Loved this place! A short drive from the 12 Apostels, Great Ocean Road. Cheese tasting, coffee,…read moresavory or sweet cheese platter, and cheese to purchase. Really awesome to see the cows in the Mooternity Ward from the garden and from the cafe window. Worth the short drive! Cheese tasting 2 Mocha 1 Cheese platter with choice of 3 cheese 1 Brie wheel purchase = $41

Absolutely amazing cheese here. Any trip down the great ocean road absolutely requires a stop down…read morehere. The "Bay of Martyrs" Blue Vein is my favourite from here, and is quite honestly the best Blue cheese I have ever had. It has all the flavour of lovely creamy blue and is amazingly well balanced. Their washed rind "The Grotto" is also very very good, but doesn't have the same kind of pop as the Bay of Martyrs. Do yourself a favour. Head over here for some amazing treats.

We turned off The Great Ocean Road to a crowd just outside the cafe. It turned out that there are…read moredozens of beautiful birds that will come up to you if you feed it seeds (which you can buy inside the cafe). We didn't buy any seeds and had enough fun just watching other people playing with the birds. I had read that Grey River Road is a good place for wild koala sightings so we got back into our car and headed up the road. The car behind us was in a rush and we decided to let it pass. That car drove up the hill so fast that it ran over one of the beautiful birds that had been sitting on someone's shoulder just a few minutes before. All of the bystanders and us were in shock! The car didn't stop at all and kept driving up the road. After recovering the traumatic death of the bird, we pulled over to the side of the road and watched a coupe of koalas climb trees. They are such natural climbers!

A great cafe with a surprisingly affordable, diverse selection of hot dishes and sweets given its…read morelocation and small size. Everything from beef rendang to chicken . The lattes we got were really good to, we had them at the outside seating with a tasty vanilla slice. A great stop if you're doing the Great Ocean Road because you can buy bird seed from them (as well as a variety of other dry goods) and feed the many birds (cockatoos, parrots and more) in the immediate area right out of your hand. There are also several resident koalas high in the eucalyptus trees on the adjacent dirt road.

I'd say this guy is an old school raver!!! Literally!! based on his playlist... as I sit here…read morecontemplating .... "What do I do on an 8 degree celcius early morning at a seaside town like Angelasea? Grab a piping hot steak n onion pie from the bakery.. down it in 45 second flat and go grab a fantastic strong latte from a cool coffee joint like "Laneway 73" and read the happenings from a real newspaper??" I feel myself unconsciously bopping to break beats that turn into something you'd expect on a vinyl B side!! Haha ... oh hang on is he on a come down??? wooooah.. pretty friendly chilled out

Walking into Laneway 73 you can easily forget that you are in Anglesea and think that you are in…read morethe middle of Melbourne CBD. Great coffee, tick. Freshly squeezed juice, tick. Laneway tight cafe with courtyard and street seatings, tick. By night, Laneway 73 shuts its doors and patrons are welcomed next door at Bistro 73 which is equally as charming as it's alter ego. We dined in and served by a welcoming staff, friendly owner checks in on us and you can tell that they love food here. Dishes are simple and done well. I had snapper in broth which was beautifully cooked. Claypot Garlic Prawn was perhaps a tad too simple, I would have liked it in a heartier base other than similar broth to my snapper. Winner here is definitely the pizzas. Good selection albeit on the small servings. A lovely change if you are sick of deep fried takeaways :)

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

Oh my god. This place is awesome. The food is great. The…read moreportion sizes are generous. But what makes this special is there are always koalas in the trees adjacent to the parking lot. If you are venturing along the Great Ocean Road this stop is a must.

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.

As far as pies go, this place is a great stop off the great ocean road. Very large selections of…read morepies and sweets and they work fast! Easy to order and you can even get a pre bottled local cold coffee for the road for both dairy and non dairy drinkers. Lovely treat as you keep exploring Australia!

Excellent granola and fruit toast. Great coffee also but had to check how many shots of coffee as…read moresmaller cup only had 1 shot. Nice staff and good vibe. Beware 10%surcharge on weekends and 20% on public holidays.

This cafe was nice, but in a way it really wasn't all that outstanding. I did find that the service…read morewas rather good, so I guess that is something that should be noted. I really only came in here for a pot of tea, namely because we also needed to get out of the car and have a bit of a stretch (and my brother was a but hungry as well). Anyway, this did appear to be the only place that stood out, and they did serve us, even though closing time was coming up, so I'll give them points for that as well.

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.