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NewsThe Winners of the 2019 Independent Beer Awards Are the Brews You Should Be Drinking This Spring
The Indies has named its top beer picks for 2019 — we hope you're thirsty.
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NewsOver-the-Top Burger Palace Milky Lane Arrives in Brisbane This Week
The burger joint is finally bringing its monstrous burgs up north.
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NewsBeaux Rumble Is James Street's Soon-to-Open New York-Inspired Restaurant from a Michelin-Starred Chef
Chef Alan Wise is returning to Australia to cook up brunches and woodfired fare in Ada Lane.
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GuideTwenty Highly Indulgent Food Festivals Happening Around Brisbane This Spring
Eat all the mangoes, feast on oysters by the sea or try heaps of new beers around the city.
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New in Town: Brisbane
We've spoken to the teams behind Melbourne's most anticipated openings, so you can take a look inside before you make a booking.
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NewsA Novelty Circus-Themed Arcade Bar by the Holey Moley Team Is Coming to Brisbane
It's opening inside a new $35 million dining and entertainment precinct in Brisbane's northeast.
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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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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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GuideBrisbane's 20 Most-Popular Restaurants of 2024 So Far
From stellar steak joints and Middle Eastern menus to spots with a view and Chinese feasts, these are the Brisbane eateries that you've been searching for across 2024's first half.
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NewsThe Best Places in Brisbane to Treat Your Mum on Mother's Day (or Any Day)
Try slightly harder than your favourite sticky dive bar — your mum deserves it.
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NewsTaste-Testing New Gelato Flavours Is a Real Thing You Can Get Paid to Do
Gelatissimo will pay one gelato-lover $500 for four hours work — and scoop of plenty of frosty desserts, too.
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NewsIvory Tusk Is Fortitude Valley's New Palm Springs-Inspired Bar with a Garden Terrace
Stop by the tropical-themed spot for tequila flights, gazpacho shooters and chorizo sliders.
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NewsWinghaus Is Brisbane CBD's Soon-to-Open American-Style Diner Dedicated to Wings and Beer
The bar will have 40 beers — and negronis and margaritas — on-tap, and the kitchen will serve wings in lots of ten, 15, 20, 50 or 100.
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NewsThis New Vodka Is Made From Grain From the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
The artisanal tipple is radioactive-free — and you might soon be able to buy it.
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NewsEverything You Need to Know About Rum Now That Warmer Days Are Ahead
Get acquainted with the spirit most commonly associated with tropical island vacays, pirates and Hemingway.
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GuideThe Best Spots in Brisbane to Get a Next-Level Fried Chicken Burger
Eat your way through the city's best crispy, crunchy fried chook burgs.
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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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NewsPetrie Terrace Is Now Home to a Huge New Two-Level Bavarian Beer Hall
Serving pork knuckles, schnitzels and steins of beer, the new venue seats 600, including in its string-lit beer garden.
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NewsZa Za Ta Is Fortitude Valley's New Go-To for Middle Eastern-Inspired Cocktails and Cuisine
It's now open inside the Ovolo the Valley.
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NewsA Bluffer's Guide to Minimal Intervention Winemaking
This cheat sheet won't just explain what wild fermented wine is — it'll tell you how to drink it and what to drink it with.
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GuideA Food and Wine Lover's Guide to Spending a Weekend in Canberra
Turn your weekend getaway into an epicurean adventure.
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NewsIvory Tusk Is Fortitude Valley's Soon-to-Open Palm Springs-Inspired Bar with a Garden Terrace
It's taking over part of Woolly Mammoth — and adding a tropical vibe.
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GuideWhere to Celebrate a Milestone with a Long Lunch
If you're going to celebrate, you may as well go do it at one Brisbane's top restaurants.
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EventBottomless Gin Brunches at Covent Garden
Sun, 12 Jan, 2025
Covent Garden, West End
Sip gin cocktails, sangria and Pimm's cups over a shareboard brunch in West End every Sunday.
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EventGinuary Festival
Sun, 26 Jan, 2025
Covent Garden, West End
Count down Australia's 100 best gins of the past year — and drink them.
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EventAdults-Only Mini-Golf Night
Sat, 11 Jan, 2025
The Jungle Adventure Play, Tingalpa
Tingalpa's 16-hole jungle-themed mini golf course with a cocktail bar throws weekly boozy parties just for adults.
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EventShuckin' Sundays
Sun, 12 Jan, 2025
Victory Lane, Ascot
This weekly special serves up $2 oysters from the Ascot venue's streetside cart.
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EventBrisbane Gin Festival
Fri, 4 Apr - Sun, 6 Apr 2025
Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills
This boozy festival is bringing 50 craft gin distillers from around the country to Brisbane Showgrounds for three days of masterclasses and tastings.
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EventLes Misérables: The Arena Spectacular
Wed, 28 May - Sun, 1 Jun 2025
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Boondall
You'll hear the people sing when this arena spectacular version of Victor Hugo's famous 1862 novel hits Brisbane.
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EventRhys Darby: The Legend Returns
Wed, 30 Apr, 2025
Princess Theatre, Woolloongabba
The New Zealand comedian is bringing his first stand-up show in almost a decade to Brisbane.
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EventLifeline Bookfest — Summer
Sat, 18 Jan - Mon, 27 Jan 2025
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane
It's time to stock up on soap opera-themed cookbooks and other treasures you didn't know you needed — again.
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Event$2 Summer Dips
Sun, 1 Dec 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Various Brisbane venues, Brisbane
You can enjoy a swim in Brisbane City Council's 22 public pools for just $2 all summer long.
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EventBrisbane Comedy Festival
Wed, 23 Apr - Sun, 25 May 2025
Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm
Get ready to laugh: Rhys Darby, Ross Noble and Boozy Shakespeare are on the lineup when Brisbane's annual comedy festival returns for 2025.
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GuideThe Five Most Over-the-Top Takeaway Eats to Get in Brisbane
From toasties loaded with bacon mac 'n' cheese to Nashville-style fried chicken.
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NewsMelbourne's 400 Gradi Has Been Named the Best Pizzeria in Oceania, Again
It's the second year in a row that Johnny Di Francesco's acclaimed pizzeria has claimed the title at the 50 Top Pizza awards in Naples.
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NewsNodo Donuts Is Now Serving Daily Boozy Brunches at Its Newstead Digs
On the menu: doughnut martinis.
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GuideFour Spots Dishing Out the Most Authentic Buffalo Wings in Brisbane
We might be a long way from upstate New York, but that doesn't mean you can't find fried chicken just as good (and without the long-haul flight).
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NewsEight Activities to Plan For Your Birthday When You Want to Do More Than Just Dinner or Drinks
Different things to do when it's time to celebrate little 'old' you.
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NewsThe World's First Drive-Through-Only KFC Is Opening in Australia
A trial concept store is being built in Newcastle, featuring multiple drive-through lanes.
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NewsHow to Experience the Best of WA's Food and Outdoors at This Sprawling Food and Wine Festival
Eat your way around some of the state's most picturesque spots —from boats and beaches to lakeside cabins and woodland estates.
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NewsUnico's Sweet Yuzu Vermouth Is Exactly What You Want to be Drinking This Weekend
Throw it into a refreshing spritz or drink it straight on the rocks.
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NewsCream Is the New Judgement-Free Brisbane Pop-Up Focusing on Inclusivity and Positivity
Run by three female hospitality legends, the pop-up's next event is a 'galactic rodeo'-themed party with music, booze, dress ups.
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NewsSix Australian Restaurants Using Nature and Local Ingredients to Inspire Their Menus
Using rooftop veggie gardens and championing native produce, these restaurants are paving the way for more sustainable eating.
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NewsGelato Messina Has Unveiled Its Filipino-Inspired Brisbane Night Noodle Markets Menu
It's going to be a sweet two weeks.
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NewsForesters Is Fortitude Valley's Luxe New All-Day Eatery and Bar Behind a 130-Year-Old Facade
It's now serving up smashed avocado on quinoa loaf, chicken parmigiana with prosciutto and smoky negronis.
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FeatureThe Gin List
For a clear spirit, gin is full of complexities. So we've teamed up with Tanqueray to delve into its storied past, unveil its intricacies and help you become a seasonal gin connoisseur.
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NewsHoley Moley Has Just Added Nine New Holes and Two Karaoke Rooms to Its Fortitude Valley Digs
You can now putt-putt your way around 'E.T.' and 'Stranger Things' holes — or belt out hits from the 60s.
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NewsHow to Hibernate This Winter But Still Live Your Best Life
Grab some blankets, invite your mates and cosy into full hibernation the right way.
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NewsThese 250 Australian Restaurants Are Offering Half-Price Meals for Six Weeks
The Fork Festival wants to lure you out of the house for a cheap meal this winter.
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NewsBaskin-Robbins Is Giving Away Free Waffle Sandwiches to Celebrate the Return of 'Stranger Things'
They're an ice cream-filled take on Eleven's favourite snack: Eggos.
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NewsTaro's Ramen Is Now Serving Its Delicious Japanese Dishes in Stones Corner
Go for warming bowls of thick tonkotsu ramen (including a vegan version) and crunchy karaage.
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Guide
A Banquet Menu Under $100 for Every Occasion You May Encounter This Winter
Whether you're celebrating, catching up with mum and dad or heading out for date night, there's a set menu to keep you toasty this season.
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NewsFrance's Mirazur Has Just Been Crowned the Best Restaurant in the World for 2019
This year, no Australian restaurants made the top 50.
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NewsHow to Spend a Weekend in the Heart of Melbourne on a Budget
Take yourself on a DIY art tour, catch a gig and eat tasty multicultural fare — without breaking the bank.
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NewsPappaRich Is Launching a Limited-Edition Nasi Lemak Burger This Winter
This Malaysian-style burger is packed with fried chicken, peanuts, sambal and an egg.
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NewsFive Brisbane Restaurants Perfect for a Date Night (and Every Budget)
From cheap, cheerful and loved-up feeds to special diners for a special occasion.
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NewsThis Victorian Country Bakery Is Serving Up Australia's Official Best Pie
Country Cob Bakery took out top honours at this year's Best Pie Competition with a caramelised pork and pepper pie — and it's only an hour out of Melbourne.
