First look: Inside Gambaros’ new Queens Wharf steak and seafood restaurant

Brisbane’s first family of hospitality are set to lift the lid on their brand new restaurant boasting riverfront views and top eats.

Brisbane’s Queens Wharf will add another restaurant to its offering today with the launch of a steakhouse from one of the state’s most renowned hospitality families.

The Gambaro clan will open Black Hide Steak & Seafood at the much-hyped $3.6b CBD precinct, serving up premium steaks from Queensland’s Stanbroke Beef, alongside some of the best seafood in the country.

Co-owner John Gambaro said the venue, perched on The Terrace of the William St development, will mark a new, more modern direction for the family’s award-winning restaurant, which previously sat in the now-closed Treasury Casino.

John Gambaro with staff member Ella Feeney at his new restaurant Black Hide Steak and Seafood in Queens Wharf. Picture: Nigel Hallett

“The relaxed atmosphere and the casual feeling that you have here where you can sit down and dine all day, I think it ticks the boxes of a whole generational change for us,” Mr Gambaro said.

Much of that change will also come from the menu, with the family dramatically paring back the offering, creating a much more contemporary list of dishes running from freshly shucked oysters and grilled scallops to lobster linguine and Angus and wagyu steaks, with most of the seafood live and cooked to order.

It will complement the restaurant’s glamorous coastal-inspired fit-out, which will boast 150 seats indoors and a further 100 outside under retractable roofs.

The 550sq m space will also star a private dining room with its own separate entrance, plus a cocktail lounge and bar serving a specially curated drinks list with bottles of wine ranging from the affordable to the extravagant, in excess of $10,000.

The restaurant, which promises to deliver the family’s renowned hospitality that has made them famous for more than 50 years, will be the first non-Star Entertainment-owned eatery to commence operating at the precinct.

“I think this complex is something Brisbane needed, it’s going to put us (as a city) on the map and we can’t wait for everyone else to open up,” Mr Gambaro said.

Black Hide Steak & Seafood will be joined shortly by other new restaurants such as Luc Lac from Brisbane’s acclaimed Ghanem Group, and Dark Shepherd and Pompette from the locally owned Tassis Group.