Meal deal: Brisbane’s 17 best bargain set lunches
From nine-course feasts for just $50 to $60 bottomless booze packages, we’ve found Brisbane’s best value lunch deals fit for the savvy spender.
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Want to eat out but don’t want to spend a fortune?
Brisbane restaurants are listening.
As more Aussies cut back on dining out at lunch as cost-of-living pressures pinch, eateries are rolling great value midday meal deals to try to lure in patrons.
From nine-course feasts for just $50 to $60 bottomless booze packages, we’ve found Brisbane’s best value lunch deals fit for the savvy spender.
HERVE’S
Level 1, Craft’d Grounds, 31-37 Collingwood St, Albion
https://www.hervesrestaurantbar.com.au/
This contemporary, French-leaning restaurant offers a two-course prix fixe lunch for $49, with entree, main and dessert options such as confit duck leg, beef cheek bourguignon and strawberry mille-feuille.
CLARENCE
617 Stanley St, Woolloongabba
https://clarencerestaurant.com/
This modern European eatery serves up a two or three-course lunch menu ($45 or $55 respectively), featuring dishes to share like cuttlefish with kipflers or beetroot and goats curd, plus a choice of main such as coral trout with white asparagus, carrot tarte tatin, or pork loin with borlotti beans; and your choice of dessert, perhaps a blood orange and bergamot mille-feuille. For bargain lovers, Clarence also serves a set $75 dinner menu.
SUSHI ROOM
The Calile Hotel, James St, Fortitude Valley
This glam Japanese restaurant offers a set lunch menu featuring the chef’s choice of three pieces of sashimi and six pieces of nigiri, plus your choice of a wagyu steak or king salmon with salad and miso for $65pp. The only catch is the whole table must have the set menu.
TARTUFO
1000 Ann St, Fortitude Valley
Tony Percuoco’s beloved Italian serves up a set lunch menu including a selection of cold and hot dishes to be shared in the middle of the table. It’s just $50pp for a minimum of four people.
PNEUMA
336 George St, Brisbane City
https://www.pneumarestaurant.com.au/
This exciting new restaurant from two of Brisbane’s most respected chefs, Dan Arnold and Matt Blackwell, boasts an $85 short tasting menu featuring some of the best dishes in the city right now. Blackwell changes the mix of plates customers receive regularly, but there could be the likes of a malt tart with cheddar custard, or tuna with white soy ponzu, or perhaps Wagyu beef cheek with bone marrow.
DONNA CHANG
171 George St, Brisbane City
https://www.donnachang.com.au/
For just $55pp ($35 each for children) diners can indulge in this contemporary Cantonese restaurant’s brilliant yum cha banquet every Sunday. Dishes include some of their signature dim sum such as chicken, prawn and shiitake siu mai, cumin spiced lamb buns, pork ribs with black bean, prawn toast, and much more.
LIBERTINE
No. 5, The Barracks, 61 Petrie Tce, Brisbane City
This modern Asian restaurant dishes out probably Brisbane’s cheapest set menu – a four-course long lunch of Vietnamese-inspired eats for just $39pp Friday to Sunday. Customers can make it even better value by adding on a bottomless 90-minute drinks package for only $60pp including beer, cocktails, sparkling and wines.
RICH & RARE
97 Boundary St, West End
https://www.richandrare.com.au/
This new steakhouse offers a great range of budget-friendly lunch specials, but there’s no going past the $50 power banquet. Between 11am and 6pm daily, a minimum of two diners can sit down to a whopping nine courses, including the likes of wagyu bresaola, seared scallops, market fish, sirloin steak, fries and dessert.
BISOU BISOU
Hotel X, 458 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
If you’re craving a French fix, Bisou Bisou has you covered with a $25 lunch special including a main of, say, roasted chicken and chips, steak and chips or fish and chips along with a glass on wine, a beer or a soft drink.
IRIS ROOFTOP
Hotel X, 458 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
While not a traditional lunch, Iris’s high tea tapas is a terrific value, daytime dining offering.
The $88pp menu includes chorizo pinchos, lamb empanadas, mushroom and manchego croquettes, churros and more, with a 90-minute beverage package featuring cocktails, mocktails, wine and tea. It’s available every Sunday.
C’EST BON
609/611 Stanley St, Woolloongabba
This inner-city French restaurant rolls out an $85 shared menu featuring two snacks and four courses. Dishes change regularly but could include the likes of rock lobster tart, Angus beef tartare or duck with heirloom carrots. The deal is also available at dinner.
CASA CHOW
4b/148 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba
https://casachowbrisbane.com.au/
South American eats meet the flavours of Asia at this fun and lively venue serving a $49 Piqueos and Pisco menu at lunch and dinner. Diners score five courses, including duck baos, crab spring rolls and dumplings, plus a glass of pisco punch.
SASSO ITALIANO
Shop 4/148 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba
An eight-course feast for just $59 – that’s the offer at this popular Italian eatery in South City Square. Dishes include oysters, arancini, burrata, pizza and pasta, plus more.
SOUTH CITY WINE
5/148 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba
https://southcitywinebar.com.au/
On Fridays and Saturdays, this dark and moody wine bar puts on a three-course lunch for $69, with the option to add a wine pairing for $60. Dishes include charcuterie and steak frites.
AHMETS RESTAURANT
10/168 Grey St, South Brisbane
Diners can eat like royalty with the $62 King’s Feast at this Turkish favourite. The seven-course affair, which is also available for dinner, features bread, borek, a mixed grill, salad, rice and dessert.
THE INCHCOLM BAR
73 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill
https://ovolohotels.com/ovolo/inchcolm/bar-inchcolm/
You won’t want to be going back to the office after this great lunch deal, which includes three courses paired with three signature martinis for $79. Available Fridays and Saturdays, guests can tuck into the likes of buffalo mozzarella salad or fresh oysters, and gnocchi or perhaps roasted chicken, alongside, say, a cucumber or lemon-infused martini.
BAR KAZBA
1000 Ann St, Fortitude Valley
https://ovolohotels.com/ovolo/thevalley/eat/kazba/
This Middle Eastern-inspired bar delivers big flavours and even bigger value with its $40 “Soufra Mezze” five-course feast. Dishes include za’atar potato bread, hummus, salad, barbecue cauliflower shawarma and chocolate halva pudding.
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