At Nook On The Hill, we believe that a romantic getaway should be about the simple, profound act of slowing down together and connecting. The Art of the Slow Reset Your arrival at the Nook is designed to be an immediate invitation to unspool. There are no check-in desks or rigid schedules. Instead, there is […]

The Grampians calendar is set for one of the year’s most anticipated events! The Grampians Grape Escape, the region’s premier food and wine festival, returns to Halls Gap in May 2026, and it promises to be the biggest celebration of our resilient local community yet. This is more than just a festival; it’s a powerful […]

One of our favourite reasons to head into Pomonal involves some of the most exciting wines in the region. Black & Ginger Wines host their beautiful cellar door, The Wine Shed, right next door to the iconic Barney’s Bar & Bistro. A Grampians Staple Black & Ginger is known for pushing the boundaries of the […]

A morning at the Nook often starts slowly. A pot of coffee in the kitchen while the clouds gently cascade over the ridge and the morning sun ignites the sandstone escarpment. But when you’re ready to wander, there are a few places nearby that understand the ritual of a good brew. Livefast, Halls Gap A […]

The first thing most guests notice isn’t the view, although the view is the first thing they mention later. It’s the hamper on the kitchen bench — a arrangement of things that takes a moment to take in because each item turns out to be from somewhere specific. What’s in the Hamper The sourdough is […]

Pomonal General Store is the kind of shop you can’t quite explain until you’ve been inside it. Coffee, local produce, something for a picnic, something for breakfast — yes, all of that. But mostly it’s Nadya, who runs it like it belongs to the village rather than to her, because she thinks it does. Nadya’s […]

There’s chocolate in your hamper. Not the supermarket kind — handcrafted dark chocolates made by Kerrie, whose workshop and cafe operate out of Pomonal. They’re in the hamper because they’re good, and because they’re made by someone ten minutes from where you’re sleeping. The Chocolate Kerrie uses Belgian chocolate sourced via the Cocoa Trace program, […]

Halls Gap has a wine shop worth knowing about. Not a tourist bottle shop — a proper cellar, run by someone who knows what he’s talking about and genuinely enjoys the conversation. Simon Freeman Simon has been curating Grampians wine longer than most people have known the region makes it. He can tell you which […]

There’s a sourdough culture in your hamper that has been alive considerably longer than your booking. It crossed Australia in a car, ended up in Pomonal, and became the foundation of a bakery that we’d back against most of what’s available in any city. Blue Wren Bakery is Nick and Jackie’s project. It’s been part […]

When we first moved to this hill, it was a cleared paddock. Open sky, dry ground, a blank slate that didn’t know what it could become. We had a rough idea, and a good nursery not far away. Half an acre of native garden later, we have our answer. Vaughan’s Native Nursery Almost everything in […]