Gold Coast · Nightlife

Undercover street-food market at 23 Hillcrest Parade, Miami, open Wednesday to Saturday from 5pm. Free entry, free live music on the Cargo Stage, and no booking needed for groups under eight. The Laneway is family-friendly, the Gin Parlour and Mona Lisa's Lair are the adults-only corners.

Small live-music and DJ room up two flights of stairs in Surfers Paradise, family-owned and running since 2003. Doors 8pm on Friday band nights, otherwise 9pm Friday and Saturday, plus Sunday Royale at 9pm which is free on non-event nights.

Comedy cabaret restaurant mixing stand-up, burlesque, live music and aerial acrobatics with dinner. Rated MA15+ for adult themes, partial nudity and coarse language, so it is not a family night out, and it is a booked whole evening rather than a drop-in.

Brewery taproom at 2 Ern Harley Drive, in the industrial pocket behind Burleigh Heads. Open Friday 3–9pm, Saturday 12–9pm and Sunday 12–6pm only, no bookings, and you can buy takeaways on the way out.

Broadbeach resort with a 24-hour casino, hotel bars, restaurants and a theatre — the one venue on the coast where the night has no closing time, and the fallback when everything in Surfers has shut.