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TGI Fridays

American food has long been a favourite of Gold Coast diners. Talk burgers, fries and wings and you’ll get our attention. Sometimes we’ll even join a queue to taste a new brand. Opened in Manhattan, New York in 1965 by Alan Stillman, TGI Fridays was first marketed as a bar where single women could relax...
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Our favourite suburban cafés are heroes at championing the food scene for locals, providing coffee on the run, giving great service, with pricing and dishes suited to the clientele, and even weekend drinks close to home. Once established, with each change of ownership there’s a little hesitation. What direction will the new owner take? Will...
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Ipswich could well be the home of the burger in Queensland. As drovers pushed their mobs north from NSW and west into Queensland, they must have stopped along the way for dinner and a nap, allowing the cattle time to rest. There’d be no better meal that that already on hand, barbequed over an open...
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Fat Freddy’s Beach Bar & Diner has opened under the 5-star Avani apartment tower in Broadbeach. Opened by the Good Time Group as part of their multi-venue precinct, Fat Freddy’s name is a giveaway for its intent. The venue, combining sports bar, diner and gaming in one, dubbed by owner Ben Walsh as ‘a clean...
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Zarraffa’s Coffee has just launched their new $20 million national headquarters and bespoke café experience: Kiwanda Café. “It started with the idea of sharing our brand’s history with coffee with customers in a new way. That’s how the idea for Kiwanda Café was born,” says founder and director Kenton Campbell. Mr Campbell saw great possibilities...
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UPDATE 2019: Awarded “READERS CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST SEAFOOD” by Australian Good Food Guide, The Inky Squid is a shining star in the fresh seafood stakes. They also ranked #7 in NSW in the Australian Fish & Chip awards! Their bestsellers continue to be Lemon pepper squid with seaweed, the Inky Squid pack, and burgers....
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‘Moto’. Choose your meaning: ‘motorbike’, ‘motorcycle’, ‘motivated’, or ‘in motion’. In a way, the café is all of these. Espresso Moto was the brainchild of business partners Jordan Stubbs and Shannon Baier-Dry who, with their partners Nikki and Krista, came up with the idea of melding a bike shop and café – a first for...
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I have a secret messy delight. It’s a passion that I harbour with love, indulged in only now and again. But I love it. Wings. Buffalo wings with blue cheese sauce, to be exact. So, when I hear that Cycho’s has opened a permanent restaurant, I’m delighted, as well as intrigued. We love Cycho’s wings,...
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Fancy a night out with family and friends at a venue that has something for everyone: games the family can play, a casual dining venue with food that suits everyone, live sports screening and a bar with craft beers and wicked cocktails? Crafty’s Sports Bar, located at the main entrance to Harbour Town Eats, is...
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If there was a dining ‘Hall of Fame’, then Jo-Anne and Greg Short would be among the first to be inducted. It’s twenty years since the couple opened the Broadwalk Café, the forerunner of today’s iconic Sandbar. Migrating from NSW with their young family, the couple were excited to start their own new venture in...