Thing To Do & See

Ochre

In an ochre- and plum-toned dining room, the changing menu at this innovative restaurant utilises native Aussie fauna (such as croc with native pepper, or roo with quandong-chilli glaze) and flora (wattle-seed damper loaf with peanut oil and native dukka; lemon-myrtle panacotta). If you can't decide, try a tasting plate, or go all-out with a six-course tasting menu.

Raw Prawn

Fine-dining affair especially renowned for its seafood platters ($54 to $90 per person). The priciest include succulent mud crab.

Beethoven Café

At the Beethoven Café the challenge is to squeeze in a slab of poppy-seed cake or cheesecake after you've downed a huge roll or sandwich. Savoury combos include Buendnerfleisch (air-dried beef, Swiss cheese and gherkin), and you can get creative by inventing your own at this busy and popular spot. Upstairs dinning is also available.

Lillipad

There's love in the food at Lillipad. Breakfasts are excellent value: the Full Monty is a mammoth fry-up with sausages, bacon, eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms on toast. For something less artery-hardening, the muesli with fresh tropical fruit is delicious. There are also great salads, panini and plenty of choices for the non-carnivorous.

Red Ochre Grill

Red Ochre's inventive menu utilises native Australian ingredients and local produce, artfully prepared to pioneer its own culinary genre. There are the animals (croc, roo and emu) and even Aussie flora - native peach chutneys etc - appear on the menu. The Taste of Australia platter (around A$60 per person) is a crowd-pleaser and finishes with wattleseed pavlova (bravo!).

2 Fish

Fish and chips just got a whole lot classier at this sassy seafood eatery. Think wasabi oysters; or crispy fried mud crab with sticky black rice - washed down with a chilled white wine. Match your favourite fish, perhaps coral trout or red emperor, with one of six methods of preparation. A selection of meat dishes is also available.

Nautilus

Be seated in chairs fit for Pacific Island royalty in this ultimate 'event restaurant'. Whether it's French seafood broth or wild barramundi, the experience is just being in the flame-lit rainforest surrounds. Don't miss the jackfruit brûlée.

Soul 'n' Pepper

A fitting haunt for pirates, this weather-beaten outdoor café is the place to come for breakfast. In the afternoon, the menu shifts to seafood risottos and the like.