title: Little Picket
text: # Little Picket
  
  Little Picket is a restaurant in Lorne, Victoria.
  
  ## Description
  
  The venue is operated out of the Lorne Bowls Club. Much of the produce used on the menu is grown nearby on a 1.6 hectare farm. Vegetables are also sourced from a community garden across the street.
  
  The interior of the venue is described as a 'timber clubhouse' with walls celebrating bowls heroes with bronze plaques and leaderboards. The carpet is described as a 'shmick classroom blue' with the kitchen and bar resembling school canteens.
  
  Dishes recommended by food writers include its potato bread, house-made halloumi, beetroot galette, and the lunch meat mortadella. The venue also serves slices of Wallaby. Most of the wines on offer are Victorian wines, with craft beers also available created by the chef's partner David Osgood.
  
  ## Reception
  
  In The Age, food writer Besha Rodell gave the venue a rating of 15/20 writing:
  
     'I tend to bang on a lot about how Australian restaurants should be more explicitly Australian, about how they often aim for mimicry of other places – in New York, London, Paris – rather than embrace a more home-grown identity. This doesn’t just mean the use of native ingredients: Barrett and crew have given us a lovely example of another way to celebrate our own culture.'
  
  For the Herald Sun, food writer Kara Monssen gave the venue a rating of 16.5/20 writing:
  
     Barrett masterfully pushes every ingredient to its absolute, pleasurable limit with poise and control. Small yet mighty, Little Picket is a loveable, exciting and wholesome addition to Lorne’s dining circuit that’s worth the drive from Melbourne – even for the salad.
  