Breakfast review: Quarterdeck, Coomera

FANCY breakfast in a calming spot right on the water? Then this Coomera cafe at the city’s biggest marina is for you.

Breakfast treats at Gold Coast City Marina cafe Quarterdeck

YOU may have known it as the Waterlife restaurant and bar — now it’s the aptly-named Quarterdeck with plenty of exciting changes.

The Gold Coast City Marina venue was given an overhaul and reopened about three months ago as Quarterdeck — along with a menu and decor overhaul is the addition of pastry chef Freya Craig to the staff.

She bakes all the cakes, muesli and muffins fresh on site while their prawns and bugs are bought straight off a trawler which pulls up on Friday mornings.

Strawberry almond vanilla muffins at Quarterdeck.

The big brekkie is a struggle to get through in one sitting — but have a go if you’re starving and wash it down with a coffee supplied by Southport’s very own Silipo Coffee roasting house.

Quarterdeck manager Jo Liakatos says among the breakfast favourites on the menu is the smashed avocado with poached eggs on sourdough bread with grilled bacon and dukkah on the side.

It’s a spot favoured by not just the tenants at the marina but families, ladies who luchh and local tradies.

“We also have a lot of people who just pull up by boat and park for free and come in,” Jo says.

But you don't have to be a boatie to enjoy this place — even if you’re not there is something soothing about the serenity of breakfast on the water.

Breakfast treats at Quarterdeck.

Quarterdeck cafe

Gold Coast City Marina, Coomera

Get it while it’s hot: QD's big breakfast of grilled bacon, pork and fennel, sausage, eggs, beans, confit cherry tomatoes, potato rosti and sourdough toast for $22.

Keep it healthy: Housemade almond, oat and quinoa granola with seasonal fruit and natural set yoghurt for $10