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The venue is designed to capture the morning commuter crowd crossing the Kangaroo Point Bridge.

What’s open this Easter long weekend in Brisbane

Looking to fill your Easter break with food and drink? These cafés and restaurants are open for business all weekend long.

  • Kristen Camp and Neesha Sinnya

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Penelope (at night, at least) hides in plain sight on James Street.

Flash new supper club hides in plain sight on James Street

Blink and you’ll miss one of 2025’s most exciting openings, which is serving classic food and cocktails with subtle twists. Take a look inside.

  • Matt Shea
For Easter, Doughcraft has added both a classic and a chocolate hot cross bun to its daily menu.

Where to find Brisbane’s best hot cross buns

Whether you’re anti-peel, pro-cardamom or a fan of a wildcard hot cross bun, here’s where to hit for your annual Easter treat.

  • Neesha Sinnya, Matt Shea and Kristen Camp
Classic rooftop club Birdees is now a salubrious beer garden, bar and eateyr.

Storied Brisbane club reborn as a sun-kissed beer garden and eatery

There are 16 beer taps, stacks of cocktails, and a food menu much better than it perhaps has any right to be. Take a look inside.

  • Matt Shea
Matt Okine and Dan Wilson at their newly opened LPO wine store in Tarragindi.

Comedian Matt Okine opens a cosy wine spot in Brisbane’s south

Locals are flocking to this former post office for rare – but affordably priced – bottles from Australia, France, the Czech Republic, Canada and beyond.

  • Matt Shea
Shane Delia’s newly opened Layla in West End.

Shane Delia’s Layla wows with a new take on Middle Eastern food

In a heritage-listed West End spot it’s serving Moroccan-spiced butter chicken, Turkish dumplings with mushroom XO, along with seasonal cocktails and 150 wines.

  • Matt Shea
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Za Za Ta served its last diners on Sunday night.

Brisbane restaurant favoured by Billie Eilish closes after six years

But its operators have big plans for a funky Fortitude Valley rooftop bar, to open later this year.

  • Matt Shea
Shane Delia outside the Thomas Dixon Centre in West End.

Shane Delia’s Layla will be Middle Eastern, but not as you know it

The star chef’s first Brisbane eatery will be influenced by the cuisine’s trade routes and backed by 140 wines plus a “Single Bottle Club” reserve list.

  • Matt Shea
Baja Modern Mexican owner Dan Quinn

Brisbane restaurants becalmed post-Alfred

One owner reckons he’s lost close to two weeks’ worth of revenue. It’s a potentially huge blow in an industry with notoriously tight margins.

  • Matt Shea
Newstead Brewing Co in Milton.

Craft beer icon Newstead Brewing Co closes permanently

The hugely influential brewpub blamed the 2022 floods, but its demise reflects a once-booming industry now facing tough headwinds.

  • Matt Shea

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