It’s possible to travel around the entire circumference of Port Phillip Bay by public transport – and eat well along the way.
It’s not often you catch a ferry to dinner, but I’m doing so today. It’s a good day to be out on Port Phillip Bay – the water off Sorrento is as flat as a pancake, a shimmering blue beneath a sunny sky. As I stand on the deck of the Sorrento-Queenscliff Ferry, the norfolk pines and limestone buildings of the Mornington Peninsula settlement fall away, with the Bellarine Peninsula looming ahead. And it’s there that my evening meal awaits.
On arrival in Queenscliff, I head to 360Q, a waterside restaurant with a view over the local marina. Its gleaming white dining room is open to the fresh air, and the menu includes such interesting items as Viennoise crusted John dory, flash-fried baby snapper and Portarlington mussels. I order the fenugreek spiced chicken curry with a side of Moroccan eggplant, after an entree of salted cod croquettes, and both are excellent.
After nosing around the shops on Hesse Street, it’s time for lunch – and a return to the ferry terminal. Opened in April 2023, it’s a sensational building with elongated wings drawing inspiration from the bay’s stingrays. It’s also home to the restaurant Tarra, and chef Michael Demagistris tells me that he forages around the bay for some of his ingredients.The menu aims to please both ferry passengers and visitors with more time.
After a night in Geelong, it’s time to complete my circumnavigation of the bay – but not before a lunch of spinach and ricotta tortellini followed by rockling and chips at Tempo, on the waterfront. From there it’s a short walk to historic Cunningham Pier, where a Melbourne ferry awaits. It’s certainly been a weekend of diverse public transport – and very good food.
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