Little Red Fox Eatery - CLIFTON BEACH

What a little hidden gem! I saw a comment about this restaurant on Facebook so we decided to try it. The setting is so beautiful & quiet but with lovely views! They had a private function starting at 1 in the restaurant so we had to sit on the balcony outside & although they were busy preparing it didn't detract from their service or quality of the food they served. Couldn't fault a single thing!

We had a beautiful dinner here; entree, main and dessert. Our children were welcomed and enjoyed their dinner as well. Was a cold night but the restaurant was very warm. Will visit again.

We have visited a number of the Geelong / Bellarine wineries that offer meals over the last few years and had passed the signs to Banks Road Winery and decided to check the website to see if they provided food. We made a booking for Easter Sunday at the Little Red Fox Eatery, thinking the extended weekend and good weather would attract a lot of visitors. The on-line menu had set some culinary expectations which we hoped would be met and whilst all tables were eventually filled, without the place being overly crowded, we took this as a sign of foodie approval. The first disappointment was being told that the duck breast and the tiger prawns were no longer available due to a busy Easter trade (and there was still Monday trade to come). The second disappointment was the quality of the meals we ordered, given the price point and the serious competition from similar price levels at other wineries, all not that far away. The menu descriptions sounded very appealing and whilst the presentation of each dish was good, the execution fell a little short. The dishes we ate were not bad; they would be acceptable pub fare.The chicken wingettes in a black bean sauce came golden fried with sesame seeds and no black bean sauce and lacked seasoning. The chicken breast was a good portion and was moist – but served with tinned corn kernels, barley and chorizo (which tasted like cryovac supermarket chorizo). The organic porterhouse with mushrooms & potato straws was tasty, came plated a little more cooked than the requested medium-rare, and the potato straws suffered from too much time in overworked deep-fry oil. The local flake yellow curry with jasmine rice, kaffir lime and red chilli was ok but really lacked the pungency of proper Thai spice. The pork belly braised in apple cider with maple apple purée and green papaya looked good on the plate was unctuously tender and moist but would have greatly benefited from a crisp and crackly skin.The accompanying Banks Road winery Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, and Pinot Noir were excellent. After paying the bigger than deserving bill, we walked into the adjoining cellar door and bought some wine. Will be back to the cellar door but not to the eatery.

For nothing else, go for the pork belly. Good food and service. An added bonus is the Banks Road wines cellar door is next to the eatery.

So very disappointed in our visit here.We were encouraged to book for Sunday breakfast, when we arrived at 10am the place was empty!Waitress was pleasant enough but took her time to take our order.Whist we were waiting for our breakfast two more couples arrived.Disappointingly their breakfasts were delivered before ours and their orders were almost identical to ours.Breakfast was overlooked, fried eggs were rock hard, bread used really wasn't a breakfast bread and was very over toasted, coffee was ordinary. It wasn't cheap so we won't be going back. Shame because we eat breakfast out every weekend and location wise this could've been a great local find.