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Winter Insider · August 2026 Winter 2026
Brigitte Hafner's single-set-menu osteria inside a restored Red Hill farmhouse with the wood oven running all service.
Known for Brigitte HafnerWood Oven KitchenSingle Set MenuRed Hill Farmhouse
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Why we’d goBrigitte Hafner's farmhouse osteria is the rare restaurant where the whole room eats the same thing, and you don't wish it were otherwise.
Tedesca is Brigitte Hafner's long-imagined farmhouse osteria and it has arrived fully formed, a single set menu, one sitting for lunch and one for dinner, the wood oven doing most of the talking, and a dining room that feels like it has been there for decades rather than months. Everyone eats the same thing. You'll love what they send out.
The cooking is rustic-Italian in spirit but nowhere near as casual as that suggests. Pasta is rolled in the morning. The garden feeds half the menu. The wine list leans into small producers who share Brigitte's insistence on food that tastes of a place. It is among the best lunches the Peninsula has ever offered.
Book a month out. Lunch over dinner. Bring cash for the tip jar.
Worth knowing
If you only do one thing
Book a month out for Saturday lunch, sit where they put you, eat everything they bring, and leave a cash tip.
Works well with
Port Phillip Estate · Red Hill Brewery
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