Harvest, Newrybar
‘Harvest’: a bounty that follows a season of work, culminating in Thanksgiving; a veritable feast. It’s a fitting name to describe this well-established Newrybar cafe/restaurant, bakery, delicatessen and farm. We’ve heard lots about Harvest, and decide to visit for Saturday lunch, a relaxed chance to breathe in the country atmosphere with no pressing timelines to […]
Ambarella Fine Foods, Burleigh Waters
There’s more than a touch of a French provincial town market in Ambarella Fine Foods. With its black and grey striped shop awnings, reproduction chandeliers, potted herbs and flowers accenting the displays, Mediterranean-influenced groceries for sale, a French patisserie and boulangerie, and even a kitchenware shop replete with Julia Child inspired cookware, it’s a lush […]
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 […]
Yatala Pies
Yatala Pies has been a landmark business in Queensland for around 130 years. Finally, in Queensland’s Q150 celebration of 2009, Yatala Pies was awarded the status of ‘Cultural Icon’ – one of the 15 locations that put our state on the map. Exit 38 of the Motorway is now especially signposted so that day trippers […]