hola muy buenas tardes espero tengas una excelente semana laboral que vendan mucho, me presento mi…read morenombre es angelo soy colombiano y llevo un mes y dias aqui en este hermoso pais estoy como turista pero ya estoy en proceso de cambio de visado para estudiante , la verdad estoy desesperando buscando trabajo pero a sido un poco complicado por la cuestion de los documentos son muy estrictos con la legalidad en el momento de contratar y estoy muy afanado por que el dinero se me va acabando y no contaba con la cantidad de documentos como no solo voy a estudiar ingles si no tambien cocina no contaba con un seguro que me sale bastante altico y la verdad me preocupa no encontrar trabajo para poder solventar mi estadi aqui en australia , me da pena molestarlos de esta manera pero de pronto esten nesecitando gente y me puedan echar una manito mientras me salen los documentos soy muy organizado y puedo ayudar en lo que neseciten en la cocina espero me sepan entender y ojala me puedan colaborar les dejo mi numero y me pueden hablar por whatssap 0406880484, mil gracias y les deseo un excelente dia

Amazing Venezuelan food with many gluten free and vegetarian options. Would recommend the domino…read more(vegetarian) or reina (chicken) arepas. Theu even have yuca chips! Delicious.

What a great beachside place to spend a long relaxed Friday lunch with family. The staff were super…read morefriendly and helpful, putting aside a table for our big group of 8 with half an hour's notice. The food was tasty, decently priced and hearty enough to satisfy both the carnivores (burgers and pork belly wraps) and the big-eating vegetarians (green eggs and veggie breakfast burritos). All locally sourced produce, by the way. The drinks menu is cider heavy, as you'd expect, but also features a good mix of beer, spirits, wine and cocktails. All your different milks are available to go with the Marvell St (Byron Bay) coffees - Bonsoy, almond and coconut. The tasting paddles of cider and the housemade ginger kombucha were particularly big hits. I'd happily return, even if it's just to try a jug of cider sangria!

The food here is prepared and presented with great care and the decent variety of balanced choices…read more sets a great standard. A friendly service is only hindered by the limited staff available to manage things when it gets busy.

Enjoyed my meal here. It's a Hare Krishna place, which means it's low-cost Indian-inspired food,…read morecooked for the masses and served buffet-style. Lots of curries and things like that. You pay one flat fee and it's all-you-can-eat. Govinda's is a bit more special than most Hare Krishna places, though, in that it's a little bit better quality and has way more of a range of options. It has one bar devoted to salads and their dressings (fresh green mixed salads, couscous salads, quinoa salads, etc.) and one bar devoted to hot foods (pasta, several types of curries, samosas and other fried snacks, and a sweet dessert). Govinda's is also one of the only vegetarian places in Surfers Paradise, and as it is 100% vegan, you don't have to worry about sneaky dairy or egg ingredients when you order. The downside of all this is it is more expensive than most Hare Krishna places -- the ones in other cities tend to be in the $9-12 range (even as low as $6.50 here in Melbourne). We paid $16.90 each here at Govinda's! We were hungry so it was worth it -- we filled our plates once at the salad bar, then went back and filled our plates again at the hot cooked food bar, and then finally a third time for dessert. Some of the options were better than others. I really loved the satay peanut sauce at the salad bar -- I drenched my quinoa salad and green salad in it. Delicious stuff. I also enjoyed the lentil curry, and the fried pakora was super yum. I wasn't as wild about the pasta -- it was very plain. But in general, everything was tasty. The dessert was halwa (semolina pudding with sweet sauce) -- not very pretty to look at, but tasty. If you don't want to spring for the all-you-can-eat, you can also order individual plates of things, but it didn't look like it was as good a value for your money. You can also order at an extra cost any desserts from their display case and any extra drinks as well. (Free tap water otherwise.) Service was a bit blunt as it often is in this type of place. But not too bad. Atmosphere-wise, very similar to lots of Hare Krishna places, although this one had very little religious messaging on the walls, very unobtrusive -- most people would never guess it was a Hare Krishna place. Nice enough seating and decor, and very clean. I loved all the colorful throw pillows against the benches. Definitely recommend if you're in Surfers looking for a healthy, filling meal that won't break the bank.

Excellent food! Very happy every time I go Nice variety of…read moreproducts and very tasty!!

I probably should write an update, simply because I've been in enough times. Kuan Yin offers a…read morewide-ranging menu of vegetarian Taiwanese dishes with plenty of other Asian offerings mixed in. It is a decent location; not on the beach but accessible and near other useful things. Their menu is vegetarian; it also has separate sections to denote the minority of non-vegan items. I will occasionally get a nice tea or other drink from them, but the highlights of my visits have been food. I am not a big fake meat person, but they do a good enough job of integrating them in that I will eat the various strange products that pop up in their dishes. Their ma po tofu is still probably the best rendition I've had in Australia, and the ground fake meat and black pepper give it a desirable heartiness. I was also impressed with their rich curry laksa, and their dumplings and smaller soups are great appetizers. The hardest thing about eating here is that all the time I spend poring through the menu trying to pick another winner I could be spending on the beach. Note: No longer cash only.

Come and surprise my wife to be at our tea house just around the corner or two from you refreshing…read morehigh quality imported tea so come say hi

Fantastic burgers, friendly staff, and very reasonable prices. Extra points for the sweet potato…read morefries & mint aioli. Yum!

Had the pipeline burger with beef (it has pineapple on it) and it was a lovely combination. Grilled…read moreperfectly, and the chips were cooked great as well. Friendly staff, good location. Nothing but a good experience.

The food was delicious and the portions are very filling. A pumpkin salad, samosa and…read moreginger/lemon drink was very refreshing.

You might consider one of the four stars in this rating to be awarded for location, as this is in a…read moreblock of restaurants next to where a river hits the beach and a spectacular rainforest-covered rocky peak overlooks the scenery. Not that you can see any of this from the restaurant, but you won't have to go far after your beach excursion to eat. The food itself is all-vegetarian, and ample in options. I ate modestly, choosing dal and a daily special shepard's pie (quite rich and filling), leaving many other stones unturned. The amount of food for the money was satisfactory (at least, given the locale; I got more at their urban location). The place had a decent-sized line at peak lunch hour around noon, which I just beat. Are there a lot of Australian vegetarians, or do people just know good stuff when they see it? I'm not sure, but in any case, beachgoing Queenslanders don't have to settle for crappy beach food.

Seriously awesome food and good service. The ingredients are…read morevery well thought and everything was delicious (we tried the burgers and the nachos yuummm!!). You won't regret it :D

From the owner: Our Dosa's are famous, but we also excel at hand-made laksa, incredible burgers and fries,…read moreSingapore style noodles, nachos, and much, much more. We are pure vegetarian, but most of our dishes are also Vegan, with our own vegan cheese to make any cheese dish vegan also. We have kombucha on tap, beautiful house-made sweets, and tons of gluten free options... :)

I like it. Yummy green, juice pretty quick service, coffee is acceptable according to my partner,…read morehis scramble eggs on toast were good. I had the corn and zucchini fritters and while I thought the presentation needed work it tasted good. Small but I enjoyed it. My poached egg was probably a tad under and snotty in the whites. Will I be back.. yeah I'd give it another go. The juice was really good!

Yummy sandwiches with a desert to look forward to. Overall a really good place to stop by for a…read morewhile. Also this place is a group friendly to hang out and they have nice service which treated us kindly.

Fantastic food. Very busy , but it was Saturday night. There is seating to wait for a table…read more Definitely worth it. Service was excellent for a busy period. Food is delicious. Vegan. Creative. Very tasty. Quite large mains. Good pricing. Licensed , nice surprise. I had the lemon myrtle iced tea with a shot of gin Our party of three had the nachos and two serves of the 'pulled' jackfruit enchilada... I can't wait to go back. 'Raw' desserts yummo

We got takeaway, delicious! The cauliflower wings were the BEST! So nourishing. Thank youread more

This is a second location for the Cardamom Pod, a vegetarian (apparently vegan) brunch place (the…read morefirst is south of here at Broadbeach). The location itself I'm not a huge fan of. It's not close to the beach or on the tram line, so it wasn't the easiest thing to get to. Moreover, because it took a while to reach, I arrived just after their breakfast had ended and their lunch started. Looking at the breakfast menu, this was a tad disappointing. That being said, the crunchy tofu rolls I ended up were ethnically indiscernible but tasty, combining a Vietnamese presentation with a very Indian-ish dipping sauce and some marinated mango. They were amply spicy and sweet, and with avocado accompanying the tofu, reasonably filling. Their menu on the whole is quite lavish (and expensive). And yet, despite being a pricey pure plant-based restaurant at a non-ideal location, it was kind of busy. Gold Coast, man, I'm telling you. Most parts of the world, there aren't too many fancy vegetarian restaurants and the ones that exist sometimes struggle, but I just can't stop running into them here, and they're doing fine. I imagine I'll be back for some of their chickpea flour breakfast dishes sometime.

Decided to give this place a second chance after trying it during the COVID pandemic when they were…read moreonly doing take away, their food was not to their usual standard. Sorely disappointed with the service this time and didn't even get a chance to eat. From the time of ordering to leaving waited over an hour. Full story is we didn't have an appointment but me and my friend wanted to see if they had seats anyway. There were two tables opening up but the hostess told us to wait and gave us some attitude about it. We shrugged it off and waited about 10min for the table that was just empty the entire ten minutes. When we sat down we looked over the menu and then ordered about 5 min later with the same hostess lady. She unkindly told us that the gnocchi was sold out which is fine but she still had an attitude about it. Then after ordering we waited about an hour and saw people who had come order ate and left. We had been chatting and had ordered a big meal so thought maybe our food took longer to prepare but after an hour we were hungry and impatient and asked the hostess about an update and she said "what food" and we reminded her that she took our order and she just said "omg I forgot" she had not put the order in. In the hour she had not checked on our table even tho by this time half the restaurant tables were empty they weren't that busy. Terrible service. The food however does look and smell amazing from the tables next to us.