Harvest Cafe

Sitting on the wide, shady verandah of a glorious old house in a tiny village is most people's ideal of country dining. Harvest is a restaurant, beautifully restored 100-year old bakery, upmarket deli and abundant vegetable garden, the latter three supplying most of the menu's offerings. No wonder the place is so popular, with its sweet, knowledgeable waitstaff, its small menu blending Asian and Middle Eastern tastes and its sheer style. Serves are generous - dukkah-crusted lamb backstrap is a row of soft meat slices on a quinoa bed vibrant with pomegranate seeds; soft-shell crab is meatily sprawled, gold-coated, on an excellent coconutty green papaya salad. Flavourings are spot-on but, in the case of a duck red curry, were let down by presentation, and Moroccan-spiced tuna, despite fabulously smoky babaghanoush, also failed to excite. But the pleasure of being here - dipping spoons into chocolate souffle at meal's end - cannot be denied.