As one of Australia's most popular destinations for international visitors, the Gold Coast offers a choice of over 500 restaurants providing every cuisine your taste buds could desire. From Japanese "Sushi Trains" to Thai banquets, Greek Tavernas to take-away Mexican, from steakhouses to the finest Australian seafood, there's a restaurant or cafe for every taste and budget.

Vibrant dining precincts are scattered over the Gold Coast. Featuring pavement restaurants and cafes, these cosmopolitan locations are informal by day and lively and chic by night - Broadbeach Mall, Coolangatta, Sanctuary Cove Marine Village, Surfers Paradise, Tedder Avenue in Main Beach and Marina Mirage in Southport.

Australia also produces some of the finest wines in the world and ranks as the world's tenth largest wine producer. Try some of the wines from local producer, Mount Tamborine.

"Bush Tucker" is a term used by the Australian Aboriginals to describe the native foods that they traditionally gathered from the forests. Pig face (that still grows wild on Gold Coast beaches), lemon aspen, bush tomatoes, lemon myrtle, lilli pillies, and muntari berries are quite common in areas, but this produce is not prominent in main-stream restaurants. Tour companies that specialise in Bush Tucker tours can help find you some of this "indigenous dining".