The JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa has your corporate Christmas soiree sorted.
The JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa has your corporate Christmas soiree sorted.
Christmas soiree season is fast approaching and we swear someone is messing with us, because surely it can’t be that time again (it is). To be more specific, there are just over 11 weeks until the jolly man comes to town so sound the alarm, we need to lock in our workplace festive shindigs and Christmas client schmoozing yesterday. Luckily, we have a suggestion with more razzle dazzle than you can poke a feather boa at and we’re of course talking about A Roaring 20’s Christmas at JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa. A grand affair and evening packed with glamour and decadence, it ticks every box on the corporate Christmas party wish list. A showstopping venue – tick. The highest calibre food and entertainment – tick. An excuse to don a flapper frock, fishnets, and a faux fur shawl – TICK!
Sure to woo your team and those hard to impress clients, step back in time and channel your inner Great Gatsby at the Christmas party to end all Christmas parties. Choose either Friday 9th December or Saturday 10th December, and enjoy a sumptuous three-course Christmas banquet and four-hour beverage package (no bootleggers needed here). Then it’s time to show off your Prohibition Era-esque dancefloor moves, and we knew watching Dancing with the Stars would benefit us one day.
Being the OG culinary powerhouse that it is, The JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa is certainly going the full Jay Gatsby with an indulgent menu not to be missed. For an entrée, shimmy into a Smoked Duck Salad with celeriac remoulade, pickled vegetables, baby herbs, and truffle dressing. Or, if you’re like us you’ll go weak at the knees for the Champagne Lobster Ravioli sauteed with mushrooms, lobster fricassee, saffron pasta and bisque sauce and no, this isn’t a result of our failed Charleston attempt.
Now it’s time for the star of the show, the mains, and they are every bit as lavish as the strand of pearls perfecting your 1920s getup. We’re talking Baked Snow Fish with asparagus, red pepper coulis, confit tomatoes and lemon verbena sauce. Or, if red meat is more your cup of moonshine, there’s slow-roasted lamb loin with potato gratin, spiced carrot puree, baby carrots and red wine jus.
Finally, you’ll be grateful they ditched corsets in the 20’s coz the desserts are simply irresistible. The Dessert Buche de Noel is a divine chocolate mousse cake with cherry compote, coconut dacquoise and vanilla bean ice cream and side note, worth shelving the summer bod diet for. There’s also a baked Mango Passion Cheesecake with mango gel, gingerbread sable crumble, sorrel, and passionfruit sorbet, and do remind the person sitting next to you that sharing is caring.
But why end the fun here when you can turn this bougee Chrissie celebration into a fancy overnight stay?! Tis the season to spoil oneself, one’s staff, and one’s clients, so drop the JW Marriott team a line on 07 5592 9800 or email to make a reservation.
Bookings are essential, so source those sassy bobs, scarlet hued lippies and three-piece suits, and secure your table/tables pronto. Tickets are $189 per person and can be purchased here.
Where: JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa, 158 Ferny Ave, Surfers Paradise
When: 6.30om – 11pm, Friday 9th December & Saturday 10th December
Words by Bianca Trathen.
STORY SPONSORED BY JW MARRIOTT GOLD COAST RESORT & SPA
Change is the name of the game in 2020 and some of it has been very exciting indeed. The latest good news to come out of the year is of the Gold Coast luxury accommodation variety and it involves a tropical retreat in the heart of the Gold Coast you already know and love.
The iconic Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort & Spa will by December of this year, undergo a $35million rebrand and renovation to become Australia’s flagship JW Marriott hotel. The already impressive resort and spa will be taken to a whole new level of luxury with a few new additions we’re very excited about.
Award winning Australian design studio, DBI, the architects and interior designers behind the existing property, will be reimagining the iconic resort and adding all the magical modern touches that will make visiting an experience you’ll never forget.
With a total of 223 rooms and suites, JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa has been designed with its natural surroundings in mind, to reflect the beauty and relaxed vibes of coastal Queensland.
The new-look guest rooms, with a choice of ocean or hinterland views, draw inspiration from the local landscapes and include locally sourced stone and soft curved forms to create a sophisticated coastal character. Book us in.
Changes will also be made to the existing food and beverage venues, making them even more coveted than they are right now. Chapter & Verse will be transformed into an indoor-outdoor lounge and bar experience connecting the resort space with the external lagoons and swimming area to become a tranquil lounge by day and a sophisticated craft cocktail bar in the evening. PERFECT.
Citrique will receive a refresh to feature a new interactive show kitchen with fresh local produce and seafood at the heart of its daily menu. Forming part of Citrique, JW Marketplace will be the hotel’s café and in-house provedore, serving freshly ground coffees, local produce and healthy and tasty grab-and-go bites while Misono, the resort’s teppanyaki restaurant, will expand to incorporate an ‘avenue’ of new Japanese dining experiences including an intimate Izakaya, tearoom and sushi bar.
A Japanese whisky bar with an outdoor terrace will be the very best of new additions, allowing us to indulge in an extensive array of quality sips we love most.
The resort’s beloved outdoor swimming pools are some of the most beautiful you’ve ever seen featuring a saltwater lagoon with over 300 tropical fish. The changes will see new poolside dining options and a lounge area for cocktails, light bites and family snacks. The ultimate in sophisticated relaxation.
All of that, plus plenty more exciting surprises are in store for Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort & Spa and we can’t wait to see (and spend all our time in) the new JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa.
LOCATION: 158 Ferny Avenue, Surfers Paradise
WHEN: December 2020
Amongst the roster of incredible new opens and revamps across the Gold Coast in the last 12 months; there are a handful that stand out. JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa’s five-star makeover in December 2020 is one of those destinations. The extensive refurbishment was much more than just a name change and a lick of paint. Whether it’s fabulous seafood, lip-smacking meat dishes, decadent desserts, or seducing cocktails — each aspect has been refreshed in faultless fashion.
If you aren’t familiar with the exceptional restaurants on offer at JW Marriott Gold Coast, then let us give you a run-down…
Citrique Restaurant
The sumptuous buffet. Citrique is famous for its breakfast, brunch and seafood market offerings, so the restaurant entices locals and guests with its fresh and contemporary Australian cuisine for the definitive ocean/paddock to plate occasion. The venue includes the elevated addition of JW Market, a café and marketplace that nurtures customers to connect with the carefully curated products sourced from local farmers and producers.
For a weekend long-lunch and dinner, you are seriously hard pushed to look past this outstanding seafood buffet. Prepare to stack your plates high with Mooloolaba tiger prawns, Moreton Bay bugs, and Pacific oysters to name a few ocean treasure delicacies to sink your teeth into.
Misono Japanese
The teppanyaki grill experience. Embracing the vitality of Japanese creativity with local flavours is the backbone of this vibrant, communal teppanyaki restaurant. For those who haven’t been in a while (side note: where have you been?), a new live Sushi table and secret Whisky bar were unveiled and it’s everything you dreamed of and better!
Teppanyaki is a fun family favourite with all the flying food and antics. At Misono, you can even opt to have an elevated teppan dining experience in a private room, with (of course) sake, sophisticated flavours and an entertaining performance. And for those eager to learn a new skill, there are Mini Misono sushi-making classes! Talk about interactive!
Chapter & Verse
The next-level lobby bar. No hotel of this calibre is quite complete without an unforgettable lobby bar, and Chapter & Verse hits this mark effortlessly. Famous cocktails and unmatched high-tea experiences, blended with food choices designed to share, are the highlights of this central and welcoming space.
Transitioning from café during the day to craft cocktail bar at night, lunch is the time where the food offering is at its pinnacle. Mix classic and signature cocktails with dishes like Yellowtail Kingfish Ceviche, truffle fries or their Cheese and Charcuterie board stacked with locally sourced cheeses and cold cuts. The venue also features a robust regular music program of attention-grabbing live performers.
For five-star levels of service, incredible food and drinks at every turn, JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa’s venues of distinction are prime for the picking!
Where: JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa, 158 Ferny Avenue, Surfers Paradise
Words by Alex Mitcheson.
STORY SPONSORED BY JW MARRIOTT GOLD COAST RESORT & SPA
Many of us locals have experienced buffet-belly-bliss at JW Marriott Resort & Spa’s Citrique restaurant, treating our tastebuds to an award-winning seafood buffet. And you’ve also no doubt fuelled up for the day at Citrique’s equally palette-pleasing buffet brekkie. But did you also know that this Gold Coast fave also offers a lavish, locally sourced a la carte menu Monday through Thursday? Well now you do and you’re welcome, because it’s the ultimate bougee dining experience guaranteed to woo your love, spoil the fam and earn you the coveted ‘foodie friend’ title amongst your posse.
Delivering sophisticated creativity and signature freshness expertly crafted by a talented team of chefs, Citrique serves up the Ferrari of food. Spoiling guests with fresh and contemporary cuisine, this consistently chic showstopper specialises in ocean and paddock-to-plate deliciousness. But it’s not just the delectable a-la carte eats that make a trip to Citrique unforgettable, it’s also the immersive feels. With open kitchens, interactive live stations and signature at-table preparation, nothing says VIP like a chef prepping at your table, and we were born for this level of fancy.
Let’s dive stomach-first into breakfast or brunch, where you can tuck into a Zucchini Fritter with truffle scrambled eggs, rocket, haloumi, and house made bush tomato chutney. Or you can DIY with a Custom Omelette and no, we don’t mean make it yourself because that would be very #un-bougee, but more of a choose your own edible adventure, selecting the fresh ingredients you love most, then let the chefs prepare for you.
Moving on to lunch or dinner, if you’re looking for something smaller to work your way up to the main event, try the Bay Bug Dumplings on for size. Straight from Moreton Bay to your table, they’re served with bisque sauce, kaffir lime, coconut sambal, and fresh snipped herbs from the resort’s own JW Garden. Then, move into the likes of Oven Baked Snow Fish from the southern seas of Tasmania, with wood-fired cauliflower, lemon zest, dukkha crumble and white miso sauce. And for the grand finale (dessert, obviously), The Cloud will transport your tastebuds to cloud nine, with pavlova, passionfruit granita, berry gel, Chantilly cream and vanilla infused strawberry jelly.
A meal is not a meal without a cocktail or vino (or both, definitely both!) and lucky for us, there is a talented mixologist on standby. Using locally sourced beverages and ingredients from the JW Garden, the result is liquid gold. For the vino enthusiasts, an expertly crafted wine ambassador program has been introduced to provide the ultimate grape juice experience, and call an Uber already because we are so sold.
So who do we have to thank for all of this sustainable scrumptiousness? Executive Chef Paul Smart and what an appropriate surname because this man is a culinary genius. Extremely passionate about sourcing sustainably and locally, Paul is internationally renowned for his visionary cooking at numerous luxury venues. With a stack of awards, he’s even cooked for HRH Queen Elizabeth II and blimey, if it’s good enough for royalty…. Paul even hosts regular JW Garden tours, exploring the herbs, edible flowers, fruits and vegetables used in the resort’s restaurants. Plus, he holds onsite cooking classes demonstrating creative ways in which the seasonal produce can be used, and this is yet another incentive to book a stay-cay if you ask us.
So whether you’re partial to eating your body weight at a highbrow seafood and land lover’s buffet, or savouring every morsel of a masterfully prepared a la carte meal, Citrique is nothing short of magnifique.
Where: 158 Ferny Ave, Surfers Paradise.
When: Breakfast daily 6.30am – 10am. Seafood buffet lunch Saturday & Sunday
12pm – 2.30pm. Monday to Thursday a la carte dinner 6pm – 9.30pm. Seafood buffet dinner Friday and Saturday 6pm – 9.30pm.
Words by Bianca Trathen.
STORY SPONSORED BY JW MARRIOTT GOLD COAST RESORT & SPA
