The restaurant menu
Lantern & Lore is an Australian restaurant for contemporary Australian cuisine, handcrafted cocktails, local wines and shared dining. The menu is shaped for an evening that unfolds around the table: considered food, good company and enough room for conversation to find its own pace.
Find your way around
The kitchen takes a contemporary Australian point of view, with seasonal selections helping the menu feel responsive to the time of year. Rather than presenting a fixed list here, this page offers a guide to the ways a table can come together: food for the moment, dishes chosen to share, chef specials to ask about, and drinks that can sit comfortably beside the conversation.
It is an invitation to explore the current selection when you arrive, while choosing the occasion that best suits your evening.
Food chapter
Seasonal food is the foundation of Lantern & Lore’s contemporary Australian dining. The menu is considered as a living part of the restaurant, with selections able to shift in step with the season rather than being treated as a permanent script. That leaves room for a meal to feel current while staying grounded in the generous, welcoming pace of an evening at the table.
What appears on the night is best discovered in the room, where the current menu can meet the way you and your guests want to dine.
For the table
The menu leaves space for an arrival, a main stretch of conversation and a lingering finish, without prescribing one correct order. Pairs can settle into the evening at their own rhythm, while small groups can let the table develop naturally around food and drinks.
It is dining with room to pause, reconnect and decide what feels right next.
Shared dining
Shared dining is the social centre of the restaurant. It brings attention back to the people around the table, allowing choices to become part of the exchange rather than a pause between conversations.
Whether you are catching up with friends or sitting down for a considered dinner, sharing can make the room feel more connected.
Chef specials
Chef specials offer a considered point of difference within the seasonal selection. They provide a useful talking point when you arrive and a chance to discover what is being featured that evening, without assuming the same choice will be there every time.
Drinks chapter
Handcrafted cocktails are part of Lantern & Lore’s evening ritual, designed to sit beside dinner and conversation rather than overwhelm either. The signature cocktails bring a crafted point of view to the bar, offering a distinct moment at the start of a meal, between shared choices or whenever the table calls for a change of pace.
The cocktail offering is there to complement the atmosphere of the room: polished, relaxed and made for company. It can be part of a full dinner or simply a welcome way to meet, settle in and enjoy the evening on its own terms.
Food, handcrafted cocktails and local wines each have a place around the table. You can choose according to the mood of the gathering, without needing the night to follow a fixed format or a prescribed progression.
Local wines
Local wines offer a thoughtful companion to the shared table.
Local wines are an important part of the Lantern & Lore drinks offering, sitting comfortably alongside contemporary Australian dining and shared plates. They offer another way to shape the pace of an evening, whether the table is lingering over dinner or gathering for a more social occasion. Ask about the current selection when you arrive.
Choose the occasion
The menu supports more than one kind of night: an unhurried dinner, a few drinks, a shared table with friends or a special gathering. Lantern & Lore brings together contemporary Australian food, handcrafted cocktails, local wines and a warm, elegant setting so diners, friends, corporate groups and private-event guests can begin with the occasion that feels most like theirs.
Come together over contemporary Australian cuisine, handcrafted cocktails and local wines in an evening that has room to unfold. Dinner can be as simple as settling into the table, choosing with care and letting conversation lead the pace.
For friends, shared dining can become the centre of a relaxed social occasion. It gives the table a natural reason to exchange choices, stay present and enjoy food and drinks as part of the time spent together.
Groups can bring food, drinks and conversation together for a considered corporate or private gathering. If your occasion calls for a more tailored starting point, explore Private Functions before deciding how you would like to reserve.
A Poker Dining Experience brings the restaurant table and an in-person Offline Poker occasion into one social night. It is a welcoming route for friends, beginners and groups who want dinner to continue into conversation around the cards.
Offline Poker is in-person, cash-free entertainment using playing chips only, with no wagering or cash prizes.
Explore Offline PokerThe evening continues
Offline Poker Nights can follow or accompany a meal as a welcoming, face-to-face way to continue the conversation. Lantern & Lore’s premium offline poker experiences are made for people who want a social ritual around the table, including beginners and friends discovering the experience together. Live Poker Evenings are part of the hospitality of the venue, with dining remaining at the heart of the night.
Poker Tables offer a place for friendly, in-person play that can sit naturally beside a restaurant evening. The focus is on shared attention, conversation and the simple pleasure of gathering around the felt, rather than on competition beyond the room.
The Card Lounge, Card Room and Poker Lounge extend that hospitality setting for friends, corporate groups and private-event guests. A Private Poker Room can be explored as part of the wider site offering, without assuming a particular setup for every visit.
Current selection
Seasonality leaves room for the food and drinks selection to feel responsive rather than fixed. Alongside seasonal menu items, chef specials, handcrafted cocktails and local wines can give the table a current point of reference without promising the same experience on every visit. It is a simple reason to look at the menu in the room, ask a question and discover what suits the evening you are making.
Chef specials can offer a focused talking point when you are deciding how to shape your table. They are a useful prompt to ask what is featured when you arrive, then choose the selections that feel right for the people and pace of your evening.
Handcrafted cocktails and local wines can be considered alongside the mood of the table, whether the night begins with dinner or later continues to the Card Lounge. They are part of the occasion, not a requirement for how it must unfold.
Before you reserve
A reservation can begin with a simple sense of the occasion, helping the restaurant context feel aligned from arrival. Whether you are a first-time diner, meeting friends, bringing a group or considering an Offline Poker Night, it is useful to know what you would most like the evening to hold. The reservation route can then follow your plans without assuming a particular arrangement.
For a group or Private Poker Room enquiry, you can explore Private Functions and the Card Lounge before reserving. These are useful routes for understanding the broader occasion, not a guarantee of a particular room or arrangement.
Your evening at Lantern & Lore
Reserve a table for contemporary Australian food, handcrafted cocktails, local wines, shared dining or a Poker Dining Experience. Begin with the kind of evening you would like to have, then let Lantern & Lore provide the warm setting for food, drinks and conversation to come together.
Considering a poker-linked occasion? Offline Poker is in-person, cash-free entertainment using playing chips only, with no wagering or cash prizes.
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