Overview
Every city has at least one: a place everyone has been more times than they can count, walks past more often than they realise, and always thought would be there forever. In Brisbane, Jo-Jo's well and truly meets that criteria. Indeed, the Queen Street Mall restaurant has been serving up food and drinks for 37 years. It even pre-dates the mall itself.
Come March 5, however, change is a-coming to Stefan Ackerie's eatery — yes, the rainbow logo that Jo-Jo's sports provides a reminder of its ties to the hairdressing chain head and former Skyneedle owner. It's goodbye level one berth near the Albert Street section of the mall, and hello West End premises that the original Jo-Jo's called home in the late '70s. The latter part, incorporating the food court-like establishment into Stefan's towering headquarters, won't happen until May 31.
While it has probably been quite some time since you've chosen from the restaurant's array of eating options, it's still an end-of-an-era moment for anyone who was repeatedly taken there by their parents when they were a kid (aka all of us). Of course, anyone feeling nostalgic has a couple of weeks to drop by the current digs for a trip down memory lane. And for those wondering what the new place has in store, Stefan told Brisbane Times that the site on Melbourne Street "will be a game changer" — although, that could just be another way of saying "same place, different location".
Via Brisbane Times.