Three Blue Ducks moving to Brisbane

Paddock to plate eatery Three Blue Ducks at Byron Bay is expanding. With its three hugely popular restaurants in New South Wales, Blue Ducks is now moving across the border.

It’s heading over to Brisbane to set up a Queensland Ducks serving its characteristic guacamole fritters.

It all makes sense with the hotel boom hitting Brisbane.

It will be the first Queensland venture.

The new digs will be called Three Blue Ducks Brisbane. It’s all part of the five-star W Hotel in the CBD

The plan is to cut the ribbon on March 15

According to the press release, guests will enjoy a "relaxed setting".

It will be open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner overlooking the river.

Signature Duck dishes coming to Brisbane will include spanner crab scramble with green mango, cashews and house-made sriracha, and lamb slow-roasted over coals.

The kitchen will feature a charcoal pit, rotisserie and wood-fired oven.

There will also be a cold seafood section showcasing Moreton Bay bugs and oysters.

Then there is the dining room.

The press release says it will have "earthy tones and raw materials" and it will have "colonial heritage" with the addition of Queenslander VJ wall panels.

Three Blue Ducks was set up by six mates.

All of them had fine-dining backgrounds.

What also helped was their mutual love of surfing and snowboarding. 

The first Ducks restaurant opened in Bronte, NSW, in 2010 and the operation has been expanding ever since.

The W Brisbane venture will be the fourth Three Blue Ducks restaurant nationally.

And it will be the first in Queensland.

"We'll be using locally sourced produce that is farmed ethically," Ducks co-owner Jeff Bennett says in the press release "Although our current venues greatly differ in aesthetic, our philosophy and ethos remain very much the same and we can't wait to work alongside W Brisbane.”

Leon Getler 20th February 2018