Gold Coast dining: New Burleigh Heads restaurant with a peculiar healthy menu is open for business

WHERE can you find bone broth, ice cream sandwiches and smoothie bowls all on the same menu? At this new beachside restaurant which offers a bizarre mix of healthy eating.

Brio Emporium at Treetops shopping centre. Owners, Atlanta Fowler and Mark Fowler. Picture: Jerad Williams

WHERE can you find bone broth, ice cream sandwiches and smoothie bowls all on the same menu? At Brio Emporium.

While this combination of food may sound bizarre, it’s typical of the cafe’s high-fat, low-carb and low-allergen options.

Owner Atlanta Fowler says the demand for keto diet and anti-inflammatory food is so great, she’s just opened a second eatery in Burleigh Heads.

“Due to the prevalence of gut health issues, allergies, and people taking on low carb diets for health reasons, we have people travelling from all over (to visit Brio Emporium),” Atlanta says.

“We have regular customers coming from Brisbane, Tweed Heads, Lennox Head.”

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Brio Emporium’s low carb lunch bowl — BBQ beef brisket. Picture: Jerad Williams

While bone broth has long been touted for its benefits in the paleo world, Atlanta says her range of Meadow and Marrow Bone Broths made from grass fed, free range meat can help aid digestion and improve gut health.

The raw bowls and smoothie bowls are made on dairy-free milk substitutes, topped with fresh fruit, chocolate or granola

And as for the ice cream sandwiches, they’re part of a range of products exclusive to Brio made from a high-fat, butter-based cream called Fatboy.

“The ice cream, that’s our house made high-fat, low-carb ice cream we make in store,” Atlanta says.

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Brio Emporium at Treetops shopping centre. Fatboy Ketogenic Shake and Low Carb Lunch Bowl, BBQ beef brisket. . Picture: Jerad Williams

“It’s a 200g serve of ice cream in between two of our of low-carb cookies.

“It’s made with a truck load of free-range eggs, and it’s sweetened with xylipol.”

Other options on the menu are protein bowls and breakfast bowls, served with premium protein cuts, eggs, rice and salad — all low carb, of course.

There’s also keto treats of milkshakes, sundaes and bars, made from the aforementioned Fatboy cream, as well as a range of the continued caffeine craze Bulletproof Coffees and spice-brewed lattes.

Atlanta’s eclectic menu was devised after her quest for something similar came up stumps.

“We originally opened Brio due to my ill health concerns several years ago,” Atlanta says.

“We needed a place where we could find everything under one roof.

“Around five or six years ago, I suddenly became unwell.

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Brio Emporium at Treetops shopping centre. Picture: Jerad Williams

“I had a corporate career in Brisbane. I was having allergies, panic attacks. I was starting to get depressed.

“We were driving all over the place to get things we needed for our every day health.

“So we opened Brio from a food perspective.

“The cafe, it’s predominantly low carb, and it’s highly anti-inflammatory. We have things like bone broth, slow cooked meat, everything’s grass fed and free range. We’re entirely gluten free.”

Atlanta says she and her husband were able to design the cafe from the ground up, a completely different fit out to the Broadbeach cafe.

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Low carb activated seed, beetroot cheese and avo. Picture: Jerad Williams

“Unfortunately when we opened our Broadbeach store we didn’t get to build that from scratch,” Atlanta says.

“It has a giant pole in the middle that we had to work with.

“This one we got to build from scratch. We’ve got a nice alfresco area, our customers get to eat in the sun. It’s a much bigger store, much fresher, all the same staff.”

An “express” Brio only serving food and drinks is set to open in Oasis at Broadbeach in the coming weeks, and a fourth cafe and store is planned for later in the year.

Atlanta says there’s a hunger for her range of new-age nourishment that’s made with heart and soul.

Brio Emporium at Treetops shopping centre. Picture: Jerad Williams

“We are extremely authentic in what we offer,” Atlanta says.

“From the products we stock to the ingredients and what we serve, we don’t make any compromises.

“Hopefully they walk away feeling we are true to our word.”

Brio Emporium is located at the Treetops Plaza Shopping Centre, 7 Classic Way, Burleigh Waters.