Peppers Manor House, Southern Highlands
Dining

Katers Restaurant

Award winning Katers restaurant offers fine dining combined with modern Australian cuisine highlighting the freshest produce from the NSW Southern Highlands region. With a menu that changes regularly to reflect the seasonal availability of local ingredients, Katers boasts magnificent views of the retreat's leafy courtyard and manicured gardens.

Having recently undergone refurbishment, Katers is now more than ever, exuding old world charm and dining decadence. With dark chocolate being the theme for upstairs extending from carpets to wallpaper, the colour scheme beautifully complements the lighter hue of downstairs with its beech coloured timber floors, all illuminated by beautiful pendant ceiling lights. All this combined provides the finest in relaxed dining atmosphere - unobtrusive, friendly, yet delivering stunning food with immaculate service.

The innovation and hard work of Katers’ executive chef Francois Razavet and his team was recognised recently with a prestigious Chef’s Hat award for the second consecutive year at the Sydney Morning Herald’s 2010 Good Food Guide Awards. This accolade is a great acknowledgement of Katers’ dedication to country cuisine, timeless and confident service, Southern Highlands style, combined with three staple ingredients: consistency, attention to detail and innovation. Read more about Katers' Chef's Hat award.

Katers has also put a new autumn menu in place, making now the ideal time to delight in the unobtrusive, friendly atmosphere and fine food and wine of Katers.

View Katers' lunch menu

View Katers dinner menu

View Katers' wine list

Katers restaurant in the Southern Highlands NSW is open seven days for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We welcome Peppers Manor House guests, local residents and diners from further afield looking for a gourmet taste sensation.

Breakfast: 7am -10.30am
All day dining: 10am - 9pm
Lunch: 12pm - 2.30pm
Dinner: 6.30pm - 9pm

The gardens are delightful, the country house hotel is elegant, and the two-level dining room of double-clothed tables is comfortable and friendly, with excellent service ...." Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2003.

Katers Restaurant at Peppers Manor House Southern Highlands, NSW
Kater Road, Sutton Forest Southern Highlands 2577 NSW
Tel: (02) 4860 3102
Email: manorhouse@peppers.com.au

82 reasons to say 'Here's cheers!'

Congratulations are in order for Katers manager Ben Salmon, as he has just secured 'One Glass' for Katers in the recently announced Australian Wine List Of The Year Awards, thanks to his magnificent selection of 82 wines on our restaurant's  popular wine list.

This honour can be likened to the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Food Guide Chefs Hat Awards, but in the wine list world.

The Australian Wine List Of The Year Awards are run by Gourmet Traveller Wine Magazine, and judged by 12 of Australia’s finest wine and food writers.

As the only Southern Highlands restaurant to receive any recognition in this year's awards, Ben has received praise from colleagues and guests alike for his wine selection that he chose to truly enhance the dining experience for guests, from $8 a glass.

High Tea

The grand country style of Peppers Manor House is the perfect setting for the revival of this great British tradition with finger sandwiches, pastries and cakes served with a selection of fine teas or coffee.

Served daily for $32* per person

*Bookings required 24 hours in advance

To book call Katers on 02 4860 3102

Two Course Winter Lunch Special

Be seated in the elegantly refurbished restaurant and savour the tastes of winter with a two course lunch and a complimentary glass of wine.

$44 per person

To book call Katers on 02 4860 3102

Chef Profile - Executive Chef

Francois Razavet was born in France and completed his apprenticeship at La Chaumiere Restaurant in Lauris, France. He then commenced his travels and moved to London as Commis Chef with Le Café Royal and moved on to Sous Chef in Cervione, Corsica. Following military service in France, Francois resumed his travels to Italy, Jersey Island and then to Kerry in Ireland. After working in Canada for six months, Francois and his wife came to Australia in 2000 for a working holiday and fell in love with the country.

They returned to Ireland and worked in Killaloe and Killarney before applying for a permanent resident visa to Australia. Francois joined Peppers Manor House in February 2006 as Sous Chef and in October, 2008 was promoted to Executive Chef.Francois uses his European influence to create unique dishes that utilise the produce of the Southern Highlands region. 

Katers restaurant has further enhanced its reputation as one of New South Wales’ most outstanding dining experiences winning a Chef’s Hat for the second consecutive year at the Sydney Morning Herald’s 2010 Good Food Guide Awards.

Review: The Weekend Australian, 20-21 March, 2010

"Francois Razavet’s art on a plate is too vibrant to be a still life. Taste and texture combinations are inspired; salmon with olive pain perdu, squid ink meringue, citrus gel with minute, grassy onion-bulb flowers. Gasps of astonishment from diners greet dishes as they arrive."