Nobby newcomers to launch in weeks
NEW venues for the Nobby Beach hospitality scene are just weeks from opening their doors.
An Asian fusion eatery, New York-style diner, an established chain and a rooftop bar and restaurant are all confirmed for a rejuvenated block destroyed by fire.
An interior fitout for Ally Chow, an Asian eatery by the owners of Honeyeater at The Kitchens Robina, is almost complete.
Neighbouring Pinky’s Kitchen and Bar is also close to being ready to launch, the Bulletin can reveal.
An established chain has also signed up in a third tenancy on the ground floor while an operator has all but secured the rooftop bar and restaurant space.
The venues will revive a prime corner site decimated in a July 2016 blaze. It destroyed Little Beans and Hugo’s Burger Lounge restaurants and damaged other venues forcing them to shut.
FiveB Constructions has overseen the rebuild and is also handling one of the interior fit-outs.
FiveB Constructions spokesman and project manager Ben Le Fevre said it was going to be great to have new venues opening and add to the social vibe in Nobby.
People could expect the dark black hoardings which are shielding the sites to come down in the next few weeks.
Mr Le Fevre said the site owner George Manetta was keen on “high-end quality tenants”.
“He’s really trying to lift the standard of Nobby to be a real icon hub of the Gold Coast.”
Pinky’s owner and Nobby Beach resident of 18 months Braydon Condon said it was a New York inspired contemporary diner.
“When I moved here there were plenty of places that did good coffee but not that many doing a good breakfast and I felt that was a market I could capitalise on.”
Mr Condon, who has a five-year lease with options to extend, plans to initially open for breakfast and lunches and Australian once established will look at an evening bar operation.
“I think this block will really do good things for the whole of Nobby.
“It’s the first new building in this area for quite a while,” Mr Condon said.
The new venues follow the arrival of Adam Dundas Taylor’s Fire Cue restaurant and bar a year ago, while Hellenika, the Nobby hotspot of restaurateur Simon Gloftis, relaunched in September after a revamp.
The 420sq m rooftop space of the new rebuilt site of the fire is a new addition.
The three downstairs tenancies – on the corner of Gold Coast Highway and Lavarack Rd – are all 90sq m to 104sq m.