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Miss Moneypenny’s

NOTE: Adam Dundas-Taylor is no longer Executive Chef at Miss Moneypenny’s. A year after the opening of the sister venue to Noosa’s award-winning Miss Moneypenny’s under the Avani apartment tower in Broadbeach, The Good Time Group welcomed renowned restaurateur Adam Dundas-Taylor as Executive Chef for the $8 million mini dining precinct, which also includes Fat...
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The Yiros Shop has come to town, bringing us the flavours of Greece, and we couldn’t be happier. Besides gorgeous landscapes, amiable people and lots of history, one of the beauties of visiting Greece is that you know there’s always a great feed around the corner. Greeks know how to prepare food. It’s fresh, full...
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‘There is no success without hardship’, the Greek playwright Sophocles once said, and for HolyJala’s owner, Andrea Muhlemann, that is certainly the case. Having migrated from Barcelona to Australia five years ago to gain a Master’s in Marketing and Business, Andrea worked in hospitality saving money to open her own business. All was going well...
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Great seafood restaurants will never go out of vogue. In fact, people will travel out of their way to visit, even crossing borders to dine on the best the ocean has to offer. My first trip across the border post-lockdown was well spent with a visit to Gallura Italian. We had heard so much about...
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Aussies love a great night out. We also love Mediterranean food. Where better to have dinner than at a Greek taverna, which carries the connotations of good times, great food and plenty of liquid refreshment. But there are too few tavernas on the Gold Coast, a culinary gap that needed to be filled. One of...
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‘The only constant in life is change’ Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, and that’s certainly true of the dining scene in Broadbeach. Restaurants open, close, change owners, staff and cuisine so often that it’s hard to keep track. Among them, there are several stayers that set the standard of food and service for the rest, their...
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The Lucky Squire, the Gold Coast’s own James Squire brewhouse extraordinaire, opened in mid-June after three years of construction, transforming the ‘west wing’ of the Oracle precinct from a bunch of shops to an awesome venue catering for over 400 revellers. A collaboration between the Mantle Group and Lion (who also own The Charming Squire...
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Position, position, position. Often touted as the key to investing, these are not the only three precepts of real estate. Another is to gain a location as close as possible to your opposition. Emma Collingwood did better than that. She took over the lease. Having owned Kirramisu as a family business since 2007 and established...
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If you asked us to name a restaurant that’s a local secret; a place that Gold Coast residents from a couple of suburbs away may not even know about yet it engenders fierce loyalty from those who do, then That’s Amore would be on the tip of our tongue. It’s an uber-local secret. A family...
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Writing about food is like a box of chocolates. You can reach into the box, but you’re never quite sure what flavour you’re going to get. Sometimes it’s not the one you feel like; it may even be downright disappointing. Sometimes it comes in the wrong wrapper. But for every meal that disappoints us, for...