Pier Farm

My partner and I went in for coffee on Sunday afternoon (after the lunch rush - about 2: 45pm) to be told we can't just have coffee and we have to order lunch? Very strange and quite rude. The place was nowhere near full. Too bad as the view was stunning.

Very rude the old man at the front of house. I went to check out the place ahead of putting a booking for a special dinner ocasion and to my question "may I check out the place" his answer was "people don't come here to check out the place they come here to dine". Saddly very off putting his arrogant attitude and behaviour. Won't come here ever again.

Pier Farm
The food quality was great but the price was not. Coffin Bay Oysters don't cost $50-60 for a dozen. Make sure you load your Credit Card before you dine there.
The place was not full for a Saturday night.

Gorgeous venue, inside and out. The service was of very high quality. We had a Greek man and an Asian man waiting on us (didn’t get their names unfortunately). They were both fantastic; very polite and humorous. The food appeared slightly overpriced, but after tasting it, it was justified. Absolutely delicious, so fresh and very well presented. The whole group of us agree that we will definitely be back for another visit. We were very impressed.

My daughter had her reception here on 30th March.

Fifty guests and it was perfect. The staff laid the tables out perfectly and the ' extras ' fitted in perfectly. A very intimate setting.

The staff looked after the wedding party and guests with great attention to detail and there service was impeccable.

To Reece and all the staff who attended to our needs I thank you ALL very much. At the end of a beautiful ceremony and day where everything went right it was finished by a great reception at Pier Farm and wonderful memories for Cassandra and Owen.

To management and staff a BIG thankyou

I look forward to returning to Pier Farm soon with Carol

Thankyou

Barry

4.5. This is one of those ones where you curse the loss of the half mark option. 4.5 would have completely nailed, but 5 is maybe that bit too high but 4 way too low.

Pier Farm is extremely good taking all key indicators into account. The location and space are terrific. The food and wine are almost uniformly excellent. The service is good too. It’s very close to a perfect restaurant and well worth travelling across town to as we did as part of restaurant week.

Some detail. The restaurant is nicely located on Port Phillip bay. It has excellent inside and outside spaces. The whole place has a good feel and is well fitted out. There is a tremendous view outside of the bay including the shipping channel leading into the port, the adjoining marina and various local seabirds. It’s enormously restful and even entertaining. We saw lots including huge ships and pleasure craft. Even a pair of black swans swam by at one point. Inside and out this is a very well appointed place.
The food is extremely good. The restaurant had chosen a very good menu for this dinner and they delivered it very well. The canapés were excellent. Three types in all. The best was chargrilled prawn on skewers. The prawn meat was perfectly cooked and was delicious. The paired wine, a Pizzini Prosecco, was a wonderful accompaniment. The entree was mighty good too. Stuffed calamari with a tomato sauce. The calamari ripieni was good and the sauce really flavoursome. The stuffing was the hero. Delicate and subtly flavoured it was a real winner. Again, the wine pairing, a Paringa Estate Pinot Grigio, was really outstanding. This is a beautiful wine and it went so wonderfully with this dish.

Main course was a beauty too. Snapper fillet, asparagus, clams and mussel butter. It came with a lovely salad with a gorgeous zingy dressing. This was matched with a Medhurst Rose, another outstanding choice. The meal was very good. The food wine combination worked superbly again.

Desert was an absolute triumph. It floored our group of four. I cannot ever recall a better cheesecake than this, a lemon and vanilla bean number. Cheesecake rarely excites me. It’s usually too heavy and the crust too dense in my experience. This cheesecake though was utterly faultless. The cake itself had a beautiful soft creamy texture - it was the opposite of dense - and it was subtly and thrillingly flavoured. The gorgeously flavoured strawberries added to the overall beauty of the dish. The thin base was excellent too. This dish was a 10/10, particularly when served with another great wine, the Yering Station Cane Cut Viognier.

There was so much to love about this food and wine. It was close to the perfect menu. The produce was great. It was treated with very considerable respect. The overall beauty of the food came from the restraint in its composition and presentation. Every dish looked good. Every dish had very good flavours that delighted with their subtlty and never overreached. In addition, they don’t just really know their food here, they also really know their wines. That was evident from the wine pairings. A quick look at the stored wine around the restaurant showed any number of beautiful and carefully chosen wines, including a number of obscure ones.

Service was generally good throughout the night particularly from some of the younger servers. It wasn’t faultless though. A response of “. Treat it like a degustation”, isn’t the right response to someone seeking a wine top up. There were several coordination issues too, such as wine being served too far before dishes arrived. These were small issues overall though given the quality of food and wine on offer.

This is a very very good restaurant. A jewel even. It’s an easy 4.5 out of 5 for me. We had a great night. I recommend Pier Farm highly and would happily return very soon.

Great food, great location and the staff were spot on. Initially looking at the menu I thought it might be over priced, but both our meals (entree and mains) were beautiful. Will be back.

After having lunch here for my mums birthday I ordered lamb shoulder it was $42 and dry, I couldn’t eat it as it wasn’t enjoyable! I let the staff know to be told that’s the way it’s cooked. Won’t be coming back!

I wouldn’t recommend this low grade place! I came here with my cute pugs and was treated very rudely by a old man! The food here is average af and that’s being nice! So definitely come here if you enjoy overpriced low quality food and services like a tattoo parlour! Aha no wonder this place is always empty!

The $40 plus steak ordered as rare-to-medium came out as well done. Had to request air con to be out on on in a stinking hot place. My disabled mother ordered a glass of champagne- she was corrected that champagne was not what she wanted but sparkling wine. Never again.

Reasonable food quality. Some portions are big, some are small. Great view into the horizon of the ocean. It is a bit overpriced. Food is tasty. Service is reasonable

This is the secret of the West!
Excellent food, matching service and a top notch selection of drinks. I'm slowly working my way through the list.
️️ What a view

Very nice place in the middle of the water with nicely presented food and high quality service. 2 stars however as the young female staff member with dark hair had a bad attitude and was rude. Dimmed the experienceall other staff encountered where great. Otherwise great place.

A good selection of wine but typical list of foods. For the price I was expecting a little more. The view is great, some where for a special occasion.

We celebrated my husband’s 60th birthday at Pier Farm last evening. The menu was heavily seafood focussed but had many other options. To start I had Coffin Bay oysters with lemon granita - smallish tasty oysters, but the granita added a very special touch. There was also a raspberry granita option. The John Dory fillet was to die for! The others on our table also enjoyed their meals - spaghetti carbonara (made with egg rather than cream) and the eye fillet steak. The Rosemary Fizz cocktail was also a big hit - not sweet like many cocktails. My husband loved his scotch on the rocks too. We couldn’t fault the service (apart from our young daughters who arrived separately being greeted with “may I help you”? Rather than “do you have a reservation”? Or “would you like a table”?) The table service was attentive without being intrusive and our waiter very knowledgeable about the menu, including all of the ingredients. We brought our own cake and were happy to pay a $5 per head serving fee. The cake was taken back to the kitchen after the usual Happy Birthday/blowing out candles and came back beautifully plated. Our group of four had 2 or three drinks each, all had mains, one had 1/2 doz oysters and our daughters shared an entree. Total bill just under $400. Worth every cent for a special occasion. Beautiful location too.

Great location
Excellent food
Value and quality great
Excellent service
I recommend that you have a meal at Pier Farm

Live down the road but tonight was the first time dining at pier farm. With some of the waterfront restaurants in Williamstown like Sebastian’s or Pelicans your view of the waterfront is really dependent on where you are seated but no matter where you are seated here you get a view of the water. The large windows that rap around the building with bay seating along with the white walls, greenery hanging from the ceilings and gorgeous soft furnishings give you a beautiful interior. My partner and his mother both love to dine near the water and they were both blown away with how beautiful it was.

As soon as you are seated you are given the choice of sparkling or still water and are given some beautiful crusty warm bread with specially sourced butter (very tasty). There was a good selection of wine, beer and cocktails and the staff made sure that as soon as your glass was empty they came to offer you another drink.

The staff were all attentive and you can see they pride themselves on providing top notch service. The star for me was George who I believe was in charge of the front of house. You could see him keeping an eye on everything and took service to a fine dining level. The way he described each of the nights specials to us was amazing and it made you want to order everything. He was able to tell you where the produce was sourced and how each component of the dish is prepared. I have been to Michelin star restaurants where staff were not on his level. To top it off he was very witty and hand us all laughing. The service and setting definitely 5.

Now the food.all the produce that is used is definitely top quality and you can tell it’s important for Pier Farm to source the best produce. I had the oysters natural with lemon granita. These were by far the best oysters I have ever had both in quality and how the icy granita with lemon and salt were perfectly balanced. I ordered 1/2 a dozen but could have had 2 dozen happily it was that good. My partner had 1 of the specials a blue eye fillet w/ asparagus and vegetables. My partner enjoyed it but said that the veges and asparagus were over cooked. His mother had another special which was a whole grilled salmon w/ grapes and radish. She said the fish was nicely cooked but she was expecting more. We also had a garden salad and fries as sides that were fine. For dessert I had the panacotta that was beautiful. It was served with fresh strawberries, crunchy meringue and some small squares off jelly. The combo of the sweet milky panacotta was perfect with the crunch of the meringue and tartness of the jelly and strawberries.

If I was to rate Pier Farm based off just what I had where everything I had was fantastic and without fault it would be 5. The food my partner and his mother had was nice other than my partners veges being over cooked but I think that unfortunately the food on the plate did not live up to their expectations. The way the meals were cooked did not exactly live up to how George described them.

The meal was quite expensive but even though some of the meals were just good and nothing great we still really loved our dining experience at Pier Farm. We will definitely be back. My only real advise to make this reach that 5 star level would be to make sure the food served is at the same level as George describes it.

I asked my partner what he would rate it and he said 3 stars based on his meal and 5 based on service and everything else. My rating would be 5 star so have come to 4 stars based on this. Definitely somewhere to go if you have a special occasion or want a romantic dinner. We will be back but I will be very sad if George is not there. Pier Farm need to hold on to him.