Delicious.
The re-education of Mick Fanning, post professional surf career, has been dizzying. The three-time World Champion has launched a beer company, invested in yoga-esque workout spaces, helped bankroll “wellness towers,” bought and sold and bought again many millions worth of property on his Gold Coast.
He is a business, man, with unforeseen pivots in multiple directions.
Now, I have spent time on Fanning’s Gold Coast, Coolangatta and the like, and enjoyed it much but also did not consider the dining scene to be “world-class.” Oh, the local McDonald’s prepared the Big Brekkie burger exceptionally and the meat pies at the Coolangatta Pie Shop are second to none but… I don’t know but am also apparently wrong because the aforementioned Mick Fanning has just signed on with Uber Eats as a culinary guide, as it were.
In a recent interview with A Current Affair, Fanning declared, “Just hearing stories of different restaurateurs and the whole sort of food and beverage industry has been tough so, if I can lend a helping hand … it’s easy on my part.”
That helping hand will guide people away from their rote standards into exciting culturally appropriated wonderlands like Caracara Tacos, which serves Fanning’s favorite Mexican food.
“I think we go on apps like Uber Eats and stuff like that and we sort of just look at the same things we always do,” he continued. “But the thing is to sort of dive a little bit deeper and maybe turn left when you normally turn right and yeah, go and find something new and take some new food because as I said, there’s so many incredible restaurants out there.”
Yum.
Those who live on the Gold Coast, what will you be inspired to try?
Maybe something from Domino’s Pizza?
KFC’s Spicy Cluck?
Exciting days.
Be inspired here.
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Maybe that shark saw the future that day and fancied an advanced tasty morsel from the Uber eats menu.
WTF is a sammie?
That’s kinda cute
women?
What Robert Johnson did for blues guitar, Duane Allman did for slide guitar. I often think about where music would be if Duane were still alive today. He left far too soon.
What’s a wharped sense of humor?
Does Mick recommend any particular types of dogshit from the soles of his bottle-opening slippers, to be paired with the various ethnic cuisine stylings?
Mr Chas, it’s obviously been some time since you visited the southern Gold Coast. The grunge surfer vibe is gone and with that so has the famed Pizza Hut all you can eat for $7 lunch at Kirra now just a memory.
Fine dining has arrived –
Siblings Kirra
http://www.siblingskirra.com.au
Does he not have enough money already ?
Mexican. Adventurous.
Don’t worry about Ozzy.
It’s Chicago you should be concerned with.
gotta thicken that revenue stream!
For plain white bread
Eating’ s cheating Mick, stick to brewing cans of piss
I recall the restaurant food in Australia to be awful. Long time ago i stopped visiting because it was turning into Orange County. Pizza was exceptionally bad. The food was great if you cooked it yourself. Girls at the playpen were so sick, but that was Burleigh. Waves were also amazing, long before the superbank.
Uber eats is no fine dining
Bit of a progression from “I wanna go to the Gold Coast and get sick chicks and filthy pits”
That slow cooked thigh pulls off the bone nicely…
Ooooooh. Very subtle but also very good.
Like to hear his recommendation for a Gold Beach Jewish deli.
Bogan Bites
Endorsed by the Wright clan!
nice. now which retired pro can we get to do a little run down on the lesser known strip joints?
Hoyo would be onto the quality.