Eat

With various hatted restaurants across the region, and an extensive range of offsite event venues, your dining experiences will be a highlight of your event.

Where great food meets stunning natural backdrops

Sharing a meal is one of the best ways for your team to build close connections. But, in the Hunter Valley, it’s more than that. It’s a taste of the country perfectly matched with local wines. It’s farm to plate produce, grown onsite and elevated with the finest of ingredients. It’s taking locally grown seasonal fruit, vegetables, eggs, honey and olives and creating menus that will impress your guests and create conversations, served against the backdrop of vineyards and stunning mountain landscapes.

Which restaurant is right for your group?

The Hunter region is host to various hatted restaurants, bistros, cafes, pubs and catering companies, alongside an extensive range of offsite event venues. With such a selection of dining options available for your group to enjoy, it may be difficult to decide which restaurant is the right one for your event.

That’s where the team at Hunter Valley Business Events can help. Working with us is like getting a restaurant recommendation from a close friend, except this friend also has all the experience and knowledge needed to make your dining experience a highlight of your event.

We know that dietary requirements need to be accommodated and that menus need to be tailored to suit different outcomes for different times of the day. We’ve got an endless list of culinary delights for you to choose from, such as the award-winning Margan Restaurant with its one-hectare kitchen garden and farm raised chickens and lambs, the fabulous long lunch at voco Kirkton Park, and an always impressive outdoor gala dinner catered for by Bimbadgen Estate.

Let us do the work for you so you and your guests can sit back and enjoy the Hunter’s world-class hospitality.

Accessibility in the Hunter Valley

We want wonderful experiences unique to the Hunter Valley to be accessible to visitors of all ages and abilities. 

Take your holiday to new heights by experiencing the joy of an accessible Hot Air Balloon flight over the Hunter Valley, the first of it's kind in NSW. The wheelchair accessible Hot Air Balloon flight offered by Balloon Aloft it the first of its kind NSW. The balloon basket features a custom door for passengers with limited mobility, wheelchair users and other mobility aide. 

Select from a wide variety of almost 50 accessible venues including bars, pubs, cafes, winery restaurants and fine dining venues, six of them formally accredited. Be welcomed at more than 50 wineries and cellar doors with accessible access, toilets, grab rails or ramps. Book a guided experience with a knowledgeable local driver or tour operator that meets your needs for getting around to what you want to see, with ease.

Hunter Valley also boasts a wide range of attractions with accessibility-friendly features. Whether you choose to escape to wilderness adventure or tranquil gardens, enjoy arts and culture or spa days and massage, love browsing markets or museums, hunger for artisan cheese or chocolate, or keen to meet the wildlife you’ll be spoilt for choice of inclusive and accessible attractions.

Choose a stay that suits you. Choose from woodland cabins and campgrounds, well-equipped self-contain cottages, villas, and contemporary homes, conveniently located hotels and resort luxury with inclusive facilities and spay or stay-and-play experiences. 

For further details, please contact the Visitor Information Centre.

Go Karts and Rally Cars

Feeling the need, the need for speed? Experience the Hunter region's biggest, fastest and most exciting 4-stroke go kart hire at Go Karts Go Hunter Valley. Or for something different get behind the wheel of a turbo rally car with purpose-built rally cars including Subaru WRX, Mitsubishi Evo and even a Toyota 86 for some rear-wheel drive fun. Create exhilarating fun for the whole family. 

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Fine Dining

The real joy of wine is found in good company enjoying great food together and the gifted chefs of Hunter Valley Wine Country are every bit as picky about what they present to you, as our skilled winemakers are. Locals love nothing more than to carve out an afternoon for long lunch and lively conversation about the wines they’ve laboured all year to bottle, so don’t be surprised to find yourself rubbing shoulders with them at any one of our 30+ eateries.

You’ll have your choice of five, hatted restaurants, no end of intimate settings overlooking vines that the wine in your glass has been harvested from, wickedly good dessert bars, and relaxed pubs or cafés where you can kick back in country ambience without missing a beat on deliciousness.

The heart and soul of Hunter food culture is producedriven menus and passionate people who work tummyrumbling magic with their pick of an abundant regional crop, much of it grown within a stone’s throw of where you’re devouring it. Our fanatical foodies believe the perfection of what they plate-up, hangs on out-of-this-world, locally farmed raw ingredients, so bursting with flavour that you can almost taste the sunshine. Chances are, the chef was up to his knees in mud and gumboots just before your arrival, foraging some finishing touches from the kitchen garden.

Park yourself by an open woodfire and you’ll quickly acclimatise to a food adventure with a share plate of artisan cheeses, from the dairy down the road, dripping with honeycomb that’s fragrant with the gum blossom of towering local eucalypts. Really savour the sweetness of local lamb and beef that melts so beautifully onto your fork, the crispness of veggies you never knew tasted so good, and a smokiness that sets your mouth watering as it wafts in with your sourdough. It’s all part of the trophy-wine-worthy food experience that is, in essence, wonderfully simple, defiantly regional, and certain to leave you craving more.