Tiamo Italian restaurant - a Carlton icon

Tiamo has been a Carlton institution since it was established in 1978 joining the many Italian restaurants in Lygon Street   Over the decades that I have been hanging out in this area, Tiamo has been there with their dark wood paneling and outdoor tables.  Every time I pass I want to be one of the lively crowd enjoying their pasta and wine at the tables that take over a lot of the footpath.  It looks like one big happy family.  Over time I have grown to love it.

  

Inside the vibe is darker with wood panelled walls and Italian posters.  Often I have been in here when the crowded wooden tables and chairs are filled with people chatting over their meals.  Sometimes I have passed them by as I have walked up the stairs to the room that is allocated to groups, usually on work occasions.  On other times I have got there when there are no crowds or queues and it is quiet as closing time looms.

I confess that I didn't always love Tiamo.   For some time I considered it dark with too much meat on the menu.  I went there occasionally with work groups.  The platter above is from a work farewell in 2013.  My zucca (pumpkin) pizza and the nibbles off the platter were lovely.  We ate upstairs at Tiamo 2.  In 1996 the original Tiamo was expanded into Tiamo 1 and Tiamo 2.  The menus were similar but different and it was very confusing when booking.  These days it has reverted to one Tiamo.  I remember feeling a bit grumpy at this meal because a colleague had suggested a farewell present to me that I had told her I didn't like and she bought it anyway!

I then had another workplace where our boss loved taking us to Tiamo for lunch.  It was with him that I discovered a wonderful pasta and lentil soup.  It was thick and satisfying.  Those were good times with a friendly group of young scientists who told great stories and made me laugh.  I miss those times.  More recently I had a minestrone soup there and it was a disappointing thin soup of vegetables that was a light starter rather than a substantial meal. 

At yet another workplace, we had a dinner prior to an annual meeting of the centre.  That was a really interesting group of people including some who awed me because they were respected experts in public health.  It was a really lovely meal upstairs with a set menu.  I had bruschetta, ravioli and a glass of chocolate mousse.  The bruschetta was a revelation.  I have never had such a good one before and it was a great way to start the meal as people arrived, with a quite a few arriving straight from the airport.  The pasta was lovely and the mousse was really good, despite all that cream on top (not to my liking).

For some time one of that menu items I would order most was pizza.  The photo above is of an Ortolana pizza: pomodoro (tomato sauce), mozzarella, eggplant, roasted zucchini, peppers, boccocini and gratin.  It's a really lovely pizza but I felt like I should explore the menu more.

Then a couple of years ago I had a meal with my friend Heather after a movie where we had pasta and shared a generous pile of Schiacciata ($12): focaccia with olive oil, sea salt and rosemary.  It was excellent.  Not overly thick but such delicious warm bread with great seasoning.  I brought some home because there was so much.  Sylvia loved it.  She was determined to go to Tiamo for more as soon as possible.  The photo above is of a plate of flatbread I shared with Sylvia.

  

Over the next year we had a few really good visits, some just me and Sylvia and some with my parents as well.  Sylvia just loves the pasta.  Possibly her favourite is the Tortellini Tartufo ($33): ricotta filled tortellini, with wild mushrooms, truffle and cream, topped with spring onions and gratin.  Other photos above are of the Rigatoni alla Norma ($32.90 from the specials menu) with eggplant in napoli sauce, topped with baked salted ricotta, and the Gnocchi ($33) pan tossed in napoli sugo.  Tiamo pasta is not cheap but it is good stuff.  

When in Rome I discovered the joy of a good salad with pasta and bread.  I think my frugal days as a student had made a salad feel like a luxury.  Lately I order them more.  This meal in January 2025 where we shared salad bruschetta and ravioli was one of my favourites at Tiamo.  The food was fantastic and ambience was perfect eating outdoors on a balmy summers day with views through green leafy trees to the19th Century buildings of Lygon Street.  Above you can see the amazing Rocket Salad ($18.90): with pears, walnuts and shaved parmesan drizzled with a balsamic glaze.  It was so so good.

The Bruschetta has a generous pile of chopped tomato with red onion, herbs and a balsamic drizzle.  It was great with the salad.  I could not see it on the current online menu.  It has been a staple for quite a while and it would be sad if it was no longer.

One of the best parts of sharing salad, bruschetta and ravioli is that there is room for dessert.  I had the Baileys cheesecake ($14): a creamy ricotta cheesecake with a hint of Baileys Irish cream that is served with a berry coulis.   Sylvia had the Tiramisu ($14) served with drizzled chocolate sauce, cream and fresh berries.  We were both really happy with our desserts.  The cheesecake was not really boozy but had such great dense texture and was great with the coulis.

Since then I have had a couple of visits to Tiamo with Heather when we have seen films across the road at the Cinema Nova.  In the middle of this year we saw the Salt Path followed by an excellent Eggplant parmigiana with seasonal vegetables ($36.90).  It was not the slab of eggplant under a blanket of crisp and gooey cheese that I have had elsewhere but rather a few layers of eggplant with mozzarella cheese between the layers and lots of tomato sauce.  The eggplant was perfectly cooked but less of a dair  feast than usual.  It was an amazing meal with nicely cooked vegetables.

Last month was my last visit to Tiamo after Heather and I saw The Ballad of Wallis Island at the Nova.  I had the Canelloni de Ricotta ($34.90) off the specials menu.  The ricotta and spinach canneloni was served with bechemal and napoli sugo.  It was really lovely, but would have been better with side vegies or a salad but one dish was enough while grabbing a quick meal.
 

I am sure we will return to Tiamo over and over which can be relied upon to produces good food with friendly service.  They don't like split bills and some days the places looks packed to the rafters but I usually have found a seat and had a great time there.  

I have written on Green Gourmet Giraffe blog about more great Italian restaurants in inner city Melbourne: Bar Idda in East Brunswick, Brunetti in Carlton and Pepe's Italian & Liquor in the CBD.

Tiamo
303 Lygon Street, Carlton
https://tiamo.com.au/

In My Kitchen: October 2025

We are galloping towards the end of the year at some pace!  October was a busy month with a roller coaster of hot days turned to pouring rain, of getting life in order only to sink into a feeling of being totally overwhelmed, and of crazy busy days at work following a wonderful holiday in Daylesford.  It was the month for getting updated: a haircut, a car service and a bike service.  

Above is a picture of some rosemary and flowers I collected after pruning the garden last weekend when we had barely finished before the rain soaked the plants and the washing on the line in what turned out to be the wettest day in 18 months.  The weather was so wild that there was a hurricane in Werribee.  I heard a woman on the radio the following day describe the wind peeling the roof off her pergola like the lid of a sardine tin and lifting her husband a foot off the ground.

We brought a few souvenirs home from our 4 day Daylesford holiday.  These gorgeous spoons, with fancy metalwork on the handles, were found in a box of cutlery in an op shop.  They are in regular usage.  You can also seem some retro chunky beads that was one of Sylvia's jewellery purchases and the edges of a batch of Lemon slice made by Sylvia to take to Daylesford for snacking.

I bought this Spring Bouquet Japanese stoneware dinner plate at the Daylesford Mill Market.  It was overpriced at $28 but I had never seen a green version the commonplace brown floral stoneware dinner plates that are sold dirt cheap in op shops everywhere.  I love using it in the kitchen.  No no regrets!   

I also bought 3 of these gorgeous greeting cards at Daylesford Mill Market at a reasonable price (I think they were $3 each).  Sylvia bought the fairy card at the Daylesford Convent Gallery for a lot more.  I have been meaning to put the one of the hungry cat with ukelele above the cat food bowl.  (It reads: Let me play you a song: it's called there's no food in my bowl!)

When it comes to food our cat Shadow is very needy.  He is able to go and eat by himself, but if we are about he likes to scratch and glare and even reach his paw around my computer screen to let me know he needs someone to come with him to his food bowl in the bathroom and give him a pat before he will eat. 

He loves his dry food.  Sometimes I wonder if he used to be given cat food from a tin because he always is a bit excited whenever I open a tin.  But it is not just tins.  He is often interested in any food, especially cheese.  If I get out cheese for anything he just appears just magic.  He loves the stuff and if he could he would live on the stuff.  Recently my neighbour bought chicken necks for her cats who refused them.  So she tried them with Shadow but he would not touch them either.  I was a bit proud of him!  And relieved he did not suddenly demonstrate a love for chicken necks because I could not and would not serve them to him.
 

One more souvenir from Dayelsford is a light shade to go in Sylvia's room - from the Dayelsford Bazaar.  If there had been two I might have got one for my room too.  The domed shell has green leaves and trim in a lovely shade.  I have put it away carefully until I can get a light shade for my room and have an electrician convert the light fittings in the bedrooms.

In September I finally posted the recipe for these wonderful Easy brownies that are mixed in the tin.  On a whim, Sylvia made them again in October.  Midway through making them she discovered that we had no eggs.  She was already up to her armpits in mixture so I suggested she instead add a couple of chia eggs (where a chia egg is 1 tablespoon of chia seeds and 3 tablespoon of water).  It worked fantastically.  She was less impressed than me but I would do this again - perhaps a little flatter but still were easy, chewy and tasted amazing.

My favourite new recipe of the month was this Crispy rice salad that Sylvia found online.  Rice was cooked and mixed with oil, panko crumbs and seasoning before being crisped up in our airfryer (much quicker than the oven in the recipe).  This crispy rice was scattered over a salad of dinosaur kale, cucumber, avocado, edamame, spring onions and herbs with a dressing of kewpie mayo, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, chilli, honey and sesame oil.  It was delicious and then being It was great because - twice rice and edamame - about 1/2 tsp chilli paste in dressing and rice basmati (did not have to cool too long - ok warm) 8-10min at 200c in liner in airfryer.  The fresh veg with the creamy dressing and crunchy rice was amazing.  This is one to repeat as the weather gets warmer.

 

Sylvia had fried rice from a food court at Highpoint shopping centre that she loved.  She told me I put too much soy sauce in fried rice and need to be more like that fried rice.  She found me a recipe - 'dad's' fried rice.  I was happy to try it but it had too much egg.  So I found a recipe for a vegan egg fried rice using a besan egg.  In addition, instead of frying the veg, I steamed it in my microwave steamer with vegies (peas, carrots, corn, edamame and later spring onion) on one layer and rice warmed up on another layer.  It was a good fried rice but I would make changes.  I needed to leave the besan mixture to firm up a bit more before stirring in the rice which became very clumpy.  As I finished cooking it occurred to me I had doubled up on the seasoning and in future if I used the two recipes together I needed to ease off on the seasoning.  This is a recipe I want to work on.  Stay tuned!

I made a barley stew one night.  I used what was about: onion, celery, carrot, potato, green peas, green lentils (that should have been soaked), edamame and of course barley with some simple seasonings of stock powder, dried herbs, vinegear and honey.  It worked really well and filled up our tummies!

When I heard on the radio that it was international mashed potato day on 18 October my mind went into flights of fantasy about having time to make lots of mashed potato dishes and writing a long blog post about my love of mashed potato and all the ways I loved to feature it in recipes.  In reality, it took me a few days to make one easy celtic mashed potato dish with the wonderful name of Rumbledethumps.  When I had previously made it I steamed the leek, cabbage and broccoli and it was really green.  This time I fried the leek and cabbage and steamed the broccoli and it was more beige.  Nevertheless it tasted lovely and felt like a healthier way to eat mashed potatoes.

Another recipe that appeared quite easy was a Miso, tomato and oregano pasta by Ottolenghi.  After congratulating myself during the week of using up a tub of cherry tomatoes, I found that they had been intended for this pasta.  So it all changed.  I added sundried tomatoes, green olives, butter beans, parsley and spring onion.  The miso, maple and garlic granule dressing was good but I needed more because we used more pasta.  Sylvia tells me we need to do it Ottolenghi's way next time! 

While at Preston Market, we found these mil tea Kit Kats.  I think we bought it based on the cute red tartan packaging, thinking you can't go wrong with Kit Kats.  It was ok but the white chocolate was a bit sweet for my liking.  If only they were as amazing as the packaging!

My manager had 6 weeks of leave.  It was great to have time to catch up on my to do list without having more added to it constantly.  But it was also good to have her back.  She bought us all a pair of chopsticks and a cute little cat chopstick rest from Japan.  It was very generous and so nice to see all the different pairs of chopsticks around the desks.

Sylvia's dad found her a tub of 2 minute mac and cheese topokki.  It is like a modern update on the 2 minute noodles of my youth.  Just add boiling water.  Sylvia found the sauce a bit sweet but loved the instant chewy rice sticks.  I liked the sauce and topokki and thought it a decent stab at Korean fusion fast food.

I liked the look of these Vegetarian "Hacao" dumplings at KFL supermarket.  (Wikipedia tells me that traditional Cantonese dumplings can be anglicised as har gow, ha gow, hau kau, or ha kao.)  The ingredient list was not as disturbingly long as some frozen dumplings. They were filled with seasoned Yam bean, Caro, Tro, Mung bean, Black fungus, Chinese mushrooms and "Bean cur sheet" (which I think is meant to say bean curd aka tofu).  I took a bad picture of the filling but was more impressed by my photo of them in the microwave steamer,  I'd love to have them again but Sylvia less certain.

Sylvia is a big fan of Frys vegan soy and linseed schnitzels but had not liked their vegan nuggets.  The new packaging for the nuggets got our attention more than the "new and improved" claim.  Sylvia at the nuggets in the packet with one going to me to taste but we were not enthused enough to buy them again.

I stopped at Terra Madre and bough some eco sponge cloths and eco scouring pads.  It seemed the right thing to do especially with the pretty patterns on the cloths.  In my ideal world I use them to replace my usual blue kitchen sponges with a scouring pad attached. Yet they are so pretty I have been reluctant to use them.  It is the dilemma with kitchen and cleaning clothes that it is so nice to have them looking pristine but we really want them to use them as intended they get very manky.  I am working on it!

I am a fan of Remedy kombucha which is readily available in my supermarkets and cafe.  Even so, I have noticed that there is less kombucha available in cafes lately, as though the enthusiasm for kombucha is waning.  There are now many more low-cal  adult sodas on the market that aren't tooth achingly sweet.  I remain faithful to kombucha and wish every cafe offered it.  It is interesting to see some newly packaged Small Batch kombuchas being produced by Remedy.  Is this to get attention in a crowded market.  I was not a huge fan of the Lychee and Strawberry (unlike Sylvia) but loved the Yuzu and Madarin.  They are photographed with a couple of Sukin products.  It is a skincare range I like using with aromatic essential oils.

We had a pleasant visit to the Abbotsford convent with a walk around the farmers market and lunch at Cam's Kiosk.  It was great to see the Mama Made Ferments there who have taken over Gorgeous George's kombucha recipes.  Of course we bought a bottle: apple and strawberry.  (According to their website they have now ceased trading - sigh!)  

 

There was some excellent baking too especially from .HazelBark Patisserie where we bought it all except the loaf of bread.  I ate my vegemite and cheese pretzel at the market but we bought home a brioche doughnut with French custard for Sylvia, a miso chocolate chip cookie and a lovely loaf of sourdough pumpkin bread with lovely soft orange chunks of pumpkin.  That cookie was so so good.  It was satisfyingly dense with lots of chocolate chunks and a lovely chewy blob of miso caramel in the middle, 

 

We are a sucker for a new version of an old product.  Peters drumsticks have brought out a Banana Caramel drumstick.  It was nice with a decent banana flavour.  I prefer more chocolate in mine but Sylvia was a big fan.  Kudos for the cute packaging and linking the flavour to the Big Banana, an Australian road trip icon.

October ended with Halloween and not much energy.  We had plans to look at some houses but in the end were defeated by tiredness and wet weather.  Earlier in the day I stopped at Back Alley Bakes for some Halloween baking.  I had orders to buy a pumpkin scroll but found they were only available on weekends.  So instead I bought her a skeleton gingerbread and a lime and olive filled ghost biscuit.  

I also bought the Spooky Special scroll with swirls of black sesame fnagipani, a yuzu custard filling and a meringe flourish on top, and a loaf of seeded sourdough.  As so often happens at Back Alley Bakes she did not like my choices but at least the skeleton was a hit!  I loved the dark and delicious swirls in the scroll. I could have done with less custard but it had a lovely citrus flavour.  And as always the bread is lovely for some easy weekend meals.

I am sending this post to Sherry of Sherry's Pickings for the In My Kitchen event. If you would like to join in, send your post's url to Sherry by 13th of the month.  Or just head over to her blog to visit more kitchens and her gorgeous hand drawn header.  Thanks to Sherry for continuing to host this even that brings together some wonderful bloggers who share glimpses into their kitchens.  

Remembering Alex and Ian 18

It is the birthday of our stillborn twin sons Alex and Ian today.  They would have been 18 today.  If they hadn't died they would be adults, able to drink alcohol and drive.  As it is, there is too much over the years that they have missed out on.  Always in our hearts.  We have cake for them today to remember them, what was and what might have been.

As I do every year, I am sharing some recent online news stories related to pregnancy loss and grief.  

In the face of grief, it’s hard to find the right words to say. What matters is that you keep trying, by Ranjana Srivastava, in the Guardian, 11 September 2024.

Allanah lost her son when she was 22 weeks pregnant. Now she’s helping others through the grief of stillbirth, in the Guardian, 29 December 2024. 

Outrage as company asks influencer [Brooklyn Larsen] for cot back after her baby died as they apologise for 'additional hurt', in National World, 24 March 2025.

'Sylvie was stillborn. It was tough to hear other babies cry', in BBC News, on 15 April 2025.

Parents, midwives call for better bereavement care training after stillbirth, in ABC News, 16 May 2025.

World’s most premature baby celebrates first birthday [21 weeks, 133 days], in the Guardian, 26 July 2025.

How Katharine, Duchess of Kent Broke Barriers by Speaking About Stillborn Son and the 'Devastating Effect on Me' in People on 5 September 2025.

Memorial call for stillborn babies in mass graves, BBC News, 22 September 2025.

Count the Kicks: Football teams raise awareness for stillbirth rate, in Our Quad News, on 15 October 2025.

The Living Legacy of a Stillborn Child, by Krista Beneš,  in The Catalyst, September 2025

12 Daylesford shopping and sightseeing highlights: lake, museum and mill markets

Daylesford is a popular country town only an hour and half drive from Melbourne that is known for great food, galleries, shopping and of course the iconic Lakehouse that attract hipsters and hippies alike.  We recently enjoyed a great holiday here (see end of post for links to other posts) and spent quite a bit of time sightseeing and browsing the shops and markets.  They reflect the artists and artisans, the tree changers and tree huggers, the 19th Century gold rush diggers and 20th Century LBTQI community, that characterises Daylesford.  It has city style while retaining a rural charm.

Here are some of the places we visited (Note: many of these are on or near Vincent Street between Albert Street and Central Springs Road, which is the main shopping strip):

1. Blake Family Grocer (1 Howe Street, Daylesford)

Blakes is a "gourmet super store" that looks like a supermarket stocked by stallholders from a farmers market.  It offers lots of artisan and local food.  Everything is displayed with great style and a joy to browse with intriguing products such as tiger nut milk, corn and sweet potato spaghetti, pistachio brittle, 

2. Wombat Hill Florist (28 Raglan Street, Daylesford)

There is nothing like a florist bursting with vibrant colours and gorgeous flowers.  Even better when they have an amazing range of gifts candles, cards, cups, bowls and egg baskets.  It evokes beautiful gardens and talented artists.
 

3. Salvos Stores (22-24 Howe Street, Daylesford) 

We visited three op shops along Howe Street and the best seemed to be the Salvos with some eye catching displays and the best range of stock.

4. Daylesford Bazaar (Shop 4, 9 Howe Street, Daylesford)

The bazaar was a collective of stallholders who had a fine eye for arranging the gorgeous vintage furniture and goods.  It was a pleasure to browse and discover items that made me nostalgic and stuff I wished I had in my house if only I had the room and  budget.  

5: Mill Market (105 Central Springs Road, Daylesford)

We had been to the Mill Markets in Geelong before so were excited to see the Daylesford Mill Markets.  The old truck by the entranced was promising.  It had all the age and fun we expect of the wares.  It is a trek from the main street so we drove there.

The Mill Markets is in a huge old warehouse.  It is easy to feel lost in the maze of all the stalls, each of which is managed by different people.  They all have their own personality with some focusing on kitchenware, others clothes, some having lots of kids items and others jewellery  Most of it is fascinating.  It feels as much museum as market to browse all the historic items.

Here are a few examples of items: a miniature fruit basket, statuettes of Studio Giblhi's no face, little telephone box and Tardis, a ceramic white cat, a retro typewriter, Michelin man figurines, a framed floral picture, a kids wooden car, green goblets.  So much we wanted to buy.

These cat pictures amused me but I was also curious about the feet hanging down  at the top of the photo.  I wish I had looked up to see what this was.  A row of clothed dummies?  There was just so much to see in the Mill Markets that it was impossible to see it all.

6. Curious Antiques (91 Vincent St, Daylesford)

The Antiques shop on the corner of Vincent Street and Central Springs Road is in a fine 19th Century brick building.  Inside are a few cluttered rooms with a jumble of old stuff that is fun to comb for treasures.

We bought a few small things here and the older woman at a vintage cash register who only took cash - no cards - was kind and happy to chat over the state of the world.

7. Daylesford and District Museum (100 Vincent Street, Daylesford)

At 2.30pm on a Saturday I noticed the Daylesford and District Museum was open for the next half hour.  I organised for Sylvia to go on to the next shop and I went to the museum alone to look around at the photos and artifacts of the town history.

8. Paradise Books (46 Vincent St, Daylesford) 

I expected to find lots of bookshops in Daylesford as it is that sort of town.  Surprisingly there is just Paradise Books.  That is a sign of people reading less.  (We didn't even have a bookshelf in our holiday accommodation!)  It was sad to hear that the Book Barn by the Lake has closed.  

I hang my head in shame that I didn't go into Paradise Books on this trip.  We were too tired to go in by the time we passed.  Instead I took a photo of the gorgeous entrance which beckoned me with it's Victorian archway and printed bookshelves either side of the door.  Inside are 14 rooms over two floorsNext I time I will try better.  It is well worth it.

 9. Brick Lane Bazaar (34 Vincent Street, Daylesford

While there aren't many bookshops in Daylesford, there are many markets and op shops, many of which have books for sale.  Sylvia enjoyed looking around the Brick Lane Bazaar while I was at the Museum.  I had a quick look and it had lots of wonderful secondhand goods big and small to look at.  I particularly loved the dolls house furniture (above)

 10. Lake Daylesford (Leggatt Street, Daylesford)

Daylesford Lake is one of the best known landmarks in the town.  The walking track around the lake - called Peace Mile Walk (and apparently formerly known as Lovers Walk) stretches for 2.8km.  It is very pretty with lots of birdlife to be seen.

 

While the lake seems very much part of the town, I was surprised to find that it was artificial, having been constructed from an old gold mining site and opened in 1930.  I had thought that this was one of the places out of town visitors would have come to "take the waters" to be cured when it was a popular spa town in the 1880s.  Actually it was a spa town because of the abundant natural mineral springs in the area.  

 

Today Daylesford is still known for its spa.  The idea of Daylesford as a spa town was revived by the Lake House which opened as a restaurant in 1984 (see above photo of the original building).  Today the Lake House has grown to include a hotel, spa, farm and functions venue.  One of my neighbours, who used to live in Daylesford, tells me that she used to see weddings often as she walked around the lake. The restaurant sounds like a wonderful place to eat if you can get a seat and afford it's hefty prices.  Maybe one day!

We parked near the Boat House - where I have eaten on previous trips - and walked part way along the walking track in the glorious spring sunshine.  Before returning to the car, we had an ice cream at Walters 3460.  It is a pretty little hole in the wall with the most amazing smooth rich ice cream.

11. Daylesford Sunday Market (18 Raglan Street Daylesford)

The Sunday Market is another iconic place to visit in Daylesford.  We went here towards the end of our holiday after visiting quite a few markets and op shops.  I was a bit over shopping and spending so we didn't buy much but we did enjoy browsing the stalls.

The stalls have lots of cute craft, second hand bric-a-brac, clothes, food, drink and produce.  We stopped to buy fudge and a wonderful cheese and onion focaccia.  (As we nibbled on it on the drive home I wished i had bought more of the focaccia).  Sylvia liked the little felt cat and I was enchanted by the fairy terrariums.  There were also plants, jewellery, candles and carpets that caught our eye.  For those who wanted more entertainment there was a busker, a face paint stall and heritage train rides from the market. 

We hadn't eaten and had quite a few options for brunch: crepes, galettes, tacos, chips and scones.  We stopped for juice and giant roti with a fried egg for Sylvia and slaw and apple sauce for me.  We found a seat near the old train station and enjoyed a bit of crowd watching before leaving.

12 Convent Gallery (7 Daly Street Daylesford) 

My favourite place in Daylesford is the Convent Gallery, which as the name suggests was a convent school that has been restored and repurposed as an art gallery.  It is a beautiful old building with amazing artwork on show and a small museum in the basement.  I have written about it a lot more in a separate post that you can link to below or above.

More posts on our Daylesford holiday:

• Daylesford Accommodation 
• Daylesford Hotel: a grand country pub
• Daylesford Convent Gallery  
• Daylesford eating out: Cliffys, Hot Chocolate Apothecary and Daylesford Larder