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.
Supermarket chain Coles is trialing a new method of selling dog food to its customers in Nundah by allowing them to purchase pick ‘n’ mix bags of treats via special snack dispensers.
With the new addition of special pick ‘n’ mix snack dispensers, the Coles branch at the Toombul Shopping Centre allows dog owners to mix and match some of their pet’s favourite treats. Following the pandemic, many Queensland residents found themselves stuck at home. Given the complications that came with spending time with friends and family, people opted to stave off loneliness by taking on canine companions.
As a result, the pet market has boomed, and Coles aims to cater to dog owners by providing them with more convenient ways of purchasing the food and products necessary to keep their pups pampered and happy.
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Some of the food items up for grabs at these dispensers include kangaroo tails and crocodile sausages, as well as a variety of training treats to facilitate dog training sessions. Training treats in particular play an important role in teaching dogs new behaviours, and having a variety helps owners discover their favorites while simultaneously preventing the dog from getting tired of having the same old snacks.
Pick ‘n’ mix pet food was previously trialed at one of Coles’ branches in Melbourne in 2019. Following its success, other pet food dispensers were set up at select venues — with Coles’ Toombul being one of the first in all of Queensland.
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