Cape Lodge

Food and Wine

The Margaret River Region is a food and wine lovers paradise. The area is abundant with wonderful fresh produce and is renowned as producing some of Australia’s finest premium wines. Fresh seafood, gourmet beef, venison farms, free range pork and organic orchards abound providing wonderful ingredients to create the freshest seasonal menus.

The magnificent Cape Lodge Margaret River Restaurant has been voted in the Top Ten in the World for Food and is described as “one of Australia’s finest new generation dining establishments.” The menu changes daily and superbly crafted dishes can be matched with premium back vintage wines from the extensive temperature controlled wine cellar.

Cape Lodge has also opened a Gourmet Retreat and Cooking School designed for culinary enthusiasts and those who appreciate the exclusive and tranquil surrounds of a boutique hotel. The cooking classes welcome participants from the complete novice through to the experienced enthusiast.

Gourmet Weekends are also scheduled throughout the year bringing together winemakers, food producers and lovers of food and wine. These weekends include master classes, tastings and winemakers dinners.

Cape Lodge Chef Tony Howell is a familiar face in the WA restaurant scene and has done time at some of the best addresses in town moving to Margaret River to pursue the perfect life for a surfing Chef - morning waves and evening kitchen shifts. Tony joined Cape Lodge in 1999 and believes in absolute freshness and uncompromisingly good ingredients –-“The area is abundant with fresh produce - grain fed Harvey beef, seafood caught from our oceans, marron from local dams and fabulous cheeses and organic vegetables," said Mr. Howell.

Cape Lodge even has its own boutique vineyard located a quick stroll away from the main lodge. Offering just enough Sauvignon Blanc and Shiraz for guests, it was planted by Steven Schapera who has had his gloved hand in many of Western Australia’s most successful vineyards. No expense has been spared on the vineyard, which is the first thing you encounter when arriving at Cape Lodge – an appropriate handshake for those first time guests.