Pipers By The Lake - Ballarat

Charming à la carte restaurant with breathtaking lakeside views and warm, friendly staff. However, the atmosphere is occasionally marred by strong, spicy body odor. The modern outdoor decking enhances the establishment's earthy feel, but patrons may be occasionally treated to less pleasant odors wafting from the grease trap. On a bright note, they offer fresh scones daily, which are delightful! Overall, a mixed experience—4 stars!

The service can be quite slow—really slow at times—though there are occasions when it's perfectly fine. They open early but close by 4 PM, which seems surprising; you'd expect longer hours during the summer. However, the white chocolate hot chocolate is absolutely delicious!

Completely understaffed, do not bother. Busy Saturday and it took 45 minutes to get 2 drinks. Very disappointing.

Unbelievable one of the best locations on Lake Wendouree and opposite Botanical Gardens, amazing outlook over the lake and great setting with ambience. However, on a magical Saturday I was told that their would be a 15 minute wait for a coffee! The takeaway section did not look like it was over run! Sadly had to walk out!

Three stars is a generous rating closer to 2.5. You can not fault the view, easy parking, surrounding atmosphere perfect! The service was good friendly and polite. We ordered our food, sat down outside and a few minutes later the waiter came out and told us they had run out of the breakfast pie, so perhaps not so housemade ? replaced with pancakes. When the waiter brought our drinks out he spilt my juice across the table and made no attempts to wipe it down no apology no recognition he 'd just spilt juice right where we were about to eat.. Mmm .. Maybe I 'm fussy, but at this point we were two of four people in the place.. Sooo.. The food LOOKED promising. There was quite a bit of toast and bacon (two of each); scrambled egg serve was small compared to what was on the plate. The whole thing was completely average. No taste. Eggs were meh . Pancakes were the same dry as, a scraping of Nutella on the top pancake and a mound of hazelnuts. It wasn 't send back food just disappointing. All up this place was ok I mean their prices are not bad (14.90 for egg/bacon/toast) and you know what they say you get what you pay for just a shame that the presentation and false fanciness (from the outside) of the place makes you think that you will get a great treat and experience here. If you must come do so for the view and atmosphere and perhaps just grab a coffee or something...