The kitchen

Savour

from a kitchen that cooks in the Japanese manner on butter, ghee and tallow. The food is built to be eaten before bathing and slept on afterwards: warm, salted, easily digested, and never heavy enough to keep anyone awake. Almost everything is cooked a day or two before it is wanted and brought back up when the order comes.

First light朝

Okayu, rice porridge with cultured butter, koji and a soft egg$24
Loosened with dashi as it goes out
Suimono, clear dashi broth with soft greens$12
Greens dropped in at the last moment
Chawanmushi, egg custard with prawn and shiitake$26
Steamed at dawn, settled by breakfast
Goulburn Valley peaches stewed in honey, jersey cream$18
Stewed days ahead, and better for it
Mildura oranges, pressed to order$12

Midday昼

Lakes Entrance oysters, yuzu and sea salt, six$34
Shucked to order
Lake Eildon trout, confit in ghee with lemon and dill$42
Held in its own fat for two days
High Country beef donburi, onion simmered in dashi and koji$44
Onion base held; beef through it at the pass
Takikomi gohan, rice cooked with shiitake, carrot and prawn$36
Cooked in the morning, steamed back up
Carrot and daikon namasu, rice vinegar, coconut oil, sea salt$16
Two days in the vinegar. Served cold

Evening夜

Beef cheek kakuni, mirin and ginger, simmered seven hours$52
Rested overnight in its own liquor
Oxtail and daikon nabe, dashi and well cooked greens$56
A braise, and better on the second day
Nimono, root vegetables simmered in dashi and butter$24
Cooked ahead by design, as nimono always is
Warm milk pudding, box gum honey, toasted rice$16
Set overnight, warmed through

Through the day終日

Beef bone broth, salted, a cup$14
On the stove all day
Amazake 甘酒, warm fermented rice with ginger$11
Fermented over several days
Coffee, jersey cream and raw sugar$9
Hojicha, roasted and low in caffeine$8
Cooked in
Butter, ghee, coconut oil and beef tallow
Seasoned with
Sea salt, kome-koji 米麹, mirin, rice vinegar, yuzu and dashi
Protein
Cuts rich in gelatin, simmered for hours. Shellfish, white fish, eggs and dairy
Sugars
Ripe stone fruit, box gum honey, amazake 甘酒 and pressed orange
Never used
Seed and vegetable oils, soy in any form, raw brassicas
Sourced
Goulburn Valley dairy and stone fruit, High Country beef and lamb, fish from Lake Eildon and Lakes Entrance, Mildura citrus

Dashi is bonito and a light kombu; koji is rice koji, salted and cultured on site; rice is short grain. Anything cooked to order is said so on the menu. The kitchen will work around an allergy, an intolerance or a preference on the day, without notice.

Three night reset

Fifteen dishes arranged around your bathing. Broth and warm sugars before each immersion, shellfish on the second day, and stewed fruit with cream at night.

3 nights or longer$420

Four night program

Twenty dishes, beginning with a consultation on arrival. Temperature and pulse are taken each morning and the salt, sugar and dairy adjusted to what they tell us. Liver once, oysters twice.

4 nights or longer$560
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