With fresh seafood, local wine, Italian, gourmet desserts, and much more, Phillip Island offers a culinary experience at every turn – if you know where to look.
San Remo Fisherman’s Co-Op
You can’t go to the seaside or an island without trying fish and chips! The co-op has its own fleet of fish and lobster vessels and you can see them pull up on the jetty and unload their catches, which can include southern rock lobster, king prawns, oysters, mussels, scallops, octopus and fish. If you like your seafood sustainable and fresh – or both – this is the perfect place.
The menu changes with the day’s catch, although the co-op recommends the flake as its fish of choice – it’s a locally caught gummy shark with fillets that are sweet, delicate and boneless. Order it with some chunky chips, battered scallops and crumbled calamari, and devour it while enjoying the ocean views!
Saltwater
Enjoy 270-degree waterfront views at Saltwater, one of the island’s most popular dining spots. Start off by sharing a woodfired pizza or the mushroom arancini with local portobello mushrooms, then enjoy mains with locally sourced seafood: salt and pepper squid, chill mussels and hand-cut seafood fettuccine with scallops sourced from the Bass Strait.
The restaurant also offers barista-made coffee, with Dukes Specialty Roasters coffee beans, and a range of cocktails and spirits.
CHURCHILL ISLAND FARMERS’ MARKET
Based on a small island connected by a bridge to Phillip Island, the Churchill Island Farmers’ Market showcases the best produce grown and harvested in the Phillip Island and wider Gippsland region.
It’s held the first Saturday of each month from 8am to 1pm and is a perfect opportunity to purchase fresh local food and cook it up in your cottage kitchen.
PHILLIP ISLAND WINERY
The Gippsland region is known for the quality of its soil and, while it isn’t the Yarra Valley, winegrowers produce a memorable and mouthwatering drop. Phillip Island Winery sells vintages of prosecco, pinot grigio, chardonnay, rosé, shiraz and Moscato.
Stop by for a wine tasting, to visit the cellar door and take a drop home, or graze with a mouthwatering charcuterie board or cheese board, sticky chicken ribs, chimichurri grilled king prawns, crispy barramundi or a local Gippsland striploin.
PINO'S TRATTORIA
Any time’s a good time for Italian food and Pino’s Trattoria has been serving it up for more than 30 years. Start off the feast with appetisers from a lengthy antipasti menu, including marinated olives with homemade bread, croquettes, arancini balls and bruschetta with slow-roasted tomato.
Share your choice of 18 types of pizza and a range of traditional pastas, or try a hearty rib eye, clow cooked beef, grilled Atlantic salmon or a lemon parsley chicken breast. Make sure you leave some room for gelato from the restaurant’s ice cream cart!
PHILLIP ISLAND CHOCOLATE FACTORY
This factory is a simply a must-visit if you are staying at Phillip Island. The range of cholate available is unmatched and the treats come in bars, jumbo blocks, nut clusters, truffles, frogs, penguins, dolphins, and even as decorative shoes.
The factory runs tours where you can see how cocoa beans are transformed into these rich goodies, and a café where you can enjoy a chocolate dessert (or two). The team is famous for continuing to innovate and experiment with its chocolate making methods.
Flametrees
Flametrees is your restaurant and bar onsite at Club Wyndham Phillip Island. Choose from classics like burgers, parmigianas, fish and chips, and Bolognese for lunch and favourites like mushroom risotto, scotch fillet, lamb back strap, pork ribs and beef rogan josh for dinner, or order from a wide range of wood-fired pizzas.
