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IN THE MEDIA
The Age Good Food Guide
18 Nov, 2024
14.5/20
Repping the region's food and wine at the "Paris end" of Rutherglen
“There's something special about restaurants where one owner runs the floor and the other the kitchen. In the country, it's a bonus if they happen to be locally born and bred, and have strong hospitality credentials. From a heritage building, Matthieu and Erica Miller run a coffee window, sell take home meals, host a monthly locals' dinner at bargain prices, and operate this European-leaning restaurant. There's a clear bend towards northeastern produce. Smoked duck from nearby Milawa is sliced to resemble bacon rashers, resting on a pale golden celeriac hash brown. Brittle-skinned pork belly from just across the border gets a Sicilian edge from well-balanced agrodolce sauce that's busy with raisins and pine nuts. Rice pudding is studded with pecans, Turkish delight and blood orange. From Beechworth chardonnay to Rutherglen apera (local sherry), Grace is fiercely local. But its warm embrace extends to all”.
Urban List
20 Nov, 2024
Navarone Farrell | Melbourne Editos
What's a regional town without its drawcard restaurant?
Birregurra has Brae, Dunkeld has the Royal Mail and Rutherglen has grace. bar + eatery. This pocket-sized kinda fine diner kinda Euro-leaning bistro is the biz, changing up the menu every six weeks to fit with what’s in season. The cocktail list is heavy on the Australian spirits and you can get a twist on an espresso martini the Mac Daddy, with vanilla vodka and macadamia liqueur perfectly explains the direction. The wine list is as long as your leg and features a who’s who of local gear that will have you pondering for a while; we recommend anything funky and fresh from Scion. But the food menu, that’s what you came here for right. We indulged in a very green and spring themed parisienne gnocchi, pea purée, snow peas, zucchini, truffle pecorino and almond picada with a series of snacks like the jamon and patatas fritas, confit duck croquettes, spanner crab choux bombs and washed it all down with a chocolate mousse with a beetroot macaron and candied beetroot. Rezzies this way.
LOCATION
84 Main St. Rutherglen, Vic, 3685
HOURS
friday - sunday: 12pm - late
monday: 5pm - late
CONTACT
(02) 5017 0017
grace@milkinkitchen.com.au
our phone is manned during our opening hours and one hour prior to opening only.
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