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Restaurants and cafes

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George Coates Restaurant

Located at our Pimlico campus, the George Coates Training Restaurant has a reputation for serving delicious three course meals and extravagant buffets that won't blow your budget. The restaurant is open to the public throughout the year. Opening times depend on the student class calendar.

Phone: (07) 4750 5624

L-Plates Café

Situated at our Pimlico campus, L-Plates Café provides our students with the opportunity to showcase their talents in the kitchen and front-of-house. All students are supervised by fully-qualified teachers who have years of industry experience. Opening times and dates depend on the student class calendar. 

Phone: (07) 4750 5257

Tropics Restaurant

Located on level 3 in S Block at the Cairns campus, Tropics Restaurant is an award-winning training restaurant. Prices are reasonable and the food extremely creative using our region's best-quality seasonal ingredients. Opening time and days depend on the student class calendar.

Phone: (07) 4042 2601

Palmers Restaurant and Coffee Shop

At Palmers Training Restaurant at our Whitsundays campus you can treat the whole family to first class meals at affordable prices. The restaurant is open to the public throughout the year for lunch and dinner. Opening times and dates depend on the student class calendar. 

Queenslander Cafe

Queensland Cafe is located in the H Block Student Hub at the Cairns campus. A variety of hot and cold dishes are prepared daily by apprentice chefs and served by food and beverage students as part of their training. Prices are reasonable with daily specials available. Queenslander Cafe may be closed during semester breaks.

Opening hours: 8.00 am - 2.30 pm weekdays (during semester)

Hairdressing and beauty salons

Hair and Beauty Training Hub

Treat yourself to the latest hair and beauty treatments at a fraction of the cost at our Cairns Hair & Beauty Training Hub. Services vary between campuses but range from hairdressing salons catering to hair cutting, colouring, styling, and treatment through to integrated hair and beauty salons also offering facials, body treatment, manicures, pedicures, tinting, and waxing.

 

Hairdressing phone: (07) 4042 2550

Beauty phone: (07) 4042 2745

Art Gallery

Banggu Minjaany Art Gallery

Located in R Block at our Cairns campus the gallery stages exhibitions by current and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual arts students and professional artists. Exhibitions are also held in the Y Block gallery at the Cairns campus. The vision for the gallery is to create an artistic hub for the various art training programs throughout Tropical North Queensland. 

Phone: (07) 4042 2595

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