Townsville

Townsville Food and Wine

Townsville’s food scene is easy to enjoy in different moods: a relaxed bistro meal on Palmer Street, breakfast by The Strand, craft beer with share plates, or a shop for seafood, deli treats and fresh produce. The city also offers useful catering services and a locally based distillery where tastings and visits can be arranged. From everyday coffee and takeaway to functions and celebratory dining, these venues and operators provide practical ways to eat, drink and explore around Townsville.

🍺 Pub & Bistro Dining

The Pub on Palmer

The Pub on Palmer combines a bistro, bar and gaming venue on Palmer Street. Its bistro serves lunch and dinner, while the sports bar offers beers across 18 taps and large screens for televised sport. Function catering is also available, making the venue suitable for an informal meal, a sports catch-up or a planned gathering.

31 Palmer St, South Townsville QLD 4810 · ☎ 07 4771 4351

Townsville Brewing Co.

This brewpub brings craft beer, spirits and casual dining together in a venue with booths, an outdoor deck and an on-site brewery. The published food offering includes steak, a Brewer’s burger and smoked brisket pizza, giving groups a choice of substantial pub-style meals alongside the brewery’s drinks selection.

252 Flinders St, Townsville QLD 4810 · ☎ +61 7 4724 2999

Tiny Mountain Brewery

Tiny Mountain Brewery pairs its beers with grill cooking and wood-fired pizza. The menu also covers share plates, burgers, chicken schnitzel, Wagyu beef and pasta dishes, so it can suit a casual drink, a shared meal or a more filling dinner. Its setting on Palmer Street keeps the brewery and food experience together.

20 Palmer Street, South Townsville QLD 4810 · ☎ 07 4454 1767

The TapHouse Townsville

The TapHouse centres its food offering on tapas, share plates and burgers alongside a craft-beer selection. It is a flexible choice for grazing with friends or settling in for a casual burger, with the menu designed to sit comfortably beside the venue’s drinks focus.

373 Flinders Street, Townsville City Queensland 4810, Australia · ☎ 07 4772 2301

🍽️ Restaurants & Seaside Dining

Cactus Jack’s

Cactus Jack’s is a Mexican restaurant on Palmer Street, serving dinner at its Townsville venue. It offers a distinct change of pace from the city’s pub and brewery meals, with a dedicated Mexican dining format for an evening meal in the Palmer Street precinct.

21 Palmer Street, Townsville QLD 4810 · ☎ 07 4721 1478

A Touch of Salt

At Metro Quays, A Touch of Salt offers restaurant dining as well as takeaway ordering and dining gift vouchers. The business also provides catering and restaurant-function services, extending its offering from a meal out to food for an occasion or gathering.

Ground Floor Metro Quays, 86 - 124 Ogden Street, Townsville QLD 4810 · ☎ 07 4724 4441

JAM Corner

JAM Corner focuses on seasonal small plates and shared dining, supported by natural wines and lunch and dinner service. Functions and dining experiences for occasions are also part of its offering, giving diners a setting for a relaxed shared meal or a more planned celebration on Palmer Street.

1 Palmer Street, South Townsville QLD 4810 · ☎ 07 4721 4900

CBAR

CBAR is a seaside café and restaurant on The Strand with breakfast, lunch and dinner menus. Its private function room supports celebrations and corporate events, while the all-day dining format makes it useful for anything from a morning meal to an evening gathering near the waterfront.

80 Gregory Street Headlands, Townsville QLD 4810 · ☎ (07) 4724 0333

☕ Cafes, Coffee & Catering

Mello Cafe

Mello Cafe serves dine-in and takeaway food and drinks, with catering and events menus available as well. It works for a straightforward café visit or for arranging food around a local event, without moving away from its central café offering.

22 Walker Street, Townsville QLD 4810 · ☎ 07 4426 7653

Tide Cafe & Catering

Tide Cafe serves Campos coffee and extends its food service into catering, from cold meat and salad platters to hot food and coffee. Catering delivery is available to the Townsville CBD, while coffee pre-orders provide another practical option for local office or group needs.

46 Gregory Street, North Ward · ☎ 07 4431 0432 · coffee pre-orders: 0418 457 572

Coffee Cartel

Coffee Cartel in Thuringowa Central serves coffee, baked goods and café food, with platters available to order. It offers a useful everyday stop for a coffee and something to eat, while the platter service adds a simple option for sharing or a small gathering.

72-88 Hervey Range Rd, Thuringowa Central QLD 4817 · ☎ 07 4401 5094

🧺 Specialty Food, Seafood & Markets

Otto’s Market

Otto’s Market provides grocery shopping, prepared food and catering for private functions, weddings and launches. Its Continental Deli stocks smallgoods, cheeses and antipasto, makes dips and condiments, smokes meats in-house and prepares platters. The market has locations in Currajong and Idalia, with the supplied deli contact based at Currajong.

3 - 5 Illuka Street, Currajong, Qld 4812 · Continental Deli: ☎ 07 4779 1755

White’s Corner Store

White’s Corner Store combines a deli market, butcher and produce shop. Its deli range includes olives, salami, prosciutto, ham off the bone, frittata, quiche, fritters, salads and pâté, while meat plates and fresh produce add useful options for home meals, grazing boards and food shopping.

1 Rose Street, North Ward Q 4810 · Grocer & Butchery: ☎ (07) 4771 2761

Ingham Road Seafood

Ingham Road Seafood is a seafood retailer selling fish, prawns, scallops, crabs, oysters and octopus. Seafood packs and platters are also available, making the shop useful both for cooking at home and for putting together a more substantial seafood spread.

159 Ingham Road, Townsville, Queensland · ☎ 07 4721 1464

Cleveland Bay Seafood

Cleveland Bay Seafood supplies fresh fish, prawns and shellfish to retail and wholesale customers. Retail shoppers can order custom seafood platters, with availability subject to weather and seasons. Its Garbutt premises provide another local option for selecting seafood for home dining or a gathering.

3/305 Ingham Road, Garbutt QLD 4814 · ☎ 07 4725 1233

🍸 Catering & Private Dining

Michels Catering & Events

Michels Catering & Events caters for private, corporate and large-scale events across Townsville and North Queensland. Services include private fine dining, degustation dinners, interactive dining and themed events, alongside ready-made meals, platters, grazing boards and oven trays. Its production kitchen is not a retail location, and meetings are by appointment only.

Production kitchen at Glencore, 74 Hunter Street, Stuart. Not a retail location; meetings by appointment only. · weekend delivery: ☎ 0437 309 328

🍷 Distillery Tastings & Visits

On Country Craft Distillery

On Country Craft Distillery is a First Nations owned and managed distillery producing craft spirits with Australian botanicals. Its range includes bush lemonade, lemon myrtle, native raspberry and coastal-botanical gins. Tastings and distillery visits can be arranged by phone, offering a focused way to explore the Townsville drinks scene.

Townsville, Queensland · tastings and distillery visit arrangements: ☎ 0478 599 035

Take time to follow the flavours that suit your occasion, whether that means a bistro lunch, coffee and a platter, seafood for home cooking, or a planned tasting and celebration. Local restaurants, cafés, producers, retailers, caterers and experience operators are warmly invited to add or update their listing, helping people connect with your own menu, services, reservations or enquiries.

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