Montrachet owner to open restaurants in Breakfast Creek Mercedes-Benz dealership

An award-winning Brisbane chef will team up with an Asian millionaire to create the city’s most spectacular rooftop restaurant — on top of a car showroom.

A QUEENSLAND chef has joined forces with a multi-national company to create the state’s most spectacular rooftop restaurant at Breakfast Creek in Brisbane.

Shannon Kellam, who has twice represented Australia at the Bocuse d’Or culinary Olympics, joins multi-national company Lei Shing Hong in a large formal restaurant development atop the gleaming new, $120 million five-storey “glass box” Mercedes-Benz showroom building.

In fact there will be two restaurants; a second more informal eatery at ground level, beside Breakfast Creek, will have a pontoon for kayakers to step ashore for breakfast or lunch.

Mr Kellam said the rooftop restaurant would be relaxed and “unpretentious”, featuring coal ovens.

The restaurant will be homed on top of the five-level state-of-the-art Mercedes-Benz Brisbane dealership at Breakfast Creek

A private dining room will feature a semicircular reverse kitchen, where diners would watch chefs preparing meals.

The restaurant will have views to Mt Coot-tha in one direction and vistas of the Brisbane River and historic Newstead House on others.

Mr Kellam would not give away too many secrets, but said the menu would have a heavy seafood focus.

As part of the deal Mr Kellam expects to establish a production kitchen with a bakery and a function centre on level three of the building.

Shannon Kellam will continue to operate his popular Montrachet restaurant. Picture: Mark Cranitch

Mr Kellam said he and wife Clare would still operate their award-winning restaurant, French Montrachet at Bowen Hills, which scored 10 out of 10 in The Courier-Mail food rankings last year.

Lei Shing Hong Limited has multiple businesses in 30 cities including Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan Region, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, the UK and Germany. It owns Mercedes-Benz dealerships in several countries.

The new building was designed by Kim Vojacek of Cottee Parker Architects and built by John Holland and may become Australia’s largest automotive dealership.

It will include a Mercedes-Benz Museum.