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Trevor Pepys reviews Grenny’s, Noosaville

Back in the early days of settlement, when old Walter Hay had just blazed the first trails into town, one of the first to ride his covered wagon in and set up camp was one Grenville Duckworth, who opened Grenny’s Seawater Cafe on Hastings Street in 1982.

Grenny became justly famous for a variety of seafood specials but none more so than his seafood Marseilles, which foodie doyen Leonie Palmer described as “a peasant dish of prawns, bug tails, mussels and crab simmered in garlic, white wine and fish stock – delicious”. In the ‘90s when Hastings Street landlord greed began to force all the interesting people off the strip, Grenny went upriver on Gympie Terrace and…