Port Douglas Restaurant Strip

 One of our favourite lunch spots over many years: LUNCH Battered Spanish Mackerel & Chips $31.50 Vietnamese Salt & Pepper Squid $31.50 The Shepherd's Clock Sauvignon Blanc $44.50 Super Crisp Stubby $9.00

  WOW Free range eggs on sourdough with Heirloom Tomatoes & Streaky Bacon $33.00 Free range eggs on sourdough with Streaky Bacon $25.00 This was as good as it looks and just look at that bacon. Topped off with a glass of iced water, Large Long Black Coffee $7.50 and Large Cappuccino $7.50 with impeccable service. Subtotal $73.00 Sunday surcharge (10%) Card surcharge (contactless) (1.3%) Total $81.34 Most Port Douglas Restaurants produce really good breakfasts and Hemingways at the Marina is up there with them.

Fabulous Cornish Pastie $7.50 Ham, Cheese & Tomato Toastie  $9.50 Really good breakfast with large long black coffee, $5.50 & Cappuccino $6. Mockas offers a great variety of baked goods unmatched in Port Douglas with great service.

Fresh & Live Coffin Bay Oysters 24 hours a Day Dispensing fridge, pay by CC Take them home. $25 a dozen (a dozen is 12) This should go on Port Douglas Cheap Eats  

 LUNCH Another old favourite eatery: Extensive menu and great for Pizza Pizza Inferno $26 Good Ol Fish & Chips $30 DRINKS Super Crisp stubby $8.50 250ml Wynns "The Gables" Cab Sav $18.00 Rothbury Estate Sav Blanc bottle $38.00 Locals discount $9.68 Surcharge $0.77

 LUNCH One of our favourite restaurants over the years  but I am afraid it is slipping. The Karaage Chicken Burger $28 was woeful, no texture, no taste and an awful bun.   Battered Fish & Chips $28 One of the most consistently good fish & chips in Port Douglas Earlier this year I voted it 8.9 out of 10 (there has never been a 9 out of 10) and this time it dropped to a 7, just slightly overcooked. The drinks This has not been as straight forward as it should be, now and in the past. A beer, glass of red, a bottle of white and 2 glasses. This time we ended up with an extra glass of white?  To make the staff member feel better, I apologised  and just paid the bill. We did not take the extra glass of white but were billed an extra $4? $40 So, when we feel like spending $117 on lunch again  we will give some extra thought as to where that will be? Dining out in such a famous tourist town should be a pleasant experience and after living here for...