Foodie Fridays - Embassy XO Sunshine Beach

 Embassy XO Sunshine Beach

This sneaky little gem has been around for a while now....some friends took us there for a treat one Saturday night a couple of years ago, and I first fell in love with the actual little cocktail bar at the front (funny that)! It is really sort of retro funky, and you can't see from the image I obtained from the website (hope they don't mind the free advertising), but you can see the ocean...absolutely beautiful.

The menu and interior are a bit different day and night - but both have an Asian Fusion feel. I personally favor the evening food, but I think these guys possibly may have been the the first to do this theme on the coast back in the day....(Belinda is latin for "often wrong" though ha)!

When we were in the USA, I asked my husband if he could think of anywhere in Australia that offered the sort of service that we were receiving over there, and this was one of 2 that came to mind. 

Image of the interior below - wonderful at night!

Sunshine Beach - Did You Know?

 The area south of Noosa Headlands was formerly known as Golden Beach but was rarely visited before the 1920s. In 1928, Thomas Marcus Burke gained land there in exchange for building roads and bridges from Tewantin. After World War II it was marketed by his son, Marcus, as Sunshine Beach.

Sunshine Beach and neighbouring Marcus Beach are on the Sunshine Coast, 115 km north of Brisbane and immediately south of Noosa Heads. Both are the product of successful real-estate developers, Alfred Grant Pty Ltd and TM Burke Pty Ltd, in the 1950s-60s.
Sunshine Beach is reached by David Low Way, a coastal road jointly financed by the State Government and the developers, the latter gaining generous subdivision approvals from the government and Noosa Shire.

Image courtesy of Visit Noosa

Despite the suburb's proximity to the Noosa/Lake Weyba National Park, Sunshine Beach has been criticised for the lack of neighbourhood recreation space. It provides most of the educational facilities for Noosa - Sunshine Beach, State (1982) and Catholic (1990) primary schools and a high school (1992). There are also two churches, a campus of the University of the Sunshine Coast, a drive-in shopping centre and surf life-saving club.

Information courtesy of Wikepedia and Queensland Places