All 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.
Everyone has a favourite restaurant and a go-to bar. They're the types of places you'll revisit again and again, and you always know you're in for a good time. But Brisbane and southeast Queensland's busy hospitality scene is always welcoming new venues — and new spots vying to rank among your trusty faves.
2024 is almost over, and Brisbane keeps delivering when it comes to all things boozy and delicious. The region is abuzz with new restaurants, reopened and revamped cafes, riverside pubs and rooftop bars to while away your days and nights in. So call the apple of your eye and make a dinner date, or hop in the group chat and plan drinks with your best friends, because these newbies are all worth visiting.
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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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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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BarStan's Lounge
5 Boundary Street, Brisbane City
You'll find XO sand crab cigars, vintage cocktails and late-night dancing at this bar above Howard Smith Wharves' Cantonese restaurant Stanley.
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BarSlipstream Brewing Social House
8 The Avenue, Birtinya
This Brisbane brewery has expanded to the Sunshine Coast with a 40-tap hangout that's pairing beers and bites.
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BarRays by Range
4 Newman Avenue, Camp Hill
This Camp Hill watering hole takes inspiration from European corner bars, and marks the Range Brewing crew's fourth Brisbane venue.
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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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BarMontrachet
30 King Street, Bowen Hills
Brisbane's famous French restaurant is back in business on King Street under chef Clément Chauvin.
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BarPortside Social
39 Hercules Street, Hamilton
You'll find pints, parmigianas and games of pool at this Hamilton gastropub at Portside — and burgers, ribs and boozy bottomless weekend brunches, too.
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BarCicada Blu
33 William Street, Brisbane City
This sky-high Brisbane cocktail spot sits 100 metres above the city on Queen's Wharf's Sky Deck.
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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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BarThe Ballpark Portside
39 Hercules Street, Hamilton
Get swinging at Brisbane's American-themed interactive sports bar with its own batting cage.
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BarClub Félix
33 Felix Street, Brisbane City
Make an after-hours date for cocktails and wagyu cheeseburgers at this supper club inside Felix Street's revived Naldham House.
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BarNaldham House
33 Felix Street, Brisbane City
This heritage-listed CBD site is back after an eye-catching revamp — and it's serving up Euro-style dishes, plus drinks on the terrace.
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BarPawn & Co Brisbane
680 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley
Fortitude Valley is now home to a cocktail bar that's also a pawn shop and a perfumery — all in Laruche's old digs.
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BarLittle Miss Sunshine
80 Ann Street, Brisbane City
This Brisbane brewery and bistro pours its own beers — and makes them — on Ann Street in the city's CBD.
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RestaurantSupernormal Brisbane
443 Queen Street, Brisbane City
Andrew McConnell has expanded his Melbourne restaurant to Brisbane, bringing its lobster rolls and Asian-influenced dishes to a prime riverside location.
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BarHijinx Hotel Mt Gravatt
Kessels Road, Upper Mount Gravatt
Test your puzzling skills over cocktails at this challenge room bar, which features a ball pit, UV basketball and a claw machine quiz.
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BarHoley Moley Golf Club Mt Gravatt
Kessels Road, Upper Mount Gravatt
You'll find Brisbane's fourth OTT Holey Moley mini-golf bar at Mt Gravatt, in a 350-person precinct alongside Hijinx Hotel.
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BarHey Caddy South Bank
275 Grey Street, South Brisbane
This golf-loving South Bank venue boasts a 12-hole indoor mini-golf course, a golf simulator and a bar.
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BarBar Miette
443 Queen Street, Brisbane City
Andrew McConnell's hospitality empire has arrived in Brisbane with this Euro-leaning terrace cafe and wine bar.
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RestaurantCloudland Garden Restaurant
641 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley
Fifteen years after setting up shop on Ann Street, this Fortitude Valley venue has turned its ground floor into a restaurant.
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RestaurantCalida Argentinian
164C Grey Street, South Brisbane
This sizzling Latin American steakhouse in South Bank serves up everything from empanadas and bistec tartar to pressed beef short ribs.
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BarThe Sporting Globe x 4 Pines Surfers Paradise
Surfers Paradise Boulevard, Surfers Paradise
This 1000-person brewpub has taken over the old Hard Rock Cafe in Surfers Paradise, swapping a giant guitar for the Gold Coast's largest island bar.
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RestaurantLucky Egg Fried Chicken
27 Warner Street, Fortitude Valley
This chook-slinging favourite is back at The Brightside four nights a week, whether you're keen for a bite in the beer garden or a takeaway feed.
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RestaurantTwo Yolks
179 Grey Street, South Brisbane
This Burleigh-born burger joint has opened its first Brisbane outpost, slinging burgs from breakfast till dinner.
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CafeRiva Kitchen & Events
285 MacArthur Avenue, Hamilton
If you're after cruisy breakfasts, brunches and lunches with a view, you'll find them at Northshore Brisbane's airy riverside eatery.
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RestaurantUncle Don Woolloongabba
148 Logan Road, Woolloongabba
This Japanese chain has expanded its donburi empire with a new eatery at Woolloongabba's South City Square.
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RestaurantFatcow on James St
10 James Street, Fortitude Valley
Wagyu tasting boards and booths with floor-to-ceiling curtains await at this relocated and revamped steakhouse, a past Eagle Street Pier favourite.
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RestaurantEmme
22 James Street, Fortitude Valley
You'll find this woodfired eatery serving up a Jordanian- and Moroccan-inspired menu in Spoon Deli Cafe's old James Street digs.
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CafeToby's Estate Coffee Roasters Brisbane
33 Longland Street, Newstead
This brand's Brisbane flagship cafe features an espresso bar, filter bar and training bar — and pours 80 different types of coffee each year.
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CafeFonzie Abbott Newstead
20 Ross Street, Newstead
This caffeine-slinging chain is now pouring coffees at its fourth Brisbane venue, an espresso bar and roastery in Newstead.
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RestaurantRamen Danbo Pimpama
62-68 Pimpama Jacobs Well Road, Pimpama
Australia's first ramen drive-thru, which is located halfway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, will get you slurping noodles without leaving your car.
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RestaurantNew Farm Seafood
85 Merthyr Road, New Farm
This Merthyr Village fish-slinging kitchen and fresh market will let you settle in for bug rolls and grilled barramundi, or take a fresh catch home.
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BarThe Rose & Crown
275 Grey Street, South Brisbane
South Bank's new London-inspired pub has taken over Little Big House's old digs on Grey Street.
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BarIzakaya and Ramen Taro's
480 Queen Street, Brisbane City
This beloved Japanese chain's Queen Street eatery is now a ramen joint by day and a food-focused izakaya at night.
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BarBrighton Hotel
196 Brighton Terrace, Brighton
Located 20 minutes from Brisbane, this northside pub has undergone a revamp, adding a new beer garden and bistro.
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BarDoughcraft Mary Street
181 Mary Street, Brisbane City
The European bakery and deli has launched a second outpost in the Brisbane CBD — and it's also a wine bar.
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CafeCooee Cafe & Restaurant
1825 Creek Road, Cannon Hill
This 200-seat Cannon Hill spot for a caffeine fix, bite and cocktail is part of Minnippi Golf & Range, Brisbane's first public golf course in more than 70 years.
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RestaurantDapl
200 Creek Street, Spring Hill
Located inside Brisbane's Amora Hotel, this restaurant heroes native Australian ingredients.
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RestaurantComo
119 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane
This modern Italian restaurant in South Brisbane takes its cues from Lake Como.
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BarBeenleigh Artisan Distillery Restaurant
142 Distillery Road, Eagleby
Beenleigh's heritage-listed 140-year-old rum distillery is home to an 80-seat restaurant.
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BarPink Flamingo Spiegeland Brisbane
98 Bincote Street, Hamilton
For seven years — until it needs to make way for Brisbane's Olympics preparations — Northshore Hamilton is home to a 400-seat riverside cabaret club.
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BarManiax Brisbane CBD
Burnett Lane, Brisbane City
This second Brisbane site for the axe-throwing chain comes with a Viking-themed bar — and will get you hurling hatchets on Adelaide Street.
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BarLost Souls Karaoke
186 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
Mash buttons next door at Netherworld, then hit up this underworld-themed karaoke bar to belt out a tune over drinks.
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CafeKenilworth Island Bakery
3 First Avenue, Bongaree
The beloved bakery finally has an outpost closer to Brisbane serving its famed coffee- and hot chocolate-filled doughnuts.
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BarKirra Beach House
4 Marine Parade, Coolangatta
Part of the Kirra Point Precinct, this oceanfront drinking and dining spot boasts cabanas, cocktail bars and a seafood barbecue area.
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BarThe Belvedere
Oxley Avenue, Woody Point
Woody Point's 122-year-old pub has relaunched after a $10-million-plus redevelopment.
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BarLagoon Beach Club
Manor Circle, Sanctuary Cove
Looking for a poolside bite and sip? InterContinental Sanctuary Cove Resort now has you covered.
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BarKirra Beach Hotel
2 Marine Parade, Coolangatta
This Gold Coast favourite returned in late 2023 after a three-year absence — and now sprawls across 1300 square metres.
