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Matt Shea

Matt Shea

Food and Culture Editor

Matt Shea is Food and Culture Editor at Brisbane Times. He is a former editor and editor-at-large at Broadsheet Brisbane, and has written for Escape, Qantas Magazine, the Guardian, Jetstar Magazine and SilverKris, among many others.

Idle features a design by in-deman Tamsin Johnson.

Agnes Bakery successor unveiled in New Farm

Expect all the fire-licked breads and pastries you’ve become accustomed to queueing for, and a full-service cafe menu featuring elevated brunch dishes.

  • Matt Shea
Riser’s chicken caesar sandwich.

Brisbane’s best chook sanger? Here’s a textural, flavour-filled contender

Freshly baked bread? Check. Brined chicken? Check. Umami packed dressing? Check. There’s so much to love about this fabulous creation.

  • Matt Shea
Layla restaurant in Brisbane.

Brisbane’s most exciting restaurant, cafe and bar openings of the year so far

From a low-key James Street gem to the local debut of a heavyweight Melbourne chef, these are the new venues to tick off your list.

Chef Matt Blackwell in the dining room at Pneuma.

Celebrated restaurant Pneuma to close after departure of star chef

You have just three weeks remaining to experience one of Brisbane’s best restaurants.

  • Matt Shea
Summit Restaurant has reopened, now under the stewardship of Mantle Group.
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The Summit restaurant has reopened. Is it any good?

The Mount Coot-tha icon’s location could be an excuse for mediocrity. But Summit finds a maligned operator and star chef striving to match its sky-high outlook.

  • Matt Shea
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Agnes Bakery will serve its last woodfired baked breads and pastries this Sunday.

One of Brisbane’s most influential bakeries to close this weekend

“Agnes Bakery represented, for me, hope.” It’s the end of an era for Anyday Group, but also the start of a new one, with a successor to soon open.

  • Matt Shea
Chouquette announced last week that it had permanently closed its New Farm premises.

Gone, but maybe not forever: New Farm bakery announces closure

After almost 20 years, pioneering French bakery Chouquette is no more. But there’s still hope it could live on elsewhere, its owners say.

  • Matt Shea
Martin Boetz at Short Grain with his coconut scraper, which can be bought for as little as $5 at your local Asian supermarket.

The $5 tool that will elevate your Thai cooking, according to a star chef

Looking to level up your Thai salads and desserts? Longrain creator Martin Boetz reckons you need this simple utensil.

  • Matt Shea
Clarence owners Ben McShane and Matt Kuhnemann.

Top small restaurant takes on one of Brisbane’s best dining precincts

It will join star laneway neighbours in a larger space from an in-demand Emme and Pilloni designer. What won’t change? The exceptional, produce-driven food.

  • Matt Shea
Dark Blue opened last month in a laneway Valley spot.

One of the Valley’s best bars welcomes heritage-listed sister venue

In a loft-inspired laneway space it’s serving South American and Spanish wine alongside snacks like tinned sardines, Superbon Madrid crisps and DIY deli boards.

  • Matt Shea

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