The Shingle Inn is a restaurant and bakery franchise headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
History
editThe 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] The sugar bowls used in the restored city hall branch bear the engraved names of the Shingle Inn and other former Brisbane cafes (Renoir, Websters, Yorktown) that were owned by the Webster and Bellchambers families.[8]
The Shingle Inn has a franchise network of 30 cafes in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, and in December 2019, Shingle Inn opened its first store in South Australia as well as their first international store in New Zealand.[citation needed]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Shingle Inn". Brisbane Heritage Register. Brisbane City Council. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ "OLD ENGLISH IDEA IN CAFE". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 4 February 1936. p. 21. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ Dunn, Peter. "The Shingle Inn Restaurant". Oz At War. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ^ "Heritage lost – gone but not forgotten". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 6 July 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ^ "Shingle Inn Today". Shingle Inn. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
- ^ "Our Locations". Shingle Inn. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ^ "Shingle Inn City Hall Opens in Brisbane". Shingle Inn. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ^ "FAQ's". Shingle Inn, City Hall. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
Further reading
edit- Celebrating a Brisbane icon (PDF). Shingle Inn. 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 June 2015.
External links
edit- Official website
- Shingle Inn City Hall website
Media related to Shingle Inn at Wikimedia Commons
