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Hunt for your own truffles in the Truffiere before heading to the restaurant to enjoy a memorable meal at Black Cat Truffles by Liam Downes on Howards Road in Wattle Flat. This Ballarat fine dining destination is the culmination of a dream for the Downes family of growing their own produce to showcase in paddock-to-plate cookery, as well as minimising waste and sourcing ingredients from the surrounding area.
Why should you drop in for a meal at Black Cat Truffles by Liam Downes? Here are three good reasons:
What’s your most popular dish:
A stand-out dish is our wood-roasted chicken with parsnip, truffle and barbequed leek. The chicken is smothered in truffle butter and has plenty of truffle under the skin, then roasted in our wood oven to create the perfect piece of chicken, which matches ideally with our selection of local wines sourced by our front-of-house manager, Taylor McKnight.
What is your point of difference?
The farm offers truffle hunts as well as the restaurant which serves local produce, vegetables and fruit from the onsite garden and orchard and of course, truffles. A truffle hunt includes learning about these fascinating fungi, watching the dogs find the ‘black diamond’ and then a degustation lunch cooked by award-winning Chef Liam Downes.
What is a fun fact that not many people know about the restaurant?
The venue is set in 20 acres of picturesque gardens and the small intimate restaurant has a weekly changing menu. When there are no truffles, we run Chef’s selection degustation menus, brunches and specialty wine dinners.
As well as this, we also focus on being a venue for weddings, birthdays and special get-togethers.
