Rick Shores brings a warm tropical breeze to Gold Coast dining. Opened by the owners of LONgTIME, Brisbane, Rick Shores occupies one of the most revered spots on the coast, the ground floor level of the iconic Burleigh Pavilions, seaside dining at its best. Today, the sea is calm. We enter the restaurant down the...

The Brick Café is not what it may first appear. A smart little café at the front of a new commercial complex in Molendinar, behind this façade of newness there’s a strong family heritage. If we’d looked more closely at the top of the menu, the clue was there all along: ‘The Brick Café by...

When you’re on holidays or retired, lunch can be the main meal of the day. It’s a cost-saving choice of travellers as lunch deals abound, as well as a good health move to eat lighter at night. But sometimes finding the deals is harder than it seems, especially if you’re looking online. Here are some...

You know how it is. You’re hungering for those clean fresh flavours of Thai food – something with a bit of a hit, but not too bad for you; flavours that linger on your tongue rather than fatty fried food for a change. Tucked into the corner of Easy T Centre in Robina is a...

Sometimes dreams take us to unexpected places. At least, so it seems for Thai Mudgee’s owner Siranee Hocheuay, known to her guests as ‘Boo’. After moving to Sydney from Central Thailand, Boo fell in love with the Gold Coast when visiting friends. “It was just like my home town,” Boo tells us. “In King Street,...

UPDATE May 2015: The crowds have settled a little, but The Marketta Street Food Market is still a happening event. There’s been the welcome addition of a souvlaki stall and there’s a real family feel happening in this now twice-weekly event (Friday and Saturday nights). Our favourite dining time is still early enough to avoid...

Located on The Village Green at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Sanctuary Markets focuses on local and international food. Every Friday night the Village Green is filled with street food from Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, Brazil, South Africa, Chile, India, Italy, Turkey and Greece. Fresh fruit and vegies are for sale in the spacious car park. Arts...

It was time to discover our forgotten backyard, to venture out to a place we’d neglected for years due to the Goldie’s flourishing farmers’ market scene…Carrara Markets. A haven of the fabulous and flimsy, the terrific and the tacky, you’d be forgiven for mistaking Carrara for an Asian market, albeit without dog meat and durian!...

“Shoot your lunch, enjoy your dinner.”   That’s the advice I’ve been given on how to take better food photographs. Food looks better in natural light. Using a flash, of course, is the big ‘no no’ of food photography. So, being members of the fulltime workforce, we often ‘dine to blog’ on a weekend lunch....

With twenty-one restaurants under her belt, Rose Morton decided to retire from the bright lights, and set up a little restaurant on the Gold Coast: The Noodle House on Chevron Island. Born in Koh Samui, the idyllic island off the coast of the Thai mainland, Rose had worked for many years on cruise ships before...