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St Elmo is a place where you can enjoy great company, first-class food, sophisticated cocktails and an extensive wine list. St Elmo is plating up modern Spanish cuisine Mon-Sat: 4pm till late Sun: Lunch & dinner 12-10pm to be enjoyed amongst friends and family. Our menus change regularly and feature daily specials. Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson SUNDAYS we have live music and $10 cocktails Lane, Byron Bay 1.30pm–4pm. 6680 7426 www.stelmodining.com
Cafe Oska
Global Cuisine & Specialty Coffee
1 Carlyle St, Byron Bay
‘The most fantastic curries’ Mon–Tues 8am–4pm Wed–Sat 8am–10pm Sun 10am–4pm
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner 0416 887 884 www.cafeoska.com
Ginger Pig
• Locally sourced sustainable produce • Serving modern Mediterranean cuisine; sharing or traditional dining cooked by award winning team • Local and international craft beers and wines • Locally roasted coffee from Ground Control • Happy hour 4-6 every day, $5 Coopers, $6 wine and $10 cocktails facebook – instagram gingerpigrestaurant.com.au • Live music or DJ every night; see the Echo gig guide
Breakfast , lunch and dinner 7 days Cnr Marvell and Jonson Sts, Byron Bay 6685 7320
Red Bamboo @ Byron
VIETNAMESE AND CHINESE CUISINE Specialities: Rice Paper Rolls Vietnamese Pho (noodle soups) Red Bamboo Shoot Salad From the Wok: Szechuan style
7 nights from 5.30pm Fully Licensed BYO Wine Shop 10, Feros Arcade, Jonson St, Byron Bay 6685 7637
Good choices for vegetarians and vegans
Mad Racks Rib Shack
RIBS
MAD RACKS RIB SHACK Delivers succulent Byron Bay pork and Casino beef ribs direct to your front door. Our ribs are local and organic cooked slow and low with all produce sourced from our very own farmers market. Free delivery with orders over $40
7 days 5pm until late 3/31 Lawson St (opposite Aquarius Backpackers) Delivery and pick up ribsbyronbay.com.au 6680 8881
Happy Chilli Garden
Hong Kong chef specialising in Chinese and Malay foods
KINGSCLIFF
Open Mon-Sat 12pm till late Sunday 5pm til late Byron St (opp Aldi) Byron Bay P 6680 9191 F 6676 4869 M 0403 516793 happychilligarden@hotmail.com
YUM CHA all day Special $10 menu includes soft drink/water BYO Dine in and takeaway Home delivery available
Fins Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun
DJ AQUA IS BACK! Live global tunes every Friday night from 6pm in the Fins Cocktail Bar.
GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998
Izakaya Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun
MULLUMBIMBY
LENNOX HEAD
GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998
The team behind Fins have just launched their new POP UP restaurant IZAKAYA. Izakaya serves Japanese Street Food, designed share style. Menu priced from $7–$22. Extensive Sake, Japanese cocktails and wines to choose from. Located beside Fins. Breakfast & lunch: Wednesday to Sunday from 7.30am
Foam 41 Pacific Parade, Lennox Head 2478 6687 7757 info@foamlennox.com facebook.com/foam.lennox twitter.com/foamlennox
La Table 72 Burringbar St, Mullumbimby 6684 2220 www.latable.com.au www.facebook.com/ la.table.byron
Dinner: Thursday /Friday / Saturday from 6pm Ocean views / weekly menus / contemporary & innovative cuisine, wine & drinks Organic Botero coffee served with organic Barambah milk • Artisan coffee merchants, take home whole beans or freshly ground • Extended selection of daily baked savoury & sweet treats • Private licensed area for business meetings & group functions Special event dinners or La Table can come to your table! Reviewed & recommended in SMH Good Food Guide since 2009 Next monthly dinner SATURDAY 3 MAY
Spice It Up Thai Restaurant
NEW BRIGHTON
Yum Yum Tree Café Breakfast & Lunch 7 days from 8am Dinner Friday & Saturday from 6pm Fuly licensed 6680 3368 50 River St, New Brighton
Pizza Volante SANDRO AND MEL FALZOLGHER ARE THE OWNERS AND CREATORS OF PIZZA VOLANTE BOUTIQUE MOBILE WOODFIRED PIZZERIA. How did you come to this area? Mel grew up in Byron Bay and met Sandro when he was visiting his extended family in Mullumbimby. Sandro’s uncle Zio Luciano came to the northern rivers in the 1950s to cut cane and settled in Mullumbimby, even owning the Empire Cafe where he made pizzas. Sandro and Mel have recently moved back to Byron Bay from Brisbane where, although they enjoyed building up their business, they missed a sense of community for themselves and their children, so they have moved back to be close to their families. Sandro was born in Fermo on the east coast of Italy. Learning the art of pizza-making from the top pizza chefs in the business is a serious undertaking in Italy, and Sandro spent most of his 20s working in and running small pizzerias in his region of Le Marche. After a trip home he was missing Italy and true pizza so he built a wood-fired pizza oven in the yard of his Brisbane home. How did the business get started? Mel says, ‘We had lots of backyard parties; friends would invite friends. Our invitations of 30 guests always ended up being up to 100. We realised that if we could cater for such fun parties in our yards so could everyone. Sandro spent three years designing and constructing our amazing pizza trailer. He imported a commercial Di Fiore pizza oven from his region in Italy; we have the largest traditional mobile pizza oven in Australia. We cater to functions from 40 to 250+ pizzas and at festivals we make and cook 1000s.’ What are your greatest influences? Mel says, ‘Sandro is passionate about traditional Italian cuisine. He follows the true Italian way of fresh tasty ingredients on his thin crispy sourdough bases using real mozzarella and proper tomato sugo. There’s not a piece of pineapple to be seen anywhere near his pizza!
NOW OPEN Mullumbimby Bowling Club restaurant
Open 5 days. Open Wednesday-Sunday 5pm • Dine-in or Takeaway 6684 2209 Mullumbimby Bowling Club
The ‘Yum Yum Tree’ was a traditional meeting place for the first Australians of our area. A place to take sustenance, and catch up with old and new friends. Come notice the extra flair, enthusiasm and personal touch of the Yum Yum Tree Café team, a collection of professional, down to earth people, enjoying their day serving you the tastiest meals and drinks. www.yumyumtreecafe.com.au
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Celebrations Catering By Liz Jackson Celebration cakes Personal catering services Event co-ordination and management
Pizza Volante Party caterer 40 - 250+ pizzas 0438 118 992 Find us on Facebook www.pizzavolante.com.au
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‘We describe ourselves as boutique because of the time and attention to detail that we dedicate to our ingredients and the handmade sourdough bases. What areas do you cover? ‘We are mobile for the northern rivers of NSW, Gold Coast to Brisbane for weddings, birthdays, and corporate events, and we also do “popup pizzeria” nights at Federal Hall, Jasper Corner, Federal, every second Thursday of the month. Our next one is on Thursday 8 May. We will announce pop-up details including the special of the day on our Facebook page (look for the flying pizza logo).’ What’s your most popular dish? Our signature pizza is the funghi: porcini trifolati with creamy gorgonzola. Porcini trifolati is specific to Sandro’s region: slow-cooked porcini and field mushrooms create an intense flavour, complemented perfectly by Gorgonzola Dolce. What’s your favourite pizza? Sandro says, ‘The Pancetta: shaved pancetta and fresh rosemary crowned with crispy potato lace.’ What is the most rewarding thing you do? ‘Seeing guests excited by their bespoke pizzas! Seriously, we love seeing people devour our pizzas; hearing the conversations as they anticipate what flavour will be served next; party hosts enjoying time with their guests while we do everything. ‘But the most rewarding is producing 1000s of pizzas at a festival and finding that patrons made the effort to come back and thank us for their amazing pizza. ‘We personally serve the pizzas to your guests rather than putting them on a table for only the enthusiastic eaters. We also care for those with special dietary requirements (we use separate pizza cutters for meat, vegetarian, vegan, glutenfree etc to avoid cross contamination). ‘We bring Italy to you!’ PIZZA VOLANTE 0438 118 992 www.pizzavolante.com.au
E: liz@celebrationsbylizjackson.com.au W: www.celebrationsbylizjackson.com.au P: 0414 895 441
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st elmo dining room & bar
BOUTIQUE MOBILE WOODFIRED PIZZERIA Northern Rivers leading party specialist… we bring Italy to you. Australia’s largest mobile traditional pizza oven. Backyard parties, corporate events, festivals, weddings.
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