Our Philosophy- our food choices reflect adoption of personal responsibility to our wider community and environment. We proudly source locally where we can, and in doing so respect the toils of those who produce the food we eat.

At REAL, we’re offering you a new kind of dining experience where we respect the diversity of what’s available to us, learn from the environments around us and seek to pass on this knowledge to you through our menu options.

REAL Pizza Pasta Salads is part of The Place of Wonder family – a shared permaculture style garden, where the art of producing and preparing sustainable wholefood combines. We strive for diversity in all we think, do, and live and we seek environmental balance as our reward.

Becoming better ancestors – working for generations to come.

Located on Girai wurrung country, in the environmentally unique southwest Victorian tourist town of Port Campbell, we are a restaurant that puts eating responsibility at the forefront of what we do. We celebrate our connection to these regional lands and are conscious of what we leave behind for future generations.

We see our role of helping inspire and inform the food choices you make, as one which supports not only you, but our community and our environment too.

REAL practices good ancestry by:

• Growing supplementary ingredients locally at The Place of Wonder garden, decreasing the impact of packaging and food miles in our environment
• Promoting producers with similar ideals to aid a groundswell of conscious producers – see our ‘About’ page for a current list
• Minimising waste. We have 11 sorting bins and avoid, upcycle (see our outdoor tables and courtyard wall) or reapply (see our ‘Borrow Bureau’) resources wherever possible
• Encouraging the use of nutrient-dense ingredients which have been grown in vital soils, alongside instigating the Grow Vital Soil Challenge
• Being part of Powering Port Campbell, a volunteer run community group that is committed to ensuring energy in Port Campbell is reliable, renewable and efficiently used. The website has loads of easy to access information and resources related to our local region and its energy use.
• We encourage diversity in all we think and do