Top five ‘posh’ potatoes to try at SEQ restaurants

It's the humble potato, but not as you know it. Here are five sumptuous spud dishes from South East Queensland you have to try.

Potato Cake at Farmhouse Kedron. Top five posh potatoes to try in SEQ. Stellar Five to Try. Photo: Instagram @farmhousekedron

It's the humble potato, but not as you know it. We have found the five South East Queensland eateries with the poshest potato dishes you have to try.

SK STEAK AND OYSTER FORTITUDE VALLEY

Any restaurant with a dedicated potato menu is going to rank at the top of our list, and we already know the quality at SK Steak and Oyster is top-notch. From the nostalgic hash brown and potato gems (all with an elevated air) to the ultra-bougie bug and lobster mash, you can’t pick just one dish to win out. Perhaps the poshest addition to this menu is the option to add caviar, taking a simple potato side and launching into Champagne territory. But of those old classics, the hash browns are the best you’ll ever crunch on. And if owner Simon Gloftis’ Instagram stories are to be believed, there may be a decadent looking dauphinoise on its way to the menu too.12/48 James St, Fortitude Valley

Hash Brown at SK Steak and Oyster Fortitude Valley. Top five posh potatoes to try in SEQ. Stellar Five to Try. Photo: Instagram @sk.steakandoyster

BAJA MEXICAN FORTITUDE VALLEY

When you think of Mexican cuisine, even contemporary Mexican, potatoes are not perhaps the first ingredient you have in mind. But the crab and potato tostadita at Baja Mexican will have you questioning everything. These bite-sized delights are a jacket potato-cross potato salad snack of your dreams, switched up with bold Mexican flavours and truly elegant twists. The team at Baja take the flesh of roasted Kipfler potatoes and mix in a bit of crabmeat, herbs, lime and capers, before topping it off with spicy jalapeño crema and salmon caviar. Need we say more? The only downside, or upside depending on who you ask, is you can’t stop at just one.

211 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley

Crab and Potato Tostaditas at Baja Fortitude Valley. Top five posh potatoes to try in SEQ. Stellar Five to Try. Photo: Instagram @bajabrisbane

RICE BOI MOOLOOLABA

You say “potato”, I say “load me up”, or at least at Mooloolaba Wharf’s queue-worthy Rice Boi. I couldn’t fathom taking the concept of a traditional Japanese katsu curry (a dish I ate my body weight in while in Japan) and heaping it atop a pile of perfectly thin and crispy fries. But the geniuses in the kitchen here have done just that and boi, is it incredible. This Asian twist on a loaded fries will have you coming back for more, with the rich katsu curry sauce perfectly balancing the dashi-spiced fries. Don’t worry the carb load is totally balanced by the pickled ginger and spring onion rounding it out.

123, The Wharf Mooloolaba, Parkyn Parade, Mooloolaba

Katsu curry fries at Rice Boi Mooloolaba. Top five posh potatoes to try in SEQ. Stellar Five to Try. Photo: Instagram @riceboi_mba

PILLONI WEST END

Carbs on carbs is the name of the game for this potato dish at Sardinian restaurant Pilloni. Culurgiones are the most delightful little pillows of pasta, akin to a ravioli, but stuffed with fluffy potato and mint, served in a bed of tomato and made complete with the finest shavings of pecorino. These little bundles of bliss are a traditional Sardinian pasta that may be completely unknown to most, but are hands-down the only way you will want to enjoy stuffed pasta again. As if the dish alone wasn’t enough of a drawcard, this sweet little spot keeps flames at the heart of its food, while working alongside a suite of local producers and growers and are guided by the seasons.

166 Hardgrave Rd, West End

Culurgiones at Pilloni West End. Top five posh potatoes to try in SEQ. Stellar Five to Try. Photo: Instagram @pilloni.restaurant

FARMHOUSE KEDRON

The menu at Farmhouse boasts one of those dishes that has become synonymous with Brisbane brunching, in fact more than 3000 people a month chow down on this golden nugget. Yes, we’re talking about the Farmhouse potato cake. This little cafe, owned by a husband and wife team, quickly found its niche with the development of the potato cake, by then head chef, the late Ben Thomas King. It is served alongside charred corn, grilled bacon and poached eggs, delightfully covered in a house-made hollandaise sauce and sumac. Our vego and gluten intolerant friends needn’t worry as the team can swap out bacon for haloumi or regular crumbs for gluten-free ones.

9 Somerset Rd, Kedron