At The Mill,bringeveryone.

A 1959 timber shed at Stratford, ten minutes from the Cairns CBD: 1,320 square metres of sawn trusses and honest concrete, with room for every name on the list.

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Stratford, not Palm Cove

The Mill is its own site: 72–90 Magazine St, Stratford, ten minutes from the Cairns CBD. The restaurant stays on the beach at Palm Cove.

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What it holds

Fifteen hundred, standing

The Rankine mill cut hardwood on Magazine Street for sixty years. The saws are gone; the shed stayed: 1,320 square metres of timber trusses and honest concrete, ten minutes from the Cairns CBD.

We light the beams, run tables down the floor, and let the building do the talking.

Cocktail · The 65Standing, festoon up

Seated banquetOne long floor

Festival modeWith the yard + marquee

The Magazine · standingOr 100 seated, drawn close

Inside The 65, lounge furniture and a bar under the sawn-timber trusses — The 65 · 1,320 m² under roof

Styled bar detail at The Mill: feathers, timber posts and corrugated iron — Dressed for a wedding, still a sawmill

Festival crowd under the lit gable of The 65 at night

The 65 · The big shed

Loud, tall and open to the yard.

1,500 cocktail · 650 banquet

A couple toasting at a round table on the lawn at golden hour, the mill’s timber sheds behind, wicker lamps and white linen

The Magazine · Next door

Up to 350, drawn close.

350 standing · 100 seated

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The second space

Smaller space. Same kitchen

The Magazine is the other end of the same site. A powder magazine on Magazine Street, est 1901, restored by the Nu Nu/Rankine Collaboration.

It takes 350 standing, or 100 seated. Long tables down the lawn with the festoon up, and a speech nobody has to shout. Weddings, milestone birthdays, launches, a board dinner that would rattle around inside The 65. Same Nu Nu kitchen, same service team, just more intimate.

01Festoon up, the old saw carriage still parked
02Round tables on the lawn, golden hour
03Three long tables, the bar spilling onto the grass
04The sign on the batten screen, est. 1901

Capacity: 350 standing · 100 seated
Est.: 1901, the powder magazine
Address: 60–70 Magazine St, Stratford
Mood: Lawn, festoon light, corten sign
Kitchen: Nu Nu, same as The 65

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The heritage

The saws are gone. The shed stayed

The Rankine mill ran on Magazine Street from 1959, cutting, drying and storing hardwood for half of Cairns. The saws are gone; the shed stayed. Its scale, its trusses and its honest industrial character are exactly why it makes such a room.

We don't dress over it. We light the beams, run the tables down the length of the floor, and let the building do the talking. Add a marquee to the yard and the same site holds two thousand.

The 65 lit for a night party, disco balls and festoon under the sawn-timber trusses — Six decades of hardwood, one very long table

The Mill · 72–90 Magazine St, Stratford QLD 4870

Getting there

Ten minutes from the Cairns CBD

The Mill sits in the Magazine Street sawmill precinct at Stratford, with the Narrow Tracks distillery on site for pre-dinner tastings. Easy coach access for big groups, parking on site.

Address: 72–90 Magazine St, Stratford QLD 4870
From Cairns: ≈10 min by car or coach
On site: Parking + Narrow Tracks distillery

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