Après Soleil
This South Bank pool bar is getting wintry with fondue, loaded Swiss cheese fries, mulled wine, and pineapple and jalapeño sour beers.
Overview
No matter how you feel about winter in Brisbane — too warm, cold, sunny, unpredictable? — the River City's bars love embracing the frostier side of the season. Our watering holes might be designed around our usually sultry weather, but they still know how to get into the chilly spirit. The latest doing just that: South Bank's Soleil Pool Bar with its Après Soleil menu.
No one is going skiing in Brisbane, but you can pretend that you've just come back from hitting the slopes while eating fondue and sipping mulled wine. That's one of Après Soleil's combos for two, or you can bring two more pals and grab a mulled wine pot for four to heat up your insides.
Still with group hangs, the pinot noir box comes with a charcuterie platter for four.
No matter how many folks you're heading along with, you'll also find loaded Swiss cheese fries; pizzas with bacon bites, onion and creme fraiche; pineapple and jalapeño sour beers from Sea Legs; jugs of Stone & Wood, Heineken and Kirin brews; and Mumm champagne on offer.
Wearing a puffer jacket, ugg boots and beanie is optional, but there'll be fires to warm up by, booths near them, faux mink blankets to get cosy under and live entertainment either way.
Après Soleil runs until the end of winter at the Rydges venue, which is open Thursday–Sunday.
