A Wanda Inn, Healesville

A Wanda Inn is an inconspicous restaurant located along the main street in Healesville town. It looked like an ordinary cafe/restaurant with basic chairs and little pots of daisies on the tables. The restaurant is run by a Japanese couple, and the menu consists of Japanese influenced western food.

Gaz ordered nori wrapped prawn tempura served with hand cut chips & mayo (with white truffle oil) and salad. The hand cut chips were rustic and crispy. The prawns were crispy and goes well with the mayo. However the salad was too salty.

Prawn, Chips and Salad

 I ordered a dish off the specials board - house smoked salmon with feta croquette. The dish came prettily presented on a flat square platter with 4 pieces of smoked salmon arranged atop lightly pickled cauliflower, celery and carrots in a zig zag fashion. There were also two pieces of feta croquette.

House Smoked Salmon

The feta croquette was delicious - it was light and fluffly, melted cheese oozed out when I bit into the croquette.

I also loved the smoked salmon. The quality of the fish was excellent. The colour was bright and the smell of smoke was not too strong. It went really well with the salad underneth the fish.

We were both very impressed by the dishes we had ordered. I felt that my dish could easily make an appearance in a fine dining restaurant both in presentation and taste yet the price we paid for both the dishes ($36 all up) was perhaps the price of an entree in a starred restaurant.

A Wanda Inn is probably one of our most unexpected finds ever. Wanda ful!