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Gabbinbar Homestead - Australia’s most popular wedding destination and winner of 2019 Queensland Caterer of the Year and East Street Kitchen - the Darling Down’s largest and most experienced off-premises caterer, delivered an exceptional dining event for the 70th Carnival of Flowers Qantas Gala Dinner last night.

Gabbinbar Homestead continues to innovate and introduce new food experiences to ensure we are at the forefront of excellence. We offer our couples exceptionally high attention to service, we focus on using local produce where possible and offer guests an abundance of delicious food. All of this contributes to Gabbinbar Homestead receiving extremely positive feedback from our guests.

Gabbinbar Homestead - Australia’s most popular wedding destination and winner of 2018 Queensland Caterer of the Year and East Street Kitchen - the Darling Down’s largest and most experienced off-premises caterer, will this year collaborate to deliver an exceptional dining event for the 70th Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers Qantas Gala Dinner.

Gabbinbar Homestead is proud to introduce our live cooking menu. Bringing flavours from around the world, the live cooking station is positioned in the garden and provide guests with a unique experience as our chef’s grill, prepare and serve a garden feast in front of them.

We would have to say 2018 certainly was the year of food for Gabbinbar Homestead. We’ve added several new items to our award-winning menu to enhance ‘The Gabbinbar Experience’ for each and every guest who dines at Gabbinbar Homestead. Plus, to top off the year we even took out the prestigious award, ‘Caterer of the Year’ at the 2018 Queensland & Northern Territory Savour Australia Restaurant & Catering Hostplus Awards for Excellence. Just in case you missed some of the delicious goodies which landed on our menu this year, here’s a quick run-down.

Here at Gabbinbar Homestead we realise that some of your nearest and dearest who you’d like to join you on your wedding day actually have fur and four-legs. Yes, we are talking about your cherished dogs, they’re of course all welcome at the Gabbinbar Homestead estate. Who doesn’t ooh and aah when they spot a furry friend walking down the aisle with tail wagging and looking their wedding best?

When you move onto the main course you can choose from our classic alternate drop selection, a gourmet country roast or from our signature DUO options.

Gabbinbar Homestead has won Caterer of the Year at the 2018 Queensland & Northern Territory Savour Australia Restaurant & Catering Hostplus Awards for Excellence.

The menu at Gabbinbar Homestead just keeps getting better and better. Recently, we’ve added the gorgeous donut wall to our selection of ‘crowd pleasers’. ‘Crowd pleasers’ form part of our canape menu and are a substantial finger food option which adds a fun vibe to your food offering.

Virtual wedding planning was one of the biggest wedding trends of 2017. Couples planning their wedding now want all the information right at their fingertips. At Gabbinbar Homestead, we want to make your wedding planning as smooth as possible which is why we have used our ‘My Gabbinbar’ virtual wedding planning software for over 3 years.

At Gabbinbar Homestead we always keep our fingers on the pulse when it comes to the latest wedding trends. One of the biggest wedding trends for 2017 is natural timber top banquet tables. We are pleased to announce that we have added these stunning natural timber top tables to our already impressive selection of reception tables available.

As Queensland’s destination wedding venue, Gabbinbar Homestead hosts up to four weddings per week with guests flying into Toowoomba from all over Australia. Gabbinbar Homestead showcases Toowoomba’s beautiful gardens, the region’s culinary delights and offers guests the unique opportunity to view one of Toowoomba’s historical homesteads.

We are pleased to introduce our newest ceremony location, ‘The Woods’. Previously a photo location, ‘The Woods’ has now been transformed into an intimate ceremony space.

We have recently added a new lighting installation inside our ‘Stables’ and we know you will just love it. A collection of pendant lights has been added to the back corner of the ‘Stables’.