Lunch at the Croc Eye

It is always a pleasure to visit the Croc Eye Cafe in Daintree's main street for delicious daytime meals.

We hadn't been in Daintree for several months and so we were looking forward to a relaxed lunch with a chilled white wine. We had the Pork Belly and Fish, fries and Salad followed by some outstanding coffee, in fact the whole thing was outstanding.

Croc Eye Cafe

3 Stewart Street (Opp Big Barra)

Daintree Village

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Julaymba Restaurant & Gallery

Daintree Eco Lodge & Spa

20 Daintree Road, 3 kms south of (before) the Daintree Village.

Excellent Barramundi, icy cold Sauvignon Blanc and first class service

go together to provide good value.

Another great Daintree dining asset.

Croc Eye Cafe in Daintree's main street.

The Croc Eye Cafe is a bright and airy restaurant right in the middle of Daintree Village. 

It always pleases whether it is a full on meal or just a snazzy Baguette.

The coffee is absolutely first class.

Today for lunch we had Reef Fish and Calamari with a cracking cold Chardonnay.

The Croc Eye cafe is part of the Daintree scene and the whisperings of
WiFi coming soon are getting louder.

Mossman Bowls Club

It is many years since we have dined at the Mossman Memorial Bowls Club 

but we had lunch there today.

The club has just been entered into the Queensland Club's Hall of Fame after being voted Queensland's best three times, an honour it shares with the Tin Shed in at Port Douglas.

This is a good place for lunch simply based on value as we found out by sampling the House White, a Lindeman's Chardonnay for $8.50. The Seafood Duo for $15.50, local Mackerel and Calamari rings was good but the Steak Sandwich for $12 was only 5 out of 10. Main meals include a serve from the salad bar.

Tuesday Night Fish & Chips

3 Stewart Street, Daintree Village.

Local Battered Reef Fish

or

House Crumbed Calamari

or
Fish Burger - Battered reef fish, tomato, lettuce and

Tartar

All served with French fries, Lemon & home made Tartar

$12.50

Phone 4098 6229 for pre-order or come in for a cold beer!

5pm - 8pm

December to January only

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Xmas in Daintree Village

Christmas Dinner Party at the Daintree Village Restaurant (Daintree Hotel)

17 Dec and $27 per head. Christmas Dinner 6:00 to 7:30pm

Turkey, Ham, Homemade Salad and Deserts Phone 40986146 for bookings.

Entertainment by Jou & Dave from 7:30 to 11:30pm.

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Whyanbeel Valley near Daintree...

HIGH FALLS FARM for lunch on Friday 8 July 2011.
Great setting alongside the babbling brook with reasonable food reasonably priced. The corkage is a bit rich. $5 each they charge which probably makes their corkage charge the most expensive in Australia and a talking point for a long time after.

Lunch at the Croc Eye Cafe....

Thai Beef Salad and Fish & Chips, BYO Wolf Blass Chardonnay and Clean skin Shiraz Cabernet.

Daintree's Newest Restaurant:

CROC EYE CAFE
3 Stewart Street
DAINTREE VILLAGE
Phone 40986229

Owners Rick Bellamy and Kelly Smith bring a wealth of experience to Daintree. Not only catering to diners from 8:00am to late with signature crocodile dishes, Rick and Kelly can provide scrumptious snacks for those in a hurry to catch a river cruise.
Croc Eye is BYO at present with the liquor licence due in three weeks. The setting for this restaurant is ideal for that special coffee break. Fresh local produce is used to cater to every customer - vegan, vegetarian, carnivore and those willing to taste crocodile.

(Source: Pers Comm, Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette)

New Restaurant for Daintree.

CROC EYE CAFE
Opens in Daintree.

The previous Papaya Cafe is now open as the Croc Eye Cafe with new owners Rick Bellamy and Kelly Smith. More details to follow.

Daintree Village Restaurant

SATURDAYs

COUNTRY ROCK & ROLL

DAINTREE VILLAGE GENERAL STORE & RESTAURANT
$12.50 ROAST
BOOK WITH VINCENT 40986146

Chair of Council Birdlife International, Cambridge, England, Peter Schei is pictured here with his wife Anne and Keith Fisher from Kingfisher Park Birdwatchers Park Julatten. They were having breakfast at the Village Restaurant after a dawn birdwatching tour on the Daintree River.

The original BREAKFAST with the BIRDS

Do the real thing: a real dawn birdwatching tour on the Daintree River then breakfast at the Village Restaurant. Chris Dahlberg has been taking people birdwatching on the Daintree River at dawn since 1992. Website > for Chris and Website > for The Village Restaurant.

150 things to do in Queensland

Dinner in the Daintree

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You can see this exciting Daintree wildlife DVD whilst you are dining at the Daintree Village Restaurant.

PAPAYA CAFE is soon to re-open as STEPHANIE's FAST FOOD CAFE in MAY 2009?

Pizza & Pasta La Boca, Mossman will deliver to Daintree - Wonga Beach. Phone: 40983760

Friday 14 November 2008
Monster Raffle Night at the Daintree Village Restaurant. Last one in aid of local school this year. Xmas hams!
Roast Pork and Vegetables $11.50
Bookings appreciated phone 4098 6146

From Sat 18 Oct 2008, the former Myall Creek Take Away at Cape Tribulation will be under new management and Known as Mason's Cafe. Phone 4098 0016.

Friday 10 October 2008.
It's on again. The Village Restaurant, Daintree presents a Roast and Raffle night in aid of the Daintree State School. Roast pork and vegies $11.50
Reservations appreciated phone: 4098 6146


The Village Restaurant, Daintree
School raffle night, good prizes, Corned Beef, Veggies and White Sauce.
Come along, have a great time and support our local school. Terrific value meals.
Friday 12 September 2008.


7 Sep 07
The Village Restaurant, Daintree
Enjoy a traditional Aussie BBQ lunch this Fathers Day at this newly redecorated restaurant right in the heart of Daintree Village. Traditional Aussie Bar-B-Q from 11am to 2:30pm on Sun 7 September.
Phone 4098 6146.

22 Aug 08. Moss Vegas Cafe Mossman now called La Bocca Pasta & Pizza

12 Jul 08. Ellenor's Place in Daintree Village is now open for breakfast from 8:00am. Fits in nicely with Chris Dahlberg's dawn wildlife trip on the Daintree River>> Brings new meaning to "Breakfast with the birds."

28 Mar 08. Paddy's Irish Bar & Restaurant offers 10% off all meals after 6:00pm with give-away coupon.
12 Jan 2008. Daintree Palms is closed until 2009.

20 Oct 2007. New Restaurant open at the Daintree Palms, Daintree-Wonga Beach, more details soon. See above. Now closed.
21 Jul 2007. Although not in Daintree we discovered a terrific lunch spot at Mareeba. The Australian Coffee Centre provides quality lunchtime dining in a spectacular venue just outside of Mareeba. www.skybury.com.au

20 Jul 2007. Free Lunch on the Daintree River. Bruce Belcher's Daintree River Cruises offers a pie and drink with their lunch time cruise. Find them upstream from the ferry on the Daintree Road.
20 Jul 2007. New, Moss Vegas Cafe next door to Junction Cafe.
15 Jan 2007. New, Junction Cafe in Mossman at the junction of Front and Mill Streets.
24 Dec 2006. Breakfast at Soul n' Pepper, absolute knockout, on the waterfront at Port Douglas behind St Mary's church, try Eggs Benny with smoked salmon.
27 Aug 2006. Breakfast after the birds. The Big barrumundi Bar-B-Q Gardens is the only restaurant in Daintree Village open for breakfast after the dawn river tour. Which starts from the jetty at 6:00am and gets back at 8:00.
24 Jun 2006. Highlander Julatten is a restaurant and bar on the corner of the Julatten Road and Mt Lewis Road which is a famous birdwatching place. Denise Collins (Daintree Massage) and I stopped in for a delicious well presented and reasonably priced lunch.
17 Jun 2006. It has been reported verbally to me that dinner at the Daintree Eco Lodge and Spa is worth going there for. It is a public restaurant and anyone can dine there. It can be found near Barratt Creek bridge 3 kms before the Daintree Village.
18 Apr 2006. Breakfast after the birds. On the south side of the Daintree River there are only 2 restaurants open for breakfast after Chris Dahlberg's dawn river tour www.daintreerivertours.com.au and they are at the Daintree Eco Lodge and Spa and the Crossroads Cafe which is at the Cape Tribulation turn off. All the Daintree restaurants are listed at www.daintree.info

29 Jan 2005. Café-on-Sea, Thornton's Beach, Cape Tribulation Road, midway between the ferry crossing and Cape Trib. Denise and I stopped for lunch after visiting the Bat House. After spending many years in Greece, Denise was attracted to and ordered the Greek Salad and lamb. I settled for the hamburger with the Mango & Papaya chutney and a bottle of house red. The bill came to $50 which we thought was quite good. The food was excellent, the setting was excellent except for a little rain hanging around. This is extraordinary value and is typical of the little owner operator cafés and restaurants in and around Daintree. Host Terry Ryan.

2 Nov 2004. MELBOURNE CUP DAY. The patrons having lunch at Mangroves Restaurant at Daintree Mangroves Wildlife Sanctuary were treated to the viewing of the Melbourne Cup and Chef Mitch's cuisine which is also a big winner. Thanks Donna, Gil and Mitch for a great afternoon.

Just as important as a good bed and a good tour, dining on holiday is an important consideration when planning a destination. It is my hope that visitors will spend a little time and place a post for the benefit of the Daintree Restauranter, future diners, and others considering Daintree as part of their coming holiday.
See "Dinner in the Daintree"