One thing you can count on in Noosa (apart from glorious sunshine) is an ever-evolving food scene. While the township and surrounding villages on Kabi Kabi land are popular for boutique shopping or exploring nearby national parks, in the past 12 months, a slew of fresh eating and drinking options have sprung up in this part of the Sunshine Coast, to the delight of locals and visitors about to stream along Hastings Parade for the school holidays. For brunch When brothers Alessio and Dario Zichichi opened Zibros , they brought an irresistible taste of Italy to Noosa Heads.

The Sicilian-inspired cafe, restaurant and bar feels welcoming and familiar (perhaps due to the black and white murals of industry heavyweights such as Anthony Bourdain, Rick Stein, Julia Child and Marco Pierre White, with the brothers’ own likenesses soon to join them). If you can stifle your urge to start the day by diving into the flaky cannoli with a decadently creamy ricotta filling, order a sharing board to choose your breakfast adventure. With three different boards to decide between, you can dine on eggs, salmon, avocado, halloumi, seaweed salad and crunchy potato fingers.

1/29 Sunshine Beach Road, Noosa Heads, zibros.com.au For alfresco dining After relocating from Eumundi in the Sunshine Coast hinterland to Peregian Beach, just south of Noosa, Bask is the kind of place where you can’t help but settle in for a very long lunch.

Just off the high street, the restaurant embodies coastal sophisticati.