The Best New Experiences in Brisbane This Week

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There's plenty of fun to be had in this city each week, but there's only a small handful of truly fresh urban adventures to be had. We've partnered with Toyota to bring you a series showcasing the very best of these shiny-new experiences in Brisbane. Presented by the All New Toyota Corolla Sedan, these are our picks to put you on the road to a lifetime of goodtimes. Now your only challenge is getting to them all.

This week, we recommend you tinkle the ivories at cafe with a dark side, tick parkour off your bucket list and get tactile with all the magazines you've been missing.

Eat: Samson and Sophie

A mere two weeks old, it’s easy to fall in love with Samson and Sophie Cafe. In what is perhaps a Brisbane trend of naming cafes after dogs, Teneriffe’s new sweetheart is treading a path already carved by older siblings Alcove and Esther St Cafe Deli. The owners used their tried and tested cafe and deli experience with Samson and Sophie offering a cafe menu, small selection of produce and even small potted plants to buy. Cute decor is the cherry on top, with recycled furniture and living coffee tables making a feature. Part-grass, part-wooden table, these turfed tops are a novel place to sit and chow down bircher or a toastie.

Shop 1, 2 Macquarie Street, Teneriffe

Drink: John Mills Himself

Brisbane is currently enjoying a trend of cafes with a darker side. Come the afternoon, these newbies keep their doors open past COB and twist the tops off a range of fine brews and bottles. One of those is John Mills Himself. With a classic yesteryear look, dark wooden beams and a marble bar, John Mills harks back to old days serving local beers on tap on a five-ounce glass. It has a focus on local, with wines sourced from the south-east corner, spirits from across the nation and organic spiced peanuts from Kingaroy. The narrow space even has piano, and you’re always welcome to tinkle the ivories.

See: cool stuff at URBNE Festival

The URBNE Festival is all about unleashing Brisbane's creative side and enjoying our gorgeous city by using all of its nooks and crannies. The team behind this ingenious idea are a bunch of young creatives from a kaleidoscope of creative backgrounds joined by the common goal of making Brisbane both more creative and accessible. This weekend, March 28-30, join Brisbane’s Biggest Clothes Swap, join a Scavenger Hunt or form part of an art attack. Carve up the streets in Street Skate Jam, tick parkour off your bucket list and wind down with a film at the State Library, entitled City Dark.

Do: Visit Kunstler Magazines

Despite CP living wholly in the digital world, we’re firm believers that print is not dead. Enter Kunstler Magazines and Books, a new little shop that popped up in Winn Lane last Saturday. The independent store stocks publications on everything from art and architecture to fashion and design, and, of course, food literature. The store is a coop for Brisbane’s small and specialty magazine scene and is great fun to peruse. Take a look yourself; on Sunday afternoon Kunstler (German for ‘the artist’) are having a neighbourhood shindig to welcome you to its new digs.