The Gold Coast

Gold Coast Food and Wine

Gold Coast food and drink can shape a day in many different ways: a creekside lunch, beachside share plates, Japanese izakaya dishes, fresh bakery fare or an evening wandering through street-food stalls. There are also practical places to shop for deli goods, produce and baking, alongside breweries, distilleries and an urban wine venue where tastings become hands-on experiences.

This selection moves from relaxed everyday dining to drinks, markets and bookable food experiences across the coast. It includes venues in Currumbin, Burleigh Heads, Mermaid Beach, Miami, Southport and nearby suburbs, with each offering a distinct way to eat, drink or explore.

🍺 Pub & Bistro Dining

Currumbin RSL

Currumbin RSL brings several dining formats together, from table service at Alleys Restaurant to creekside meals on The Deck. Its bar menu and La Bocca pizza and takeaway add more casual choices, while the published menus cover lunch and dinner. The outdoor deck looks across Currumbin Creek, giving a relaxed setting for a meal or catch-up.

Currumbin, Queensland · Dining bookings: ☎ 07 5534 7999

Burleigh Pavilion

At Burleigh Pavilion, a broad casual menu brings together seafood, burgers, fish and chips, schnitzel and shareable snacks. Indoor and outdoor dining areas overlook Burleigh Heads, making the venue suited to an easy beachside meal as well as larger gatherings. Separate event catering is available for functions.

3a/43 Goodwin Terrace, Burleigh Heads QLD 4220 · Venue enquiries: ☎ 07 5240 9869

🍽️ Restaurants & Sharing Menus

Rick Shores

Rick Shores serves Pan-Asian food designed for sharing beside Burleigh beach. Southeast Asian flavours lead the offering, with a full menu available in the bar and patio walk-in areas as well as the main dining room. The restaurant also provides private hire for functions and larger celebrations.

3/43 Goodwin Terrace, Burleigh Heads QLD 4220 · Bookings team: ☎ 07 5630 6611

Etsu Izakaya

Etsu Izakaya offers Japanese share-style dining, with sashimi, sushi, gyoza, yakitori and robata-grilled selections. Set omakase-style meals provide another way to approach the menu, while sake, beer, wine and cocktails complete the izakaya experience. Dietary requests can be discussed with the restaurant when ordering.

2440 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach QLD 4218 · Restaurant enquiries: ☎ 07 5526 0944

Bistro Lamp

Bistro Lamp presents Japanese fusion food in a casual, izakaya-inspired sharing format. Small dishes sit alongside sake, beer, wine and cocktails, with both the drinks list and takeaway menu available from the Mermaid Beach restaurant. Private functions are also offered for larger groups looking for a shared dining setting.

2375 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach QLD 4218 · Restaurant enquiries: ☎ 07 5526 0712

☕ Cafes, Coffee & Bakeries

Tarte Beach House

Tarte Beach House combines a waterfront restaurant, casual café, tea garden and private-function space on Currumbin Creek. The café serves coffee, pastries, bagels and brunch dishes, while the restaurant menu includes seafood, pasta, steak and house-made pastries. The Tea Garden adds high tea, matcha and small sweets to the mix.

Shop 1, 2-4 Thrower Drive, Currumbin QLD 4223

Paddock Bakery

Paddock Bakery is a walk-in bakery and café spread across a restored Queenslander cottage, garden, loft, rooftop and barn. Its offering includes coffee, doughnuts, toasties, pastries, breads and milk-bar items, with wood-fired sourdough central to the baking. Weekday functions are also available within the bakery setting.

20 Hibiscus Haven, Burleigh Heads QLD 4220

🧺 Markets & Specialty Food

Miami Marketta

Miami Marketta is an ongoing evening street-food market and creative precinct. Its open-air laneway gathers rotating vendors serving cuisines from around the world, alongside licensed bars with boutique beer and wine. A gin-focused bar area, live music and larger-group or private-space options add to the evening format.

23 Hillcrest Parade, Miami QLD 4220

Burleigh Farmers Market

Held on the grounds of Burleigh Heads State School, Burleigh Farmers Market brings together farm produce, organic fruit and vegetables, gourmet and global foods, meat, fish, deli goods, coffee and bakery treats. It works both as a practical household shopping stop and as a place to pick up ready-to-eat food.

Corner of Lower Gold Coast Hwy & West Burleigh Rd · Market contact: ☎ 0417 728 844

Ambarella Fine Foods

Ambarella Fine Foods is a market-style retailer for ingredients, prepared deli items and baked goods. Its departments include butchered beef and lamb, bakery goods and deli food, with a broad grocery offering gathered under one roof. It is a useful option for food shopping rather than a restaurant meal.

Shop 12/1 Santa Maria Court, Burleigh Waters, QLD 4220 · Store contact: ☎ 5520 0806

🍷 Wine, Breweries & Distilleries

Carafe Wine

Carafe Wine combines city dining with an urban tasting-room format, pouring Australian wines on tap and serving food alongside its drinks list. Its rosé blending classes are led by the winemaker and include tasting Australian varietals before participants create a blend to take away.

49 Johnston Street, Southport QLD 4215 · Bookings and blending-class enquiries: ☎ 07 5532 3295

Madocke Beer Brewing Company

Madocke’s taproom rotates Belgian-inspired beers and also serves wine, spirits, cocktails and non-alcoholic options. Belgian food makes it a food-and-drink stop as well as a brewery visit. Visitors can take away beer and browse merchandise alongside their taproom experience.

286 Southport Nerang Road, Ashmore QLD 4214 · Taproom enquiries: ☎ 0494 371 885

Balter Taproom

Balter Taproom offers rotating fresh and limited-release beers close to where they are made. The warehouse-style venue includes a beer garden and mezzanine bar, with food supplied by visiting regional food trucks. Brewery tours and beer-school experiences provide additional ways to explore the brewing operation.

14 Traders Way, Currumbin Waters QLD · Taproom enquiries: ☎ 07 5525 6916

Burleigh Brewing Company

Burleigh Brewing Company’s public taphouse operates at the Burleigh Heads brewery, offering a place to drink beer on site and buy takeaway products. The visitor address is distinct from the business postal address, making the taphouse the relevant destination for an on-site brewery visit.

2 Ern Harley Drive, Burleigh Heads QLD · Office enquiries: ☎ 07 5593 6000

Granddad Jack's Craft Distillery

Granddad Jack’s Miami distillery bar and tasting room feature gin, vodka, whisky and liqueur. Visitors can join distillery tours, guided spirit tastings and gin-making sessions, or drop in for drinks and bottles to take away. BYO food or ordering in is permitted at the venue.

45 Lemana Lane, Miami QLD 4220 · Gold Coast distillery and pickup enquiries: ☎ 07 5612 5783

Six-Tricks Distilling Co.

Six-Tricks is a working Mermaid Beach distillery and tasting room producing whisky, rum, gin, vodka and cane spirit. Its public offering includes cocktails and a food menu, as well as distillery tours, guided tastings and cocktail masterclasses focused on spirits distilled on site.

3 Brightlands Court, Mermaid Beach QLD 4218 · Distillery contact: ☎ 07 5651 6588

👩‍🍳 Catering & Food Experiences

Kang's Cuisine

Kang’s Cuisine provides private dining and catering across the Gold Coast and Brisbane. Chef Yigu Kang prepares customised modern Australian and Korean menus for intimate in-home meals, celebrations and larger catered occasions, shaping the food around the particular event rather than a fixed public dining venue.

Gold Coast and Brisbane service area · Contact and reservations: ☎ 0415 353 315

Spicy Thai Cooking Classes and Catering

Spicy Thai offers hands-on private Thai cooking classes and catering on the Gold Coast. Small-group sessions teach Thai cooking techniques and recipes, while the catering service brings Thai food to parties and other private occasions. The two offerings suit people wanting either a participatory kitchen experience or a catered event.

Gold Coast service area · Cooking-class and catering enquiries: ☎ 0413 426 589

Hop On Brewery Tours

Hop On Brewery Tours runs guided Gold Coast brewery and distillery itineraries, including full-day brewery visits, a shorter brewery tour and a distillery tour. Tastings take place at partner venues, with lunch included on selected tours. Private and bespoke itineraries are available for groups.

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There is plenty of room to keep discovering the coast through a bakery breakfast, a market shop, a shared table or a tasting session. Restaurants, cafés, producers, caterers and other local food businesses are warmly invited to add or update their listing, helping people connect with the business’s own menu, reservations or enquiries.

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