Excerpts from press reviews

Good Weekend: June 7, 2003

Treats at Bogong Ski Centre

This great café is a hot spot during the day among skiers who come in for the home-cooked meals such as hearty soups, curries, casseroles, toasted focaccias, the best cakes and savoury flans. If you're on the run, the staff will package up anything on the menu for you − perfect for serious skiers. Weekends, 7am to 7pm Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South: 5754 1515

The Age Good Food Guide, 1998-2000 - Snowfields, p181

Winterhaven

Ask any Falls Creek local for a dining recommendation, and they'll tell you to point your skis towards Winterhaven and push. Host Liz Cinatl has turned this restaurant into Falls Creek's most loved eatery. In summer, and during winter lunches, it's a casual bistro with a blackboard menu. Winter dinners take on a completely different air: cloths and candles ont he tables, dim lights and a warming open fire. Air-freighted seafood features prominently in winter, but we recommend Winterhaven's signature Caesar salad; marinated sardines; the peppered salmon filler; or Moroccan-marinated lamb. The wine list is enormous and includes good vintage stock. A cosy bar is open from noon during winter.

The Age Good Food Guide, 1988 - Country, p139,

Sasha's Tawonga South

Sir Gustav Nossal warmly recommends this new restaurant in the Kiewa Valley, built by Sasha Cinatl who, with his wife Liz, have long been identified with a passion for good food in nearby alpine resorts. Sasha's is a semi-colonial style building with a bullnose roof and verandah, and glorious views across the valley to Mt Bogong. The interior is in muted shades of blue, grey and green, with antique bentwood chairs and paintings by local artists. The food is multi-cultural and imaginative, anything from baby veal schnitzels to pork and water chestnut kebabs with chilli-plum sauce. Lunchtime is more casual, with lighter and less expensive food. Once a month, the Cinatls have a "fun night" featuring a national cuisine or seqasonal feast for a fixed price. The restaurant is also open throughout the day for coffee, tea and snacks, and the cinatls hope to make Sunday brunch a feature.

The Age Good Food Guide, 1982, 1983, 1984 - Country, p132

The Village Restaurant, Mt Beauty

Sir Gustav Nossal writes: "Liz Stow and Sue Losch provide a delightful ski-village atmosphere and delicious food at very reasonable prices. The menu changes continually, but among our favourite dishes were the entree of artichoke hearts in sour cream − deliciously glazed by some mysterious process and with just enough of a hint of anchovy to be really intriguing − and the chicken breast with cherries; an amazing sweetness that permeates the whole meat."