Brisbane's biggest show is in town for another year. Here's where to eat and drink on your Wednesday off.
Here’s where to eat and drink on Monday.
Here are the places staying open for the public holiday.
Plenty of places are open for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Save the Easter eggs for dessert (if you can).
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This beautiful, fast-paced and very fun Italian restaurant is from the Same Same and Ages crew. Expect house-made pasta, stacks of antipasti and soft-serve gelato, accompanied by a 350-bottle wine list – all in one of Brisbane's most beguiling dining rooms.
You'll find this new wave French brasserie on the ground-floor of the luxe Hotel X. enter for French favourites and remixed classics (including cod beignets and escargot on toast) plus a cheese trolley, an oyster and caviar bar, a 200-strong wine list and experimental cocktails.
This southeast Asian inspired rooftop bar and restaurant is headed up by former Longrain chef Assavakavinvong. Try prawn and pomelo betal leaf wraps or soft-shell crab stir-fried with curry powder and Chinese celery alongside an extensive list of wine, beer and spritzers.
An immaculate rooftop bar and restaurant from the Donna Change crew. Expect cocktails, sangria, a tight wine list and a broad menu of Mediterranean share plates served against a backdrop unlike anything else in the city.
A stylish all-day bistro in the former digs of Urbane and The Euro (with an adjacent riviera-inspired laneway bar). Come for strong coffees in the morning, a pan-Mediterranean menu from lunch, and a slick cocktail list.
This flash Greek restaurant has a live shellfish and oyster bar plus over 20 mezze plates. Expect moussaka, pastitsio and lamb on a spit alongside chargrilled lobster, chocolate baklava and lesser-known Greek wines in beautiful, island-inspired surrounds.
This fast-paced Italian diner from the Eterna and Salt Meats Cheese team serves pasta, pizza, and a clutch of classy main dishes in beautiful heritage-listed surrounds.
An Italian restaurant from three ex-Beccofino hospitality pros. The menu includes woodfired pizzas, paninis and a medley of pastas. For wine, there's a bunch of Italian vino – plus lesser-known drops from South America, Turkey and Slovenia.
This Japanese and Korean fine-diner serves between 12 and 16 courses – omakase style. Dishes might include wagyu bulgogi, salmon caviar and aged kingfish sashimi. It’s all served in a moodily lit dining room, replete with a zen garden and a record player.
This is the first Brisbane outpost for one of Byron Bay's favourite coffee roasters. And it brings a much-needed coffee hub to Kangaroo Point.
This intimate, eight-seat Italian wine and spritz bar is a prime destination for pre- and post-dinner drinking and snacking. Especially so if you’re keen for a spot of people-watching on adjacent Fish Lane.
This winsome joint is well worth crossing Walter Taylor Bridge for.
A wood-fired Valley beauty in James Street's Ada Lane.
This playful, pure-pink taproom, from a star Gold Coast brewery, has 11 taps pouring beer, hard seltzer, cider and beer cocktails, plus a menu of burgers and bar snacks.
Ben Williamson-designed sangas washed down with Blackstar coffee.
Enter for arcade games, DJs and cheesburger spring rolls.
Cocktail classic The Bowery has been converted into a Hawaiian-themed dive bar.
Three Stokehouse Q veterans are behind this down-to-earth little restaurant, where the clever pastas and interesting wine list change week to week, ensuring no two visits are the same.
While rooftop bar Eleven takes a break, we have this Mexican pop-up. There's ninety seats, a local-produce driven menu and a shedload of tequila, all set to those jaw-dropping views.
A two-level brewery with collaboration beers, painting classes and an Asian-inspired food menu.
A two-storey brewpub and barbeque joint with 26 beertaps and a menu of American-south classics – brisket, ribs, smoked potato skins and bourbon-spiked banoffee pie.
The 150-seat, eight-hectolitre brewpub is the brand’s first taproom outside Byron Bay.
Four different food menus, 89 beer taps and capacity for more than 2000 people. This restored, 130-year-old pub is one of the Valley’s most ambitious venues ever, ready to fulfil whatever need you have, from drinking to dancing.
A unique Mediterranean-inspired boozer in the northern suburbs
The Salisbury favourite's latest location is in one of the city's best food precincts.
A venue built around Ben O'Donoghue's star dish.
Get authentic American-style sweet pies and smaller savoury classics in a cosy corner shop.
An all-day gelateria serving gelato, sorbet and soft serve in flavours such as pina colada; lime and mint; rockmelon; and peach and basil. Plus cookie sandwiches, filter coffee and more.
A hidden gin den inside Fortitude Valley's 155-year-old pub, The Osbourne.
An all day cafe, restaurant and wine bar in the basement of Rowes Building.
A classic fish and chipper in Graceville from the Three Girls Skipping team. Come for barramundi, gold-band snapper and cod, and soft-serve with warm apple crumble. Plus, classics such as chip butties and potato scallops.
A fancy French-inspired eatery and boozer in a converted warehouse.
