No 2 Oak St

Ph: 6655 9000; 2 Oak St, BELLINGEN 2454 www.no2oakst.com.au

Contemporary, $$
Open Dinner Wed-Sat from 6.30pm; Licensed, BYO wine only , Corkage $6 bottle; AE MC V EFT
Chef Raymond & Michael Urquhart (29-11-08) Owner Raymond & Toni Urquhart (29-11-08)

Other published opinions

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2009 Score: 15.5/20, One Hat "Some of the finest food around can be found in a century-old weatherboard cottage up a quiet Bellingen side street. This consistently highly lauded fine diner scores on all levels, from famously warm, fun service to a lively yet intimate atmosphere and, particularly, fabulous food"

Gourmet Traveller 2009 Australian Restaurant Guide "This converted-cottage restaurant offers warmth and generosity in country-sized portions. Ligurian olives are on the table as soon as the cheerful staff seat you. Bread, served with oven-dried tomato salsa and roast-garlic oil, comes out of the oven in little terracotta pots"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2008 Score: 15.5/20, One Hat "This neatly restored 1910 cottage is home to one of the state's most welcoming restaurants. The ebulliently joyous Toni Urquhart (the Guide's 2007 service excellence winner) welcomes guests as if they were family, while husband Ray works miracles with local produce"

Gourmet Traveller 2008 Australian Restaurant Guide "Ray Urquhart's food is as honest as the 1910 cottage in which he presents it, and as warm, welcoming and unpretentious"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2007 Score: 15/20, One Hat "Two littlies were bedded down at the end of the verandah while their parents dined. But then no one can make you feel quite so at home as Toni Urquhart, who welcomes you like a long-lost friend to her beautifully restored 1910 cottage."

Gourmet Traveller 2007 Restaurant Guide "This side of Shangri-La and the Big Rock Candy Mountain, there aren't many places as laidback as Bellingen. Entirely appropriate then, that chef Ray Urquhart continues to produce bistro food with a classical respect for simplicity."