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Restaurants – Cairns

These restaurants are recognised for serving fabulous local Queensland Catch seafood on their menu. The criteria for this listing is that at least 80% of seafood on the menu is local, with Queenland and Australian seafood items to a lesser percentage.

You can be assured of a Tropical Seafood Experience at any of these restaurants in Cairns

Splash Seafood Restaurant

Malcolm &Megan McKay (owners/fisher)

103 The Esplanade Cairns Qld
Phone: (07) 4031 9300

Email: eatfish@splashrestaurant.com.au

Website: www.splashrestaurant.com.au

Splash Seafood Restaurant owners, Malcolm & Megan McKay are passionate about the quality and freshness of their delicious seafood, and as a third generation fisherman Malcolm has a sharp eye for the top products. Malcolm knows and only buys the very best seafood available in Queensland and Australia.

The restaurant is decorated in a modern maritime theme showcasing charts and photos of the McKay family’s long fishing history.

Ochre Restaurant

Craig Squire (Chef/Director)

43 Shields St Cnr Sheridan St Cairns 4870

Phone:07 4051 0100

Bookings: info@ochrerestaurant.com.au

Website: www.ochrerestaurant.com.au

This is destination restaurant for local and international visitors to Cairns. Although not a seafood restaurant, you can be assured that the produce is local. With very well respected chef Craig Squire in the kitchen, cooking local and indigenous produce with patriotic Australian flavours, the menu is intelligent and beautifully flavoured. A thoughtful wine list offers diners a guide to eating in harmony with the chosen bottle. Ochre Restaurant has won many Australian and International awards including “Best Tourism Restaurant” for the third year running and a ‘Hall of Fame’ award.

Pesci’s On The Water

Lou Gianola (Owner)

Marina Side of the Pier Market Place

Cairns

Phone : 07 4041 1133

Bookings: info@pescis.com.au

Website: www.pescis.com.au

Located on the waterfront at The Pier, young chef Megan Scott is passionate about local seafood. All ingredients are the freshest available and are sourced locally. Try Pesci’s Reef Bowl; a rich soup of local fish and shell fish served with garlic bread or maybe a seafood curry, complete with pappadums, raita, fragrant jasmine rice. Great for lunch and dinner looking out over the Marlin marina. Eat, Sip wine and Enjoy.

Coco’s Restaurant

At the Cairns International Hotel

17 Abbott Street

Cairns Qld

Phone: 07 4031 1300

Email: dining@cairnsinternational.com.au

Website: www.cairnsinternational.com.au

Coco’s Restaurant offers a range of dishes utilizing the regions highest quality produce, cooked simply with an emphasis on flavour and freshness. The Char Grill section, open for all day dining, features quality products from some of Australia’s finest meat producers for your enjoyment. The Restaurant boasts a delightful nightly buffet with the morning’s catch of seafood. Sunday Brunch is a delicious combination of the seafood and breakfast buffets. Try the signature dish of Flare Grilled Moreton Bay Bugs with Grapefruit, Chilli and Lemon Grass Butter Sauce

Barnacle Bill’s Seafood Inn

Tony Basha (Owner)

103 The Esplanade, Cairns Qld

Reservations: 07 4051 2241

Email: info@barnaclebills.com.au

Website: www.barnaclebills.com.au

Barnacle Bill’s Seafood Inn is a long standing icon of seafood in the restaurant scene in Cairns, and is situated in the city’s heart on the popular Esplanade. Serving quality seafood dishes to satisfied customers for over two decades. The extensive menu includes a selection of Great Barrier Reef seafood such as Coral Trout and prawns as well as Wild Barramundi, Crayfish, Mudcrab, oysters and more. You can also try one of our crocodile or kangaroo dishes.

Verdi’s Restaurant

Patrick Roach Cnr Shields and Sheridan Streets Cairns, Qld

Phone (07) 4052 1010

Email: admin@verdis.com.au

Website: www.verdis.com.au

The Roach family opened one of Cairns iconic restaurants, Verdi’s, in 1986. They are passionate about delivering a fulfilling and complete dining experience and believe the key to this is in the balance between the flavour of the food, comfort of the service and friendliness of the atmosphere. The extensive menu, showcasing carefully selected prime beef, excellent local seafood, renowned wood-fired pizza and pasta dishes complements the feel good atmosphere and the friendly efficient service. Verdi’s – Just a great place!

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Recipes

  • Crispy skinned barramundi – lemon myrtle dressing
  • Endeavour prawn – sweet potato flat cakes
  • King threadfin – fritters & tapenade
  • Ruby snapper with asparagus
  • Spanish mackerel dry red curry
  • Sugar cane prawn sticks
  • Yellowfin tuna with champ, soft poached egg and capers

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