Gold Coast Restaurants
Restaurants, Cafes and Coffee Shops
As you'd expect with any tourist town, the Gold Coast has a restaurant on every corner - except that unlike a lot of other tourist towns, most Gold Coast restaurants are really quite good.
The Gold Coast has some exceptional modern Australian cuisine and Asian food that will have your tastebuds indebted to you for some time. The large Japanese population of the Gold Coast (both permanent and transient) means there are plenty of fantastic, cheap sushi places (mostly in Surfers Paradise) and the competition among restaurants is fierce, so the quality is usually locally grown or fished and excellent.
The main place to eat and be seen is Tedder Avenue in Main Beach, where about 30 top restaurants and bars sit side by side on either side of the street. Surfers Paradise has more places to eat, but they are scattered across wider geography and there is no specific dining 'strip'. The Broadbeach CBD has risen to become the premier eating spot on the Gold Coast and has a great range of cuisines and price points onn offer.
If you're after a cheap meal by the ocean pretty much all of the surf clubs (found in every oceanside suburb of the Coast) have a bistro where no matter what you choose you'll find a huge pile of great food sitting on your plate for less than $20. Menu options are generally limited to chicken parmigiana, fish and chips, spaghetti marinara or the seafood platter, but you can't beat the quality, value and view.
If you want to go even cheaper still, find a corner shop and pick up a hamburger with the lot for $7 and fish and chips for about the same. If you're feeling like you want to splash out a little and wear a suit while you shovel lobster down your gullet, find your nearest five star hotel and they'll have something that you will enjoy paying the price for.
When in doubt, just ask a local.
Themed Restaurants
Dracula's Cabaret Restaurant
1 Hooker Blv Broadbeach
Phone: 07 5575 1000
Website: www.draculas.com.au
