Just Open: Rochford Restaurant, Coldstream

Yarra Valley winery Rochford has revamped its cafe and restaurant into one light-filled dining space, hiring Raki Andriana (ex De Bortoli Winery, Melbourne Wine Room, Gills Diner) to head the kitchen at the newly renamed Rochford Restaurant at Coldstream.

The freshly renovated cellar door restaurant has seating for 200, a new oak tree-shaded beer garden and terrace with views of the Dandenong Ranges and a deli selling much of the produce that appears in the restaurant.

At the four "wine bar stations" diners can discuss food and wine matches with a sommelier or talk through a flight of Rochford wines.

The lunch-only menu skirts the Mediterranean, embracing Italian and Middle Eastern influences in dishes such as house-cured venison pastrami with cumquat and barberry chutney; heirloom carrots with seeds, dates, smoked almonds and orange blossom labne; and a dessert of baked apple, free-dried custard, oat crumble and milk sorbet that looks tailor-made for Instagram.

Open daily 11.30am-4pm.

878-880 Maroondah Highway, Coldstream 03 5957 3333, rochfordwines.com.au