Charis Seafood

371 Marine Parade, Labrador QLD 4215

(07) 5527 1100

The Queensland Gold Coast has many great seafood restaurants but there is nothing like Charis Seafood when it comes to freshness.  Charis is the biggest suppler of seafood straight off the trawlers on the coast and can cook to order anything your heart desires on the spot

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It's busy, it's huge and it smells like the ocean.  Fish mongers are busily working away while cooks do their thing in the large kitchen for all to see. On display is an amazing array of fresh fish, prawns, crabs, marron, octopus, lobster, squid, oysters, scallops, muscles, you name it, it's all here on ice waiting to be sold.

The atmosphere is dynamic like the seafood markets in our capital cities.  The cooked and fresh seafood is oh so delicious and perfectly cooked to order.  This is casual dining at its best.  Come as you are, eat with your fingers, love every minute feasting like a King.  The Broadwater outside is the ideal place to sit and enjoy your meal, with the fresh sea air, sunshine and sand. This is how a Gold Coast picnic should be. The quiet waters offer a beautiful spot for a family swim and the adventure playground is a big hit with the kids.

Every afternoon the Charis fishmongers take the huge amount of fish off cuts down to the water’s edge and feed the dozens of pelicans who know a good thing when they see it.  The commotion made by all of the gulls and pelicans is spectacular and the tourists love it.

Charis is only a couple of kilometers from Harbour Town factory outlets for some great shopping and only 10 minutes from Surfers Paradise.  So, if you are on a holiday to the Gold Coast and you’re looking for the best, freshest seafood at competitive prices with a million dollar view, you just have to visit Charis Seafood. 

Karl

Shalimar Indian & Mughlai Restaurant

2/40 Albion Street, Warwick, Queensland.
07-4661 8000

Just about every town in Australia with over three or four thousand people has a Chinese restaurant, but it's only the lucky ones that get their very own Indian restaurant and take out.  Warwick on the Darling Downs in southern Queensland, with a population of over ten thousand, has had one for a couple of years.  It was just barely OK and frankly over priced and the food was a bit stodgy.

About a year ago, thankfully, it changed hands, and now it's something special everyone in Warwick can rave about. There is a full menu of curries from different regions of India featuring delicious tandoori baked dishes and bread, meat, seafood and vegetarian.  The portions are very generous and the prices are really really good.  I mean three courses with a side for under $30 (on average).  Wow!!

The flavours are amazing, be it a Masala, Vindaloo, Malabari, Madras, Saagwala or Biryani to name but a few.  The staff take the time to fuss over you and if you ask they will explain the wonderful spices that create the magic that is great Indian cuisine.

We loved it and we'll definitely be back (once I burn off a few hundred calories on the old treadmill).  And here is something the people of Warwick need to know about.  The freaking lunchtime specials are only ten bucks.  I'm not kidding, any curry with rice and a cold drink for only ten bucks.  Double WOW!!

I love curries so much, just writing about them is making me really hungry.  So, if you live in or near Warwick, don't cook dinner tonight, treat yourself at Shalimar Indian Restaurant and support a fantastic local business.  And if you live anywhere else in the world, it's time to explore your local Indian cuisine and discover the richness and variety of flavours that are out there waiting for a food trekker like you to come along and enjoy them.
Karl