Shingle Inn

The Shingle Inn at MacArthur Central, Brisbane

The Shingle Inn is a restaurant and bakery franchise headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

History

The Shingle Inn opened in 1936 at 254 Edward Street, Brisbane in 1936 as a Tudor inn style restaurant.[1][2]

The Shingle Inn is a considerably well known aspect of Brisbane's dining culture, where it has welcomed generations of diners, and was also popular with American service personnel during World War II.[3] It is one of the oldest continuing restaurants in the city of Brisbane.[4] It has been owned since 1975 by the Bellchambers Family.[5]

With the closure of the flagship store in 2002 due to the new Queens Plaza development, the fittings of the store were removed and placed into storage.[1] A franchise of the restaurant was created with a dozen stores throughout the Brisbane central business district, suburbs, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.[6]

With the re-opening of Brisbane City Hall after its $215 million refurbishment in April 2013, the fittings and layout of the original Shingle Inn in Edward Street were replaced inside Brisbane City Hall, re-creating the olde-world Tudor atmosphere of the original 1936 restaurant.[7]

As at December 2013, Shingle Inn has a franchise network of 40 cafes in Queensland, New South Wales, ACT, Victoria and most recently Perth.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Shingle Inn". Brisbane Heritage Register. Brisbane City Council. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "OLD ENGLISH IDEA IN CAFE.". The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) (Brisbane, Qld.: National Library of Australia). 4 February 1936. p. 21. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Dunn, Peter. "The Shingle Inn Restaurant". Oz At War. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Heritage lost - gone but not forgotten". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 6 July 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Shingle Inn Today". Shingle Inn. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Our Locations". Shingle Inn. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Shingle Inn City Hall Opens in Brisbane". Shingle Inn. Retrieved 18 April 2015.

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Coordinates: 27°28′06.25″S 153°01′38.15″E / 27.4684028°S 153.0272639°E