Moreton Bay bug is the sweet slipper-lobster pulled from the bay east of Brisbane; in Australia we have verified places to eat it in Brisbane. Start with where to eat Moreton Bay Bug in Brisbane.
Moreton Bay Bug · Brisbane
Moreton Bay bug is the sweet slipper-lobster pulled from the bay east of Brisbane. Halved, grilled or steamed, the tail meat is a Queensland fine-dining anchor.
Moreton Bay bug (Thenus orientalis), also called the Bay lobster or flathead lobster, has been caught by Queensland fishers since the colonial period. The species takes its English name from Moreton Bay, the body of water immediately east of Brisbane behind North and South Stradbroke islands. Local Indigenous Quandamooka people fished bugs long before European arrival. Commercial trawl fishing established in the 1950s made the bug ubiquitous on Brisbane menus, particularly through the seafood-restaurant boom of the 1970s and 1980s. Today bugs appear on every serious Brisbane fine-dining menu, halved and grilled with garlic butter.
Where to eat in Brisbane:
- Stanley Restaurant
- Blackbird Bar & Grill
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