Guidebook for Townsville City

Andy
Guidebook for Townsville City

Food Scene

Excellent for meals or as a bar just for drinks.
40 locals recommend
The Watermark Townsville
72-74 The Strand
40 locals recommend
Excellent for meals or as a bar just for drinks.
C-Bar & Longboard are two restaurants side-by-side half way along The Strand and both are great for water's edge dining. Recommended for lunch.
36 locals recommend
C-Bar
36 locals recommend
C-Bar & Longboard are two restaurants side-by-side half way along The Strand and both are great for water's edge dining. Recommended for lunch.
Chinese with a great view.
8 locals recommend
Miss Songs Asian Kitchen
67 Sir Leslie Thiess Dr
8 locals recommend
Chinese with a great view.
Good Italian
Donna Bionda
373 Flinders St
Good Italian
Has reputation as being one of the very best restaurants in town.
16 locals recommend
Jam Corner
1 Palmer St
16 locals recommend
Has reputation as being one of the very best restaurants in town.
I'd say the best restaurant in town, 'big city' standard. When booking (except for mid-summer) ask to be seated outside.
29 locals recommend
A Touch of Salt
86-124 Ogden St
29 locals recommend
I'd say the best restaurant in town, 'big city' standard. When booking (except for mid-summer) ask to be seated outside.
Another excellent restaurant
Bridgewater
2 Dibbs Street
Another excellent restaurant
Just take your time and do not order everything at once. The staff are perfectly comfortable with you staggering your food order. This helps you select the order that you want dishes presented, paces the evening out and stops you over ordering.
17 locals recommend
Shorehouse
118 The Strand
17 locals recommend
Just take your time and do not order everything at once. The staff are perfectly comfortable with you staggering your food order. This helps you select the order that you want dishes presented, paces the evening out and stops you over ordering.
If you want to experience something a bit different, this place has a really interesting menu (not your everyday, usual stuff). Don't let the shabby street frontage put you off. Dining is at the back, in an outside courtyard and it is really an excellent restaurant. BYO makes it even more outstanding.
7 locals recommend
Wayne & Adele's Garden of Eating
11 Allen St
7 locals recommend
If you want to experience something a bit different, this place has a really interesting menu (not your everyday, usual stuff). Don't let the shabby street frontage put you off. Dining is at the back, in an outside courtyard and it is really an excellent restaurant. BYO makes it even more outstanding.
Excellent for steaks. In City Lane just next to Tap House & Donna Bionda.
Shaw & Co
383 Flinders St
Excellent for steaks. In City Lane just next to Tap House & Donna Bionda.
Classy, fairly new restaurant in town. Degustation menu. Easy to miss when passing by. It's on the corner of Flinders & Stanley.
Matte Black Violet
409 Flinders Street
Classy, fairly new restaurant in town. Degustation menu. Easy to miss when passing by. It's on the corner of Flinders & Stanley.
Quality BYO Restaurant just a short walk from Ferry Terminal. Bottle shop next door and the Smugglers wine bar is just a few doors further up.
8 locals recommend
Saltwater Magnetic Island
53 Sooning St
8 locals recommend
Quality BYO Restaurant just a short walk from Ferry Terminal. Bottle shop next door and the Smugglers wine bar is just a few doors further up.

Drinks & Nightlife

Very High standard and with excellent water views across to Magnetic Island. A must-do when in Town.
8 locals recommend
Quarterdeck
67 Sir Leslie Thiess Dr
8 locals recommend
Very High standard and with excellent water views across to Magnetic Island. A must-do when in Town.
9 locals recommend
Rambutan
113-119 Flinders St
9 locals recommend
Excellent for meals or as a bar just for drinks. The bar here is popular with the business set but the Quaterdeck Bar at the Casino has the edge.
40 locals recommend
The Watermark Townsville
72-74 The Strand
40 locals recommend
Excellent for meals or as a bar just for drinks. The bar here is popular with the business set but the Quaterdeck Bar at the Casino has the edge.
Good bar scene for wine, craft beers, live music etc
The TapHouse Townsville
383 Flinders St
Good bar scene for wine, craft beers, live music etc
Wine bar on Gregory St., just a few doors up from the Seaview Hotel
Osk Bar
46 Gregory Street
Wine bar on Gregory St., just a few doors up from the Seaview Hotel

Sightseeing

You can drive up or walk up. Or as the more energetic locals do regularly, run up the 'goat track' to the top and back.
52 locals recommend
Castle Hill Lookout
Castle Hill Road
52 locals recommend
You can drive up or walk up. Or as the more energetic locals do regularly, run up the 'goat track' to the top and back.
Nice place to visit
27 locals recommend
Crystal Creek
27 locals recommend
Nice place to visit

Essentials

27 locals recommend
Coles North Ward
26-28 Mitchell St
27 locals recommend
14 locals recommend
Woolworths Townsville City Arcade
393-399 Flinders St
14 locals recommend

Entertainment & Activities

27 locals recommend
Strand Park
37-43 The Strand
27 locals recommend
Lots of fun and of a surprisingly high standard. At show end public bus leaves just in time to catch last ferry back to mainland.
12 locals recommend
Stage Door Theatre Restaurant
5 Hayles Ave
12 locals recommend
Lots of fun and of a surprisingly high standard. At show end public bus leaves just in time to catch last ferry back to mainland.
Children's heaven.
11 locals recommend
Strand Waterpark
43 The Strand
11 locals recommend
Children's heaven.

Getting Around

Ferry, Bus & Taxi
Breakwater Terminal station
Ferry, Bus & Taxi