar, parlour bar, main dining room, private dining room or laid-back lounge/library is sometimes just too hard to make, especially since each of these offers a crackling fireplace. Often a swaggy band will be playing as you enter through the front foyer. Avast garden around the back for exploring.
An upmarket grocery store, providore, homewares store and cafe, all housed inside a large historic building on Piper Street. Excellent for breakfast or lunch.
16 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Duck Duck Goose & Larder
19 Piper StAn upmarket grocery store, providore, homewares store and cafe, all housed inside a large historic building on Piper Street. Excellent for breakfast or lunch.
They have the freshest of produce direct from the markets, a gourmet deli, in-house kitchen, juice bar and cafe.
8 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Watt's Fresh
167-173 Mollison StThey have the freshest of produce direct from the markets, a gourmet deli, in-house kitchen, juice bar and cafe.
A great traditional urban pizzeria using the finest possible ingredients, many sourced locally. Most of their products are made in house, cooked by hand, using traditional recipes and methods. Home delivery, pick up, or dining in.
The Pizza & Wine Club
46 High StA great traditional urban pizzeria using the finest possible ingredients, many sourced locally. Most of their products are made in house, cooked by hand, using traditional recipes and methods. Home delivery, pick up, or dining in.
Country pub classics, made with love from locally sourced ingredients. Many of the local craft breweries in Central Victoria. A variety of accommodation options, from free pub camping to old shearers quarters, 2 double bedrooms with shared bathroom.
9 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
The Redesdale Hotel
2640 Kyneton-Heathcote RdCountry pub classics, made with love from locally sourced ingredients. Many of the local craft breweries in Central Victoria. A variety of accommodation options, from free pub camping to old shearers quarters, 2 double bedrooms with shared bathroom.
The Convent Daylesford has been described as “the most beautiful gallery in Australia”. The Convent is Daylesford’s most iconic building. Nestled on the crest of Wombat Hill, over-looking Daylesford, this 19th century old building was a convent and boarding school for almost 90 years. Over four levels, there are seven gallery spaces, a museum, chapel, gift shop, café, bar and function rooms, all incorporating art, history and culture. Surrounded by fragrant and beautifully groomed gardens and panoramic views of Victoria’s picturesque central highlands.
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The Convent, Daylesford
7 Daly StThe Convent Daylesford has been described as “the most beautiful gallery in Australia”. The Convent is Daylesford’s most iconic building. Nestled on the crest of Wombat Hill, over-looking Daylesford, this 19th century old building was a convent and boarding school for almost 90 years. Over four levels, there are seven gallery spaces, a museum, chapel, gift shop, café, bar and function rooms, all incorporating art, history and culture. Surrounded by fragrant and beautifully groomed gardens and panoramic views of Victoria’s picturesque central highlands.
Sightseeing
A hidden gem nestled away just north of Metcalfe.
Water cascades over layers of bedrock through rock pools, crevices and little caverns. Relax in the rock pools and take a swim in one of the bigger swimming holes. It is best to visit after some rain.
11 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
The Cascades
Cascades RoadA hidden gem nestled away just north of Metcalfe.
Water cascades over layers of bedrock through rock pools, crevices and little caverns. Relax in the rock pools and take a swim in one of the bigger swimming holes. It is best to visit after some rain.
Five minutes north of Kyneton, is a place to find natural peace and tranquility.
Walk along signed tracks through natural and revegetated bushland surrounded by wild flowers and local wildlife. See magnificent views and imposing rock formations like The Monolith, one of the biggest granite features in Victoria.
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Black Hill Reserve
110 Blackhill School RdFive minutes north of Kyneton, is a place to find natural peace and tranquility.
Walk along signed tracks through natural and revegetated bushland surrounded by wild flowers and local wildlife. See magnificent views and imposing rock formations like The Monolith, one of the biggest granite features in Victoria.
The cross is in a reserve near the summit of Mount Macedon and is reached by a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) access road. The cross is 70 feet (21 m) high with a 14-foot (4.3 m) plinth and rests on a circular base 38 feet (12 m) in diameter.[4][6] It is constructed of pale yellow Wunderlich terracotta tiles on a steel base. It can be seen from a great distance from the plains below the mountain.
A tablet on the monument has the words: "To the glory of God and in memory of Australia's sons, 1914-1918. Death cannot rob them of their glory nor time efface the memory of their gallant deeds."
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Cruz Conmemorativa del Monte Macedon
The cross is in a reserve near the summit of Mount Macedon and is reached by a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) access road. The cross is 70 feet (21 m) high with a 14-foot (4.3 m) plinth and rests on a circular base 38 feet (12 m) in diameter.[4][6] It is constructed of pale yellow Wunderlich terracotta tiles on a steel base. It can be seen from a great distance from the plains below the mountain.
A tablet on the monument has the words: "To the glory of God and in memory of Australia's sons, 1914-1918. Death cannot rob them of their glory nor time efface the memory of their gallant deeds."
Hanging Rock has fitted in so much over 6 million years… from a sacred place for local indigenous people and backdrop to Joan Lindsay’s book Picnic at Hanging Rock and Peter Weir’s film of the same title, to a colourful host of music concerts, markets and popular horse races, the Rock tells many tales about the history of the Macedon Ranges.
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Hanging Rock Summit Walk
Hanging Rock has fitted in so much over 6 million years… from a sacred place for local indigenous people and backdrop to Joan Lindsay’s book Picnic at Hanging Rock and Peter Weir’s film of the same title, to a colourful host of music concerts, markets and popular horse races, the Rock tells many tales about the history of the Macedon Ranges.
Gardens & Playgrounds
Dating back to 1858 the Kyneton Botanic Gardens has large magnificent specimen trees with 17 listed by the National Trust of Australia.
Features include bluestone garden walls and a wrought iron main gate. The garden also has a rotunda, a fairy ring of trees, a drinking fountain dating back to1902, an old restored gardener’s cottage and a riverside walk along the Campaspe River.
It also features the Kyneton Community Park, which offers a unique nature-based play and water park experience for people of all ages and abilities.
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Kyneton Botanic Gardens
Mollison StreetDating back to 1858 the Kyneton Botanic Gardens has large magnificent specimen trees with 17 listed by the National Trust of Australia.
Features include bluestone garden walls and a wrought iron main gate. The garden also has a rotunda, a fairy ring of trees, a drinking fountain dating back to1902, an old restored gardener’s cottage and a riverside walk along the Campaspe River.
It also features the Kyneton Community Park, which offers a unique nature-based play and water park experience for people of all ages and abilities.
Forest Glade is a historic private garden that is acknowledged as one of the most beautiful in Australia. It embraces a mixture of landscaping styles taking inspiration from English, Italian and woodland traditions.
There are four distinct themes:
1. The large English section with its huge exotic trees
2. The delightful Japanese section complete with bonsai house
3. The beautiful woodland area with shade-loving plants
4. The cool fern gully
There are no bad times to visit Forest Glade Gardens - in autumn the various maples are a riot of colour, while in spring the rhododendrons, azaleas and peonies are a sight to see. Both summer and winter bring their own very special treats for garden lovers.
10 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Jardines Forest Glade
816 Mount Macedon RdForest Glade is a historic private garden that is acknowledged as one of the most beautiful in Australia. It embraces a mixture of landscaping styles taking inspiration from English, Italian and woodland traditions.
There are four distinct themes:
1. The large English section with its huge exotic trees
2. The delightful Japanese section complete with bonsai house
3. The beautiful woodland area with shade-loving plants
4. The cool fern gully
There are no bad times to visit Forest Glade Gardens - in autumn the various maples are a riot of colour, while in spring the rhododendrons, azaleas and peonies are a sight to see. Both summer and winter bring their own very special treats for garden lovers.