Provenance, Beechworth: Restaurant review

Now in its sixteenth year of bringing exquisite Japanese-inspired flavour to Victoria’s High Country, Provenance has started mixing things up. No need to panic though. Fans of owner-chef Michael Ryan’s brilliant multi-course tasting menus, served in four kaiseki-style “courses” can still get their fix, running the gamut from exquisite mushroom tofu and soy and ginger-marinated olives to blushing purple venison tataki teamed with pickled rhubarb and a life-affirming chestnut soup splashed with kombu oil. But Ryan now also offers an à la carte menu that, alongside listing Provenance classics like the cured swordfish and miso-pickled “gilda”, includes simple pleasures like karaage-fried chicken or okayu (Japanese-style congee) spiked with pickled vegetables. There’s more new stuff above the lofty wood stove-warmed dining room too, in The Parlour Amaro Bar, featuring cocktails based around Ryan’s Beechworth Bitters Company amaro range and mixed (post-dinner) by the man himself. A sweet sixteenth indeed.

Price Guide

$$$$$

Bookings

Recommended

Wheelchair Access

Opening Hours

Dinner Fri-Mon

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