You have just 12 weeks left to check out one of Brisbane’s best little seafood spots.

Late last week, husband and wife team Daniel Miletic and Amelia Taylor took to social media to announce the closure of their popular One Fish Two Fish restaurant in Kangaroo Point. The couple plan to run its final service over the Easter weekend in April.

Taylor says it was a difficult decision to call time on the restaurant, but she and Miletic want to focus more on their Midtown bar in Fish Lane, as well as smaller event dinners, and the like. Taylor also runs her own PR business, Liquidity Marketing.

“We were pretty honest in the [social media] post,” Taylor says. “There’s nothing more to it than the lease was coming up, really.

“The business runs really well, and everything about it is going gangbusters, so it was a hard decision to make from a financial perspective. But just from a lifestyle perspective, that’s kind of where we sat.”

One Fish Two Fish opened in a refurbished weatherboard shop opposite the Pineapple Hotel in early 2019. It quickly developed a loyal fan base on the back of a well-pitched menu that featured everything from prawn cocktail sandwiches, fish and chips, and dory burgers, to more upmarket options, such as Moreton Bay bug risotto, squid ink tortellini, and grilled goldband snapper.

It was a venue timed perfectly to ride Brisbane diners’ greater appreciation of seafood, which came on the back of better access to fresh produce by local suppliers.

“I think people definitely celebrate seafood more than they used to – that they can get their hands on fresh seafood,” Taylor says. “And we’ve always been careful about telling diners where we source our seafood from, because that’s a big thing. People really care now.”

It’s a much-loved restaurant, so it’s perhaps no surprise when Taylor says diner reaction to the news has been “massive”.

“We had about 200 bookings in the space of 24 hours or so,” she says. “A lot of people saying, ‘we got married there’, or, ‘we had our first date there’. So that’s been really cool.

“We have a bunch of events to celebrate the restaurant and to encourage people to book … The lease actually should’ve ended next week, but we wanted to go through until Easter.”