Loved our night at Backlane Bar and Street Food, what great ambience, wonderful staff and simply delicious tapas. I had the dumplings and the karaage chicken melted in your mouth. Great venue for catching up with friends as you could hear each other. A hidden...gemMore

Delicious food and cocktails, excellent service friendly staff visiting Mooloolaba been here 2 nights out of three because it’s so good

Stumbled across this fabulous restaurant in the back street of Mooloolaba on our first night here. The tapes menu was small but had a very good choice of plates. My husband and I shared the prawn rockets, spiced calamari and karagge chicken. All dishes were...fresh and amazing. They even provided us a sample of a new dish going on their menu next week which was dips, pita bread and lavish crisps. The home made dips were a flavour sensation unlike your normal dips you usually get. Definitely try this when it is on the menu. Great cocktail and wine list to enjoy your meal as well. So yummy we are heading back there before we do home. Can't wait!!More

We went with friends last night (a Monday) and had a great night. Guy in guitar was awesome. Food was Devine. My knife just slid through the squid like butter. The tapas type eating was perfect and we got to try about 8 dishes. Staff...and manager were very helpful and friendly. Highly recommend.More

Spent a Saturday night here for a few shareplates and drinks. When we ordered the waitress wasn’t sure if they had one of the items and upon ordering the boneless chicken wing skewers with satay and cucumber we were told they didn’t have boneless available....After ordering 2 cocktails, we were told one of the cocktails had a liqueur that they didn’t have available so we had to select another. Food came before our drinks. Duck spring rolls were good Dumplings were far too salt and underwhelming Pork belly tacos were dry Then the chicken wings came out - with bones as we were advised but not with cucumber and satay as advertised. We asked a different waitress what they were. She said they were chipotle flavour and that they have changed the menu. We weren’t told of the new favour when ordering so were really disappointed and didn’t eat them. The restaurant menus are just A4 bits of paper so you would expect the “new” menu be printed to replace the old The service was average and I wouldn’t recommend this place with much better options near by.More

We went for Spanish night which we had been looking forward to. The paella looked impressive when it came to the table, however, it lacked flavour and seasoning, rice was way over cooked and very gluggy and the prawns were over cooked and chalky. Basically...none of us ate it. We also ordered a jug of sangria and we all questioned if there was even any alcohol in it. They gave us free churros for dessert but even they were undercooked and doughy. Definitely won’t be back.More

Well, if variety is the spice of life then this place excels! The differing dishes will make your mouth water and your stomach will be very fulfilled. Try it and see

This was a pleasant surprise. We didn't know what to expect and were thoroughly pleased with Backlane. The cocktails were fun and unique. The food was sooo tasty and delicious. Mouthwatering. A strong recommendation for couples, friends or families.

We had a group booking for the bottomless prawns and oysters luncheon on the first Saturday of the month. We were very pleasantly surprised that the oysters were not just all natural as I'd expected, but a variety was on offer including kilpatrick and Japanese....Prawns of course were Mooloolaba and nice large ones at that. Don't believe the advertised "bottomless for 2hr package" because after the first couple of share platters replacements do slow down, and by an hour you are pretty much being talked out of having more, but most of us had had sufficient by then, it's just whether or not that applied to all we felt pressured to call it quits on the food. Of course they were still happy for us to buy more drinks, they weren't closing, just felt we'd had a quota? Like I said, the food was top notch, and the value at $70/head excluding drinks wasn't bad given the quality of food on offer, it just would have been nice to be the people saying "we're all good now thanks, no need for more" rather than feeling pressured to stop eating after about half the advertised food serving time. Oh and the guy playing the guitar and singing was absolutely excellent!More

Two words: Corn Ribs. Tijauna Tommy also awesome. great service. Our go-to every visit. Scallops are great too.

Booked in for anniversary dinner. Live sax and beats cranking at the front bar. Food was solid, came out quickly, and even the kitchen crew knew we were there for our anniversary. Jaclyn took good care of us, and we had a great time. Pork...belly tacos, karaage chicken, corn ribs, lamb kofta meatballs…all tasty dishes. 🤟More

Funky little bar off the main drag off Mooloolaba. Definitely worst going back from the main block where the location comes with a surcharge. This bar has a nice Melbourne atmosphere to it and takes up a fair bit of real estate for a bar....The tapas has a reasonable variety but is pricey. The pork belly taco was delicious which was a god start. The fish taco was not as great. The fish was luke warm (deliberately) tuna (I think) but the dressing just didn’t match and the whole thing left an unpleasant after taste. The drinks menu was extensive and was probably the highlight. Overall this is a nice change from the usual Sunny Coast restaurants and would be great for a birthday or hanging out with friends.More