The Best Spots for an All-Inclusive Boozy Brunch in Brisbane

When you’re deciding how to spend your next brunch — and where to spend it, more importantly — perhaps it’s a case of what you’d like to drink. Tired of mimosas? Fancy something stronger with your first Sunday meal? Or, maybe you just really love gin.

West End gin joint Covent Garden has been in the bottomless brunch game for a while now, and shows no signs of stopping. Here, between 11am–3pm each Sunday, you can tuck into gin tap cocktails — including the monthly cocktail special — for two hours, or opt for a few Pimm’s cups. For $49 per person, you’ll also sip red or white wine sangria, and munch on a shareboard spread — choosing between charcuterie, remoulade, chutney and mustard, or feta, pickled vegetables, hummus and olives. Both come with that breakfast and brunch staple, aka bread, too.

If your idea of a stellar Sunday includes a Cantonese banquet and cracking river views, then Howard Smith Wharves go-to Stanley has you covered. One of the precinct’s top spots, it’s now in the yum cha game every weekend, serving up everything from XO seafood dumplings and crispy prawn rolls to spicy chicken feet and barbecue char siu puffs.

Stanley’s Yum Cha and Champagne Sundays take place on Sundays, obviously, with sittings between 11.30am–3pm. For $58 per person, you’ll also tuck into prawn har gow, scallop siu mai, duck and mushroom dumplings and more. Plus, for those feeling particularly indulgent, there’s a $137 option, too, which includes two hours of bottomless champagne.

Cloudland’s Brunch With Bite serves up plenty of food, plus bottomless booze — but it also adds something a little different to the menu. Fancy getting a bit of camp drag comedy with your meal? Watching an uproarious game show? Belting out a tune while brunch rolls on? They’re all on the bill at this banquet, with the lineup changing weekly.

Food-wise, you’ll tuck into an Italian-inspired spread and nab a drink on arrival, all as part of your $79.90 ticket. The event kicks off at 11am, with two hours of bottomless spritzes, mimosas, bloody marys, select beers and sangria on offer between 11.15am–1.15pm. And, if you’re going booze-free, you can opt for mocktails instead.

Heading to Given Terrace staple Darling & Co is firmly about hangs in the venue’s breezy space, but we all know that a weekend party isn’t complete without a little (or a lot of) bubbly. Happy to oblige, the Paddington spot has launched bottomless prosecco and spritz brunches, which are now on offer every Sunday from 12–4pm.

Here, those tipples come via a fountain. In fact, your bubbly and spritzes will come from its taps throughout your two-hour sitting, all while you enjoy an extensive spread. So, find a comfy spot while tucking into an antipasto platter stacked with marinated olives, roasted peppers, bocconcini and watermelon wrapped in prosciutto, your choice of three pizzas, and a side salad, all for $69.

Located at the W Brisbane hotel, Three Blue Ducks is adding a top-notch meal and bottomless booze to your Sundays. Each week between 11am–2pm, you can book in for an al fresco brunch session that comes complete with seafood dishes, breakfast favourites and desserts. Think: Moreton Bay Bugs with fermented chilli and lemon, freshly shucked oysters with mango hot sauce, and grilled local prawns with pickled seaweed, chilli, garlic and avocado mousse, as well as sea salt meringues and vanilla ice-cream sundaes.

The food spread costs $90 per person, and if you’d like to add two hours of drinks — including spritzes and mimosas — that’ll up your price to $126 each. And while that’s all great, and so is the live tunes providing a soundtrack, the best part comes afterwards. Once you’re done eating and drinking, you can access the hotel’s Wet Deck — to either laze around by the eye-catching zebra-patterned pool or swim in it.

At Fiume Bar atop the Crystalbrook Vincent, aka Howard Smith Wharves’ resident rooftop bar, you can start your Sundays with a killer view of the Brisbane River. You may as well take a gander while you’re enjoying a three-course Italian brunch, and knocking back cocktails, spritzes, beers and wine. That’s what’s on the menu at Fiume’s La Dolce Vita Brunch, which run every Sunday through spring and summer.

Your $115 ticket will nab you multiple choices when it comes to each course, so hazelnut and coffee castagnoles (aka mini Italian-style doughnuts), a pain au chocolate, chargrilled watermelon with parma ham, and a potato and thyme terrine topped with a poached egg could be in your future. Drinks-wise, you’ll be saying cheers for two hours, including with mimosas, bloody marys, spritzes, prosecco, wine and Italian beers. And, you can choose between 10am–12pm or 12.30–2.30pm sessions (because yes, on weekends, brunch can start after midday if you want it to).

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Kangaroo Point’s One Fish Two Fish is lapping up the warmer weather with a seafood and spritz feast. Eat your way through four courses of the ocean’s finest while sipping on bottomless tipples — yep, there’s your next leisurely brunch or lunch sorted, and all for $99 (or stick with the food only for $69).

Running every Friday, Saturday and Sunday until Christmas Eve, with sittings at 12–2pm and 2.15–4.15pm, Fish & Spritz starts as plenty of great seafood meals do: with kingfish ceviche. From there, you’ll tuck into an Asian-style crab omelette, then move onto grilled snapper paired with Tuscan salad. The dessert doesn’t include seafood, but it will serve up a chocolate gelato trio. And, drinks-wise, you’ll be able to sip all the spritzes you can across a two-hour period — including watermelon and limoncello flavours.