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Christmas Day Lunch Sunshine Coast 2024 Options

Are you looking for the perfect spot for Christmas Day lunch 2024 on the Sunshine Coast? We’ve got them listed for you here in this article!

Here are our favourite family-friendly venues where you can kick back, relax and enjoy the silly season in style!

Christmas Day Lunch – Sunshine Coast

Our favourite places to book Christmas Day lunch on the Sunshine Coast in 2024.

Christmas Lunch Sunshine Coast
Christmas lunch on the Sunshine Coast

Noosa Boathouse: Noosa 2024

4 course Christmas lunch

Leave the hard work to Noosa Boathouse on your 2024 Christmas Day and experience a delicious 4 course a la carte choice menu while enjoying the waterfront location with family and friends.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $329 pp
    • Kids (2-17 years): $199 pp
  • Booking times: 11:30am, 11:45am, 12:00pm, 12:15pm, 12:30pm for a 3 hour sitting

Click here for more information.

Christmas seafood experience

Experience unlimited fresh seafood starters, hot feast-style mains, desserts and cheeses, while enjoying their waterfront location with family and friends.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $329 pp
    • Kids (2-17 years): $259pp
  • Booking times: 11:30am, 12:00pm, 12:30pm

Find out more here.

Noosa Reef Hotel: Noosa Heads 2024

Located on the Laguna Bay and North Shore coastline, the Noosa Reef Hotel boasts an expansive deck area, catching the very best views of the bay. Come together with family and friends this Christmas Day at the Noosa Reef Hotel. Celebrate with a delicious Christmas seafood buffet lunch with drinks included!

  • Price:
    • Adults: $185 pp
    • Seniors: $120 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $110 pp
    • Kids (4-12 years): $70 pp

Get your tickets at the Noosa Reef Hotel website.

Kawana Waters Hotel: Kawana Waters 2024

Enjoy a delicious seafood buffet lunch with a dessert bar at Kawana Waters Hotel located on the beautiful Kawana Waters Marina. The menu also includes roast meats, cold meats, seasonal vegetables, and cold salads. The lunch begins at 11:30am.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $199 pp
    • Seniors: $120 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $110 pp
    • Kids (4-12 years): $70 pp
    • Kids under 4: free

There is also a drinks package upgrade available.

Find out more here.

Villa Noosa Hotel: Noosaville 2024

Villa Noosa Hotel will once again offer its delectable buffet filled with all of your Christmas favourites. With a focus on seafood, there will also be roasts, veggies, salads, and much more including their sumptuous Dessert buffet. Christmas lunch will run from 11.30am.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $160 pp
    • Seniors: $110 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $110 pp
    • Kids (4-12 years): $70 pp
    • Kids under 4: free

Get details for the event and make a booking here.

Waterfront Hotel: Diddillibah 2024

All you need to bring is your Christmas cheer to the Waterfront Hotel this festive season. With a delicious full-service buffet lunch including seafood, turkey, and ham, this no-hassle Christmas lunch will leave you full of festive cheer. The event will run from 11:30am and bookings are required.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $160 pp
    • Seniors: $110 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $110 pp
    • Kids (4-12 years): $70 pp
    • Kids under 4: free

For more information click here.

The Long Apron: Montville 2024 (sold out)

Christmas Lunch Sunshine Coast Long Apron

Spend Christmas relaxing with family enjoying delicious food and exquisite wine with attentive service. Enjoy a Christmas Day celebration with a long lunch of seafood, dessert and Christmas traditions at Spicers Clovelly Estate‘s award-winning restaurant, The Long Apron. The Long Apron is a highly awarded modern French restaurant in Montville where we take you on a gastronomic journey, epitomising culinary creativity, sharing our love of food and wine with you along the way.

  • This event is sold out

Find out more here.

Coolum Beach Hotel: Coolum 2024

Hands up who loves a buffet! (Hint – we do!) The perfect, chilled-out Christmas lunch on the Sunshine Coast is happening at Coolum Beach Hotel. You can opt for seafood, traditional roasts and cold meat, salads, desserts and so much more! Lunch begins at 11:30am.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $199 pp
    • Seniors: $120 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $110 pp
    • Kids (3-12 yrs): $70 pp
    • Kids under 3: free

Get in quick! Find out more about this event here.

The Savvy Squire: Mooloolaba 2024

Sit back, relax, and leave the cooking to the team at James Squire this Christmas Day. Bring your Christmas cheer to The Savvy Squire and enjoy a delicious lunch. Christmas is stressful enough without the hassle of entertaining; so dust off your Santa hat and receive the best present of all – no cooking or cleaning. Food includes a menu of seafood, roasts, beef, salads, desserts and so much more.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $165 pp
    • Seniors: $99 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $105 pp
    • Kids (4-12 years): $65 pp
    • Kids 3 and under: free

There is also a drinks package available for extra. Book here now.

Noosa Springs Resort: Noosa Heads 2024

Join Noosa Springs this year for Christmas Day lunch with a mouth-watering grazing board of Queensland seafood and cured meats with Woombye and Kenilworth cheeses. Then feast on a platter of slow cooked lamb, Pomona honey glazed leg ham, baked Tasmanian salmon, roasted root vegetables, wild rocket salad and broccolini. Finish with something sweet: Yuzu curd tartlets, praline delice, individual pavlovas, fruit mince tarts and cheesecakes. The lunch is from 11:30am to 2:30pm.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $249 pp (includes 3-hour beverage package)
    • Members: $235 pp (includes 3-hour beverage package)
    • Teens (13-17 years): $179 pp
    • Kids (3-12 years): $99 pp (includes a small gift)
    • Children 2 & under complimentary

Bookings are essential.

Novotel Sunshine Coast Resort 2024

Christmas Lunch Sunshine Coast Novotel
Christmas lunch at the Novotel

Enjoy a festive buffet lunch on the Sunshine Coast at the Novotel with all of the trimmings from 12:00pm to 3:00pm. Immerse yourself in the magic of Christmas with a sumptuous feast that will delight your senses. Their Christmas-themed lunch features a lavish array of culinary delights, including a seafood and carvery live station, where chefs will prepare your selections to perfection. Complement your meal with an abundant salad bar and indulge your sweet tooth at their decadent dessert station, complete with a flowing chocolate fountain. As you savour the delicious fare, enjoy a three-hour beverage package, featuring a selection of wines, beers, and soft drinks, while live entertainment sets the festive mood.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $275 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $175 pp
    • Kids (6-12 years): $135 pp
    • Kids (3-5 years): $40 pp
    • Kids under 2 years: free

 Details for these events can be found here.

The Loose Goose: Twin Waters 2024

Oh, it is on at The Loose Goose! They’re offering a simply delicious 3-course Christmas lunch that includes a kids menu for those aged 15 and under. Yesssssss! So much delectable food on offer – seafood, meat and yummy desserts – you’d be a total elf to miss out on it. There are a range of seating options available. All bookings are for 2 hours only.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $200 pp
    • Kids (8-15 years): $115 pp
    • Kids (3-7 years): $95 pp
    • Kids under 2 years: free

Find out more here.

Pelican Waters Tavern: Caloundra 2024

A Christmas day buffet. We shout hooray!  Their menu offers traditional seafood, hot foods, accompaniments and desserts – enough to have you mistaken for the jolly old fellow himself! Lots to offer here for kids and their adults alike. The event begins at 11:30am. 

  • Price:
    • Adults: $160 pp
    • Seniors: $110 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $110 pp
    • Kids (4-12 years): $70 pp
    • Kids 3 and under: free

Get in fast! Book your tickets here.

Buderim Tavern: Buderim 2024

A lovely luncheon on Christmas day…go on, you deserve it! It includes a starter, seafood, roasts and yummy desserts! There’s something for everyone. Starts at 11:30am.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $199 pp
    • Seniors: $120 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $110 pp
    • Kids (4-12 years): $70 pp
  • Kids 3 and under: free

Book your tickets here. Get in quick!

Caloundra Hotel: Caloundra 2024

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and yes, the Caloundra Hotel Christmas Day buffet lunch is on again this year! Enjoy a spectacular hot and cold buffet with delicious meats, fresh seafood, salads & roasted vegetables plus a mouth watering dessert buffet to finish it off from 11.30am.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $160 pp
    • Seniors: $110 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $110 pp
    • Kids (4-12 yrs): $70 pp
    • Kids 3 and under: free

Find out more here.

Golden Beach Tavern: Caloundra 2024

A no hassle and stress-free Christmas lunch is promised at Golden Beach Tavern! Dine from 11.30am for a delish meal. There is seafood, hot and cold meats, and scrumptious desserts!

  • Price:
    • Adults: $160 pp
    • Seniors: $110 pp
    • Teens (13-17 years): $110 pp
    • Kids (3-12 yrs): $70 pp
    • Kids 3 and under: free

Book tickets now!

Surf Air Beach Hotel: Marcoola 2024

Indulge in all of the traditional favourites at Surf Air Beach Hotel from honey-glazed ham, roast pork, crackling and Christmas pudding to a delectable array of fresh seafood including prawns, oyster with all of the Christmas trimmings, salads, desserts and more! The buffet starts from 11:30am.

  • Price
    • Adults: $165 pp
    • Kids (5-17 years): $70 pp
    • Kids under 5: free

For more information, click here.

Miss Moneypenny’s: Broadbeach 2024

Make Christmas extra special with a four-course lunch at Miss Moneypenny’s Broadbeach. They will be serving seafood, meats, all the Christmas trimmings with dessert to finish it off.

  • Price:
    • Adults: $209 pp
    • Kids under 12 years: $99 pp
  • Seating times: 11:30am, 2:30pm

Limited seating so bookings are essential!

Flaxton Gardens: Flaxton (TBC for 2024)

Christmas lunch Flaxtone Gardens

Flaxton Gardens is an iconic Sunshine Coast Hinterland venue, winery, restaurant, and function centre with coastline views stretching from Noosa to Moreton Island. Enjoy drinks on arrival and then feast on a sumptuous buffet that begins with a grazing platter before moving on to meats, salmon, vegetables and salads followed by a selection of Christmas treats. Arrive at 11:30am for a lunch at 12pm.

A three-hour beverage package is available for $45pp. 

  • Adults: $200
  • Children (under 12): $95

Bookings are required. Head to the Flaxton Gardens website for more information.

Christmas Day Lunch on the Sunshine Coast in 2024

Whatever you’re doing, we hope you have a fantastic festive season filled with fun times and frivolity with your nearest and dearest. If we’ve missed a venue that you’re interested in, or you have any other suggestions, please feel free to let us know in the comments. 

Looking for family fun Christmas ideas on the Sunshine Coast?

See our list of the BEST Sunshine Coast Christmas Markets here.

If you love Christmas lights like us check out our list of must-see Sunshine Coast Christmas lights here + driving map!

Ready to pack the picnic rug for a night of carolling? Find the Sunny Coast’s family-friendly Christmas Carol events here.

We’ve got the locations for your local Christmas Shops on the coast here so you can deck the halls in style!

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Janine Mergler

Janine Mergler is a veteran Queensland teacher, graduating from QUT with a BEd majoring in Social Sciences. After many years in the classroom, Janine moved on to academia. She has proudly trained new generations of teachers in her role as a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Education. She has also worked in the Queensland Government as an education specialist, developing education resources and delivering community awareness programs to help families conserve water. Currently she is the owner and editor of Families Magazine, a publication specifically targeted at parents who value a quality education for children.  Janine leads a team of professionals who write about family lifestyle, early childhood, schools and education information and family-friendly events.

3 thoughts on “Christmas Day Lunch Sunshine Coast 2024 Options”

  1. Hi
    Looking to book lunch Christmas Day at Mooloolaba for family of 4… what are prices for the Wharf including drinks package for Christmas 2019

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