Goombungee Antiques and Cafe owner selling up after 16 years in ‘beautiful’ country town

The owner of this antiques and cafe business in a small country town on the Darling Downs is selling up after sixteen years.

Goombungee Antiques and Cafe, 105 Mocatta St, Goombungee, is for sale.

It was in 2005 that Daryl Moore was searching for a new place to open a combined antiques and hospitality business when he discovered the building that would become home to Goombungee Antiques and Cafe.

“Goombungee was affordable, and I loved the building itself, with its bay windows,” Mr Moore recalled.

He’d seen the combination of an antiques store and cafe done well before: “People have a chance to sit down and look around. It’s much better for sales.”

The tight-knit country town rallied behind Mr Moore, and it soon became, in his words, “a thriving little business”.

Daryl Moore out the front of Goombungee Antiques and Cafe. While re-roofing his business in 2019, builders stumbled across this advertising sign from the 1940s.

But after 16 years, it’s time for Mr Moore to slow down.

Goombungee Antiques and Cafe is for sale via an expressions of interest process, which closes at 5pm on May 21.

“I’m just getting to that age where it’s time for me to start spending time with my grandkids, and my son wants to go fishing,” he said.

One of the bedrooms of the home attached to Goombungee Antiques and Cafe, 105 Mocatta St, Goombungee, is for sale.

“Goombungee has been a wonderful town to me.

“It’s sad to say goodbye to it, but I’ve achieved what I’ve set out to do. It’s a thriving little business and the home’s turned out really beautiful.”

Featuring a unique fusion of space, character and style, the Goombungee Antiques and Cafe includes a gorgeous residence with an attached shopfront that has all of the requirements for sophisticated family living in a sought-after location with a picturesque outlook to enjoy.

Set on a 4047sq m block on two lots, there’s a relaxing outlook over the back of the block and multiple living spaces that flow from room to room with ease.

Inside the kitchen of the home attached to Goombungee Antiques and Cafe, 105 Mocatta St, Goombungee, is for sale.

The main kitchen is a chef’s dream, featuring quality appliances, dishwasher, gas cooking, and plenty of cupboards, drawers and benchspace.

Other important features include the famous shopfront awning, complete with its 1940s advertisement, which was uncovered during a renovation in 2019.

Goombungee Antiques and Cafe, 105 Mocatta St, Goombungee, is for sale.

There’s a second kitchen, powder room and toilet, along with a cafe/shopfront with airconditioning and fireplace, outside sitting area, second shop space and more.

For more information, contact REMAX Success Toowoomba’s Melita Bell on 0427 796 554 or Pam Goodbody on 0411 643 650.