Towering vegetable shrubs meet incongruent vines and what, at first glance, appears to be utter chaos. However, the kitchen gardens at the Royal Mail Hotel are a finely tuned machine of experimental food production. Here, there is a dynamic interplay between nature and gastronomy, where the garden haul continually finds its way onto the plates of diners at the hotel’s famous fine-dining restaurant, Wickens.
Nestled at the southern end of the majestic Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park, Victoria, Wickens, and the Royal Mail Hotel, continue to draw visitors searching for luxury and escape.
A key pillar of the dining experience at Wickens is to be grounded in the location, from the locally made leather coasters, to the immersive view of Mt Sturgeon and, perhaps most viscerally, with the exquisitely plated food,…