Heafod Glen Winery
Heafod Glen Winery is a small family run business in many ways better known for the associated Chester’s Restaurant which is adjacent to the cellar door. Heafod Glen make a nice range of classic Swan valley varietals and a particularly nice Port. They also sell a range of oils and condiments produced by Chester’s Restaurant.
The cellar door has the warm character of brick and timber much like the restaurant. A visit to the complex is similar to stopping by at many family run provincial vineyards that you could visit while touring in France.
Chester’s Restaurant
Chesters is a personal favourite for a slow lunch with good friends. The meals are always of a high standard and the staff relaxed. Matched with a bottle of Heafod Glen wine it is a fine dining experience.
Limouisne access to Heafod Glen Winery and Chester’s Restaurant
The driveway in from West Swan Road is narrow and access to the car park on a busy day can be quite restricted for larger stretch Chrysler limos being able to negotiate turning if cars are parked randomly around the fringe of the car park. Not to worry, it is the driver’s dilemma to turn the limo while you are sampling some great wines or enjoying lunch at Chester’s Restaurant. Apart from very busy days, the car park adequately provides room for all but the largest buses. Like many wineries, large bus groups are not suited to Heafod Glen.
Belle Limos smaller Rolls Royce limousines and classic Jaguar sedans would rarely encounter a problem turning around.
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Contact Heafod Glen and Chester’s Restaurant
T (08) 9296 3444
A 8691 West Swan Road Henley Brook
W Heafod Glen Winery
Parking at Chesters Restaurant
The car park at Chesters Restaurant will accommodate approximately 30 cars on the asphalt with spill over parking on the adjoining field. There is a turning loop through the car park which is suitable for regular cars but not stretch limousines or buses when the car park is full.
Late night chauffeur cars
Chesters Restaurant is not a frequently used wedding venue so it is not on the radar for taxis late at night. Like most Swan Valley wedding venues, relying on short call taxi and Uber hire for wedding parties to get a ride home on Friday and Saturday nights is a lottery. Over 20 weddings may be finishing between 11.00pm and midnight in the Swan Valley on a typical night in wedding season resulting in a huge demand for a very limited number of vehicles that may be in the valley.
It is essential that the bride and groom pre-book their end of night transfer and advisable to inform guests to do the same if a bus or other transport is not organised. We frequently see guests trying to flag down limousines along West Swan Road around midnight after walking from the venue because taxis have not turned up before the staff left at the end of night.
Limousine access and parking
Access to Chesters Restaurant and Heafod Glen Winery is via a long ‘battle axe’ style of driveway off West Swan Road. Whilst it is well sign posted it is easy to miss if you don’t have some reference points in mind as you approach from either direction. If you miss the drive negotiating a u-turn along West Swan Road is not easy (especially in a stretch limousine) so be prepared and slow down a few hundred metres before the entry.
The car park off to the left of the drive has been designed with regular cars in mind and can be a trap for stretch limousines on a busy day. Do a visual scan of the car park to ensure the limousine can turn around in the parking area before entering. If the car park is full continue along the drive and drop off behind (to the north of) the cellar door / restaurant. The limousine can be turned around in the rear field and parked facing out at the same spot for pick-up.
Visibility along the drive at night is quite poor so extra caution is needed if doing an end of night pick-up.
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