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Gambaro is an Australian hospitality group headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland and founded in 1953. The group was passed from founder Giovanbaptista Gambaro to sons Michael and Domenico, who opened the Gambaro Seafood Restaurant in 1974.
A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants with the same name in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the U.S.) or franchising agreements. Typically, the restaurants within a chain are built to a standard format through architectural prototype development and offer a standard ...
La Porchetta was established in 1985 by Rocco Pantaleo and Felice Nania, when they bought a run-down pizza parlour called La Porchetta in Rathdowne Street, Carlton.Their first franchise restaurant opened in the Melbourne suburb of Reservoir, Victoria in 1990.
The Shingle Inn opened in 1936 at 254 Edward Street, Brisbane in 1936 as a Tudor inn style restaurant. [1] [2]The Shingle Inn is a considerably well known aspect of Brisbane's dining culture, where it has welcomed generations of diners, and was also popular with American service personnel during World War II. [3]
Brisbane dining is often defined by its outdoors and casual nature. Brisbane is home to over 6,000 restaurants and dining establishments, [4] with outdoor dining featuring prominently. Moreton Bay bugs, less commonly known as flathead lobsters, are an ingredient named for the Brisbane region and which feature commonly in the city's cuisine.
During the labor shortage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, planters in Queensland did attract some Italian immigrants to work as sharecroppers, but they soon left the extreme anti-Italian discrimination and strict regimen of the plantations for towns or other states. The state of Victoria has had Italian-Australian residents since the 1850s.
Stefan's Brisbane headquarters is located in South Brisbane, underneath the Skyneedle, a landmark which Stefan bought to prevent it being moved overseas after World Expo '88. [5] When the Milton Tennis Centre was demolished circa 1999, Stefan rescued the 7-metre (23 ft) tennis racquet icon (based on the Aldila brand) erected there (he had ...
The Tivoli Theatre was originally built as Adams Bakery in 1917 and boasted having the finest gourmet cakes in Queensland. It was later used by the State Library of Queensland to store rare books, but with Expo 88 in the city, a new owner, Ann Garms, transformed it into The Tivoli Restaurant and Theatre - modeled on the Paradis Latin in Paris (1803), one of France's most famous cabaret theatres.