Lurking just outta sight of China Town is Ling Ling’s, late night Asian restaurant & bar, Fortitude Valley. Look for the beautiful, brightly lit sign out front, the entrance is like RIGHT next to a strip club, so check which side of the velvet rope you’re standing.. Unless that’s what is wanted…  So I chose…

Mid-way through my Z – A bar challenge, trying to NOT kill my liver or bank balance, my M bar was calling: Mr Edward’s. No doubt named for the Brisbane city street it’s on. My work meeting had finished early, meaning I could bus it to the city and visit at a nice afternoony time:…

No I didn’t mean to buy into the hype of Next Episode Bar. Not just because everything was coloured HOT NEON PINK. No of course not, nooo never… I just happened to be up to the letter “N” on my Z to A challenge list and this proudly HIDDEN bar in South Brisbane looked a…

OKAY, The Outpost. I tried to avoid places that start with a THE, in my reverse alphabetical bars challenge, just to make the challenge more CHALLENGY, but caved when saw this cool show advertised, at about the right alphabetical time: The Jensens were playing the soundtrack to the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Hell yeah.…

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Pretty much! I was parched. After catching two buses to get to Parched Brewery, in the pocket of Brisbane that is West End. Greg also did a two-bus trip to get there, and we just happened to cross paths mid-transfer at the Cultural Centre.. Then walked down Montague Road til signs appeared.. LOTS of signs.…

Quirky little bar Quysine Tapas – Bar & Restaurant, if you’re in the Cleveland area, and tapas are calling you: go here. Unfortunately I’m one of those awful people who trust in opening hours stated, (11:30am is their OPEN time), so only a little annoyed when I rock up at 11:45am to a big CLOSED…

Reminder: your favourite bar will close one day. Right now I’m writing my Z to A of bars 2022 and reminiscing on my first and last visit to the Rumpus Room. A bar that had been around so long I thought I’d always have the chance to pop in, but after 16 years they announced their…

Saying it’s the second bar for Suburban Social, because the first is at Chapel Hill on the northside of Brisbane. It did so well that the blokes started this sister bar on the southside – and I was keen to check it out. So I made it the S bar on my 2022 list, Z…

This was how Tiff and I became friends, thanks to Janet, and our trying of new bars. The Triffid had just started doing acoustic music sessions in the beer garden, so we all popped in one hot afternoon. OK the ladies popped in, I was out front of the music hall trying to find them,…