Gold Coast · Brisbane · Since 2013
Gemelli means twins. Six venues across the Gold Coast and Brisbane, one way of looking after people.
Benvenuti
Which is exactly what we are. We come from a family of Italian heritage, and we were brought up to appreciate good food and, most importantly, how to cook it. Whether it was the annual sauce and salami making with Nonno or simply sharing a glass of wine with family and friends, Italian food and culture were always at the table.
With mostly imported product from Italy, we have created menus of the food we love to eat at home. Being in Queensland gives us access to some of the best seafood and meat in the country, and it goes straight into our dishes. Every single thing on our menus is handmade, down to the bread and the desserts. All our pasta is made fresh in-house every day with 00 flour and free-range eggs. Our pizza is woodfired and cooked the traditional way. We spend a lot more to keep it that way, and we always will. Our Broadbeach wine list has been awarded “One Glass” by Gourmet Traveller Wine, with a range of high-quality imported and local Australian wines.
A rustic setting and a vibrant room, traditional methods with a bit of modern flair, and menus influenced by the many regions of Italy. We would love for you to come and join us and enjoy the fresh, distinct flavours that Gemelli has to offer. Salute!
The restaurants
Every venue has its own name, its own room and its own menu. What they share: every single thing on the menu is made by hand. The pasta rolled every morning, the pizza from a woodfired oven, the bread, the sauces, the gelato, the desserts. It costs us more to do it that way. It is also the whole point.
Open/closed status is live, calculated in Brisbane time from each venue’s hours.
Broadbeach, Gold Coast
The original, since 2013. Everything handmade, from the pasta rolled each morning to the bread and the desserts, plus woodfired pizza and a Gourmet Traveller One Glass wine list, on the highway.
Lunch Thu–Sun 12–3pm
Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Gemelli in Brisbane, since 2021. The ivy-clad corner of James and McLachlan. Woodfired pizza, pasta rolled every morning, everything else made by hand, and a 200-bottle cellar.
Mon–Wed 5–9pm
Nobby Beach, Gold Coast
The little twin at Nobby Beach, since 2016. Woodfired pizza, pasta made by hand, bread and desserts from our own kitchen, and an all-Italian wine list, two streets from the sand.
Lunch Sundays 12–2.30pm
Sorrento, Gold Coast
The local at Sorrento. Eighteen-inch jumbo pizzas, eight-hour lamb ragu and BYO wine. Date nights to family dinners.
Dinner Mon–Thu 5–8.30pm
Carrara, Gold Coast
Carrara's family table, named for Nonno Rolando. Woodfired pizza, Mamma's polpette, a gelato bar at the door and BYO wine.
Dinner Sun–Thu 5–8pm, Fri & Sat 5–9pm
Nobby Beach, Gold Coast
Gelato the Italian way, churned from scratch every morning at The Oxley, Nobby Beach. Cup, cone or warm brioche.
Open daily 11am–9pm
As seen in
“Somewhat of an institution among pizza and pasta lovers.”
“Ask anyone on the Gold Coast to name where we should dine for great Italian food and they will mention Gemelli.”
“The Gemelli family certainly has a proven formula for success in the hospitality game.”
The Carney brothers
“Gemelli” is Italian for twins, and two of us are. James and Alec are identical twins who grew up in the kitchen together; Paul is the older brother. Three of us, one upbringing, the same passion.
We grew up in Yoogali in regional New South Wales, strict Italian origins, where you learned three things early: how to look after people, how to make food by hand, and how to buy good produce. Sauce and salami days, a glass of wine with family and friends. The twins were cooking side by side before they were tall enough to see over the bench, and the way they were taught to do it, by hand, from scratch, is the way every Gemelli kitchen still does it. Italian culture was never far from the table.
It started with one room in Broadbeach in 2013. Then Gemellini at Nobby Beach in 2016, Roy's at Sorrento, James Street in Brisbane in 2021, Papa Rolly's at Carrara, and the gelato shop at Nobby. Six venues later, the brief hasn't changed: fresh pasta every morning, proper woodfired pizza, and people looked after properly.
Grazie mille for dining with us.
James, Alec, Paul & the Gemelli team
Functions & groups
Birthdays, Christmas parties, the whole famiglia. Every room does banquets and set menus, sharing style, dietaries handled.
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Lunch Thursday to Sunday at Broadbeach and James Street, Sundays at Gemellini, Friday to Sunday at Roy's. Dinner every night, everywhere.
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New menus, the odd secret dinner, a glass on us on your birthday.
