It’s not all about the view at Bistro C but such is the panorama of Laguna Bay and across to the treed headland of the Noosa National Park that it can be hard to focus on what’s going on inside. Never mind, the formula of a buzzing, family friendly atmosphere with widely appealing, well-put-together food and rapid service has been well-honed over the 26 years since it opened.

The venue offers three meals a day, seven days a week. Breakfast could include a sticky barbecue pork, spring onion and rice noodle omelette or fresh fruit with Yandina coconut yoghurt. Relaxing into dinner after twilight drinks would be a good decision but lunch makes full use of the view, the easygoing menu and the drinks list. Cider-battered fish with a fresh, caper and herb-flecked salad and excellent chips are a worthy option, as is the spinach and shiitake dumplings with burnt butter.

The trifle, an amalgam of mango, peach and lovely passionfruit sorbet over a bed of fresh sponge is worth serious consideration.

Must-eat dish: Spinach and Shiitake dumplings