Port Douglas Restaurant Strip

  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...

    LUNCH FISH & CHIPS Battered Barramundi, chips, green salad, lemon & tartare $26 CAJUN CHICKEN SALAD Cajun Chicken, mixed greens, tomato, cucumber, onion, potato crisps, sweet soy mayo. $25 Add Avo $5 Washed down with a Super Crisp tin $9, a bottle of Queen Snapper 2025 Sauvignon Blanc $40 (10% discount on drinks for Reef Resort residents.) Both meals were excellent and a good choice of fish, forget the " reef fish " you see on some menus and go for Spanish Mackerel or Barramundi up here.

  We hoped to redeem this offer at lunch on Monday 8 June 2026. It was not to be, the promotion is only available at Dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. No matter we had lunch: Battered Flathead, chips and salad: $34 Beef and Bacon Burger:  $25 Washed down by a glass of Shiraz; $9 and a bottle of Pinot Grigio; $51 Lunch was good but complicated. We had to order from the pool bar and then move up to the Oak & Vine restaurant to use glasses instead of plastic for the wines. Lunch was delivered promptly from the other restaurant, the Lillypad, which was not open, by the pool attendant, because the Oak & Vine was also not open? Clearly displayed.

Dickson's Inlet from the outside deck. The Tin Shed Burger $23 member. $27 visitor. Battered Mackerel with chips and salad $31 member. $36 visitor. The Tin Shed in Wharf Street is a favourite with locals and visitors alike.  Drinks are competitively priced for instance; Rothbury Estate Semillion Sauvignon Blanc bottle is $28 and Great Northern Super Crisp $6.20  

  This is our first review since Covid and typically we have chosen "Fish and Chips" and a Beef Burger.  Not always but very often.  As a retired couple we dine out at lunch at least once a week. Choochooz did not  disappoint; the burger was good and the fish and chips equally as good. Super Crisp stubby - $9.00 Little Angels Sauvignon Blanc bottle - $45 Bosworth Pinot Noir glass - $11.00 Angus Burger - $25 Battered Mackerel & Chips - $35 Payment surcharge - $1.50 Total - $126.50

 We have not made a new blog since Covid. We intend to start again with ChooChooz at the Marina.

PORT DOUGLAS FOOD OUTLETS OPEN FOR DELIVERY & TAKEAWAY DURING THE TIME OF COVID-19 DOMINOES Ph 4213 3520 Shop 18/11 - 17 Macrossan Street Port Village Centre Beach Shack Ph 4099 1100 Takeaway and delivery options after 5 p.m. Pizza, parmy, Fish’n’chips weekly specials Black Sesame Ph 4099 5220 Takeaway 11.30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday- Friday 11.30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday Café Fresq Ph 4099 6111 Open 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. Takeaway, some delivery options WEDNESDAY NIGHT CHICKEN PARMY Pickup 5-7 p.m. FRIDAY NIGHT FISH & CHIPS Pickup 5-7 p.m. SUNDAY ROAST Pickup 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Delivery also available Chilly’s Pizza Ph 0423 510 720 Takeaway inc drivethrough, and delivery option Open 5p.m. - 9p.m. Tuesday -Sunday. Closed Monday Grant Street Kitchen Ph 0478 769 987 Currently 7 days 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. Takeaway Jade Inn Ph 4099 5974 Takeaway and delivery options Open 7 days from 5 p.m. Mocka’s Pies  Ph 4099 5295 Takea...

Eggs Benedict Poached Eggs, Spinach, Hollandaise Sauce, English Muffin with Bacon or Smoked Salmon or Avocado - $16.50 I am sorry I didn't get all the prices when we were there on Christmas Day. We enjoyed the breakfast and put it up there with the best in Port Douglas. A little while back we did a survey of breakfast places and put Cafe Fresq at the top. Restaurant Ziva is on an equal footing with Cafe Fresq so much so we have been back.

Our first lunch for the year. We have been here twice before and welcomed the new look furniture. Of course fish and chips (Tempura) for me - $18 With a very expensive bottle of wine - $45 That is too much when you are dining casually on plastic furniture and plastic plates. It was a good Sauvignon Blanc but really for a lunch it should have been about $25 not $45. The fish and chips were OK, I wish they would use Spanish Mackerel instead of Coral Trout but for $18 sit down it was OK. The Steak Sandwich was very good - $22 With a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon - $9 We considered lunch was good and when you think of places in this neck of the woods, Silkara Lagoons, Reef Resort and the Oaks Resort, the Ramada is the clear winner. More on the wine.  A couple of days later we had the same wine at a restaurant in Mossman for $25 per bottle, not $45 like the Ramada and we were not sitting on plastic furniture and eating off plastic plate...

Fish and Chips Battered Mackerel, mushy peas, chips, salad & Tartare Sauce - $22 Salt & Pepper Calamari Lemon wedges - $18 Schooner Super Crisp $7.20, 18 Crimes Cabernet Sauvignon $8, Rothbury Sauvignon Blanc $28 Paddy's is one of our favourite lunch stops and has an extensive menu. What we particularly like is that, unlike most restaurants in Port Douglas, they have some wines under $30.  Still not bad for a good lunch - $83.20 Brought to you by: Port Douglas Budget Dining .

Fish & Chips $24 Hamburger $18 Sauvignon Blanc $25 Port Douglas Cheap Eats .

Feast Restaurant In our off season locals are often offered discounts wether it is reef trips, golf or dining. Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort are offering a locals breakfast in their feast restaurant for $25 each. Breakfast takes the form of a buffet: Cereals Cold Cuts Drinks and Yoghurt Fresh Fruit Hot buffet with Omelette Bar Tea and Coffee The locals breakfast at Sheraton Grand is hands down the best value breakfast in Port Douglas. Brought to you by: Port Douglas budget dining .

Dave's Takeaway - a Port Douglas institution. Continuing our Sunday breakfast survey we stopped at Dave's on 17 Nov 19. We opted for the Egg and Bacon roll with coffee for $10. This one's a winner, it was good all the way round and the price was superb. Brought to you by Cheap Eats Port Douglas

If you are following this blog you can see we have been doing a lot of Sunday breakfasts lately.  For years The Little Larder has been considered the best breakfast place in Port Douglas.  It's roots go back to Soul & Pepper at Pier 319 years ago. We got there on a Sunday morning at the advertised start time of 7:30am.  This was done to avoid the queues. We ordered Eggs Bennie with bacon, The Original Onesie with extra bacon and coffees. The coffees came first and were quite cool. By 8 o'clock the place was filling up and the two chefs were getting their orders out but the wait staff weren't getting them to the patrons quickly. It was quite noticeable. When we got our order the Original Onesie egg was cold.  Then I had a fight on my hands to eat the Eggs Bennie.  I know meals are put in stacks these days but I had trouble with the stack.  Firstly I dug the bottom Ciabatta slice out and put it alongside the ...