Behind the Plate

The Gold Coast boasts a plethora of cafés, popular not only for their coffee but also for their fabulous food and atmosphere. But when you’re travelling with kids, the choices diminish. Sometimes you feel the need to don combat gear to even venture outside the house, let alone go dining! We set out to find...

Boudoir Lounge’s Sunday degustation brunch provides a great opportunity to taste Lebanese-inspired cuisine, the food of restaurateur Harvey Gebara’s own homeland. Inspired to share a version of a traditional Middle Eastern breakfast banquet since he opened Boudoir, six months later, after a few rocky months for all of us, it was time for Boudoir to...

July may almost be over, but it’s not too late to ditch the plastic…not literally of course, but before we use it. What started as a pledge for Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and forty of her friends to use less plastic for the month of July has turned into a global phenomenon. Last year alone, Plastic Free...

With over 140 shops, Tweed City Shopping Centre services locals and visitors alike. Located only five minutes’ drive from the Coolangatta Airport, the centre also houses cafés, restaurants and a food court enabling shoppers to shop and dine without leaving the centre.  No matter what time of the day it is, there are great meals...

“In the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to. If things go back exactly as they were, we will have missed the opportunity to take the good from this bad.” Dave Hollis In March 2020 the hospitality industry was brought to a virtual...

The COVID crisis has made one thing clear to everyone: food takeaway and delivery are here to stay. Pre-COVID, the experience of going out once a week to a restaurant was a date night treat for some, while others ate out daily. During isolation time, however, dining changed. With the choice of eating out taken...

The best businesses are built on conviction and passion. They don’t just pay the bills, they fuel the heart. That’s how it is with Artisan Ferments, a business founded by Tom Pascal and his family. While completing his degree in food and nutrition science, Tom realised the importance of good bacteria for gut health. Putting...

Best-selling author, Caralee Fontenele, shares her passion for real food, flavour and mindful eating in her recently published cookbook, ‘Nourishing You’. Caralee’s dishes have been crafted for people with limited time who don’t want to sacrifice health, demonstrating her philosophy of eating real, whole foods. More and more Australians are putting their wellbeing at risk...

Feeling shut in?  ‘Nourishing You’ is the newest release from bestselling author Caralee Fontenele, where she shares her love of real food, flavour and mindful living with 100 simple recipes. We asked Caralee for some tips about thriving rather than surviving COVID-19: Right now, as we all are social distancing and preparing to lock down...

Softly spoken yet engaging due to his incredible knowledge about his craft, Paul Golding is Paradox Coffee Roasters’ Head of Coffee. We meet at a coffee cupping session at Cabukee Café, Paul guiding us through the sensory delights of smelling, observing and tasting different coffees, each one so different to another. Believe me, coffee just...