From the furthest shores, passionate chefs and restaurateurs have found their home in Kirra.
They create spaces that both remind them of their homes and celebrate the allure of Kirra through the joy of authentic flavours and love of food’s ability to bring us together.
Kirra Restaurants: Agave Rosa
74 Musgrave Street - 7 minutes walk
Agave Rosa is the Gold Coast’s hottest taqueria.
A project of passion and experience, Agave Rosa is a modern Mexican fusion dining experience set amongst a unique and vibrant atmosphere.
Colourful tiling and a neon sign that bequests we ‘Make Salsa Not War’, create an easy and authentic sense of joy.
Traditions stay true with nachos, chimichangas and tacos all gracing the menu. But you’ll find the unexpected when you reach the signature dishes section of the menu.
Scallop ceviche, chipotle popcorn prawns, crispy pork belly or hibachi black angus sirloin add an essence of innovation.
Don’t forget to visit the cocktail menu - when in Mexico margaritas are a must!
Kirra Restaurants: Bar Evelyn
58 Marine Parade - 8 minutes walk
Rows of sleeping sourdough and hanging house made pasta lie in preparation for an Italian feast. Welcome to Bar Evelyn.
There is a definite retro element to Bar Evelyn’s design, with its dark timber panelled walls, patterned tablecloths and dark red tile-lined pizza oven.
In its comfy booths you can just as easily imagine an older Italian couple eating and playing cards or a family making holiday memories.
Share a plate of seasonal antipasti, wood fired sourdough pizza, lamb ragout rigatoni, Moreton Bay bug tagliatelle. Finish it off with an exploration of the cocktail menu - perhaps the famous Evelyn martini or a mezcal negroni.
This is authentic Italian food with a side of vintage cool.
Kirra Restaurants: Xenia Greek
58 Marine Parade - 8 minutes walk
The Greek have a tradition. In its most ancient form Greek hospitality is founded on generosity and courtesy for those who are far from home.
A tradition you’ll find alive and well at Xenia Greek, under the dangling vines or on the outdoor terrace.
Combine this heady hospitality with authentic Greek cuisine and a lively Kirra atmosphere and you’ve found yourself one of the area’s dinner hot spots.
Whether smashing plates on the sidewalk for prosperity and abundance or sipping cocktails and devouring plates of Santorini fritters, grilled souvlakia and moussaka - you’ll feel like part of the family.
Kirra Restaurants: Lam Lam Delicate Thai
52-58 Marine Parade - 8 minutes walk
Unassuming from the outside, Lam Lam Delicate Thai has built a reputation for consistently, high-quality and unabashedly authentic Thai cuisine.
Low key and casual, just metres from the sand, this Thai dinner hot spot is home to a lively kitchen that delivers hot plates of grilled satay, chilli jam crispy pork, spicy barramundi pad char or classic curry.
Pick up some easy takeaway or pull up a seat amongst the chilled local atmosphere.
Kirra Restaurants: Clay Cantina
16 Griffith Street - 10 minutes walk
Bienvenidos to a Mexican gastronomy experience unlike any other..
Not just a Mexican kitchen, Clay Cantina unites cookery and feasting. This licensed laneway cantina offers highly sippable margaritas, traditional market style plates and social cooking workshops.
Join a 3.5 hour cooking workshop and be welcomed with a margarita, endowed with the knowledge of traditional Mexican flavours and techniques and leave with an armload of recipes to take home with you.
Or leave the dicing to the professionals and order plates of esquites, enchiladas, tacos and more.
Kirra Restaurants: Franc Jrs Pizzeria
102 Griffith Street - 15 minutes walk
Franc Jrs Pizzeria offers four easy steps to a great pizza dinner: rock up, line up, order up and eat up.
This walk-in only local favourite is so popular that they often have a waitlist. With a menu full of classic pizzas, vegan sensations, Detroit style pizza pies and Sicilian flavours - it’s worth the wait.
Don’t forget to check the board for specials.
Old school leather booths, checkerboard table tops and the unmistakable scent of very good pizza baking in the oven.