Geebus, I am so not cool enough for this bar. Did you see the sign out front? No you didn’t, because Gerard’s is too cool for a sign. It’s an “If you know you know” kinda bar. Y’kno. I’d heard good things, and managed to find it one afternoon, tucked behind James Street in the…

How do I love HellBound, let me count the ways: A is for the Ahhhh of that first sip of beer B for the BEERS (duh) C is for COUNTING all the Deee’s around room ahaha.. OK how about I tell a story instead: Once upon a time, my FIRST visit to Hellbound, was April…

If you haven’t heard of this bar – das okay, me neither til I was specifically looking for a bar starting with the letter i for my Z to A challenge. April 2022. Actually I was supposed to go to It’s Still A Secret for a Lee Griffin show, but that got cancelled last minute.…

Just because I don’t know John himself doesn’t mean I can’t pop in for a coffee, to the darkened corners of the John Mills Himself bar. (Cafe bar that is). I’ve done beer bars, I’ve been to cocktail bars. Now it was time for a COFFEE bar. Bar #43 for me, and on this list:…

Know that I had walked by Kubo’s bar many MANY times while in Coorparoo, so my next alphabetical list of Brisbane bars (this challenge: Z to A) was the perfect excuse to pop in. Let’s tick off a K bar! Keen to try some authentic Filipino foods, and a purple kind of cheesecake I saw…

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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