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Phat Elephant
PHAR OUT, with a PH. This bar was hard to find (after a couple of beers) Ok it was a sunny day in Brisbane – Matt and I were in the city looking for Phat Elephant – all the way down the end of Post Office Square: WHY we had to find it, because this:…
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Leonards Bar & Bistro
Look, I forgot to ask if there was a Leonard (or two Leonards) at Leonards bar, but I really LIKED my visit there and the lovely NON-alcoholic drink I had. I was doing DRY JULY: a month of sobriety (for a good cause) and I wasn’t gonna let that stop my bar-hopping ways. Yeah, nah.…
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Top 5: Brisbane bars with a VIEW
Brisbane ABSOLUTELY has a gamut of beautiful bars, and it’s always a BONUS if they have a banger of a view. so MINT, here are my TOP 5 favourite VIEW bars, in no particular order: Mr Percival’s over at Howard Smith Wharves. It doesn’t get any more Under the Bridge than this! (Red Hot Chili…
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Dark Red Wine Bar
DARK? Yes. RED WINE? Also Yes. and WHITE wines, ROSE wines and OTHER drinks too – at Dark Red Wine Bar. It was my first time down Bakery Lane in Fortitude Valley. Yes, cool, NEW adventure! It wasn’t so much a LANE as it was a CUL-De-SAC of restauranty bars. When I got to the…
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QR CODE menus – Yay or Nay?
Cuz i’m like 70% NAY. WHY do I grumble when I see a CODE stuck on a table? “HELLO and welcome to dial-a-dinner. Tonight’s waiter: Oh, it’s ME” OK that sounds maxtreme. For something that’s just a food & drinks menu right? They’re supposed to be convenient, but are they really? Yes, the IDEA sounds…
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FICK Brewing Company
First I thought of another F word I know in the English language, but FUDGE it. I’ll pretend to forget, cuz Fick Brewing is a family-owned business! making great Belgian-style beers and FOOD. Found in Northgate, (across the road from Australia Post) is the Fick! little lollipop sign out front, of the cutest little house-turned-into-a-brewery.…
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MEGA New Year’s Mai Tai PUNCH
OK so i have a 10L drink dispenser shaped like a pineapple (who doesn’t!?) and YEAH it comes in handy when I want to make BULK cocktails for any occasion. New Years! Perfect time for when I don’t want to be shaking every drink, just chuck in all the ingredients and STIR. It saves on…
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TOP TEN Beers of 2023
In case you missed it! I took a look back at my favourite beers of 2023 and sampled them all AGAIN, in a blind taste test of sorts. Then ranked them on flavour and personal preference – here’s how it went down: FIRST: to re-collect my favourite cans, which meant a bit of Beer Shopping…
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All Inn Brewing Co.
As my mate Nicko described it “A tin shed in Banyo” is where you’ll find our beloved All Inn Brewing Co. I had to consult the archives to check my FIRST visit: Wednesday 12 August 2015, because it was the EKKA public holiday and our mates from The Bent Elbow bar had organised a bus…
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Illusion bar
I heard there was a cool new bar in town – all painted to look like a drawing and I thought: I go to bars.. I should check this out. Illusion bar. With no official website – I found random directions online, from an article stating it was “tucked away off Winn Lane in Ann…
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