Feeling hungry? Does fresh-caught Southern Rock Lobster cooked in your favourite style rock your boat? Does getting up close and personal with delicate, delicious crustaceans and fellow sea creatures tickle your tastebuds? Then it's off to the iconic
Lobster Cave in beautiful
Bayside for you.
This seafood lover's haven is renowned as one of Melbourne's finest restaurants, and its 22-year history in Beaumaris is testament to how loved – and how successful – it is. In this industry, making and keeping a very good name for yourself for two-plus decades is indeed a rare achievement.
As well as offering a fabulous array of the freshest, finest Australian and New Zealand seafood, which is prepared, nurtured and served to perfection, it also offers great steaks, like the Blackmore Wagyu Sirloin, vegetarian options, a sensational dish of crispy roasted duck legs, as well as slow-cooked pork belly.
Check out this 3D gallery wall of succulent
images. These works of art look almost look too good to eat… Actually, let's get real, who am I kidding?
What I really love about this place – as well as its ambient dining space comprising well-spaced tables and tranquility-inducing aquariums – is that you can stop in for a very affordable set menu lunch or dinner – or truly treat yourself and guests to some of the largest, most spectacular platters of the most spectacular seafood I've had the pleasure to encounter.
Take, for instance, the Ferg Burger, named after owner, Bill Ferg. This signature dish comprises: spectacular flame-grilled Southern Rock Lobster, tempura prawns, spiced lamb, Wagyu beef patti, salt & pepper squid, half-shell scallops, crispy Queensland spanner crab with sweet chilli dip, braised pilaf and char-grilled sour dough. Wrap your lips around that!
Or maybe this: the Deluxe Combination Platter for two comprising a large half Southern Rock Lobster, king prawns, oysters, mussels, Moreton Bay Bugs, smoked salmon, Canadian scallops, salt & pepper squid, fresh fish fillets, crumbed mussels, crab and tempura battered tiger prawns.
Need I say more? Yes. Before checking out the full menu, be warned; it will have you salivating. Okay, so lips your lips and click
here.
