Who's Harry?

Harry Board was a carpenter, and later a cedar cutter, who arrived from England by ship in 1880. The restaurant is the first house he built, which was one of Buderim's earliest homes. It was extended in 1892 to accommodate his growing family and to cater for the increasing number of visitors coming to view the local plantations and the Rainforest Waterfall Park (now Buderim Forest Park).

Thus he became the first of a number of boarding-house keepers. Perhaps it could be said that this was the starting point of the now flourishing tourist industry on the Sunshine Coast.

The house was moved to its present site in 1990, beautifully restored, and set up as a fine dining restaurant and function centre, complete with bentwood chairs and crisp white linen, reminiscent of earlier times.