Since her childhood, Alla Wolf-Tasker has appreciated the importance of genuine hospitality.James Boddington THE Russian dacha, or summer house, is a seasonal escape from the pressures of urban life.

Celebrating its 40th birthday this year, Lake House was originally built as a small 40-seater weekend restaurant by Alla’s late husband, artist Allan Wolf-Tasker, on a “blackberry-infested paddock at ...

Alla Wolf-Tasker photographed at home in her kitchen in Daylesford.Simon O'Dwyer Alla Wolf-Tasker opened Lake House hotel and restaurant in Daylesford with husband Allan 20 years ago. Wolf-Tasker has ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jon Faine's co-host is journalist and bookseller Corrie Perkin. She's the proprietor of My Bookshop by ...

Bottle shop** Not somewhere I frequent much – we have a wine buff’s dream of a cellar holding up to 10,000 bottles at any one time, and a lavish well-supplied bar replete with a terrific barman. Pimms ...

Wolf-Tasker soon learned that some goals are hard-won. At that time, Australian cuisine remained in the cold, flavorless grip of British culinary tradition and its own bland agrarian monoculture. “It ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. It wasn’t easy to find Lake House back when the restaurant opened 40 years ago. To begin with, barely anyone had even heard of Daylesford ...

This recipe features on Foodie Tuesday, a weekly segment on 774 Drive with Raf Epstein, 3.30PM, shared by Alla Wolf-Tasker AM, Culinary Director/Proprietor of Lake House Daylesford. Bring milk, bay ...