Food & Wine Trails Guide

If Tastes of Gold Coast has given you a taste for more, head off on the Gold Coast Food and Wine Trails where you can sample our local gourmet treasures every day of the year.

This comprehensive guide gives you the local knowledge to explore the amazing array of experiences, tastes and flavours available in our region … from the farm gate to the dinner plate.

Local produce

Follow the Hinterland Food and Wine Trail through lush countryside, rolling green hills and World Heritage-listed rainforests.

Along the way, you can sample our local wines at cellar door outlets surrounded by vineyards; stroll through macadamia nut plantations – and sample macadamia coffee; buy one-off gifts and mementos in village art and craft galleries; and stock the picnic basket with luscious cheese and hand-made chocolates.

There are even more flavours to be found on the City Food and Wine Trail which takes you from long-time favourites like the Yatala Pie Shop and the strawberry farm to a Belgian chocolate factory and a tropical fruit plantation.

To savour the flavours of the sea, you can take a river cruise where you catch your own lunch, shuck oysters by the lakeshore or head out to the deep for some serious game fishing.

And if you don't have time to get out and about, you can sample all of the above at one of our regular farmers' markets.

Culinary creativity

Of course, if you're more interested in the end results, you'll find local produce transformed into gourmet delights at our fine local restaurants.

Vibrant dining precincts with a mix of cosmopolitan cafes, super-smooth piano bars, five-star restaurants and happening nightclubs are located at Sanctuary Cove, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise, Chevron Island, Broadbeach, Burleigh Heads, Coolangatta and even in some of our rural villages.

There are also award-winning venues tucked away in suburban neighbourhoods and at our glittering international resorts.

For more information on the Gold Coast Food and Wine Trails, visit www.goldcoastcity.com.au/foodandwine