Peppers Craigieburn, Bowral
Montfort's Dining Room

Overlooking the picturesque garden estate and golf course, Montfort's Dining Room is a modern restaurant featuring stylish decor and artworks along with sumptuous menus created by our talented team.

Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the a la carte menu changes seasonally and features modern Australian cuisine and quality fresh produce from the region. Montfort's Dining Room has gained an enviable reputation in the Southern Highlands for fine food and a welcoming ambience.

The comprehensive wine list, featuring local and premium wines will enhance your intimate dining experience or group celebration. Meet your friends for an aperitif in Montfort's Lounge & Bar, the most stylish place to be seen in Bowral. During the day and of an evening a light menu and drinks service is available in the lounges or al fresco on the terrace.

We have also launched an exciting new menu showcasing the culinary expertise of executive chef Kartik Kumar, who draws on European, Asian, Middle Eastern and North American influences to create flavour sensations and new approaches to old favourites. View our new Lunch Menu and Dinner Menu.

High tea is also one of our specialities. Why not indulge in front of the fire and enjoy?

Montfort's Dining Room welcomes you to dine and experience the taste sensation. Open to retreat guests, local residents and diners from further afield looking for a gourmet experience.

Chef’s Winter in the Highlands Signature Series

Featured each Friday and Saturday night throughout August, Montfort’s Dining Room’s Executive Chef will be treating discerning diners to his Signature Series of irresistible winter dishes. Each weekend, celebrate a winter festival of food with the weekly signature special including dishes such as mustard & herb crusted lamb rack with Dijon mustard & rosemary jus or sautéed loin of venison served with cumquat & orange confit.

BOOK NOW by calling 02 4862 8000 or email craigieburn.reception@peppers.com.au

Specials

Happy Hour at Montfort’s Dining Room and Montfort's Bar & Lounge at Peppers Craigieburn

Every Friday 5pm – 6pm
$5.00 Drinks*

*Happy Hour is available on Fridays from 5pm to 6pm; $5.00 happy hour beverages include regular Australian beers and a selection of Australian  white and red wines. Peppers Craigieburn Supports Responsible Service and Consumption of Alcohol.

Q & A with executive chef - Kartik Kumar

He's into big cat conservation, been blessed by Mother Theresa, and loves the versatility of lemon grass - Kartik Kumar, 50, executive chef with Peppers Craigieburn's exquisite Montfort's Dining Room, shares a few of his passions ...

Describe the style of your dishes at Peppers Craigieburn? They draw on European, Asian, Middle Eastern and North American influences to create flavour sensations and new approaches to old favourites. I like to say that I ensure our food always looks great and tastes great.

What do you love about working in the Southern Highlands? I recently returned after living in Canada for 18 years and I love that we are out of the big city – I'm a big parrot fan, I love Australian parrots and we are blessed with a multitude of parrots here so my wife and I built a birdhouse and every morning I relax with my coffee and feed the birds.

Have you cooked for anyone famous? Yes, the Crown Prince of Japan and Regional Princes of Malaysia, the Prime Minister of India, and when I was in Canada, for stars like Julio Iglesias, Neil Diamond and Bill Cosby.

Do you have a signature dish? We do a beautiful lamb shank here that's my favourite – it's slow cooked for about six hours at very low temperatures and we just use the cooking liquid with all its natural flavour.

How do you make your guests feel special? I go out to as many of the tables as I can and always try to go out of my way to do things for people above and beyond normal expectations.

How do you relax away from work? I'm pretty much a very big conservation man and do a lot of online cheetah conservation work because I grew up in India where my late grandfather worked for the tiger conservation project in India and we grew up hand-rearing tiger cubs.

Does your favourite food to eat, differ from your favourite meals to cook? Very much - although I love to cook Italian food I don't like eating it and my wife is a fabulous cook who is Canadian, but ethnically Indian, so we eat a lot of fabulous Indian and Thai food at home.

What's your most versatile ingredient? Personally I love lemon grass – you can do anything with it. I used to do a nice white chocolate and lemon grass crème brulee in Germany that was like eating silk.

Who would be four people you'd invite to dinner? Barack Obama and his wife – I'm a great believer in that man and his family … he's a pioneer. Also, the great sitar player Ravi Shankar, and Christiaan Barnard, the South African doctor who did the first heart transplant surgery. If I could I'd also invite the Dalai Lama, who I met personally in 1981. The two highlights of my career was meeting him and also receiving blessings from Mother Theresa, when I cooked for both of them.

Montfort's Dining Room
Centennial Road Bowral NSW, 2576
Tel: +61 2 4862 8000
Email: craigieburn.reception@peppers.com.au