A new eatery is putting charcoal chicken Banyo locals on the map, with Charco & Co now open at Shop 3/1022 Nudgee Road and ready to serve the northside community seven days a week.
The restaurant launched with a clear point of difference in mind — offering the speed and affordability of fast food alongside ingredients and cooking methods more commonly associated with sit-down dining. At the centre of the menu is charcoal-cooked chicken, served with the restaurant’s own Charco Chilli sauce, a blend of olive oil, Portuguese chillies and a house herb mix. The result is a smoky, boldly seasoned bird that the team behind the concept says has quickly become a signature of the brand.
Alongside the chicken, Charco & Co rounds out its menu with Wagyu beef burgers, including the Beef Chilli Burger and the Legend Burger — options designed to give diners a bit of variety while keeping the overall offer tightly focused on quality over quantity.
The business was founded by Neil Martin, who says the idea grew from a straightforward but hard-to-execute goal: close the gap between the convenience people expect from fast food and the kind of flavour they’d usually have to sit down somewhere nicer to find.
For Banyo, a suburb that has quietly been gaining new businesses and residents in recent years, it’s the sort of local addition that fills a genuine gap in the dining options along Nudgee Road.
Charco & Co is currently trading from 10am to 3pm daily.
Published 24-March-2026
