Brisbane's 25 Most Popular Restaurants and Cafes of 2016
Catch up on the year's most buzzed-about establishments.
Eating and drinking in Brisbane is a bountiful escapade, with inventive, bold cafes and restaurants taking over the city's rooftops, waterfronts, beachfronts, main streets and laneways with innovative design and groundbreaking menus alike. This year, these were the restaurants you kept searching for, the most popular on Concrete Playground (even if they weren't brand new). Catch up on the establishments Brisbanites can't stop asking for tables at.
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The Priory Kitchen - CLOSED
Shop 4, 855 Stanley Street, Woolloongabba
Breakfast trifle, lunch boards and Iced Vovo milkshakes, anyone?
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Bedouin Brew - CLOSED
25 Sperling Street, Rocklea
Grab a coffee in a warehouse filled with greenery.
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Deer Duck Bistro
396 Milton Road, Auchenflower
The final course features seven textures of chocolate with orange marshmallow and is an appropriately sinful finish to a decadent meal.
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Chester Street Bakery and Bar - CLOSED
32A Chester Street, Newstead
Brisbane is always willing to embrace new friends, and this week we welcome the new kid on the block.
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Kettle & Tin
215 Given Terrace, Paddington
Kettle and Tin realises waffles are a superior and underrated option and will serve them any way they can.
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Gramercy - CLOSED
Wintergarden, 200 Edward Street, Brisbane
It presents confectionary and coffee perfection you’re probably never going to match, even with a Donna Hay book at play.
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Hank's Burgers & Beer
55 Caxton Street, Petrie Terrace
The American-style joint of your burger dreams.
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Pablo - CLOSED
893 Brunswick Street, New Farm
A hole-in-the-wall cafe that punches above its weight.
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Brown Cardigan Cafe - CLOSED
107 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington
Wearing something woolly, warm and the colour of coffee is optional.
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Ze Pickle
1 Prospect Street, Fortitude Valley
Burleigh's favourite burger joint has made it to the Valley.
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Little Loco - CLOSED
121 Merthyr Road, New Farm
It's farewell to Raw Pawpaw and hello to a new health-conscious cafe following in its footsteps.
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85 Miskin St
85 Miskin St, Toowong
Brisbane icon and chef Brent Farrell continues to wow and delight with his refreshed restaurant 85 Miskin St.
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Botanica Real Food
1 Enoggera Terrace, Red Hill
A Red Hill cafe with a focus is on fast, healthy food.
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King Arthur Cafe
164c Arthur Street, Fortitude Valley
A contemporary cafe deserving of a crown.
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Miel Container
96 Albert Street, Brisbane
Chock full of vegies, oozing brie and basil pesto, you could certainly say my beef pattie was in a good place between two bits of brioche.
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The Triffid
9 Stratton Street, Newstead
Bands, beers and burgers. It doesn't get much better than that.
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Black Lab Coffee
6/11 Kuring-Gai Avenue, Tarragindi
For caffeine fiends and dog lovers alike.