Gold Coast Fine Dining

Visitors to the Gold Coast can enjoy a great variety of dining experiences to satisfy every taste and budget. The following are dining places favoured by some of our guests,and we'd love to hear from you about your favourite Gold Coast dining experience. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it your contribution.

Absynthe

Winner of Australian Gourmet Traveller's Australian Best Regional Restaurant 2007 and Best Queensland Restaurant 2008. Chef Meyjitte Boughenout's specialty is a tasting or degustation menu of several courses. Degustation means to savour. Each dish delights the senses as the epicurean experience flows through seven courses chosen from land and sea with sweets that can only be described as heavenly. The gastronomic journey through presentation, aromas, flavours and textures satisfies the appetite while teasing the palate.

Diners may choose the degustation menu with the sommelier's selection of wines or select from more than 1000 internationally recognised beverages sourced from the world's best winemakers. Choose from the a la carte or degustation menu at dinner Monday to Thursday and at lunch on Friday. Friday and Saturday evenings are reserved for degustation dining. Booking is essential.

Chiangmai Thai Restaurants

Crown Towers Resort, 5 Palm Avenue, Surfers Paradise, Queensland - Ph: (07) 5526 8891
2779 Gold Coast Highway, Broadbeach, Queensland - Ph: (07) 5538 2144
Santorino by the Sea, 27 Chairlift Avenue, Nobby Beach, Queensland - Ph: (07) 5578 5211

Chiangmai Thai Restaurants are in three locations on the Gold Coast, all offering amazing authentic Thai decor and superb food at reasonable prices. Stepping into any of the three restaurants is like stepping into a little piece of Thailand; the food is truly authentic, the waitresses are dressed in traditional Thai costumes and the atmosphere is unforgettable with Thai carvings, sculptures, fire sticks and dimmed lighting.

Heritage Wines of Mount Tamborine

Ph: (07) 5545 3144 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
http://www.heritagewines.com.au

The perfect way to enjoy wine tasting in style, and to enjoy a beautiful meal in the restaurant with views overlooking the rainforest and down to the Pacific Ocean in the distance. Focusing on premium Queensland wines and gourmet food, a visit to Heritage Wines Mount Tamborine is a visit to a by-gone era.

The building was originally the Infant Saviour Catholic Church of Burleigh Heads, saved from demolition and re-located to its new home at Mount Tamborine. The building was meticulously taken apart piece by piece, than lovingly restored. To add further grandeur to the elegant surrounds, a sweeping staircase was added, leading to a mezzanine floor which is home to more restaurant seating.

Songbirds in the Forest

Songbirds Rainforest Retreat includes the multi-award winning Songbirds in the Forest Restaurant (Queensland Restaurant of the Year 2006); six luxurious two person villas and more than 50 acres of pristine rainforest. Guests can soothe the senses and invigorate the body with an exquisite therapeutic massage, take an individual yoga class, relax and revive or explore a multitude of activities and experiences at Mount Tamborine.

Songbirds' creative culinary team selects the finest ingredients and uses organic produce when possible. Meals are prepared in a fresh, innovative style and served in a beautiful environment. The menu changes frequently to ensure diners enjoy the freshest seasonal flavours. Songbirds in the Forest is fully licensed, diners are offered a selection of local and imported wines, beers, spirits and liqueurs as well as non-alcoholic beverages. Songbirds in the Forest serves lunch from noon every day and dinner on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings.

Tokonoma Gallery and Café

442 Springbrook Road, Mudgeeraba, Queensland
Ph: (07) 5530-2378 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
http://www.tokonoma442.com.au

Tokonoma is a unique venue on Queensland's Gold Coast combining an unusual modern art gallery with a superb green tea café serving original green tea drinks and desserts, marrying Japanese and Australian flavours. Try the Iced Matcha Supreme, a deep green tea "cocktail" made from the same superbly healthful tea as used in Japan's 400-year-old tea ceremony.

The gallery at Tokonoma specializes in minimalist Japanese art but also carries print art, ceramics, and modern Australian art. Tokonoma is situated in a unique natural location just outside the historic village of Mudgeeraba in the Gold Coast hinterland (15-20 minutes from Gold Coast beaches), on the way to the beautiful Purlingbrook Falls at Springbrook. The elegant indoor spaces at Tokonoma are complimented with spacious outdoor decks and lush gardens.