On The Inlet Restaurant - 3 Inlet St, Port Douglas. Ph:  07 4099 5255 

On The Inlet Restaurant Port Douglas is a world famous dining destination. With the magnificent view across the Coral Sea to the rainforest mountains it’s a spectacular slice of paradise. As boats bob in calm waters and the fans whirl overhead you could easily get swept away. Of course, if you start off with a couple of margheritas, at On The Inlet, you’ll definitely be in the mood.

From high noon each day On The Inlet Seafood Restaurant invite their patrons to kick back and soak up the ambience and special style of their unique sanctuary. With delicacies from Neptune’s larder, (mud crabs, crayfish, barra and more), vegetarian dishes and suitably luxe cocktails, it’s a Port Douglas ‘must do’.

Not surpisingly, the menu is a grand tour of North Queenslands famous treasure trove of ocean delights. However, the kitchen crew have a well won reputation for great daily specials. Their chicken avocado fetta filo with roast pumpkin, field mushroom and spinach salad is one such example. Indeed, non seafood diners are catered for with superb eye fillet and chicken dishes and an array of intelligently crafted Asian influenced specials. (Really, you’d have to eat there every day to fully appreciate the scope of it.)

Speaking of which, their fresh fish of the day is the stuff of legend. The locally caught goldband snapper, pan fried on a purple conga mash with radicchio, pear, walnut, blue cheese salad and honey mustard dressing, just about knocked me out.

Clearly, special is the key word here, and it rarely gets more special than sunset at On The Inlet. For a start there’s the locals’ favourite, the famously generous ‘bucket of prawns’, (another must), and, at approximately 5.15pm every evening the resident entertainer George the Groper performs his daily feeding ritual to the delight of the crowd. (All comers are well fed at On The Inlet, even the fish.)

All of this makes it easy to understand why On The Inlet is an award winning restaurant. In fact they’ve even won awards for their wine list, which is not merely expansive but intelligently matched to their cuisine.

There is no better place to be as the sun sinks slowly behind Mossman Gorge Mountains. The kitchen crew know they’ve got a struggle on their hands to get your attention away from the view, which is no doubt why On The Inlet set out to overwhelm you with North Queenslands best seafood.

On The Inlet Restaurant Port Douglas

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