100 Mile Table may have come courtesy of a Sydney-based team, but the eatery has now well and truly become ingrained in the Byron Bay community. The Industrial Estate eatery has garnered plenty of acclaim for its approach to unfussy (though tasty) fare, but now Sarah Swan and business partner Jeremy Burn have decided it is time to move on. The team yesterday placed the 100 Mile Table Banksia Drive cafe, as well as the accompanying catering business, up for sale.

“The business is thriving and at a point now, after five years, where we are so proud of it and would love for the right people to take it on,” explains Swan of the decision. “We are pretty attached. It won’t be easy for us to say goodbye.”

Before Swan’s move to Byron, she was a key component to the Rockpool Group where she worked for 14 years. Her experience in those kitchens (as well as on the marketing side of the business) no doubt helped to shape the 100 Mile Table brand, an eclectic eatery shaped around a single communal table. “In all honesty, it would so suit a couple who want to get in there and do it. The catering is great, the cafe awesome. Add energy – and off you go,” she continues.

Alongside 100 Mile Table, the team’s other business DUK, a modern Chinese in central Byron’s Bay Lane, will also be placed on the market. “This is a turnkey situation,” Swan says. “It’s a fabulous newly-decked out restaurant on Bay Lane with a liquor licence.”

Swan and Burn have stated that it is simply time for them to turn their attention elsewhere. In good news for the Northern Rivers community, they won’t be going far, having recently signed a lease for the Green Garage deli and cafe. Swan explains: “Basically, for us, our focus has shifted. We are taking on Green Garage with a view to open in early January and we intend to give Byron the food store it has needed for some time -– big local focus, convenient, glorious parking… all that and a bag of chips – not literally, well, maybe.”