Queensland is Australia’s celebrated golden state, and the city of Brisbane’s dining, nightlife and events calendar add to the state’s wondrous display of colour.
The wild beauty of Noosa and Hervey Bay has been tamed by the refined culture of Australia’s most intriguing and dedicated restaurateurs, bartenders, event-organisers, and tour-guides, and the city of Brisbane is alive with the lush beauty of these outer areas combined with the excitement of a fast-growing metropolis.
Your Guide to Brisbane Restaurants
Dining in Brisbane: Offerings from Queensland’s Most Colourful Plate
Some of Brisbane’s best restaurants are located alongside the purpose-built lagoon, beach and lush parklands of South Bank. This offers visitors exquisite views to accompany their delicacies, whilst there is distinctive village camaraderie within the smaller districts of Paddington, New Farm and Bulimba observable to those who enjoy the bohemian flavours on offer. In South Bank, Timmy Kemp offers her guests a unique combination of top-line French training with her own Vietnamese heritage. Ahmet’s presents a rare sight on Friday and Saturday evenings along with its Turkish menu: fully trained belly-dancers. Although this must make the actually consumption of one’s meal a difficult task in terms of concentration, the experience itself is said to be one of wondrous, exotic beauty! And for a relaxed atmosphere, one cannot walk past the Ginga Japanese Restaurant. Toscani’s in Little Stanley Street offers up a taste of Italian and Mediterranean culture, whilst a family atmosphere can be found at the Decks Seafood and Steak eatery.
Your Guide to Brisbane Bars & Nightclubs
Enjoying the Bright Lights of Brisbane’s Nightlife
Queensland’s golden glow doesn’t fade at sunset: it actually brightens ever more fiercely with the coming of Brisbane’s nightlife. Brisbane is resplendent with nightclubs and bars to cater for the tastes of every city-dweller or guest to the city, with Mick O’Malley’s Irish Bar regarded as the best Irish theme bar in the city, the Glass Bar offering premium cocktails and tapas on Brunswick Street in Fortitude Valley’s most vibrant nightlife district, and the newly-refurbished 320 on Leichardt featuring a modern restaurant, bar and cellar. Those with a taste of luxury and excellence will find themselves at home in the Cuvee Lounge, whilst South Brisbane’s Fox Hotel provides patrons with a relaxing environment in which to experience Italian hospitality. And the Paddington Tavern will whet the thirst of those looking for a good beer, a game of pool, and live entertainment.
Your Guide to Brisbane Events
Your Guide to Brisbane Events
Music, food, wine and culture are proudly represented in Brisbane’s events calendar. The July Paniyiri festival in South Brisbane is Australia’s largest Greek festival, paying homage to the many thousands of Greek migrants and their descendants who’ve made new homes in this beautiful land. Ekka, the Brisbane Exhibition, follows in August, is considered one of Australia’s largest and most exciting carnivals. In June, the Noosa “Long Weekend” is actually a ten-day celebration of Brisbane’s best film, drama, literature and design. Wine-lovers can sate their tastes at the Noosa Food and Wine Festival in May, and Brisbanites, together with their guests, make their way to Hervey Bay for the Hervey Bay Whale Festival, in which the annual migration of the humpback whale is welcomed with festivities. Over 5,500 competitors arrive in Noosa for the Noosa Triathlon Multi-Sport Festival in October, which is an Olympic-distance course providing a superb challenge to its determined participants. The Mooloolaba Triathlon Festival in March is Australia’s second-largest multi-sport event. Flora and fauna enthusiasts find that the lush parklands of Brisbane and Queensland are a heavenly experience in their own right, but the Ginger Flower Festival in Tandina combines gardening with entertainment and cooking to produce a convention for crafts experts and amateurs alike. And music? There’s no shortage of it: the Urban Country Music Festival in Caboolture is a free exhibition of true-blue country music, and September’s Noosa Jazz Festival presents more than 150 jazz, modern, funk and blues artists. Finally, with the coming of summer, the Woodford Folk Festival in December brings together a plethora of national and international artists and musicians.
Niteguide can follow you around your tour of Brisbane before you venture out into Queensland’s wide open spaces, and it offers you the best of restaurants, events, and nighttime experiences in the city. There is plenty of gold at end of this rainbow, and beginning your tour of Queensland in Brisbane with Niteguide as your reference point places you at the best possible position to experience the best this city has to offer.
by Karajane Chapman.