Lake House Daylesford

AS ANYBODY WITH EVEN A PASSING acquaintance of Daylesford’s Lake House knows, this pioneering luxury regional hotel started life more than four decades ago as a 40-seat, weekend-only restaurant.

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Owners chef Alla WolfTasker and her late husband, the artist and builder Allan Wolf-Tasker, wanted to emulate the kind of high end dining you'd find in regional France, a radical concept in 1980s Australia and one that has served as a template for the nation-wide wave of destination dining that followed in its wake.

Since then, Lake House has expanded to include accommodation in the form of studios, suites and villas, a renowned day spa, 2.5 hectares of beautifully maintained gardens and, most recently, the nearby Dairy Flat Farm which offers stylish accommodation, a bakehouse and, being a working farm, an ever-increasing proportion of the produce that is served in Lake House's still-renowned restaurant every day.