New wave of Nobby restaurants as beachside suburb ramps up its reputation

A SWAG of new businesses are set to open in Nobby Beach in time for the peak summer tourist season, cementing the suburb as the Coast’s hipster capital.

NOBBY Beach is fast cementing its reputation as the hippest hotspot along the city’s coastal strip with a swag of new businesses preparing to open their doors in time for the peak summer tourist season.

Snobby’s Wine Bar and Bistro is yet to pour a drop but is already the talk of the neighbourhood thanks to its fun name.

The new venue, in premises along the Gold Coast Highway that previously housed cafe/bars The Cave and The Cavern, is pitching itself as “Snobby’s by name, not by nature”.

Gemelli owners Paul Carney (right) and his twin brothers, chefs James(black shirt) and Alec Carney (white) are set to open a new bar and restaurant called Gemellini at Nobby Beach. Picture: Glenn Hampson.

The venue’s owners have given the property a total facelift inside and out to transform it into a contemporary, up-market wine-themed restaurant.

Snobby’s is expected to quietly open its doors later this week ahead of its official launch later this month.

The venue is a few doors down from another shop undergoing a refurbishment before it reopens as new Italian bar and restaurant Gemellini, which means “the little twin”.

The venue’s owners, brothers Paul, James and Alec Carney, also operate award-winning Broadbeach restaurant Gemelli.

Sparrow Eating House, Nobby Beach

Builders are also hard at work on a smaller shop around the corner in Lavarack Road that once housed a laundromat and more recently, frozen yoghurt store Delissh.

The shop will reopen as a new venture called The Protein Bar in the next few weeks.

The Cambus Wallace’s Dave Ferry creates a cocktail in the Nobby Beach bar.

One of the last vacant sites in the lively suburb has also found a new tenant, with the Coast’s first bicycle fitness centre, The Mile High Cycle House, preparing to open in the building next to Foster’s Bakery along the highway in coming weeks.

Nobby Beach has become a hotspot thanks to a host of new restaurantsand bars. Picture: Tim Marsden.

The suburb is also undergoing a “spruce up” as part of Gold Coast City Council’s ongoing centre improvement program.

Interior of MexiCali Bar Y Taqueria in Nobby Beach.