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NewsThese Cookbook Writers Crossed Australia to Collect Recipes from Our Biggest Foodies
From Dan Hong's spring rolls to fancy smashed avo.
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NewsSBS Is Launching Australia's First Free-To-Air Food Channel
Because you can never have too many cooking programs.
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NewsThe Bleachers Will Bring Ben's Burgers to West End
Brisbane's beloved burgs and soft serve ice cream aplenty.
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NewsJust Steak It Is Opening Their Own Permanent Shop
Could steak sangas take on Brisbane's obsession with the burger?
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NewsWhere to Find the Best Ice Cream and Gelato in Brisbane
The temperature is rising and the gelato is freezing — cool down with Brisbane's top tier of iced confections this spring and summer.
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GuideThe Best Things to Eat, See and Do to Celebrate Lunar New Year in Brisbane
Rooftop parties, riverside feasts, laneway celebrations and citywide festivals — now that's how you welcome in the Year of the Snake in Brisbane.
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GuideSavour the Seasons: Where to Enjoy New Zealand's Most Exquisite Eats
No matter the time of year, there's something exciting to discover (and taste) year-round.
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GuideBrisbane's 20 Most-Popular Restaurants of 2024
Throughout 2024, you've been scoping out famous culinary names making the move to Brisbane, luxe steakhouses and woodfired Moroccan-inspired dishes.
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GuideBrisbane's 20 Most-Popular Cafes of 2024
French bakeries, world-renowned croissanteries, beloved Brisbane coffee spots — they've been keeping you fed and caffeinated in 2024.
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GuideAll of the New Brisbane Openings That You Need to Add to Your Must-Visit List in 2024
Discover your next favourite dish or drink at one of these fresh Brisbane haunts.
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GuideOn the Way: Upcoming Brisbane Openings to Put in Your Diary for 2024 and Beyond
Brisbane is about to look a whole lot different — these are the newbies we're counting the days for.
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GuideThe Best Food and Drink Festivals to Look Forward to in and Around Brisbane in 2024
Add beer, pinot, rosé, whisky, Japanese, vegan, gluten-free and chilli festivals to your culinary plans for the rest of this year.
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GuideThe Best Places in Brisbane to Take the Dad in Your Life This Father's Day (or Any Day)
Whether your father figure loves hearty breakfasts, cold ones by the river, rooftop brews, top-notch steaks or flinging darts, Brisbane isn't short on places to go.
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GuideBrisbane's 20 Most-Popular Cafes of 2024 So Far
Here's where you've been getting your breakfast, brunch, lunch and caffeine fixes during 2024.
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NewsFive Ways You Should Be Using Craft Beer in Your Cooking
Beer brownies are a life choice you won't regret.
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NewsFairy Floss Grapes Totally Exist and They're On Their Way To Australia
Could fairy floss flavoured goon be on the cards too? Could it?
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NewsCopenhagen's Noma Is Set to Close in 2016
And then? It will be reborn more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
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NewsSweden Opened an Adorable Hotel Just for Bread Dough
All wake-up calls and massages included at this doughtel.
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NewsGet Stuck Into Chef Scott Pickett's Recipe for Pork Jowl with Cider and Boudin Noir
The Saint Crispin chef puts a unique spin on classic pork and apple.
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CafeFrankie's Woombye
2 Blackall Street, Woombye
One of QLD's most popular cafes is hidden in the Sunny Coast hinterland.
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BarByblós Brisbane
39 Hercules Street, Hamilton
This Portside favourite has relaunched after 18 years with a revamped look and refreshed Lebanese menu.
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RestaurantMademoiselle
39 Hercules Street, Hamilton
Rise Bakery's Harry Ohayon and Maxime Bournazel have doubled their footprint at Portside with this Parisian bistro.
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RestaurantCucina Regina
33 William Street, Brisbane City
A sibling to the Gold Coast's Cucina Vivo and Sydney's Cucina Porto, Queen's Wharf's resident Italian eatery takes its cues from old-school trattorias.
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RestaurantDumbo
39 Hercules Street, Hamilton
Stacked burgers, dirty water dogs and fish sandos are on the menu at this Portside burger bar from the Red Hook crew.
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RestaurantBlack Hide Steak and Seafood
33 William Street, Brisbane City
Black Hide's Queen's Wharf restaurant is Brisbane's new go-to for steak, seafood and cocktails with a view.
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BarClaw BBQ & Grill Carindale
1151 Creek Road, Carindale
Brisbane's seafood lovers can now don bibs, crack open shellfish and watch sports at this chain's second crab shack, this time in the city's south.
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RestaurantSokyo
William Street, Brisbane City
At its first outpost outside of Sydney, this luxe Japanese fine-diner is dishing up eye-catching sushi, sashimi and more at Queen's Wharf.
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RestaurantAttimi by Dario Manca
224 Given Terrace, Paddington
This 28-seat Italian fine-diner in Paddington takes inspiration from Michelin-starred dining in Europe.
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NewsBella BBQ Now Lets You Build Your Own Burgers
One of Brisbane's favourite food trucks is letting you customise things.
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NewsDeath Valley Is Now Serving Up Never-Ending Weekend Brunch
We'll say it again: never-ending brunch.
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NewsLondon Diners Have Just Sat Down to 200 Courses in 24 Hours
This is what gluttony looks like at the hands of food artists Bompas & Parr.
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NewsHeston Blumenthal's New Melbourne Restaurant Is Now Taking Reservations
But you may be waiting a while for a table.
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NewsJocelyn Hancock's Cake & Bake Opens in South Brisbane
One of Brisbane's legendary sweet tooths has a brand new bakery.
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EventThe Sound Society at Roma Street Parklands
Multiple single dates
Roma Street Parklands, Brisbane
Listen to free live music in stunning natural surroundings once a month.
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EventWeekend of Tartness
Fri, 21 Feb - Sun, 23 Feb 2025
The Scratch, Milton
The funkiest, sourest, most-refreshing beers being produced in Australia and around the world are taking over The Scratch's taps for three tart days.
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EventGABS Craft Beer Fest
Fri, 23 May - Sat, 24 May 2025
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane
Where can you get a drink from a 120-tap bar? At 2025's Great Australasian Beer Spectapular.
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EventKichi Kichi Meet and Eat
Sun, 23 Mar - Tue, 25 Mar 2025
Harajuku Gyoza South Bank, South Brisbane
Chef Motokichi Yukimura from Kyoto's Kichi Kichi is whipping up his internet-famous omurice in Brisbane — again.
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EventLunar New Year at Brisbane Quarter
Tue, 28 Jan - Mon, 10 Feb 2025
Brisbane Quarter, Brisbane City
See in the Year of the Snake with lion dances, flaming lobster and decadent banquets.
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EventLunar New Year in Fortitude Valley
Sat, 1 Feb - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Chinatown Fortitude Valley, Fortitude Valley
The Year of the Snake is getting into full swing with markets, traditional music and cultural dances — and plenty of food in the vicinity.
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EventLunar New Year in The Lanes
Sat, 1 Feb, 2025
Bakery, Winn and California Lanes, Fortitude Valley
Chinatown isn't the only place in Fortitude Valley to feast on dumplings, sip drinks and watch lion dances this Lunar New Year.
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EventLunar New Year at Donna Chang
Tue, 28 Jan - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Donna Chang, Brisbane City
This CBD Chinese fine-diner is a heritage-listed former bank is serving up lunch banquets, dinner feasts, dragon dancers and more to welcome the Year of the Snake.
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EventYear of the Snake Chinese New Year Dinners at Stanley
Wed, 29 Jan - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Stanley Restaurant, Brisbane City
Celebrate Lunar New Year with a Cantonese feast and lion dances by the river at Howard Smith Wharves' Cantonese restaurant.
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EventLunar New Year at The Star Brisbane
Sun, 12 Jan - Wed, 12 Feb 2025
The Star Brisbane, Brisbane City
Enjoy a street food-inspired banquet or tuck into a luxe sashimi platter, then watch lion dances and place your hopes for the year ahead on the wishing tree.
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NewsDamian Griffiths Is About to Fill South Bank With Delicious Kiosks
Expect doughnuts, ice cream sandwiches and milkshakes in their own little huts.
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NewsScrumptious Reads Has Opened A Tea Room
Snuggle up with a matcha inside James Street's foodie bookshop.
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NewsGramercy Coffee Is Popping Up in Queen Street Mall Today
Get your mid-morning doughnut fix, for one hour only.
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NewsGelato Messina Are Selling Ice Cream Cigars For Father's Day
Make up for your teenage years with a salted caramel and whisky cream stogie.
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NewsHeston Blumenthal Has Called in a Mentalist to Help Craft the New Fat Duck
Looks like mind control is the new foodie frontier.
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NewsTuck Into a Famous Death Row Criminal's Last Meal at this Conviction Dinner
Taste the last meals of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, if you can stomach it.
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NewsAustralian Gourmet Traveller Has Named Their Restaurants of the Year
Brisbane gets a bar gong for once.
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NewsDamian Griffiths Is Resurrecting Brisbane’s Old Bubbles Bathhouse
Featuring an in-house spa as a nod to the site's racy, illegal past.
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NewsThe Ten Best Hearty Roasts in Brisbane
There's nothing quite like a juicy, slow-cooked, gravy-drenched roast to round out your weekend.
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NewsTake a Peek Inside Fried Chicken & Friends: The Hartsyard Family Cookbook
Create oyster po' boys, hushpuppies and that famous fried chicken at home.
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NewsMelbourne's Nutella Obsession Causes Australia-Wide Shortage, Chaos Ensues
Melbourne, you big ol' hazelnuts.
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NewsMeet London Fields, West End’s Newest Gastropub
Serving roasted morsels of all your favourite meats.
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NewsHeston Blumenthal's Dinner to Replace The Fat Duck in Melbourne
Farewell snail porridge, hello meat fruit.
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NewsMeet the Cats of Sydney's New Spaced-Themed Cat Cafe
We get to know the four-legged catstronauts of Catmosphere.
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NewsCafeSmart Lets You Donate $1 from Your Morning Coffee to Charity
Down your third or fourth coffee for the day, guilt-free.
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GuideTwelve New Food Hotspots to Try in Brisbane Right Now
Here's what's trending with Concrete Playground's hungriest readers.
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NewsGet Your Caffeine Fix in Frozen Form at Queen of the Pops
Barista-made coffee ice cream pops. Sounds like the perfect Brisbane treat.
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NewsDonut Boyz Has Opened A Second Brisbane Store
Their latest concoction combines roasted fig-infused cream cheese, dark chocolate and walnuts. No wonder they're popular.
