Beer pong, board games and burgers as big as your head.
Beer pong, board games and burgers as big as your head.
Brooklyn Depot has recently rolled out your new favourite weekday event – Frat Tuesdays – which is every bit as rowdy and fun-filled as you’d imagine.
Featuring a beer pong challenge, copious board games, a hostess on roller skates and bottomless fries, you’re guaranteed a good time every Tuesday from 5pm.
There’s a DJ spinning old school tunes, cocktail specials and $1 wicked wings along with all the other American-style eats Brooklyn Depot is famous for.
Let’s start with the fries – there are way too many delicious options to choose from but in the interest of fitting in a burger too, go with the Garbage fries – doused in bacon, onion strings, cheese sauce and frickles (crispy fried pickles!).
Mac ‘n’ Cheese should also grace your table due to the multi-cheese factor. It’s made with Gruyere, Mozarella and Parmesan, baked in béchamel sauce and topped with crispy bacon bits. It doesn’t get much cheesier than that.
Handcrafted burgers and Hot Dawgs are Brooklyn Depot’s pièce de résistance and there are more options than you can poke a sauce-filled syringe at (see below).
The Filthy Pilgrim is a must-try with succulent turkey breast, homemade gravy, rustic roasted potatoes with garlic, melted brie cheese, herbed stuffing crumble and cranberry mayo. It’s a mouthful in more ways than one!
For the carnivores, don’t go past the Fuhgeddaboudit. It involves a grass fed beef patty, beef chilli, American cheese, onion rings, chilli relish and your choice of lethal injection hot sauce, which you literally inject into the burger via syringe. Who says it’s rude to play with your food.
Frat Tuesday’s, get involved.
HOURS: 11am until late daily.
LOCATION: The 4217, Beach Road, Surfers Paradise.
Words by Kirra Smith.
After eating their way through the US on a taste-testing mission, the team at newly renamed Brooklyn Depot Kitchen & Brew brought home 15 of the most authentic dishes they found for your finger lickin’ pleasure.
While there are obviously 15, here are the top three reasons to make a date with the Brooklyn boys stat.
1. The Lobster Mac & Cheese
It’s out of this world. As if Mac & Cheese wasn’t already the best thing that ever happened, the addition of lobster tips it over the edge. Basically it’s fresh lobster meat in a three cheese sauce baked ‘au gratin’ with a gremolata breadcrumb topping. Yes. It. Is.
2. The Cheeseburger Empanadas
These may just blow your mind – housemade empanadas with grass fed beef, American cheese, pickles, onion and served with Depot special sauce – they taste better than a cheeseburger but look more like a curry puff. Thank you America.
3. Chicken n’ Waffles
Not just any chicken n’ waffles though, sweet red velvet ‘bubble style’ waffles topped with crispy southern fried chicken pieces, served with maple cream syrup and flavoured butter. Soul food done the Brooklyn way and oh so Instagrammable.
There’s plenty more where they came from too y’all so a couple of visits a week for the next month should do it. The good old US of A comes through for us again, cheers legends.
Inside tip: the Yo’ Mama milkshake will make you very happy.
LOCATION: Brooklyn Depot Kitchen & Brew, The 4217, 10 Beach Road Surfers Paradise
HOURS: Open 7 days, 11am until late
Words and photos by Kirra Smith
All your lazy, Netflix-binge dreams have come true today with the launch of UberEATS on the Gold Coast!
For those who love five star food but can’t drag themselves away from the latest episode of Suits, prepare to have your mind blown.
UberEATS, the global food delivery service brought to you by ride sharers Uber, has partnered with SO MANY of the Coast’s favourite food outlets to bring you delicious meals and decadent desserts, straight to your doorstep.
The lineup includes the likes of Asian eatery Lucky Bao, delivering pillow-like Bao in all your favourite flavours – Taiwanese fried chicken with Asian slaw, sriracha chilli mayonnaise, twice cooked lamb rib, sweet and sour glaze, cucumber, peanut, chilli and mint, Braised beef cheek, carrot and daikon pickle, crushed peanut and coriander – the possibilities are endless.
Bam Bam Bakehouse, BSKT, Paddock Bakery, Brooklyn Depot, Sparrow Eating House, Honeyeater Kitchen, Harry’s Steak Bistro, The Loose Moose and Hatch and Co. are just a few of the other stars, there are over 80, who’ll soon be joining you on the couch for cuddle time.
Officially kicking off today, UberEATS will operate from Surfers Paradise and Southport and deliver down to Burleigh Waters and everywhere in between.
What are you waiting for – download the UberEATS app, choose your favourite feast and get hungry, life as you know it has turned upside down.
Delivery is free until the end of February and you can get $10 off your first order using the code INSIDEGCEATS!
Don’t forget to tag us in your pics!
Words and photos by Kirra Smith.
Surfers Paradise is the heart of the Gold Coast, loved by locals and a stark reminder of a youth well spent for locals.
If you’re short on time but still keen to experience the magic of this tourist hub, never fear; here’s a guide to spending 24 action packed hours in Surfers Paradise.
Early morning: Rise with the sun for a walk along one of Australia’s most famous beaches. It’s the quietest time of day in Surfers but the active wear will be out in full force. A magnificent sunrise will ignite you for the day ahead.
Breakfast: Sandbar on the Esplanade has long been a visitor’s favourite and with a recent renovation, it’s now a favourite with the locals too. It’s the perfect spot to enjoy your first coffee of the day, a smoothie bowl or an omelette with a side of lamb sausage (Aussie, Aussie, Aussie) while overlooking the beach.
Where: 52 The Esplanade, Surfers Paradise (on the corner of Elkhorn Avenue)
Mid-morning: After letting your breakfast settle, relax with a Surfers Paradise River Cruise. The cruise travels through the waterways at a leisurely pace while the Captain points out interesting sights and celebrity homes along the way. Morning tea is served and can be enjoyed on the sunlit deck overlooking the skyline.
Where: 63 Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise (next to the Tiki statue)
Lunch: You’ll be famished after a morning on the water so head down to Betty’s Burgers & Concrete Co. for a mouth-watering burger and their famous concrete desserts. You’ll be hard pressed to stop eating but don’t forget you’ve got an afternoon of activities ahead!
Where: Chevron Renaissance12-14/3240 Surfers Paradise Blvd, Surfers Paradise
Early afternoon: Surfers Paradise has a huge variety of shops to wander through from high end to highly touristy. You could easily lose hours (and dollars) in Cavill Mall alone.
If you’re keen for more activities there’s also Timezone, Infinity – a mind-blowing maze adventure, the Wax Museum – where you’ll come face to face with Johnny Depp, Kylie Minogue and the Dalai Lama and Ripley’s Believe it or Not Odditorium – offering 16 themed galleries filled with unbelievable artefacts and interactive exhibits. Perhaps a spot of mini golf at King Tutt’s Putt Putt.
Late afternoon: Get a birds eye view of the Gold Coast from 240 metres in the air at SkyPoint Observation Deck. Relax and enjoy afternoon tea (or a sneaky cocktail) while marveling at 360 degree views of the Coast from the ocean to the hinterland. Hot tip: Head up just before sunset to see the dazzling lights of Surfers come on.
Where: Q1, 9 Hamilton Ave, Surfers Paradise
Dinner: After a long day of activities, you’ll appreciate a relaxed dinner. Take a stroll across the bridge to the little village community of Chevron Island. Treat yourself to a takeaway pizza from Arlo’s Pizzeria and perch yourself in the park overlooking the Broadwater.
Where: Shop 2, 46-50 Thomas Drive, Chevron Island
After dinner: For a sweet treat don’t miss grabbing a gelato from local favourite Yum Gelato before you hit the hay or, if you’re a night owl and you’ve come to see the Surfers Paradise spectacle that is Orchid Avenue, dance the night away in one of the many bars located in and around Surfers Paradise.
Start at the local’s favourite Melba’s for drink in this open air bar before wandering up to the newly renovated The Avenue for a stint of live music. As every good bar crawl progresses, you can’t miss the Gold Coast’s super club Shooters. Have a bit of a jive at locally-loved bar Elsewhere (with a colour changing disco dance floor), before settling in at late night venue The Bedroom before calling it a night (or an early morning if you gave it a good go).
Don’t forget your kebab on the way home, hold the onion.
So there you have it, one of many ways to spend 24 hours in Surfers Paradise. Keep an eye out for more plus Inside Gold Coast’s ongoing suburb spotlights.
Words by Kirra Smith.
