House of Gabriel
Tucked in between the Gold Coast and Byron Bay, the Tweed Coast is a foodie destination all its own. The Tweed Fusion Festival, held annually in October, invites us away from our all-too-comfortable armchairs to explore and experience the environs just beyond our back door. Tweed Fusion is a two-day celebration of arts, music, food […]
Little Bandits Coffee
It may be tiny, but Little Bandits has been warmly welcomed by locals who’re passing around Upton Street on their way to work, visiting or working in the area. Open from 6.30am every week day, the main selling point of the café is their award-winning Belaroma coffee – a balanced yet complex coffee achieved through […]
The Salt Mill
Walk up from the beach at Currumbin, and you can talk surf with Johnny Gillett, who owns The Salt Mill with his wife Sarah. Perfect as their first café, it’s a little ‘cute as a button’ nook put together using the couple’s combined skills. Rough-hewn bench seats, fruit cartons and a wine barrel tell us […]
Hide ‘n’ Seek Espresso
NOTE: Now serving Burleigh Roasting Co coffee. Following a coffee experience is like barracking for a football team. Come across a loyal follower, and they’ll travel for kilometres to get their special brew, even when it’s out of the way. That’s how it is with Hide ‘n’ Seek. Not just a hot cup of stimulating […]
The Woodbox Café
FROM THE ARCHIVES: I walked into the Woodbox Café at West Burleigh and felt right at home. There’s that spacious ‘earth mother’ vibe going on which is rare on the Gold Coast: that of a large open country kitchen, where the bread is freshly baked, the heady aroma of coffee wafts through the room, produce […]
edBaker, Burleigh Heads
You may not have visited the edBaker shopfront, but chances are that you’ve tasted their food under the banner of an upmarket café, specialist chocolate shop, hotel or restaurant without knowing it. The edBaker outlet is inconspicuously tucked away in the industrial backblocks of Burleigh Heads. In fact, I would never have known about it […]
Horner’s of Sorrento
Although it’s been over thirty-three years since Pat and Karl Horner started their bakery, the business is still in the family, with son Robert now the proprietor and another family member the baker’s apprentice. Horner’s proudly boasts that everything except the beef jerky is baked on the premises and locals travel from far and wide […]