Blendlove
UPDATE 2019: How far this cafe has come since it opened! The menu of raw cakes is now only one part of a complete plant-based a la carte menu. My…
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Blendlove
La Barrita
“How come we’ve never been here before?” We shake our heads as we walk away from La Barrita, impressed. Nestled in between Fins and Bombay Cricketers Club in Salt Village,…
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La Barrita
Be Somewhere
I’m looking at the shoes and they’re completely random: chef’s clogs with eggs and bacon splattered all over them – the pattern that is, not actual eggs and bacon. Still,…
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Be Somewhere
Currumbin Creek Food Trail
Settled by Europeans in the 1840s, Currumbin Valley, with its rich, fertile soil has long been associated with food production. Its original use for logging and grazing was soon joined…
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Currumbin Creek Food Trail
Local & Co.
There was a time in the ‘90s when Tedder Avenue, Main Beach, was the ‘eat street’ of the Gold Coast – the locale with the trendiest bars and the best…
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Local & Co.
Market Roundup
The Gold Coast offers a wide variety of markets that are guaranteed to please. Gold Coast markets offer residents the chance to purchase food directly from farmers and producers, to…
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Market Roundup
Social Brew
NOTE: The Richards family sold Social Brew early in 2017. “Everything the Richards family touches works really well,” a friend once confided. From what we’ve seen it’s certainly true. We’ve…
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Social Brew
Grill’d
Let’s face it: many of us are on a semi-permanent diet. Clean eating, paleo, cleansing, low carb... these terms have reached cult status on the Goldie, even if we are…
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Grill’d
Herman Brot Low Carb Bread
I love bread. Full stop. In fact, very often, given a choice of cake or a piece of fresh bread with butter and vegemite or peanut butter, I’d choose the…
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Herman Brot Low Carb Bread
The Source Bulk Foods
OK. I’ll admit it. I’m a fan of ‘clean and neat’. A clean freak, even! Somewhere in my handbag, there’s a little plastic bottle of hand disinfectant, alongside the tiny…
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The Source Bulk Foods