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Eat & Drink Restaurant Red Hill

Green Olive at Red Hill

A working olive grove and produce kitchen on the Red Hill ridge, grazing boards, wood-fired mains, and oils pressed from the estate's own trees.

Known for Working Olive GroveEstate Olive OilsWood Oven CookingMediterranean Smallholding Setting

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  1. A picnic box of cured meats, cheese, grapes, dips and olives on a rug, with nuts and a slice of cake alongside
    Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  2. A smiling woman in a quilted vest cradles a brown hen in a sunny paddock, with chicken coops in the background
    Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  3. Shared platters of cured meats, bread, dips, olives and cheese on a sunlit outdoor table with red wine at Green Olive at Red Hill
    Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  4. Four friends holding glasses of wine walk along a grassy path beside vine rows at Green Olive at Red Hill on a clear day
    Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  5. A bottle of Green Olive at Red Hill Pinot Grigio being poured into a tasting glass on a timber bench
    Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  6. Two people seated at a garden table among vegetable beds, looking out over bushland at Green Olive at Red Hill
    Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  7. Two visitors feed a small dark pony surrounded by brown hens in a grassy paddock at Green Olive at Red Hill
    Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  8. A hand holds a bottle of Green Olive at Red Hill Pinot Noir beside a glass of red wine, with farmland blurred behind
    Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  9. A hand cradles a bunch of dark wine grapes among sunlit vine leaves in the vineyard at Green Olive at Red Hill
    Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria

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A picnic box of cured meats, cheese, grapes, dips and olives on a rug, with nuts and a slice of cake alongside
A picnic box of cured meats, cheese, grapes, dips and olives on a rug, with nuts and a slice of cake alongsideGreen Olive at Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula.Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria
Why we’d go

The kitchen gardens actually supply the kitchen, the oils come from the grove you are eating under, a produce-driven claim that most Peninsula restaurants only gesture at.

Green Olive is a working olive grove and smallholding on the Red Hill ridge, and the on-site kitchen has built one of the more underrated long-lunch propositions in the area. The menu is produce-driven in a genuine way, the olives and oils come from the grove itself, the vegetables from the kitchen garden, and the wood oven runs through most of the mains. Grazing boards for the middle of the day; slow-cooked lamb and whole fish for a proper sit-down.

Photo · Two Palms Australia, courtesy of Visit Victoria

The setting is the other reason to come. The dining room spills out into the grove and on a spring lunch with the trees in shade and the oil tasting still on the table, it feels as close to a Mediterranean smallholding as the Peninsula gets. The estate oil is excellent and available for purchase, take a bottle home.

Go for a long lunch on a sunny Sunday. Buy a bottle of the estate olive oil on the way out.

Worth knowing

Best for
Long lunches · Local produce · Food lovers · Scenic views

If you only do one thing

Go on a spring Sunday, sit outside under the grove, order the wood-fired lamb, and take home a bottle of the estate oil.

Works well with

Red Hill Truffles · Prancing Horse Estate

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