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
Flamingo
Shake your tail feather to the heavens and thank your god that Flamingo has arrived to ruffle some feathers in the Valley of Fortitude. The ladies behind Flamingo (Christina Hatzipetrou - The Main Squeeze, Yo Mama, Desmond & Molly Jones and Annette Gillespie - The Main Squeeze, Cantina and Pearl Cafe) are all about attention to detail and good old fashioned real food - you know the kind that actually nourishes you.
DIY Jam
When I came onto a bucket-load of figs from a friend's garden recently, I promptly ate half of them, let quite a few go rotten, then decided to save the rest by making fig jam. It was really quite enjoyable.
I cut the fruit up into acceptable chunks and threw them in a pot with the same volume of sugar as fruit.
Bistrot Bistro
Maybe you still have trouble spelling it, maybe you still get tongue-tied when you talk about it, but when you do manage to get it out, I'll bet that you're saying good things about it.
Unless you've been living under a rock (or hiding inside the nearby Clem 7 steam tower) for the last few months, you'll know that Woolloongabba is the talk of this town for all the right reasons.
Grasshopper Asian Kitchen
If nothing satisfies you like the crunch of a fresh rice paper roll or the delicious burst of wet flavour from a Vietnamese coleslaw then you better shake a leg to Grasshopper before the word spreads and you can't get a table. OK, I know I'm sharing this with you and a couple thousand other people, but keep it to yourselves.
Tuckeria fresh Mexican
Hey amigo, you like it hot, eh? At long last, Tuckeria has arrived to educate us on how Mexican cuisine should be - fresh, flavoursome and packing a punch. Taking it's cues from San Francisco's famous Mission District where burritos, vibrant Latino culture, bustling bars and colourful street murals paint the city jalapeno green and chilli red.
Celebrity-Non-Chef #2, Peggy Wang
Peggy Wang plays keyboards and sings in Brooklyn pop quartet The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - a band which Lauren from FREEWilliamsburg describes as having "a fuzzy, pop sensibility that recalls My Bloody Valentine but puts me in a much nicer mood." Peggy is also the editor of BuzzFeed‚ which, if you know anything at all, is where we get all our COOL links, except the ones Max finds.
Platform Cafe
Whoever said Brisbane lacks history and culture (me, admittedly - several times) will soon drink their words when they stumble across Grand Central Station's Melbourne-style hole-in-the-wall cafe, Platform.
Situated directly under the station's old clock tower, deep in the shadows of the grand colonnade, Platform Cafe is what a coffee house ought to be.
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