The North Room

The North Room is one of the smallest serious restaurants on the Gold Coast. Opened in 2017 on the beach side of the Gold Coast Highway at Mermaid Beach, between Cronulla Avenue and Ventura Road, it seats just 20 guests and serves tasting menus only. The official Gold Coast tourism guide lists it among the city's hatted restaurants, and its size gives the evening a focused, personal feel.

The cooking is produce-driven. Courses change with the seasons and are built around the restaurant's relationships with local growers and producers, so the menu you eat depends on what is best at the time. At dinner, served from Thursday to Saturday, there is a single long menu; at lunch on Fridays and Saturdays you can choose between a short and a long menu, which makes lunch a good way to try the restaurant for less time and money. A sample menu is posted on the website as a PDF.

Drinks are taken as seriously as the food. Matching wines are offered with both menus, and there is also a curated beverage list for diners who prefer to choose their own bottle or glass. BYO is not permitted.

The North Room suits couples and small groups of food lovers celebrating something, or travellers wanting to see the more refined end of Gold Coast dining. It is not designed for families with young children: prams and high chairs cannot be accommodated. The maximum group size is six, and larger parties need to book the whole venue for an event, with a minimum spend. Dietary requirements can be catered for with advance notice, but there is no vegan menu.

Book well ahead, as there are only two sittings a night and few seats. Early tables, booked before 6:30pm, have a two-hour limit to make room for the second sitting, so contact the team in advance if you need longer. The restaurant is closed from Sunday to Wednesday. Allow two to three hours for the long menu at a later sitting. Bookings and event enquiries can be made through the website, by phone or by email to the address published there.