In 2017, Slow Food Noosa launched Australia’s first ‘Snail of Approval’ program to recognise local leaders of the global Slow Food philosophy of ‘good, clean and fair’ food.
This valuable program continues to attract a diverse range of producers and food artisans; restaurant owners and chefs keen to be part of a global network actively working together and towards educating and engaging consumers on the benefits of choosing fresh, local and seasonal food with a focus on fairness.
From producers and food artisans to restaurant owners and chefs, the program places the region firmly on the global foodie map and provides a quality assurance guide for residents and visitors. It also encourages stronger networks and relationships with producers and outlets including cafes, restaurants and retailers.
The Snail of Approval program continues to grow in membership from Caloundra to Tin Can Bay and out to the Mary Valley, with businesses involved in food production, creation and directly selling to consumers.
Slow Food Noosa’s Snail of Approval program aims to put the region on the map for responsible and authentic food experience.
Search for our Snails selecting one of the following categories
Cafes/Restaurants
Food Artisan
Local Food Gifts
Local Food Outlets
Local Producers
Cafes/Restaurants
Embassy XO
Modern Asian Restaurant serving up a variety of unique dishes. Dining options – A La Carte, 5 course tasting menu and XO Cha. Beautiful wine bar and take away.
Good 2 Eat Catering
Award-winning catering business, mobile bar service and event planning. You can relax while we look after your guests and help you create an event to remember.
Green Bowl Edifice
Purveyors of art, music, chemical free food and love. Artist and artisan events based on slow food principals. We also run vegetarian catering bespoke events.
Harry’s on Buderim
Contemporary Australian cuisine in a 142-year-old, Heritage style homestead. Outdoor dining experience whilst offering stunning views of the rainforest.
Hinterland Restaurant Cooran
Restaurant, bar, takeaway serving snacks, entrees, pizzas and main meals. Locally sourced where possible, following a genuine paddock to plate philosophy.
Homegrown Cafe Palmwoods
Serving locally sourced produce & small batch in-house roasted coffee. Garden Seating. Seasonal dinner first Saturday of the month.
Humble on Duke
Modern Australian with flavours and spices from the Mediterranean & Middle East. Our core values of hospitality, good honest food and delicious wine.
ICHIMI Pomona
Authentic Japanese Restaurant. Pomona Village Kitchen transforms from the lovely cafe it is during the day into a Japanese Restaurant at night.
Kin Kin State School
Kin Kin State School Kitchen Garden and Kookaburra Kafe, Program to teach children about healthy food and how it is grown.
Maleny Cheese
Maleny Cheese produces award-winning, handcrafted cheese and yoghurt.
Using time honoured traditions & pure local milk.
Matt Golinski
Matt Golinski is a highly regarded professional chef with a passion for creating cuisine with fresh, seasonal and local ingredients.
Park and Cove (Peppers Restaurant)
Exceutive Chef Andrew Wilcox heads up the kitchen at Park & Cove. Andy has launched a menu that showcases seasonal, locally-sourced produce.
Pomona Village Kitchen
We are a slow-food restaurant. Using sustainably sourced seasonal products, supporting locally grown and raised, organic and healthy products.
Vanilla Food
Healthy Organic Whole Food Cafe.
Breakfast and lunch menus change with the seasons. Our produce is grown organically and local when possible.
Vanteen Catering
Family run Sunshine Coast catering business for your event or private dinner. Dining concepts can be as unique as you.
Food Artisan
Amrita Park Meadery
Continuing A Long Family Tradition Of Quality Boutique Mead Making.
417 Pomona Kin Kin Road Pinbarren 4568
Big Heart Bamboo
Stockist
Awesome Little Fruit Shop
Noosa Village Shopping Centre, Noosaville
The Fermentier
Belmondos Organic Market is an award-winning marketplace specialising in organic food and wellness.
59 Rene Street, Noosaville
Hello Honey Australia
100% Australian made & 100% natural. Enjoy honey that is sourced from hives placed amongst native Australian wildflowers in isolated and pristine locations.
Kokopod Chocolate
KOKOPOD is a boutique manufacturer of high quality handcrafted chocolate products. The art of chocolate, perfected by science and enhanced by local ingredients.
Liberty Loves - Zest Element
Our drying techniques preserve our locally grown B grade tropical & native produce. Maintains the natural integrity of the powders. No preservatives, colouring, or additives.
Lindols Macadamias
Delicious range of sweet and savoury macadamia products from macadamias grown on our property. Available online, from local shops and markets.
Maleny Cheese
Maleny Cheese produces award-winning, handcrafted cheese and yoghurt.
Using time honoured traditions & pure local milk.
Nomu Noms
Nomu brings sustainable plant-based ingredients from the earth and transforms them into delicious chocolates packed in compostable packaging.
The Noosa Forager
We are passionate about creating unique and memorable food experiences for you and your guests. Using delicious, locally sourced fresh produce in stylish food boxes.
Noosa Hinterland Brewery
We are passionate about creating unique and memorable food experiences for you and your guests. Using delicious, locally sourced fresh produce in stylish food boxes.
Nourishing Wholefoods
We make sauerkraut, kimchi and other lacto-fermented vegetables, gut tonics & hot sauces, slow cooked bone broths and brew sparkling kombucha and water kefir.
Nu Jmu Tonics
Nu Jmu Wellness Tonics and Drinks made with Organic Turmeric from our farm. Each bottle is a unique blend of locally-sourced ingredients.
Piggy in the Middle
Piggy in the Middle – pasture raised, chemical free and has amazing natural flavours. Pork & Eggs.
Purity Essential Oils
Purity Essential Oils, organic skin care, organic tea handmade soap. Our skin and body care products feature the truly magnificent aroma of organic essential oils.
Southern Cross Smallgoods
Southern Cross Smallgoods is a Gympie based farmer of goats and producer of quality goat meat products including sausages and salami.
Stillmaker and Sons Distillery
Artisan Single Malt Whisky Distillery – It takes time to make our small batch artisan spirit and years to slowly mature it in select casks to create the finest of whiskies.
Stockmans Beef Jerky
Made at Rainbow Beach Meats Butcher Shop, from the finest stock. Delicious healthy snack that tastes is just like real meat because it is real meat.
Suncoast Limes
Grower of limes and a producer of lime themed products. Fresh Limes Lime Salt, Lime & Chilli Salt, Lime Zest, Dried Lime Slices, Fresh Lime Juice, Bulk Lime Salt.
Vibrant Nourishments
We make delicious plant based, organic bread spreads and condiments with locally sourced produce. Indulge in the goodness sure to tickle your taste buds.
Wind Rush Farm & Estate
Wind Rush Farm and Vineyard is in the beautiful Mary Valley, surrounded by rolling pastures. Great wine and a great place to stay.
Wooloolga Farm Kitchen (CC's Kitchen)
Fine food made with love. Rosella products made from fruit grown on the farm. A wonderful range of jams, pickles and condiments.
Woombye Cheese Company
Creating beautiful cheese. Camembert, Triple Cream Brie, Blackall Gold Washed Rind, Woombye Ash Brie, Vintage Cheddar, indulgent Truffle Triple Cream Brie.
Local Food Gifts
Noosa Black Garlic
The sweet, dark, umami taste of Black Garlic is unlike anything else. Time & temperature transform boring white garlic into a sticky, rich, luscious delight for your taste buds.
The Noosa Forager
We are passionate about creating unique and memorable food experiences for you and your guests. Using delicious, locally sourced fresh produce in stylish food boxes.
Noosa Gift Co.
Noosa Gift Co. have curated a collection of notable products that originate or have been created in our Sunshine Coast or Noosa regions.
Liberty Loves - Zest Element
Our drying techniques preserve our locally grown B grade tropical & native produce. Maintains the natural integrity of the powders. No preservatives, colouring, or additives.
Local Food Outlets
ICHIMI Pomona
Authentic Japanese Restaurant with home made products available for sale to the public. Including our famous Japanese BBQ Sauce.
Noosa Cartel
Locally Sourced ~ Chef Quality ~ Ready Made Meals. Frozen fresh easy to re-heat, take the fuss away from cooking dinner. Gluten free and vegetarian options available.
Pomona's Little Pantry
Fresh local fruit and veggies. Plus pantry staples, honey, eggs, herbs and spices, cleaning products. Tasty snacks and healing salves.
Tewantin Market Garden
We are a family owned and operated Fruit Shop in the heart of Tewantin. We support over 70 local Artisans and many local Farmers from our region.
Rainbow Beach Meats
Supplying delicious food and locally grown beef. Fresh seafood, fish, prawns, oysters. Lillydale free range chicken. Msa lamb. Pork. House made Beef Jerky.
Sunshine Organics
Making organic shopping easy. Our online Marketplace delivers to your door. From the best local farmers, producers and artisans. Guaranted organic.
Local Producers
Baupal Park Farm
Organic Macadamias & Natural Farming Consultancy. We Use natural farming practice which is completely organic and the backbone to how permaculture works.
Belli Beef Farm
Direct to consumer – chemical free, grass fed, grass finished, regeneratively farmed beef, honey and Wild Beer 100% barrel aged craft beer.
Bunya Grove Produce
Natural, Real, Regenerative – Our Farm Your Food. Nutrient-dense, ethically raised food. We manage the farm holistically and with regenerative practices.
Eastwell Farms
Our cattle are fed a strict diet of grass, grass, & more grass. We believe this creates the finest quality grass-fed Nguni beef. We have a holistic approach to agriculture.
Forage Farms
Ethically produced free range, pastured eggs and pork. The ultimate Grow + Forage + Feed experience having only the best free range + earthed out produce.
Green Valley Fingerlimes
Fingerlimes are an Australian native rainforest tree. We’re premium growers of ‘Champagne Red’ Fingerlimes. Proud to be sustainably managed and chemical free.
Lindols Macadamias
Locally made sweet and savory macadamia snacks, made from our macadamias. Available direct or from many local Gympie markets.
Mary Valley Country Harvest
A community operated co-operative for growers and producers in the Mary Valley region. . Produce is available through the co-operative and our online e-market
Mary Valley Yuzu
Welcome to our lime farm.
I am passionate about sharing the amazing flavour of this unique citrus fruit.
Noosa Black Coffee
Noosa’s only locally grown and roasted coffee.
Family owned and run. Available at local stockists throughout the region.
Noosa Community Garden
Our mission is to create a place of positive impact through a community garden in a relaxed, social and sustainable environment through growing together.
Noosa Reds
Hydroponic tomato grower. Noosa Reds is a local tomato farm based in Doonan. All of our products are certified chemical free.
Piggy in the Middle
Piggy in the Middle – pasture raised, chemical free and has amazing natural flavours. Pork & Eggs.
Purity Essential Oils
Purity Essential Oils, organic skin care, organic tea handmade soap. Our skin and body care products feature the truly magnificent aroma of organic essential oils.
Riverpark Farms
Ethical and sustainable farming of grass fed wagyu and ultra black cattle, hay and silage, seasonal produce and delicious wagyu pies.
Southern Cross Smallgoods
Southern Cross Smallgoods is a Gympie based farmer of goats and producer of quality goat meat products including sausages and salami.
Suncoast Limes
Grower of limes and a producer of lime themed products. Fresh Limes Lime Salt, Lime & Chilli Salt, Lime Zest, Dried Lime Slices, Fresh Lime Juice, Bulk Lime Salt.
Sunshine Beach State School
Slow Food Noosa’s School Gardens Program teaches school children across the region how to grow easy and nutritious micro greens.
Wooloolga Farm Kitchen (CC's Kitchen)
Fine food made with love. Rosella products made from fruit grown on the farm. A wonderful range of jams, pickles and condiments.
Woombye Cheese Company
Creating beautiful cheese. Camembert, Triple Cream Brie, Blackall Gold Washed Rind, Woombye Ash Brie, Vintage Cheddar, indulgent Truffle Triple Cream Brie.
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