Timboon Distillery is one of my regular stops when I'm heading down the Great Ocean Road. Their…read morefood is great, and have a wonderful selection of Timboon Ice Cream to try, and have lots of local food items to purchase. As for their liquors (which is the other part of the business). They are great! My favourites are the Coffee Liquor (amazingly good and if anyone says its at all similar to Baileys or Kahlua I will punch), and definitely can appreciate their limoncello, and strawberry schnaps. They make an amazingly smooth scotch which is distilled on site, and casked on site, but is a bit too expensive for what it is (in my humble opinion)

What a great surprise this distillery is. Whiskey is a fine blend that is smooth all the way down…read morewithout that catch in the throat that denotes immaturity. Wonderful. A must stop on your twelve apostles weekend.

Loved the mince steak pie. Good spot with friendly service and plenty of seating. They let me…read morecharge my phone behind the bar which on principle I give an extra star too - a 4 star (which tbh this is) becomes a 5 for me when they aren't fuddy duddies about letting you use their outlets. On top of that they had brownie samples that were the biggest samples ever like multiple bite samples which made me love them more. I'd have totally bought a full size if I wasn't already stuffed from the meat pie. Assuming you're in Apollo Bay because your tour stopped here, choose Apollo Bay Bakery. DEFINITELY beats George's.

Fantastic stop on the GOR for lunch. Great recommendation from STL, we met the owner Sally when we…read morewalked in who was an absolute gem. Absolutely try their curry scallop pie. So fresh and amazing flavor. Need something sweeter? Grab a sweet and take it on the road.

My tour bus stopped in this town for lunch during a day-long trip along the Great Ocean Road. The…read moretour guide gave us an oral run down of the options for lunch, and she was super enthusiastic about Dooley's for dessert. And OMG, was she right on point. She mentioned that they had won awards for their ice cream, and I believe she said that included an award for best chocolate ice cream in the region or maybe even in the country. After grabbing pizza elsewhere, my niece and I walked over to Dooley's. The wall was full of awards for all kinds of flavors. They let you taste the ice creams, and even though the chocolate was supposed to be the best, I saw they had passionfruit ice cream -- one of my favorite flavors of all time, so I tasted that. It was AMAZING. So much so that I ordered the passiongruit instead of the choolcate. I could eat that every day. My niece had blackberry ice cream and really liked it too. There wasn't much of a line when we were there around lunch-time on a Monday. Service moved quickly and with a smile, even when some people wanted to taste multiple flavors. If Dooley's were in my home town, I'd probably be at least 10 pounds heavier.

After dinner, we walked over to Dooley's Premium Ice Cream. They've won many awards for their…read moreflavours, which they proudly display all over their shop. Apparently, the count is at 378 awards and 30 trophies. We dropped in on a Wednesday evening (around 8:15pm). The inside is small but there's four seats outside to sit at. There's about 40 flavours to choose from (sorbet and gelato). Some unique ones were Vegemite and champagne sorbet. Price is a bit on the steeper side. $5.00 for 1 scoop, $8.00 for 2 scoops and $11.00 AUD for 3 scoops. The tubs are more on par with other ice cream shops ($12.00 AUD for 500ml and $22.00 AUD for 1L). Service is friendly and patient. They let us sample quite a few flavours; love how you can sample two at a time. - 500ml tub ($12.00 AUD) - their tubs are small pints of ice cream so when you get three flavours, they're layered on top of one another. Different from all the other ice cream/gelato spots. We went with chestnut (fantastic), lychee (fresh and fruity) and blood orange (a tad too sweet for my tastes). Definitely worth a stop on your GOR drive. Tasty, unique flavours.

This place makes and sells the best range of chocolates that I have ever tried. Even better than…read morethe Margaret River choc factory. You must try the chocolate covered aniseed rings ( my favorite), the ginger chocolate and the giant freckles just to name a few. So next time you are down on the Great Ocean Road take the time to take a small detour to this little slice of heaven.

Chocolate was good, the dark chocolate was my favorite. Chocolate comes from Belgium then is…read moreprocessed at the store. Don't choose the fancy stuff as you will begin to miss the authenticity of the chocolate.

After spending the day touring Great Ocean Road and its many sites, we ended near Port Campbell. It…read morewas getting late and 12 Rocks looked like a good place to stop. It was! Lots of windows and a beautiful ocean view. Wish it had been warm enough to enjoy the patio but with the rainy and chilly air, we found a nice table inside and near the windows. I chose the pumpkin salad. There was a lot of things in the salad that I wasn't sure I'd like but the combination of everything rocked. It had nice flavors and textures. The roasted pumpkin and chickpeas were a nice contrast in textures. All so good. You sit anywhere and order at the counter. They bring your food. The staff worked well as a team. Great experience.

Mmmm. Used to be very good. The menu is a bit limited for…read morepeople with "digestive" issues. I need small meals but what is on the menu is for big eaters. So, I chose an entree and asked for a salad on the side......well! The look on the server's face was one of pure distaste and reeked of: "oh, you're one of those pests are you"? Made me feel the need to explain that I have tumours in my stomach and AIAGastritis and Crohns. Still unobliging and surly! No one should ever feel ashamed about a serious health condition when going out. We don't eat out much so, on the rare occasion we do....to come across this is disconcerting. I would say - think twice before coming here now if you eat small. Lovely food though. So many tables had half eaten meals being left. Such wastage!. ALSO, THE PROPRIETORS KEEP REMOVING THE CHECK IN TAG TO MY FB POST.

Great vibe, delicious food and nice staff make this a place to hang or in the morning or for lunch…read more The sausage roll was the best I've had. Not a whole link inside, instead crumbled up sausage with a few small pieces of vegetables and the flakiest crust! The almond croissant was massive and not too sweet like most can be. It had el

The best crepe I have ever eaten! Sweet and perfect! We were traveling on the great ocean road and…read morestopped in for lunch. A very nice sweet gem indeed and yes they do accept credit cards

These guys have either just started, or are just about to finish, running a cafe. They have no clue…read morewhat they are doing. The whole operation is very disorganised. The coffee is hit and miss. And it's no wonder, the poor bloke operating the coffee machine has to run coffees out to tables in between making them while the inept and personality deficient till operator struggles to take orders. Meanwhile, the "crepe chef" meanders about in the background doing his prep while customers queue up at the till and then move along for a painfully long wait for their average coffees. Fawlty Towers comes to mind watching this lot. Both times we went here, simple takeaway coffee orders took 20 mins... even when they were not very busy. First time the coffee was pretty good. Second time. One was terrible and the other average.

Chicken & bacon sandwich was very tasty. Great spot to catch lunch and an ocean view!read more

We dropped in here for breakfast, the waitress who came to our table was very nice, we ordered and…read moremy wife wanted scrambled eggs, but instead of normal toast, wanted fruit toast and asked that the fruit toast be on a separate plate on the side. Well you guessed it, the scrambled eggs were delivered not as ordered but on top of the fruit toast. Who in their right mind would put the scrambled eggs on top of fruit toast? Ever after it was specified on the side. Well you might think that mistakes happen, and you would be right, so my wife went up to the counter to point out the error and spoke to a senior employee, pointing out the error, she huffed and snatched the plate without even apologizing. Well eventually her breakfast came out, the same senior staff member huffed and said "Is everything alright now?" We said yes, and would you believe it she then said "Thank God". How incredibly rude, when travelling you really don't need such an attitude, plenty of pleasant places to eat without an attitude. Won't be going there again.