Lifestyle & outdoors

Best Foodie Suburbs in Queensland

Suburbs with outstanding dining variety and restaurant access, scored from amenity counts and lifestyle desirability.

Airlie Beach currently leads this Queensland list. Suburbs with outstanding dining variety and restaurant access, scored from amenity counts and lifestyle desirability. The index is relative to this list (100 = the top suburb here), not an overall suburb rating. Very small localities can rank highly when nearby services score well — check population and housing on each profile before treating a rank as a place to live.

Rank	Suburb	Index
#1	Airlie Beach	100
#2	Brisbane City	100
#3	Broadbeach	100
#4	Cairns City	100
#5	Coolangatta	100
#6	Fortitude Valley	100
#7	Ipswich	100
#8	Mackay	100
#9	Main Beach	100
#10	Mermaid Beach	100
#11	Milton	100
#12	New Farm	100
#13	Newstead	100
#14	Noosa Heads	100
#15	Paddington	100
#16	Palm Cove	100
#17	Petrie Terrace	100
#18	Rockhampton City	100
#19	South Brisbane	100
#20	Sunnybank	100
#21	Surfers Paradise	100
#22	Toowoomba City	100
#23	Townsville City	100
#24	West End	100
#25	Woolloongabba	100
#26	Bulimba	99
#27	Toowong	98
#28	St Lucia	97
#29	Miami	95
#30	North Ward	95
#31	Thuringowa Central	95
#32	Palm Beach	94
#33	Chermside	94
#34	Ashgrove	93
#35	Upper Mount Gravatt	92
#36	Stones Corner	91
#37	Coorparoo	88
#38	Maroochydore	88
#39	Labrador	88
#40	Robina	87
#41	Caloundra	86
#42	Spring Hill	86
#43	Southport	86
#44	Redcliffe	84
#45	Indooroopilly	82
#46	Albion	81
#47	Bundaberg West	81
#48	East Toowoomba	81
#49	Shailer Park	79
#50	Warwick	78

Index shows relative strength within this list. 100 is the top-ranked suburb; lower values are further from the leader, not an overall suburb rating.

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