Big Barramundi Garden - BYO

BYO at the Big Barramundi Garden

Brunch & Lunch

Deserves a mention if visiting Daintree Village because of its fresh produce, reasonable price and being able to "Bring Your Own" wine. 
The Big Barra has a most extensive menu with a real local flavour. Right in the middle of the main street of Daintree.




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Exchange Hotel - Blue Moon Bar & Grill

Newspaper Clipping - Gazette 5 Jun 2014

Formerly the "Daintree Inn"

As can be seen from the newspaper clipping above the Exchange Hotel in Mossman is open and providing meals.

We took up the offer and found the wine and meals were good value. There was a good turnout of Grey Nomads and Grey Local diners, wives, some children and other diners on the Monday public holiday.

Renovations to the old Blue Moon are not completed just yet.

New Responsive website under construction:

mossmanexchange.com.au

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Fisherman's Basket by the Sea

A great lunch time option in Daintree is takeaway seafood by the beach at Wonga.

Lunch time in Daintree is busy time with predictable bottlenecks at the cafes and restaurants. Driving up to Daintree from Cairns or Port Douglas just order by phone as you go through Mossman and pick up your piping hot lunch at the Wonga Beach Servo on the Mossman to Daintree Road 10 minutes later.

Fish, grilled, crumbed or battered $5.50

Seafood Basket $16.50

Chips - small $2.20

Chips - medium $3.50

Chips - large $4.80

Phone: 0740987616

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Daintree dining - Take Out/Away - Wonga Beach

Take out/away options in Daintree

The speediest take away to be found in Daintree is the Wonga Beach Caltex Servo on the Mossman to Daintree Road.

Big selection, always fresh, coffee, fish & chips, pizza, wraps, pies, salt & pepper calamari and a lot more.

Phone ahead?  0740987616

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Free BBQ's at Daintree

There are two free electric BBQ's in Daintree. One is at the beginning of the Daintree Valley at Wonga Beach (Wonga Community Park) and the other is at Pioneers Park opposite the Big Barra in Daintree Village.

Other Daintree dining options are at:

www.daintree.info/dining.html

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Daintree Eco Lodge - Julaymba Restaurant

Rainy Sunday afternoon in the Rainforest.

Open Tablelands steak sandwich with a Margaret River claret for lunch. It seems the new epicurean regime has things under control nicely and with some swish service. 

(The Daintree Eco Lodge is on the south side of the Daintree River on the Mossman - Daintree Road just before Barrat Creek bridge.)

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Mossman Memorial Bowls Club - Jack High Bistro

Next door to Daintree Horizon Estate in Mossman is the Mossman Memorial Bowls Club and the Jack High Bistro. The club was voted the best Far North Queensland for 2013 a distinction it has achieved several times before. It has a bar, bistro, gaming room and lounge which is all air-conditioned, a rarity anywhere near Daintree.  The drawbacks are no undercover parking and the wifi does not extend to patrons. (Both of these features are resounding disappointments.)

Back to dining, the food is OK but a tad overpriced and the limited wine selection (no wine list) was reasonably priced.

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CROC EYE opens on Tuesday and Wednesday nights

The Croc Eye Cafe is now open on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Diners need to book for Wednesdays and Rick will open on any other night for groups of 10 or more. Sole use of the restaurant is also available on other nights.

5 Stewart Street, Daintree Village

Phone Rick on 4098 6229 or 0437808764

Website: croceyecafe.com

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The BIG BARRA has moved.

The Big Barramundi has been renovated and put next to the restaurant. There is a lot of action here before the tourist season with the introduction of markets in behind the big fish.

The Big Barra restaurant gets consistently high reports in Tripadvisor and enjoys the highest rating in Daintree Village.  

See the new website>

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Lunch special at Daintree Eco Lodge & Spa

Just because a resort falls on hard times doesn't mean to say that the dining room can't produce a decent meal. Noticing the special price sign from outside prompted us to try the daily special of battered Barramundi, rainforest salad and fries. The lemon myrtle dressing with slivers of pickled carrot, fennel and radish complimented the fish and chips nicely. The chilled Australian Riesling at $45 blended the specially priced meal well and made us appreciate the locals 15% discount even more.

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New Years Eve at Daintree Village

"The Village Hotel"

DAINTREE

 Andrew Dem - Entertainment

6:30pm to Midnight

Fish, chips & salad $15

Lasagne,chips & salad $15

Plate finger food  $13

giveaways all night

Bookings................................40986146

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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

Website>

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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

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House Crumbed Calamari

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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.