Zonzo Estate
Zonzo Estate
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Zonzo Estate is a winery, restaurant and award winning wedding venue located in the heart of the Yarra Valley.
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Dec 2023 • Family
Family of four. We ordered, food arrived before our wine and with one meal missing so three ate minus wine then one ate with wine. Understaffed so hard to get attention even though staff were doing their best. Apparently owners call to go ahead short staffed - obviously no regard for patrons, staff or reputation. More interested in profit than experience for patrons and stress for staff. Sad.
Written 27 December 2023
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Gorilla65
Mt Eliza, Australia114 contributions
Mar 2021 • Couples
What a great venue for a wedding. The chapel is a nice size for a wedding around 80 people. The reception area is really nice with a open lawn area outside the restaurant.
The food was amazing and plenty of pre dinner nibbles. The grazing plate, home made pizza and a main of succulent lamb. The band and service I couldn’t fault.
Highly recommend Zonzo for a wedding reception
The food was amazing and plenty of pre dinner nibbles. The grazing plate, home made pizza and a main of succulent lamb. The band and service I couldn’t fault.
Highly recommend Zonzo for a wedding reception
Written 13 March 2021
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Ken C
Melbourne, Australia139 contributions
June 2019 • Family
Casual lunch with family including young children & thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. Great location & venue complimented by very good staff who were attentive despite the large number of guests
The menu was very much about casual dining & everything we had was excellent & represented good value for money.
The wines were ok but not exceptional but the coffee was the best I've had in quite some time.
Highly recommended.
The menu was very much about casual dining & everything we had was excellent & represented good value for money.
The wines were ok but not exceptional but the coffee was the best I've had in quite some time.
Highly recommended.
Written 30 June 2019
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Selma V
Melbourne, Australia45 contributions
Aug 2014 • Friends
This cellar door is on the same property as Zonzos restaurant. Situated in a barn its quite spacious but lacks atmosphere. Apart from that the wines truely are amazing. My fav is their sparkling and rose. If you are visiting Zonzos, you can do tastings here first then go hve some lunch next door. Make sure you book first as restaurant gets busy.
Written 26 June 2015
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Ida L
Uppsala, Sweden541 contributions
Dec 2019 • Friends
Great prosecco (if you like that), free wine-tasting and great pizza. Also has beer, but no tasting available for those. Enjoyed a the spot a lot and architecture and surroundinga are beautiful.
Written 6 January 2020
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Jim6851
Cremorne, Australia39 contributions
Nov 2019 • Couples
Service was slow, under-managed, lacklustre, disorganised and of a lower standard.
No bread offered, reluctantly replaced used starter dishes for main course, too many waiters involved, overstaffed in kitchen, cooking simple, pizza good but that’s only positive about cooking.
Wine - overpriced as is most Yarra Valley wine.
Good views.
No bread offered, reluctantly replaced used starter dishes for main course, too many waiters involved, overstaffed in kitchen, cooking simple, pizza good but that’s only positive about cooking.
Wine - overpriced as is most Yarra Valley wine.
Good views.
Written 29 November 2019
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Christine A
Melbourne, Australia6 contributions
Oct 2019
definitely worth a visit! I don't think anyone in our group was disappointed and agreed we would all be happy to go back.
Written 5 November 2019
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Maggie S
19 contributions
Jan 2022
Lovely location, great service; we were accomodated without a booking on a very busy day without fuss and the food and wines were very nice.
Written 27 April 2022
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Elliot G
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Dec 2021
If you are travelling here just for the food, honestly was a little disappointing. Started off the experience with requesting a change of tables with the staff kindly agreeing to it and ushering me to my new table. We got the Zonzo 'festa' sharing menu which was $60 per pax. This consisted of an antipasti, pizza and main to share. I found out that the main was lamb which my guest could not eat and therefore checked with the waitress if this could be changed, she said it could be changed to a gnocci and it would be arranged for me.
I subsequently waited for 40 minutes for the antipasti to arrive. I only started thinking something was off when other tables who arrived after me received their antipasti while my guest and I still waited. I had to personally approach the staff to ask about my antipasti. They apologised for the mix up and said the kitchen thought the table was cancelled as we had requested to change tables. Okay, benefit of doubt on choice of words but was still rather frustrated at the reason given being us requesting to change tables.
Next issue was seating time. Seating time for each reservation was 2hours as stipulated, I asked about the seating time when they antipasti came and the waitress who served clarified that the seating time could be extended to accommodate for the lateness of the antipasti. However, subsequently the manager came to clarify that the mains were still on time and there was still 35 minutes left on the original seating time. THis was in the context of us packing the pizza away for takeaway prior to this as we already didn't think there was enough time. Not too sure how this helped the issue in any way.
Next issue was mains. The lamb and potatoes main came without the gnocci and portion looked like it was for two. Had to clarify with the waitress that this was a two person portion and that we had previously asked another waitress to request for a switch to the gnocci. The reply we got was that it was not recorded in the system, but they could order it now. Again, blamed pushed to us.
We were offered an extra pizza, or complimentary dessert/drinks if we would like but we declined as the error was already an excess of food and us having to finish our food in a short period of time instead of taking our time to eat it over 2 hours. Can't seem to understand how this was a good solution on their part.
Overall, a rather unpleasant experience. Would not recommend going there. If the food wasn't great, the service may have made up for it but it did not in this case.
I subsequently waited for 40 minutes for the antipasti to arrive. I only started thinking something was off when other tables who arrived after me received their antipasti while my guest and I still waited. I had to personally approach the staff to ask about my antipasti. They apologised for the mix up and said the kitchen thought the table was cancelled as we had requested to change tables. Okay, benefit of doubt on choice of words but was still rather frustrated at the reason given being us requesting to change tables.
Next issue was seating time. Seating time for each reservation was 2hours as stipulated, I asked about the seating time when they antipasti came and the waitress who served clarified that the seating time could be extended to accommodate for the lateness of the antipasti. However, subsequently the manager came to clarify that the mains were still on time and there was still 35 minutes left on the original seating time. THis was in the context of us packing the pizza away for takeaway prior to this as we already didn't think there was enough time. Not too sure how this helped the issue in any way.
Next issue was mains. The lamb and potatoes main came without the gnocci and portion looked like it was for two. Had to clarify with the waitress that this was a two person portion and that we had previously asked another waitress to request for a switch to the gnocci. The reply we got was that it was not recorded in the system, but they could order it now. Again, blamed pushed to us.
We were offered an extra pizza, or complimentary dessert/drinks if we would like but we declined as the error was already an excess of food and us having to finish our food in a short period of time instead of taking our time to eat it over 2 hours. Can't seem to understand how this was a good solution on their part.
Overall, a rather unpleasant experience. Would not recommend going there. If the food wasn't great, the service may have made up for it but it did not in this case.
Written 15 December 2021
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GianniT32
Melbourne, Australia4 contributions
Oct 2019
Great venue with great views and kids friendly. Noisy, but it was to be expected as it was very crowded! We ordered antipasto for 6, very tasty but unfortunately too small for 6 people (how can you divide one small artichoke, 4 "lupinis" and 4 ovoline between 6 people?and grapes?). The pizzas and the lamb were very good, but the crab ravioli had very little filling in them and quite heavy dough, the only thing you could taste was the thyme. The wine was good and and the staff was very friendly and efficient.
Written 27 October 2019
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