Great choice of herbal tea, and they have gluten free snacks for me which are fantastic. A lovely…read moreplace to meet with a friend and chat, drink and nibble.

Terrific bakery cafe My husband and I had really delicious…read moredinner at this lovely bakery cafe! We really enjoyed our Greek salad, authentic wood-fired pizza and the excellent bread that came with the eggplant parmigiana. Mt Gambier is lucky to have a cafe that is open from breakfast to dinner. No wonder it's so popular!!

This place certainly seems to be pretty popular, if the crowds that were swarming through here when…read morewe were visiting were anything to go by. In fact, it was a little difficult finding a place to sit, but we did eventually find someplace. Yeah, this was actually a pretty cool cafe, and they made a rather nice pot of tea as well. The selections you get are pretty good as well, though as I mentioned, getting a good seat can be a little tricky at times, but they do make up with the service, and the tea of course.

Wow. Given a dirty table, attitude from staff (plus staff who it seems don't seem to understand…read morewhat English Breakfast Tea is, or milk for that matter), scones 'with jam and cream' where they give you jam in a little hotel sachet.... I was in the wrong cafe, possibly the wrong town....

Their craft Beer is great, they do excellent steak, one off the best cafe in townread more

Award winning... perhaps a quarter of a century ago. Portion sizes, terrible. When questioned…read moreapparently the plates are 'bigger', (they're not) and each meal is weighed before it goes out (again... it's not). All the locals know mains are just entrees with extra pasta and no sauce, but the service and quality has gone off a cliff. Obviously a place where 'cooks' (and I use that term lightly) go when they can't be stuffed finishing their Cert II at TAFE.

Amazing food - I had the BBQ Chicken Calzone and it was just delicious…read more We ordered some amazing pizzas to share and they were flavourful, tasty and on a great base. Atmosphere is friendly, comfortable and welcoming, we stayed for hours! Definitely check it out if you are indulging in some sweet sweet blue lake. (Which is also quite good, but nothing like the smooth taste of the calzone sauce).

I stayed at the Southgate Hotel and after perusing the menu in my room I thought I'd give the…read morerestaurant a go. I was not disappointed! I had the tomato, bacon and baby spinach soup and the lamb rack. The portion sizes were generous and I really enjoyed the food. The servers were friendly and attentive but did not bother me too much, which was nice because I wanted to read. When they didn't have the wine I requested they offered me an alternative (more expensive wine) for the same price as the one I had ordered. Overall, while at first glance the menu seemed a little pricey, I felt that I got excellent value for money and would return to this restaurant again.

From the owner: The Gates restaurant is open for breakfast 7 days a week.read more