Flood-hit Brekky Creek Hotel ready to fire up the steaks again

The famous Breakfast Creek Hotel will be back serving its famous steaks and XXXX ale this week after being hit hard by the recent floods.

Flood waters swamped the famous Breakfast Creek Hotel.

Brisbane’s iconic Breakfast Creek Hotel will be back serving its famous steaks and XXXX ale this Friday after being hit hard by the recent floods

The adjacent Breakfast Creek, from which the 133-year-old hotel gets its name, burst its banks causing major flooding in Albion along with serious damage to local businesses and homes.

Upmarket Mica French brasserie on the opposite bank of the creek also had to close. While not as devastating as the epic 1893 flood, this time water was up to several feet deep, causing extensive damage and leaving furniture and surfaces coated in stinking mud.

City Beat spies tell us it has been all hands at the wheel at the Creek to clean the mud and grime off the grand old lady in time for Friday. An earlier reopening date proved hard to achieve because of the extent of the flood damage. We hear the beer garden will be open for business but the famous Spanish Garden restaurant may take a big longer to get ready.

Flood waters through the famous Breakfast Creek Hotel

BAIN SAILING
Local footy legend and gym owner Darren Bain (illustrated), is ‘Benzing’ over backwards for his members following the devastating Brisbane floods.

Bain’s Function Well gym has created a boutique fitness and wellness hub at the Mercedes-Benz showroom in the Breakfast Creek Lifestyle Precinct after having to temporarily close its Toombul outlet due to the closure of the shopping centre.

The former Wynnum-Manly Seagulls captain expects the hub at the Toombul Shopping Centre to remain closed for three to six months, although owner Mirvac is still working through the flood damage with tenants and is yet to give an indicative timeline.

Since the floods, the Function Well team have been working around the clock to minimise disruptions to their VIP members, which includes a Brisbane‘s who’s who including former rugby players and radio announcers.

Darren Bain

GREEN PROTEST

Veteran stockbroker Charlie Green is a man used to doing the numbers.

But Green is doing numbers of a different kind these days after co-founding a residents group on the Gold Coast to fight a high-rise development at Budds Beach.

Green and other members of the Budds Residents Action Group have vowed to oppose a 22-storey development being proposed by McNab they say is “simply too big for its boots”.

Developer McNab has filed plans with the Gold Coast City Council to build Elements on a 1012sq m site on the corner of Birt and Oak avenues.

Green, whose day job is as director of Hunter Green Institutional Broking, says residents are concerned “about shoehorning a 22-storey tower onto the doorstep of Budds Beach. “A lot of people in Budds Beach live here because it captures the old Gold Coast – the 1960s housing and the laid-back vibe the Goldie was famous for – but you won’t have that anymore if this is built,” Green says.

In its defence, McNab says the company’s project was much smaller than other towers planned for the area.

Charlie Green