Spread your festive cheer at these bars, restaurants and cafes.
Here’s where to eat and drink on Monday.
Dodge the sales crowds and head to these spots.
Here are the places staying open for the public holiday.
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A moody 60-seat restaurant. It’s designed to put guests up close and personal with an ever-changing menu of woodfire-inflected dishes such as burnt and pickled Kohlrabi served with fresh curds bay leaf, pistachio and nasturtium, and a Black Angus short rib.
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.
Specialty coffee and vegan eats out of a charming St Lucia hole-in-the-wall.
The bright and airy counterpart to Queens around the corner is a tropical-style bar where music, colour and cocktails are king. To eat, you might find Po boys and tacos stuffed with fried chicken, prawn or roasted cauliflower on the menu.
After years as a wholesaler and market pop-up fixture, this bakery is in a permanent spot. Stop by for your fix of 72-hour sourdough, seasonal fruit Danishes, berry croissant baskets, and double-chocolate croissant buns. Plus there's a savoury croissant toastie and Reuben Hills coffee.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Come to this crumpet-centric cafe for Nutella, strawberry and toasted coconut crumpets; smoked salmon, dill and cream cheese crumpets; crumpet toasted sangas; and a one-kilogram crumpet loaf (did we mention the focus is crumpets?). Also, there’s Tim Adams coffee and Leaf tea.
Cocktail classic The Bowery has been converted into a Hawaiian-themed dive bar.
C’est Bon’s own snazzy rooftop bar is the best place to imbibe either side of dinner downstairs. Up here, you can also graze on possible options of duck liver parfait eclairs and twice-baked soufflés, washed down by vintage champagne against a backdrop unlike anything else in the city.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
This winsome joint is well worth crossing Walter Taylor Bridge for.
A two-level brewery with collaboration beers, painting classes and an Asian-inspired food menu.
A wood-fired Valley beauty in James Street's Ada Lane.
Get authentic American-style sweet pies and smaller savoury classics in a cosy corner shop.
Enter for arcade games, DJs and cheesburger spring rolls.
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 venue built around Ben O'Donoghue's star dish.
A hidden gin den inside Fortitude Valley's 155-year-old pub, The Osbourne.
Ben Williamson-designed sangas washed down with Blackstar coffee.
An all day cafe, restaurant and wine bar in the basement of Rowes Building.
The 150-seat, eight-hectolitre brewpub is the brand’s first taproom outside Byron Bay.
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.
