Liquefy Opens Australia’s First 24-Hour Health Food Cafe

The days of the midnight Macca's run may be well and truly over, with news of Australia's first 24-hour health food cafe. Liquefy has long been a kingpin on the Brisbane health food scene, and now their Mount Gravatt outlet has extended its trading hours to serve up guilt-free pleasures around the clock.

The idea behind Liquefy, started by lawyer and health enthusiast David Dowd, is to indulge Brisbane with food and drink that is as good on tastebuds as it is for the body, even when the sun goes down. They’ve got plenty of locations around the city — check them out here — though it’s only the new Mount Gravatt outlet that’s offering a 24/7 service. For now.

So what’s on Liquify’s menu at three in the morning? A whole lot of guilt-free goods. Liquify prides itself on a menu that is 100 percent organic or biodynamic with no sugar, and everything, except the bread, is made on site. The cold pressed juices provide the nutrients of between 1-1.5 kilograms of fruit and vegetables, and their smoothies are blended on house-made almond milk and fresh-from-the-source Thai coconut water. So they're a tad healthier than a Hungry Jacks Frozen coke.

Outside of Brisbane’s Paw Paw Cafe family and Paleo Cafe chains, there are few cafes under a health-food banner that can serve up dishes that are legitimately filling, or take less than half an hour for service. Liquefy shows off a hearty selection of dishes that can appease even the fussiest of eaters, and all their juices are conveniently bottled, cold and ready for the taking. You can grab midnight dry and activated kale and sweet potato chips, quinoa or cauliflower sushi or one of four wild foraged salads, and guzzle it down with a green smoothie. The menu is what health food devotees' dreams are made of.

An online Liquefy store is currently in the works, and Dowd has leased further sites in Brisbane and the Gold Coast to expand his healthy business. Now only one question remains: who is sober enough for a kale smoothie run?

Liquefy is at 24 Carrara Street, Mount Gravatt.