Yummmmy!!!! Great lunch specials. Grab some friends and head down to May's!!!…read more Always friendly service and generous portions. Cold fridge water and a range of tasty drinks. Affordable and convenient.

May's Thai is warm, well presented restaurant at Manly West. The staff are welcoming and polite and…read morethe food is delicious. Last weekend I went there with my partner and another couple. We sat outside at a beautifully placed table and were served promptly. For entree we ordered a range of bits and pieces from the menu like dim sims, prawn rolls and calamari. Most things are served in fours so it is a great idea if you want to sample a range of things to share as a group. My favourite is the curry puffs! Warm and crunchy pastry with a rich flavoured centre. Only one small thing from getting a 5 star rating, is that a few of the items on the menu are no longer available. A very minor thing though because all of the food is excellent. Also it is BYO wine so bring your favourite drop along with you.

Located just adjacent to the Adelaide/Edward Street Intersection this little Asian takeaway joint…read moreis a great place to go if you are wanting cheap, no fuss quick Malaysian/Chinese food. There is actually quite a few tables inside and despite its location it is rather quiet. Most menu items are under $10 and served under 10 minutes. I recommend the chilli cashew chicken and salt and pepper calamari. During lunch hours they have a buffet style set up close to the door and the spring rolls are decent. Watch for the specials at the door for excellent value takeaway lunch options.

Oriental corner is one of those places I've walked past a thousand times but never really noticed…read more It blends in to a range of shops on Adelaide st and nothing about it really stands out. If it wasn't for my quest to find Asian noodle soup the other day, I probably never would have ventured in. I ordered one of those nice big brothy, full of vegetables and noodle type soups. Being the pho fan that I am, I consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of soup and unfortunately this one failed to live up to my expectations. It was good, but it wasn't great. The broth was a little bland and the noddles were those two minute noodle variety. I did give it bonus points for having big chunks of bok choy in it. IMO all soups should have big chunks of bok choy. So if you're around the cbd and have a hankering for some fast and easy Asian food, this will do the trick

If you want a simple lunch that is quick and easy, you can't go past a cheese and tomato toasted…read moresandwich at Saks. Quick, simple, cheap and yummy!

This little deli is located in Post Office Square, much too close to my office to keep me away! I'm…read morehere two or three times a week grabbing breakfast or morning tea and the lovely barista always remembers my order. It can get a little busy at times (which is testament to the quality of the place!) but the staff are friendly, the coffees great and the toasted banana bread is to die for - it's best to just buy one piece and get far away as quickly as you can so you're not tempted to get more. They also have great "gourmet" sandwiches and wraps for a decent price right in the CBD.

A cute little restaurant located in Albany Creek (as it's name suggests), Albany Creek Thai is one…read moreof my local favourites. The food, which is full of flavour, light and fresh and not too oily (I find a lot of Thai restaurants use too much oil in their cooking). I order out here usually once a month and I always order the Vegetable Pad Thai Noodle which is delicious! My kids (who are exceptionally fussy eaters) absolutely love the Hor Tong (Golden Parcels), these are little deep fried pastry parcels filled with minced pork, crab meat, prawns, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots - they get gobbled up very quickly in my house. A meal for a family of four will cost around $40, this includes an entree and two mains (mains are around $16 each). The restaurant is decorated with traditional thai statues, natural timbers and earthy tones. It is great to dine in but I rarely have the time. Great food and good staff.

This is a local thai place around the corner from me. Albany Creek has a wonderful selection of…read moretakeaway restaurants and places to eat. We went to this thai restaurant having ordered takeaway from there a couple of times and we've been happy with the quality of the food previously, but never eaten in the restaurant itself. We decided to head down and eat inside. The interior has a nice thai feel about it. The decor is pretty standard thai restaurant decor. We chose one of the set menus where you get entrees, main and dessert. Sadly, the experience was not very good. The food while somewhat tasty, was extremely oily and prohibitively expensive. The price tag definitely doesn't match the quality of the food that we were served. Mains start around $20, we did the set menu and it was $27 per person which is seemingly good value. You get a lot of food, but it was extremely oily and overcooked. The seafood stirfry we got, the scallops were overcooked and the prawns were as well. Disappointing. There was only one other group in the restaurant, but it took forever to get our food. The guy even gave a couple of our meals to the other table. He did apologise, but he kept making mistakes and was more concerned with takeaway orders than us. They also forgot our dessert as well until we reminded them. All in all it took about 2 hours, we had a crying baby with us as well. The service was horrendous. With much better options in the area like the neighbouring Indian restaurant and Portabella, they really need to up their game for dine-in orders.

Such a great little vegan place. Delicious food that even a non vegan would enjoy. And to top it…read moreoff, even the desserts are vegan! So yummy!!

In a surprisingly competitive marketplace for cheap all-vegetarian restaurants, this mall food…read morecourt location of Vege Rama was the best I've tried so far, as they produced an absolutely fantastic dosa with pea-laden potato masala. They had numerous options to build a meal with curries as well, and a selection of salads and (often vegan) desserts as well. They don't have the student discount of their neighboring competitor, but at $9 for a made to order meal, it certainly wasn't expensive. I have yet to try their nicer sit-down restaurant in West End, but after seeing how good the food court one is, I'm eager to.

Willes has a good range of well priced breakfast and lunch options for the Oxford Street area…read more Crumbed Fish & Chips and Salad for $9.90 was one of the daily specials and they also have a number of other lunch time specials. The salads are talked about fondly here, apparently they are delicious and fresh with some great combinations. They stock pints of Ben & Jerry's ice-cream too!

I hate salad. In theory that is…read more I've slowly been coming to the realisation that it is more the idea of salad I don't like. People have always told me salad could be a lot more interesting and delicious than the green stuff next to my steak. And after my first trip to Willes Fine Foods on Oxford Street I am beginning to to think they may have been right. The interior is nothing exciting but the cabinet that stretches the length of the place hosts enough yummy looking stuff to more than make up for it. In addition to a range of salads there are quiches, lasagnas, vegetable patties and a sandwich bar. The staff were quick and efficient and happy to jam as many salads as I asked for into the one container. It was crazy busy while I was there, no doubt due to the lunch time rush and its growing popularity. I got out of there eventually though, with a tub of salad and big coffee in tow and headed to the park just around the corner. Ten minutes later, as I stared down at an empty container I realised that I was actually full. Not a state I had ever credited a salad with before. Perhaps there was a future for us after all.

Nestled in the Toowong Village food court and surrounded by other better known fast food options…read morelies the unexpected Happy Noodles. Unlike the Asian buffet next to it, Happy Noodles cooks everything fresh to your order. More spicy or less spicy? Because it's fresh, you can specify your taste preference. You'll wait a couple minutes for the fresh preparation, but it'll take you a lot longer to devour the huge plate of well-seasoned food that you'll score for $8.50. Rather than grabbing a soda or tea from the cooler, order a freshly made mango iced tea for only $3.00 to satisfy your sweet tooth and curb your caffeine cravings. I'm officially a fan of the Happy Noodles and with Macca's Free Wifi available at my table in the food court, I didn't have to waste anytime uploading photos of my meal and writing this review! Two thumbs up from me! Last tip- get in before 12:10pm to beat the lunch rush and grab a table.

I do not often find myself lurking for food in Toowong Village but on the off chance that I do,…read moreHappy Noodles makes a pretty sensible option. For a food-court vendor, the quality of the food is pretty impressive. It is also very reasonably priced as the meals are huge. Happy Noodles doe not look that impressive upon first view; their logo and display photos look like they have not been replaced since they first opened, but like all good Chinese restaurants, what really hits you is the smell. You know, that Chinese food smell that sends your cravings through the roof. I have had a few dishes from here and they do not disappoint. A lot of people seem to order the noodle stir-fry dishes which are indeed very appetising but I particularly like the noodle soup with braised beef dish, mainly because the beef is sooooo tender and packed with flavour. The service here is always very friendly and you will never have to wait long for your meal to be cooked, even during their busier lunch period. Out of all the food options in Toowong Village (it is pretty limited), Happy Noodles is the place I would recommend to anyone.

Always so fast and efficient. Our regular fish and chip spot. Awesome, grassroots prices.read more

Walking around Blackwood St I was looking for something cheap and quick to eat. Across the road, a…read morebunch kids making a ruckus caught my attention. Above them a sign read: Mary's Seafood and Takeaway. I got keen. I crossed the road and saw that Mary's had some deals going on. The one that caught my fancy was a classic takeaway meal - A chicken schnitzel burger, chips and can of drink ($8.50). With decision in mind and an empty stomach I strode up to the counter and asked, who I assumed was Mary, if she had EFTPOS. She didn't, fail. Non-the-less she pointed me to the ATM and I soon had my order cooking away. As I sat drinking my lemonade, the kids next to me all got up and before they left all said goodbye to Mary. To my surprise she seemed to have all their names down. I thought this was a good indicator to what I was about to eat. As the kids rolled out a ragged old couple rolled in and Mary brought me my meal. As I opened the paper bags and looked at my burger and chips I though about the place I was in. Mary's, a hole in the wall fish and chippery, situated in a street that is just starting to get yuppified. Those ideals still hadn't affected Mary's and it showed in what I was served. A basic processed chicken patty, lettuce, tomato and mayo. Plain, easy, simple, stock standard. Even if what I got was value for money it was nowhere near the quality I was expecting. But I got what I payed for.