Cha Cha Char

Ph: 3211 9944; Eagle Street Pier, 5 Waterfront Pl, BRISBANE 4000 www.chachachar.com.au

Steak, $$$, * for Food & Ambience
Open Mon-Fri noon- 11pm Sat-Sun 5.30pm- 11pm, Closed Lunch on public holidays; Licensed; AE DC MC V EFT
Chef Richard Brown (27-12-07) Owner John Kilroy (27-12-07)

Mietta's Review
Get to know your dinner personally - Cha Cha Char's menu offers you the history of the beef you're about to eat, including age, where it was raised and what it was raised on. Cha Cha Char, situated right on the Brisbane River at Eagle Pier, offers diners a great place to have a fine steak, an offer too good to refuse for its legion of affluent customers. In 06 mains averaged $35.

Other published opinions

Gourmet Traveller 2009 Australian Restaurant Guide "Consistency, convivial staff, a modern fit-out, outdoor dining and river views ensure this red-meat mecca packs the crowds. At lunch, the 140seat restaurant teems with businesspeople enjoying some of Australia's finest meat matched to a big red from the comprehensive wine list"

Brisbane Times Score: 13/20 "If you're hankering for a seriously good red-meat fix in smart-yet-casual surrounds, this city stalwart's hard to beat"

Courier Mail food and wine guide Queensland 2008 Score: 15/20, One Hat "Presenting large premises on a personal scale is resolved here by a raised area at the core, and tables along the sweeping curve of glass wall seem to occupy discrete zones"

Gourmet Traveller 2008 Australian Restaurant Guide "e Wheelchair friendly Owner John Kilroy STEAK Probably the best steak restaurant in the state, Cha Cha Char wouldn't be the first place you'd go to in search of vegetarian options, yet this carnivore's playground also fields a separate vegetarian list with eight non-meat dishes"

Brisbane News Dining Out Guide 2007 "The awards just keep coming for this Eagle Street institution, and as anyone serious about steak knows, this is the mecca of beef in Brisbane"

Gourmet Traveller 2007 Australian Restaurant Guide "Beef is the buzzword at this well-loved CBD institution. Ex-bushie John Kilroy knows his way around a cattle sale and has invested much time over the past decade sourcing the best beef from premium suppliers fonthis steakhouse. lf you love the smell of steak on a barbecue, head in and try one of the many flavour-packed cuts cooked to order."

Courier Mail QWEEKEND Des Houghton, 09-4-2007 Food 16 Wine 16 Service 16 Ambience 15 The Score 15 "Cha Cha Char on a Friday night is a cheerful, rowdy, blokey place full of belly-laughing good ol' boys who like to party. We attacked several bottles of exquisite Craggy Range sav blanc and merlot, and it wasn't until 9.30 that we sat down to our feast. And a feast it was. If you have found a better selection of beef at a restaurant in Australia - or London or New York, for that matter - tell me, because I haven't. Indeed, I'm not alone in holding such a high opinion of the place for it recently was awarded the national Restaurant & Catering Award for Excellence as Australia's best steak restaurant - for the fourth time in a row."

Courier-Mail Goodlife Restaurant Guide 2006 ** "At John Kilroy's expansive waterfront restaurant, there's always something happening, Chefs in the open kitchen, which has been refurbished recently, rush back and forth while customers pack the dining area."

Gourmet Traveller 2006 Australian Restaurant Guide * "Cha Cha Char is a single large, cheerful and bustling dining room packed with suit-clad diners, the happy clamour of chinking glasses, elevated conversation and, above all, the heady sizzle of meat on the grill."

Brisbane News Restaurant Guide 2006 "Known for its award-winning beef, John Kilroy's riverside establishment is packed with style - and well-heeled business types. "

Courier-Mail Goodlife Restaurant Guide 05 "The action from the open kitchen is fast and furious most days and nights at John Kilroy's expansive waterfront restaurant, with corporate types chowing down on executive chef Frank Correnti's well-executed food."

Gourmet Traveller Australian Restaurant Guide 2005 "lf you're from the bush, Cha Cha Char is the place to be seen. Steak is taken very, very seriously here with dietary explanations, colour charts and pedigrees all listed for your edification."

Brisbane News Dining Out Guide 2004 "Owner John Kilroy ensures the focus at his expansive riverside noshery remains on red meat, but that's not to say you can't order duck, fish or chicken, or that vegetarians are overlooked."

Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide Australia 2004, 2 Black Stars, Excellent wine list,'a restaurant widely regarded as serving some of the country's finest beef...it will display a mouth-watering crust, the aromas of which follow you if you try to walk past the riverside restaurant.'

16/9/03 won the RCAs Award for Best Steak THe Brisbane Times, Restaurnats, Alison, Walsh, 3/7/02, "Carnivorous diners can't get enough of a popular city restaurant."

The Courier-Mail, Goodlife, dining out, Lizzie Loel, 20/4/02. Score 16/20

2002 Eating Out Guide, Brisbane News,'impressive wine list...award-winning restaurant'