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Cuckoo Restaurant

Other Name Quamby Tea Rooms Location 508 Mt Dandenong Tourist Road, Olinda VIC 3788 - Property No 57758 File Number 173 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

The Cuckoo Restaurant, a small single-storey building, has high local significance for its long history as a popular Olinda restaurant. It became popular as the Quamby Tea Rooms during Olinda's tourist -boom years of the 1920s and 1930s, serving home-made cakes and scones, and take-away meals and sandwiches for eating at picnic spots. The former Quamby Tea Rooms was associated with the Dorey family from the first years until 1958, when the business became the Cuckoo Restaurant. It has been a major tourist destination in the Dandenongs for many decades.