Sherwood Restaurant
Home Grown
We draw inspiration from the landscapes we call home. The ingredients, flavours, colours and textures of our food and drink reflect the changing seasons. We look forward to welcoming you to Queenstown’s only two-hat awarded restaurant.
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The style and ethos of our Executive Chef, Chris Scott, has always been connected to seasons and produce.
“The versatility offered by our organic garden here is huge in a creative sense.”
After growing up in the Waikato, Chris mastered his art through hotels in the UK, the Michelin system in Europe and some of Melbourne’s top eateries. And of course locally, in his own restaurant Zinc Bar & Eatery and Josh Emett’s restaurant, Rata.
Today he calls Queenstown home—and with Two Hats awarded for his work at Sherwood, the Otago dining scene is all the richer for it.
Gibbston Valley winery, Mt Edward, was the first local winery to make wine for our house bottled programme.
A leading figure in the development of organic wine making practice in his local region, winegrower Duncan is a true community champion. Innately generous, dedicated to creating positive impact and passionate about bringing people together.
“If we leave any sort of legacy, it should be something people are still talking about in 200 years’ time. It will have become part of the social fabric. That starts with the understanding of our place and respect to Tangata Whenua.”
What was once a sparse bracken covered plot of land dotted with wildling pines, today is home to our thriving organic vegetable garden and bee hives. Queenstown’s growing seasons are short, so we take advantage of plant varieties that quickly come and go. This reliance on our place for our produce changes the way we cook.
We gather produce from all over New Zealand, as ethically as possible at every step. Highly fragrant wild thyme and rosemary from the craggy hills of the Kawarau Gorge. Birch Bolette mushrooms from a secret spot above Lake Hayes. Elderflower, fruit, nuts and berries from trees that grow wild around the basin.
The Sherwood dining experience is inspired by our beautiful surrounds and the bounty offered up by the changing seasons.
