Three Yarra Valley restaurants to book a table at this Easter – each tailor-made for wine lovers

Whether you're having a big family lunch this Easter or planning on a smaller get together, these regional restaurants will have you covered with incredible food and wine offerings.

Hosting Easter lunch or dinner is a huge undertaking – getting the house cleaned up, organising a menu that suits all your guests, cooking said meal, and then keeping everyone entertained before having to clean up. The desire to escape this hassle often leads folks to booking a restaurant instead.

But where to book? For us, Easter doesn’t scream city fine dining restaurant. We prefer to escape to a local wine region, celebrating this day looking out over rolling vineyards (perhaps even hitting up a cellar door afterwards).

To help you find and book a brilliant Easter out, we’ve rounded up three Yarra Valley restaurants that host a mighty good lunch and dinner. Find them here.

No. 7 Healesville

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Tarrawarra Estate 

It’s hard to beat an Easter lunch or dinner spent at a winery’s hatted restaurant in the Yarra Valley. It ticks all of those luxury drinking and dining boxes – find food, wine and scenery. And Tarrawarra Estate has it all.

Here, head chef Maxwell Parlas and his team are plating up an excellent four-course set menu celebrating seasonal produce grown in the property’s own kitchen garden. Other local suppliers are called upon to round out the evolving menu, which includes an entirely plant-based offering.

Winemaker Sarah Fagan has also teamed up with Maxwell to create the ever-evolving wine pairings, which showcases a selection of Tarrawarra’s own wines.

All of this is served up within showstopping surrounds – sitting within the contemporary Alan Powell-designed building overlooking some of the winery’s 26 hectares of vines. It is one of the region’s top destinations, so we recommend also adding on a wine tasting experience or a visit to the cellar door when dropping by for your Easter celebrations.

Right now, having just picked the grapes for vintage 2025, you can even see and smell the wines fermenting in the barrel hall from its cellar door. This Easter weekend is a brilliant time to visit Tarrawarra Estate.  

Helen and Joey's

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