Jacqui Felgate reviews: The (unofficial) best chip in Victoria

What makes a great chip? It is the crunch? The potato? The salt (chicken) or the dipping sauce?

I took a trip down the Mornington Peninsula this week to Hawkes Farm. I have been wanting to go for months. It’s home of the unofficial best chip in Victoria.

I follow the chip blogger @mips_chips and if you’re a chip aficionado you should too. She voted these the only 10/10 chip in the state. They’re triple-cooked, hand cut and made using potatoes that are grown at Hawkes Farm (it’s is actually a 140-acre vegetable farm).

For me, what made these chips so good was the potato. Fluffy and creamy they really make the chip. These chips aren’t oily, they’re golden and crispy and different sizes and shapes. They come with free tomato sauce or you can buy aioli or sour cream and sweet chilli. The food truck also serves croque monsieur and a few other things but you really come here for the chips.

There’s a sandpit for the kids and a huge old 1970s tractor they can climb all over. Picnic tables were full on the day we visited (even though it was freezing!) and there’s heaps of room for the kids to run wild.

The farm gate shop has produce from across the peninsula, including Johnny Ripe pies (which I also love!). We also enjoyed a vanilla slice and also took home some lovely fresh produce which is grown on site.

Pro tip: the food truck is open on weekends from 10am-3pm  

See all of Jacqui’s past reviews HERE.

Hawkes Farm
661 Boneo Road, Boneo VIC
hawkesfarm.com.au