Picnic Real Food Bar

Picnic Real Food Bar is a popular spot for salads, house-baked pastries, and healthy wholefoods made with love, while Three Little Pigs Bar and Bistro on Main Street serves up hearty meals like their famous slow-roasted pork belly, salt-and-pepper prawns, and 13-hour beef cheek ragu. Additionally, Spice of Life Cafe & Deli provides a variety of brekky and lunch options, catering platters, impressive handmade cakes, and deli bits from Australia and abroad. The region also boasts several wineries and distilleries that offer guided tastings and tours.

The passion project of famed Chef Brenda Fawdon, a pathmaker in the food industry who owned Brisbane's first organic restaurant in Mondo, Picnic Real Food Bar on Tamborine Mountain serves local and seasonal produce, and nourishing food made with care. Sustainability is important, so there's a closed-loop system that turns the kitchen waste into compost to minimise garbage and nourish the soil. Their food bar is stocked daily with freshly made salads, house-baked pastries and a range of healthy, wholefood options.

The passion project of famed chef Brenda Fawdon, a path-maker in the food industry who owned Brisbane’s first organic restaurant, Picnic Real Food Bar on Tamborine Mountain serves local and seasonal produce, and nourishing food made with care. Sustainability is important, and there’s a closed-loop system that turns the kitchen waste into compost to minimise garbage and nourish the soil. Their food bar is stocked daily with freshly made salads, house-baked pastries and a range of healthy, wholefood options.

Trick yourself into thinking you really do have a home among the gum trees with a late breakfast or long lunch at Picnic Real Food Bar. Cuddled up inside North Stores, a sustainably designed retail precinct, Picnic is bordered by a handful of boutique stores like pottery workshop Potta Studio. Its drinks menu includes cold-pressed juices, a selection of natural Australian wine, craft beer, Witches Falls cider, organic kombucha, and velvety coffee from micro-roastery Reuben Hills.

Located in Tamborine Mountain’s architecturally designed North Stores precinct and serving up local, seasonal produce., Picnic Real Food Bar is your one-stop-shop for salads, house-baked pastries, and healthy wholefoods made with love. Enjoy micro-roasted Reuben Hills coffee or a cold-pressed juice on the deck as you look through the seasonal breakfast menu or you can order a platter to enjoy as a picnic alfresco style on the mountainside.

Culinary pathmaker Brenda Fawdon is a chef of note; the driver behind Brisbane’s first organic restaurant in Mondo Organics for many years ago, she now proudly helms Picnic Real Food Bar. This Tamborine delight favours local and seasonal produce, and nourishing food made with love. To many, it’s the home of the best pies and sausage rolls in the country – all filled with Scenic Rim goodness of course.

There are many fine cafes and restaurants on Mount Tamborine as well as good pub food and take-aways. Mel and Jilly are happy to advise and recommend depending on your taste and mood on the day, to read about some of their tops picks visit our ‘ Eating Out‘ page. Try lunch at a winery or local brewery and taste some lovely boutique beer.

Picnic Real Food Bar is a great place to visit for a unique and flavourful meal. The cafe offers a wide range of options to please everyone, with daily specials and vegan breakfast options. The atmosphere is relaxed and enjoyable, with a chic and clean interior, open-air, covered seating, and a grassy area for kids to play.

Immerse yourself in the beauty of nature at Picnic Real Food Bar. This restaurant is located in North Shore, Tamborine Mountain’s architecturally and environmentally sustainable designed nature precinct. Picnic serves fresh, cold-pressed juices daily alongside a neighbouring pottery studio and art gallery.

There will be Grape to Glass classes at Witches Falls Winery, a tour of the Tamborine Mountain Distillery, lunchtime Burgers and Beers on the Grass at the Picnic Real Food Bar on Main Street and afternoon drinks to round off the weekend at Fortitude Brewing Company or Hampton Estate Wines.

If you like your produce plucked from the ground or tree mere hours before you eat it, then to market you must go. This market showcases Tamborine Mountain's freshest, local and seasonal produce. Savour a vibrant day filled with local growers, food artisans, stalls and live music.

Fresh, local, and seasonal produce with a focus on sustainability. Indulge in a gastronomic paradise where the tantalizing aromas of freshly baked pies and toasties dance in the air. Each culinary creation is a masterpiece, tantalizing your taste buds with a symphony of flavors.

So many gluten free options in the window which were so delicious!. Gluten free frittata was a favourite, loved every bite.

Welcome to Picnic Real Food Bar, one of the best places to eat on Tamborine Mountain and Winner of the...