We're always on the hunt for somewhere to try that we haven't been before. When our personal…read moretrainer recommended Tradewinds in Maroubra, we were keen to try, given that it's also local for us. We are surprised that we hadn't been before. The restaurant can easily be found on Maroubra road with ample parking around. Whilst the restaurant is quite large, and can accomodate couples, families and groups, we recommend booking to guarantee a table. One of the best things about the restaurant is that the staff are just so darn nice. They all appear to love their job, be eager to help and offer suggestions as to what to order. We felt welcome and appreciated the quality service. Furthermore, the service was efficient, with food being delivered in good timing. Food wise, Tradewinds is a modern restaurant / bistro in Maroubra specialising in hearty food; meats on the grill, burgers, pastas, pizzas, salads and plenty of specials with influences from around the world. They have a good range of meats and we absolutely loved their smoked ribs, basted in a delicious - sauce. We ordered the pork ribs on one occasion and the meat platter on another. The meat platter also comes with steak, lamb souvlaki pieces and some of their tasty beer battered steakhouse fries. We also the flash fried salt and pepper calamari, served with fresh rocket and creamy aioli. The kofta special was also delicious; the kofta served with pita, fries and salad. Tradewinds also does plenty of desserts, tea and coffee as well as brunch on weekends. The restaurant suits all demographics - young and old and perfect for any sort of catch up. We recommend trying out this family owned business for the food is great, portions are generous and service is excellent.

The best meat platter in Sydney by far! Make sure to add pepper sauce mmmm delish!…read more Great service, great atmosphere & great food. I highly recommend the meat platter!

Inferno Grill Maroubra Junction gives you an option to dine in or take away and has a couple of…read moretables outside. A great place to enjoy a casual meal with prompt service. Inferno is a licensed venue offering a great range of alcoholic beverages to accompany your meal including a good range of beer, which is perfect when smashing or trying to smash one of their burgers. The menu supplying a magnitude of choice whith crazy burgers, loaded shakes, gelato, salads and as the name suggests items from the grill including steak, chicken and fish. The burgers here are huge, make sure you bring your appetite. The lord of the fries was a monstorous stack made of some mouthwatering slow cooked pulled beef marinated in a southern style smokey BBQ sauce, with some thick cut chips and a solid serve of melted cheese. This was ordered as a combo and came with a side of their thick cut chips, some of the best we have had. The chicken burgers are some of the best going around with a favourites being the clucking pig a fried chicken boheimeth and the honey badger, a tasty grilled chicken burger assembled with slaw and a flavoursome honey mustard sauce. We also shared a salad: brown rice with corn kernels and sun dried tomato a good option if you are after something healthy to eat. We could not go past their loaded shakes with the Caramello Koala granbing our attention. Being a fan of the chocolate, this shake was a must and did not disappoint. As mentioned, the servings are very generous and this shake could be considered a meal in itself. We thank inferno for their hospitality and for their vision in creating some solid burgers shakes.

Sweet merciful mother clucking WOW of minor foodie paradise…read more Inferno Grill knows food. Boy, do they know food. I came here for the burgers, and there's a custom Fatties Burger Appreciation Society list as long as your arm with all kinds of wild stuff (the Boss Hogg has crumbed mozzarella) but I tried their most famous creation, The Clucking Pig. The thing that stands out at this place is the quality of ingredients, and the care put into making each dish. The fried chicken was HUGE, like brontosaurus size, and piping hot with lovely crisp skin. The crunchy slaw, the aoili, the chilli sauce. Lots of thought has gone into this, and the result is astonishing. The owner Anthony stopped by out table for a chat. This is a guy that genuinely cares about his customers, and he's crafted a one-stop family place that has something for everyone, from the fresh salads to the sticky glazed pork ribs to the char-grilled BBQ chicken. Everything looks sumptuous, everything's crazy fresh, and the prices are amazing. In your face, $20 gastropub burgers that I could have made at home. Oh and beers and ciders are $5. Yup. Oh, and he makes his own gelato, the kind that has crumbled up Crunchies on top. A proper Rennaissance man. I hear he used to be a banker. Special shout-out to the home-made chilli sauce. Spin me around and call me Mary, I would drink a cup of this stuff. Don't dare me, I'LL DO IT. In the interests of full disclosure: a colleague was introducing me to this place and my burger was comped.

I suppose its your standard charcoal chcken store, with the chicken and the salads and the combos…read moreand the various menu items and the like. Not much to separate it from the crowd, except these little lemon and herb potato balls, which I think are amazing. Just potato balls in a mixture, not really healthy by the look or feel of them, but they're good. They really should sell them in smaller serves though, the smallest is $5 for a container, and its pretty much a meal. They also have some octopus... something. At least for today. So they mix it up a little. Salads are pretty good looking (I haven't tried it), but there s a high standard of salads at charcoal chicken places, so I'm hoping they live up to it. But the store isn't huge, and feels a bit standard. Don't go out of your way, but a cheap fast meal when you are on your way home.

Classic charcoal chicken shop. Epic combo deals. This is the best place in the area to get a…read morechicken burger. Now they do a special chicken burger and this is the business..... So get a chicken burger with no mayo but chilli sauce..... omg it's the biz. Cheap prices and great service. You can get a burger combo deal for $10 which is a chicken burger chips and a can of drink bargain... They have a heap of other cheap deals too

A bit of a food factory in a suburban shopping center. Bad acoustics and big crowds combined with…read moreweak air conditioning make for poor ambience and difficult conversation. Our cheerful waiter took our orders with gusto and kids dinners came with our entrees as promised. The food was standard Italian fare, competently prepared (although always salty.) Things went downhill when our mains failed to arrive after frequent requests as to what was happening with them. They finally arrived for some but not all of our group and then a further delay to the last diners. These were not complicated dishes we were waiting for- spaghetti dishes mostly, so no excuse there. One of our group had ordered a side dish. It simply never came. The waiter was totally unapologetic. No regrets, no offer to reduce the bill, no bread to keep hunger at bay or wine to soothe us! If you want to eat in a noisy, hot, crowded food factory with ungracious staff and poor order management, you will love this place.

This restaurant in the middle of Maroubra deserves more attention than it's given…read more Maranellos hosts some of the best Italian food I've ever eaten. They also have a beautiful range of blackboard specials on top of everything else. If you're looking for a slice of Italy, you can get it here. It's interior design is also something to commemorate. The restaurant is medium sized, proving to be cramped on busy holidays, although looked over easily. From anywhere in the restaurant you can watch pizza be prepared and baked in an open kitchen. It's a stunning layout. My only regret is eating the food too quickly to take a photo of it.

Arthur's pizza is one of those staple Italian joints - your local where you can call up for that…read moreFriday night pizza when you can't be bothered cooking (or on any night really) and you can always guarantee it's tasty. They've been in the business for over 30 years. Beginning in the 1970'z, they offered alternatives to the regular cheese and tomato options, they soon became popular with their creative flavour combinations. They've have continued to grow, and now have stores in a number of locations: Randwick, Paddington and now also Bexley, Maroubra, Glebe and Rosebery. Arthur's stores have a family atmosphere and super casual which makes it a comfortable place to socialise. That, in combination with reasonable prices makes for a good eat in or takeaway option. We visited in a group so were able to sample a variety of things from the menu including entrees, pizza, pasta and salads. Entree wise we ate the saucy meatballs and garlic prawns - these were cooked and served in thick tomato type sauce so a lot of the flavour was retained. Pizzas come in different sizes; small, medium, large and family. There's plenty of flavour combinations, but you can pay a little extra if you want any additions. There's also Gluten free options. We had the following pizzas - all really good choices! Campollo: Chicken Fillet, Semi-Dried Tomato, Red Onion, Camembert, Basil Sassri: Lamb Fillets, Fetta Cheese, Red Onions, Sweet Potato, Mint Nitro: Pepperoni, Onions, Capsicum, Bacon, Chilli In addition, we enjoyed the creamy Bosciola pasta with bacon and mushroom and well as the super flavour some mushroom risotto. With so many delicious carbs, we needed some salads to balance out or lunch and we tried the Greek salad and also a lovely rocket and Parmesan one too. By the end of this we were super food but did a great job finishing it off. Unfortunately we were too full for dessert, but if you're not, Nutella pizza or tiramisu would be my pick!

Poke lovers rejoice, there is a straight up Poke spot in Sydney!!!…read more Found on the backstreets of Coogee Beach, if you ever missed the poke in Hawaii there is now a solution. When you rock up you can order a small bowl for $15 which comes with your choice of poke, one side, and black rice or if you're hungry you can order a large for $20 which comes with two choices of poke, one side, and black rice. The poke varies from spicy tuna, salmon, kingfish, and others all with different marinades and ingredients. Super fresh and tasty af....sides vary from seaweed salad, potato salad, coleslaw, kim chi and more. I got the large with spicy tuna (ahi) and the Aloha way (salmon) which is the classic along with potato salad. This will definitely fill you up and I plan on coming back. Real healthy and real tasty...can't ask for more.

Came here on a Sunday and was very disappointed…read more Out of the entire poke bowl menu of about 8 selections, only 2 were available. We were told that on Sundays, they made other poke bowls which weren't on the menu. It sounded like they were using their leftover ingredients to put together what they could. We chose 1 of the 2 bowls that was available, and then told that this was actually not available either as what was left was needed for an existing order. Service was poor. Staff were disorganised - there were 2 waitresses behind the counter and one told us that she could describe the food to us but couldn't actually take our order - for some unknown reason only 1 staff could do this. We ordered some poke and vegetables which were on display at the counter. It took them 15 mins to put on a plate (there were only 6 guests in the cafe and some were eating when we came in). It turns out they had forgotten about our order. A staff approached us and asked if we had ordered yet. While we were eating, I heard the staff shout out to eachother in the kitchen describing what ingredients they had and working out a poke bowl combination to put together - supporting my theory that they were using leftovers.

Asakusa is a little Japanese joint in Maroubra. I have only ever got take-away from there as the…read moreplace is a bit lackluster. It's got beautiful Agedashi Tofu which is something I judge most Japanese restaurants by. The seaweed salad with lemon dressing is fab and they have black sesame ice cream too! The Sashimi comes in small, medium and large which is wonderful depending on how hungry you are and it is really fresh and fat fish. The softshell crab w/ salad, for $16.50 is great value but the rest of the menu is a little expensive for what you get. They have lunch specials though that cost between $8-11. A nice little local for lunch or dinner.

This has to be the worst Japanese restaurant anywhere ! We…read morehad a voucher and when we walked in they switched menus and we were offered a choice of 2 entrees and 5 mains.The endame were quite nice but what can you do to stuff up steamed beans ? The gyozu were crisp on one side and soggy on the other. The so called tempura consisted of thick , soggy oily batter coating unrecognisable vegetables and prawn slivers - revolting and unedible. The salmon ? teriyaki was even worse presented in a dark brown sauce coating what was probably paper thin white slivers of defrosted mushy Nile perch or similar (isn't salmon pink ?) and the accompanying salad consisted of a lettuce leaf , grated carrot and a teaspoon of mayonaise. Don't even ask about the non service and indifferent attitude of the waitress ..........

My lunch on my diet plan is Brown rice, salad and meat.. only other place I've found this combo and…read moreit being delcious was Guzman & Gomez, now Le Wrap is on that list aswell :)!!! There aren't many places that have the brown rice option!! I order a chicken plate that came with a big enough salad and a big serving of Brown rice and BBQ chicken with Capsicum and Mushroom, it tasted Amazing and i Scoffed it down like it was my last lunch lol :)!! The fresh salads are visible to see and same as the BBQ plate so you can see the delicousness being prepared right before your eyes :D No less than 5 stars for this place :D!!!

Got a large take away latte. It was a little bitter for my…read moretaste buds. The coffee lacked a smooth creamy latte texture that I like in my coffee. Might possibly have a different coffee / milk rato in the small. If I'm back I think I will try the small and see if its any different. In general this place doesnt have too much seating probably about 10 people can fit comfortably inside and two tables of two tops out front.

Great spot for a morning coffee and acai bowl. The staff is very polite and attentive and the menu…read morehas options for veg too. So far, breakfast and lunch had been good and healthy. Will be back!

Caffe Martino is locates outside Coles at Maroubra Shopping Square…read more Angelo was a great host! All the staff are friendly and service standards are efficient and prompt. It's a great place for breakfast as it's served all day long. I ordered the big breakfast served here which is very good value @$15.90. If your after lunch items, Caffe Martino serves Chicken or Hawaiian melts, Portuguese Chicken Wraps, Steak Sandwiches, Burgers, Wedges and Fries. Add some healthy salads to your meal or choose a Salad meal on its own. A full sandwich bar operates - making your own sandwich from $5.50! Coffee, Tea, Shakes,Smoothies, bottled Apple, Orange and Pineapple juices and cold drinks are also available. I fully recommend coming here.