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CBD - 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 Grand Central Hotel
Lurking on street level at Central Station is a world of beer, wine and fancy spirits not to be equaled by any other location in the city. Entering into the Platform Bar at The Grand Central is like falling down an alcohol lubricated rabbit hole. The first thing you'll notice is a touch of sophistication that doesn't normally exist in eateries so close to a train station, take the fresh-shucked oysters for example.
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.
Ruben sandwiches at Mad Espresso
Have you met my friend Ruben? He hails from New York, but I usually catch him hanging around Albert Lane at lunch time. He's a salty fellow, shifty about his origins; I've heard he's German-Irish and though he tells me he was born on the streets of the Bronx, sometimes I can detect a hint of Nebraskan in his dulcet tones.
The Freelance
So you're a dental student, you love to drink coffee and sit around chewing the fat with strangers. You ride a motorcycle and always keep a good book in your back pocket. But what do you do on your uni holidays? You set up a freelance barista service in ambiguous pop-up gallery spaces in the CBD, that's what you do.
Taro's Ramen Café
Here's the deal. I've never really ventured into the fine art of Ramen cuisine, but when our friend Wah told us about "the best Ramen in Brisbane", of course we had to have a go. My verdict: supreme.
Taro's, though they have 90s suburban décor, they do make a mean noodle soup, along with sandwiches, Shabu Shabu and coffee (yeah it half feels like you're in a "western cuisine" restaurant in China).
Peasant
Back in the good old days when Don Quixote got around in recycled tin and Sancho Panza rode into the sunset on the back of a donkey, Andalusian inns served a simple, pragmatic kind of tapas - pieces of bread shaped to fit over sherry glasses to keep the fruit flies out.
In recent centuries, coinciding with the invention of the fly screen, Spanish cuisine has come into its own.
The Coffee Supplier
Unless you are one of those fitness people, you probably dislike mornings. I am with you. Especially as my mornings consist of sitting in the confines of a grey sort room and sifting through a bunch of morose publications. I have but one relief: coffee. No matter how much I think that I don't need a shot of soft black, I do.
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