Browse the faces and places

We're not a showy house, and these photographs aren't staged. They are taken on ordinary evenings by whoever has a camera handy, usually Olivia, sometimes a guest who asks first and sends us the picture afterwards. If you spot yourself, you're welcome to ask us to take it down.

You'll see the dining room in daylight and by lamplight, the verandah posts that gave the building its shape, and the long tables that seat strangers and regulars side by side. The kitchen shots were taken during service, which is why a few of them are slightly blurred by steam.

Upstairs, the pictures show the baize, the wheel and the poker tables as they usually look: a little cluttered, deeply focused and rarely silent. We have deliberately left out anyone who is concentrating hard, because a good poker face deserves privacy.

Nothing here is staged around money, because there isn't any. You will see stacks of plain chips, a lot of cards and the cheerful faces of people who are only there for the evening.

Photographs from the kitchen are usually taken in the quiet hour before service, when the pass is clean and the plates are lined up in rows. They show the food as it really arrives: a generous spoonful of gravy, a slightly lopsided pavlova, a pile of chips that never stays tidy. We don't do styling, and Trevor refuses to let anyone near his plates with tweezers.

If you have taken a picture at the house that you'd like us to see, send it to the email address in the footer. We can't promise to publish it, but we will look at every one, and we always ask permission from anyone who is recognisable. Faces matter more to us than food, and consent matters more than either.

The collection grows slowly. A few new frames are added when the menu changes or a corner of the building is finished, and older ones are retired when they no longer look like the house. What you see here is a fair picture of an ordinary evening, which is exactly what we meant it to be.