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Vapiano
Vapiano chose you Brisbane, yes that's right, of all the places in Oz it could planted its olive tree roots, BNE was the ripe one. Opening its doors just a few weeks ago, the concept is Wagamamas-esque, but Italiano. The other difference is that at Vapiano you watch your food being cooked and you're part of the process - the chef will ask if you like a little added spice and you can customise your meal by selecting the pasta type or adding extras.
Myer Christmas window displays
What:
Myer Christmas window displays
Where:
Myer Centre, 91 Queen St Mall, Brisbane City
When:
Till New Years
How much:
Free
Description:
Visiting the Myer Christmas window displays is a tradition for most children. A drive into the big city, along scary bridges and mountainous ranges, then getting to the 'big shops', navigating your way through the crowds and eyeballing santa and his elves kept me excited as a child for weeks on end.
Event: Window Display
Stimulus: Christmas
Bagel Nook
Good news Brisbane: bagels are back! Since the sad demise of Bagelos several years ago (my completely unresearched and unsubstantiated theory is that the mid-2000s Atkins frenzy is to blame), Brisbane has been left high and dry in the yeasty snack department. Not content to let the Atkins bully win, the good people behind Bagel Nook soon opened their doors and filled our empty hearts with cream cheese.
City Botanical Gardens
The City Botanical Gardens, has now become more of a destination to get loose than pitch a picnic lunch, with so many festivals happening in and around the place, people have disassociated the gardens as the location to pull out the picnic rug and lay in some well manicured grass.
Well, let us remind you that the garden's 20 hectares have been kickin' it since 1855 and they'll still be lush long after your comedown.
City Farmers Markets
Good news. You no longer have to go all the way to New York to get giant pretzels - only to Brisbane Square! So that's a saving of like $1,500 in airfares already. (Although once, on a boat ride to The Statue of Liberty, the pretzel vendor was packing up and just decided to give away all the leftover giant pretzels FOR FREE.
Brother Espresso
Our humble CBD is not really the place one thinks of when it comes to hipster cafes, but local haunt Brother Espresso is out to make you think again. Tucked away in the no man's land between the commercial precinct and the botanic gardens, it's the little touches that make this place so undeniably charming.
Beard Papa Sweets
If you've ever walked towards the lower entry of Central Station from Adelaide Street or Edward Street, you will have noticed a smell. That smell is a little bit doughnuty, a little bit caramelly, and a little bit straight-from-freaking-heaven. That smell IS Beard Papa Sweets.
I must confess it was my curious nose that first led me - as I'm sure it has so many of you - to this strange little bakery.
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