First pictures: New restaurant to be built on Brisbane bridge

Brisbane will welcome its first restaurant on a bridge, with a major hospitality group winning a hotly contested tender.

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Brisbane will welcome its first restaurant on a bridge, with a major hospitality group winning the hotly contested tender to operate on the new Kangaroo Point Green Bridge.

The Tassis Group – which owns Massimo and Opa in the city and Yamas in West End – will open an elegant noshery as well as a casual all-day cafe when the bridge is unveiled in 2024.

Artist impressions of the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge Restaurant. Picture: Brisbane City Council.

Director Michael Tassis said the upper-level restaurant Bombora, an Indigenous term for waves breaking over a reef, and the bridge-level cafe, named after the Banjo Patterson poem Mulga Bill’s Bicycle, would “offer dining experiences like no other”.

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said the Tassis Group demonstrated its drive to do business in Brisbane after bouncing back when its riverfront Opa was inundated during the 2022 floods.

Artist impressions of the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge Restaurant. Picture: Brisbane City Council.

“With their newest restaurant to be more than 10m above the Brisbane River they can get excited about establishing a venue that can never be flooded,” Cr Schrinner said.

He said the group’s competitive tender offered strong local ties, “with all service providers and contractors based in Brisbane, delivering a 99 per cent local supply chain”.

Artist impressions of the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge Restaurant. Picture: Brisbane City Council.

And in a saving for ratepayers, income from the dining venues would help fund the ongoing maintenance of the bridge.

Cr Schrinner said the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge would become “a must-visit dining destination” and also benefit people exploring the river city during the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner with Michael Tassis, who has won the rights to operate a new restaurant on the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge. Picture: David Clark

The bridge’s stylish restaurant, designed to evoke moving water, will offer views of the river, CBD, Story Bridge and Kangaroo Point cliffs, while Mulga Bill’s will serve casual fare, such as wood-fired pizzas.

Artist impressions of the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge Restaurant. Picture: Brisbane City Council.