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Coffee & Cafes Arts & Culture

Tropic HQ pretty much runs on coffee. Cairns Regional Council wants
All the coffee. All the time. Here’s our city to become the arts capital
where we get our caffeine fixes. of Northern Australia, a vision we
wholeheartedly support.
80 27 Degrees 82 JUTE Theatre Company
This Palm Cove fave is effortlessly cool, With JUTE’s home at the Centre of
combining good coffee and tasty treats with Contemporary Arts undergoing a major
cruisy Miami Beach-style vibes. Grab your upgrade, our city’s premier theatre
bite and drink of choice and pull up a spot company is set for a big and bold 2020.
out the front where you can people watch Make sure you check out one of JUTE’s
and gaze out beyond to the beach. The acai
76 Envy bowls are among our menu go-to’s. productions – it’s so much better than a
Envy Espresso is a retreat from the bustle of Shop 1, French St, Palm Cove night in front of a small screen, trust us.
Grafton Street where people come to enjoy 27degreesqld.com jute.com.au
the relaxed atmosphere and exceptional
specialty coffee. Owner and head barista Also recommended Mama Coco, Espresso
James Duan has created one of our new & Co, Caffiend, Ten One Twenty, Petals and
favourite CBD caffeine fixes. Pinecones, Tattooed Sailor, Blackbird, Cruze,
111-115 Grafton St, Cairns Chamber Room, Origin at Port Douglas,
envyespresso.com Veloce Espresso Bar at Kewarra Beach, Two
Blocks at Holloway’s Beach.
77 White Whale Coffee Roasters
As pioneers of the Cairns coffee scene, White We’d like to see The Cairns Coffee 83 End Credits Film Club
Whale is hands down one of our favourite Festival come to life and more locally Run by local volunteers since 1998,
cafes and coffee supppliers in town. Their roasted coffee in your kitchen. End Credits Film Club is dedicated to
groovy industrial shed at Portsmith, warm screening non-mainstream films for its
smiles of staff and onsite roastery needs to members and the general public in its
be on your caffeine hit list. Events bi-monthly Unseen Cinema program at
Shed 2, 4/16 Tingira St, Portsmith Event Cinemas, plus events at Cairns
whitewhalecoffee.com.au The event and festival scene in Cairns Botanic Gardens. End Credits is a true
has developed to the point where gem for Cairns.
you’ll be able to attend a great event endcredits.org.au
– or several - each and every weekend [email protected]
throughout 2020.
84 Cairns Art Gallery
81 The festivals and big events we’re looking As the recent record-breaking Patricia
forward to in 2020 include: our food Piccinini exhibition proved, Cairns Art
festival Meet Eat Repeat (big things for Gallery continues to punch above its
MER in 2020!), music extravaganza Grass
78 Brother Jenkins Is Greener and Scene & Heard, Ironman weight for a regional gallery. With free
A favourite haunt of our editor Gavin King, Cairns, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns entry, there’s no excuse not to wander
this charming cafe on Martyn St does one Festival, Port Douglas Carnivale, Tour of around and explore the amazing pieces
of the best brunches in town, along with the Tropics cycling race, and so much on show.
awesome coffee, yummy lunches and more! For a curated list of weekend events 40 Abbott St, Cairns
even a must-try Bloody Mary. We also dig in the Cairns region, don’t forget to check cairnsartgallery.com.au
their logo! Check them out, especially on a out our Tropic Weekender guide published
Sunday when so many Cairns cafes every Friday on tropicnow.com.au. 85 Tanks Art Centre
are closed. 86 Cairns Performing Arts Centre
177 Martyn St, Manunda We’d like to see An affordable art fair
facebook.com/brotherjenkinscafe in Cairns, where every piece is priced We’d like to see Another music venue
under $1000 and any local artists, from to accommodate gigs of up to 500
beginners to professionals, can submit people.
their work for the public to purchase.

MY MUST-DO LIST beaches restaurant strip.
Luckbir Singh 3. Visit one of the three
Sikh Gurdwaras in Innisfail,
79 Jaques Coffee MacDonnells Law Gordonvale and Edmonton
Life is too short to drink supermarket coffee 1. A lesser known island and on a Sunday morning to
beans. Instead, grab some local beans from reef trip which is great for all: experience and appreciate the
Jaques Coffee. You can venture to their Frankland Islands. Langar - a free food kitchen
plantation in the Tablelands, which features 2. Trinity Beach Restaurant for anyone attending – as well
a sprawling coffee plantation, an onsite Tuk Tuk By The Sea on Vasey as reading of scripture, singing
roastery, and a fully licensed restaurant and Esplanade, the first of what will of hymns and playing of the
café. Or, grab a bag from their online store. soon become the new go-to tabala and other instruments.
137 Leotta Rd, Mareeba
jaquescoffee.com.au

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