Contemporary Australian dining
Lantern & Lore is a contemporary Australian restaurant built for generous tables, carefully made drinks and unhurried evenings. Seasonal plates, handcrafted cocktails, local wines and shared dining come together in a warm, elegant setting for friends, an occasion or simply a longer night out.
The restaurant
At Lantern & Lore, modern Australian cooking, hospitality and sociable pacing meet around the table. The experience begins with food, but leaves room for the parts of an evening that cannot be hurried: a cocktail before dinner, local wine alongside a shared plate, and the easy decision to stay for another conversation. Diners, friends and groups are welcome to make the night their own, whether they are here for a simple meal or a broader social occasion.
The menu gives the kitchen room to follow seasonal food and bring chef specials forward when there is something worth sharing. Rather than promising a fixed list, Lantern & Lore keeps the focus on what feels right for the table at the time, with current selections best explored on the menu.
The room can hold many kinds of evening, from dinner with friends to a more social Poker Dining Experience. Poker is an additional offering, never a requirement for dining. If the card-focused side of the venue appeals, you can explore the Card Lounge at your own pace.
From the kitchen
Contemporary Australian cuisine at Lantern & Lore is generous, seasonal and designed with the shared table in mind. The approach is about bringing people into the same rhythm: food arriving when it suits the conversation, flavours with enough presence to return to, and a menu that leaves space for the kitchen’s current point of view. Explore the menu for the selections being offered now.
Shared table
Shared dining gives each table a flexible rhythm. Choose a few plates together, pause for drinks, and settle into the conversation without treating the meal like a checklist. It is a welcoming way to dine with friends and groups, leaving room for different appetites, changing plans and the pleasure of passing something across the table.
Chef specials offer another reason to return, shaped by what the kitchen wishes to put forward at the time. They are a changing culinary focus rather than a fixed promise, so the current menu remains the clearest guide to what is available for your evening.
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At the bar
Handcrafted cocktails and local wines give the meal its second tempo, whether guests are arriving, dining or staying on for conversation. The bar is part of the same hospitality rhythm as the kitchen: considered without being precious, and ready to sit naturally beside a shared table. It is a place to begin an evening, accompany dinner or continue the conversation after the plates have been cleared.
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Cocktails
Signature cocktails are treated as carefully made table companions, balancing seasonal character with familiar welcome. They offer a considered way to arrive, pause between courses or raise a glass while the evening finds its pace.
Wine
Local wines are there to be discovered alongside the food, with a considered place at a shared table. Follow your own taste, compare a pour with a plate, or let the conversation guide a relaxed exploration of wine and dinner together.
Optional social poker
Offline Poker is an optional social extension of the restaurant evening. Guests meet in person around Poker Tables and play with chips for entertainment, making it a welcoming choice for beginners, friends and groups who want to continue the night together. A restaurant visit never depends on joining a game. Every session is cash-free entertainment using playing chips only, with no wagering and no cash prizes.
In person. Playing chips only. Cash-free entertainment. No wagering. No cash prizes.
Guests can move from dining into a friendly, guided social game without needing prior poker experience. Offline Poker Nights are designed to feel approachable from the first conversation, allowing people to take their place at the table and enjoy the occasion in their own way.
Poker Tables are part of a shared, face-to-face occasion in the Card Lounge or Card Room. Playing cards, conversation and a relaxed sense of company shape the experience, keeping the focus on the people in the room rather than spectacle.
The experience remains entertainment only. Playing chips are used during social games, with no wagering and no cash prizes. That clear premise keeps the evening centred on food, drinks, company and the simple enjoyment of playing together.
Playing chips only · cash-free entertainment
The Card Lounge
The Card Lounge is a more intimate part of the Lantern & Lore evening, where dining can continue alongside relaxed Social Poker. It is a hospitality-first setting for shared presence, conversation and an unforced change of pace. In this Poker Lounge, guests can remain close to the warmth of the restaurant while enjoying a face-to-face social game as part of a longer night together.
Live Poker Evenings are about sitting together in the room, learning the rhythm and enjoying a shared occasion. Beginners and groups can approach the experience comfortably, knowing it remains in-person social entertainment using playing chips only.
Discover the Card LoungeGroup occasions
Lantern & Lore can be a setting for a dinner-led gathering, a social evening or a considered group occasion. Friends, corporate groups and private-event guests can begin with contemporary Australian dining, drinks and shared plates, then consider Social Poker as an optional complement to the night. These pathways help you find the most relevant next conversation without assuming a set format.
Friends can build a shared evening around seasonal food, cocktails and optional Offline Poker Nights. The game element remains a cash-free, face-to-face social activity using playing chips only, so dinner can stay at the centre while the night has room to continue.
Plan a social nightCorporate groups can explore a polished, in-person setting where dining and a Poker Dining Experience can create conversation. Shared plates, drinks and premium offline poker experiences can sit alongside one another without presuming a package or a particular outcome.
Explore eventsPrivate-event guests can begin with the restaurant and follow the dedicated private-functions pathway for a Card Room or Private Poker Room conversation. The setting can be explored without any assumption of availability, and poker entertainment remains cash-free with playing chips only.
Discuss private functionsEntertainment only
Every poker-related experience at Lantern & Lore is designed as in-person, cash-free entertainment using playing chips only. The format is easy to understand: guests gather face to face, share the social ritual of the table, and remain connected to the food, drinks and company that shape the wider evening.
There is no wagering and no cash prizes.
The focus remains on face-to-face play, food, drinks and company.
The venue
The venue is designed to shift naturally between dinner, drinks and an optional Card Lounge chapter. Restaurant dining, local wines, handcrafted cocktails, shared plates and offline poker experiences sit within one warm, elegant atmosphere, allowing an evening to change pace without losing its hospitality-first feel.
The dining room is the starting point: a place for contemporary Australian plates, shared conversation and a drink at the table. Timber, leather, brass and warm light give the experience a collected, welcoming character without asking the night to be anything more than a good meal in good company.
See the venue in the GalleryThe Card Lounge, Card Room and Poker Lounge vocabulary identifies the venue’s social poker settings while preserving the same hospitality-first mood. These spaces remain grounded in in-person, cash-free entertainment using playing chips only, with no wagering and no cash prizes.
Explore the Card LoungeLantern & Lore
Choose the Lantern & Lore evening that suits you: dinner, drinks, a shared table, or an optional Offline Poker experience. Contemporary Australian cuisine, handcrafted cocktails and local wines are ready to anchor the occasion. For guests considering poker, the experience is always in person, cash-free and played with chips only, with no wagering and no cash prizes.
Optional Social Poker is cash-free entertainment using playing chips only.
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