Ferry Rd Market

Ferry Rd Market trades as The Standard Market Company, a sister operation to the original James Street Markets that Darren Frame and Mitch Love founded in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley back in 2002. That lineage shows in how the Southport site is run: a proper gourmet food hall rather than a stripped-back grocer, built inside the Brickworks Centre on Ferry Road.

A food hall built on Brisbane know-how

The market covers fruit, veg and meat departments alongside a bakery, seafood counter, deli, craft coffee bar and juice bar, all under one roof within the Brickworks Centre. It trades every day of the week, which puts it closer to a full-time grocery destination than a weekend-only market, and it has built a reputation locally as one of the Gold Coast's better spots for genuinely good produce rather than supermarket basics.

The Brickworks Centre location itself trades on that industrial history, having been built around Southport's old brickworks site rather than as a generic shopping strip.

Good to know before you go

Because it trades daily rather than on set market days, there's no need to plan around a single weekend slot, though mornings tend to have the best pick of fresh seafood and produce before the lunchtime crowd. Parking is available on site within the Brickworks Centre.