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Brisbane Restaurants and Bars - Eat Drink
From morning to midnight and back again, EAT/DRINK is FourThousand's guide to cafes, bars and restaurants in Brisbane. We know the best coffee because we drink 20 a day (each), we know the good restaurants because we can't cook, and we'll tell you where to find hidden bars and other places that still let you smoke so that we can ask you for a cigarette when you get there. EAT/DRINK is as voracious as our appetites and a much better filter than our livers, which stopped working a long time ago. Email your EAT/DRINK suggestions to: talk@fourthousand.com.au
The IKEA Restaurant
The IKEA Restaurant provides a unique dining experience which some gourmet diners may find a little intimidating on first impression, but the emphasis here is on simplicity and minimalism. The restaurant décor is a European influenced, industrial-post-modern affair in which functionality and efficiency reign over the more subtle comforts.
Make your own pasta sauce just like Mamma Meatball
Sometime I just have too many fresh a roma tomato, so I like to make my own a pasta sauce. Dolmio in a jar just don't a taste like home. My sauce, it's a got a heart, just like a Jesus.
Ingredients:
- 2-3 kg of tomatoes
- fresh basil
- 1-2 onions
- couple of garlic cloves
- herbs, salt and pepper to taste
- your choice of pasta and meat to accompany.
Doughnut Toast
The only way I know how to eat a stale doughnut is fresh out of the microwave - a method that sucks because of the initial hot hot hot juggle, followed by a stale-again ending. Thanks Dad.
Freya Baska (Maja's little sister) recently invented Doughnut Toast. The single best ever way to put those $1 semi-stale supermarket doughnuts to excellent use.
Bunker Specialty Coffee and Chocolate
I have learnt three pieces of war-related Brisbane trivia in the last 10 days. Firstly, those strange concrete things in Wickham Park are actually remnants of air raid shelters. Secondly, there are (supposedly) two army-built underground tunnels that stretch between Eagle Farm and Ipswich.
Lastly, but certainly not leastly, Brisbane's newest independent brewers have set-up shop in an ex-war bunker underneath Milton train station.
LR Sushi
A new tradition has formed at our house, similar to the monthly cleaning out of the back corner of the fridge and the fortnightly roundup of forks from between the couch cushions (weird, I know - but it's true). It's the Saturday late-morning food run (read hangover food mission) and it makes life just a little more tolerable, especially when the kitchen is a mess and there are no forks.
Fashion High Tea
High Tea is on the up and up with all the fascinations with boutique food that surround us like a photographer at a Valentino runway show. And why not - wasn't food supposed to be about moderation? About taking what you need and cherishing the taste? The little things in life. Mr Garavani would concur.
The Newsroom Cafe
I don't know about you, but this recent onset of chill is nothing but a big fat reminder that winter can make for a lonely time. Unheld hands morph into popsicles, a homemade woolly scarf desperately wrapped around you to the point of asphyxiation does not equate to a friendly bear hug (and is frankly just plain itchy) and I don't see any goddamn Eskimos to rub noses with.
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