Ambiwerra: more than a mouthful This year’s Ambiwerra festival promises food, wine, and entertainment to sink your teeth into. The name may be hard to say, but you ought to be concerning your mouth with more important things: like food from more than a dozen of Brisbane’s best restaurant[...]
Archive for July, 2009
July 30th, 2009 - 8:00 am § in CAFE, RESTAURANT
Six Degrees Mini-Review
A sparkle in suburbia What’s with Indoooropilly lately, seriously? Why is it so hard to find a place for coffee after 9pm on a weekend? When I’ve seen a movie and stuffed myself with candy, sometimes I need a little pick-me-up before I head home. There is one salvation, in the form of Si[...]
July 22nd, 2009 - 3:29 pm § in CAFE, RESTAURANT
Viet Hoa Cafe Restaurant
Nights out with a group of friends can be a little bit tricky. Finding a restaurant that suits everyone’s location, budget and dietary requirements can be a God-awful challenge. Thankfully I keep an ace up my sleeve for such moments-cheap, tasty, convenient Vietnamese at Viet Hoa in South Brisba[...]
July 19th, 2009 - 6:15 pm § in RESTAURANT
Bella Notte Rosalie Review
Cheap and Cheesy I’ve been to Italy. I’ve had authentic Italian pizza. I don’t mean to brag-well, maybe I do. Just a little. Anyway, I had been craving the sort of thin crust, simply topped, and not overly cheesy pizza that I had indulged in way too often in Italia-the sort that[...]
July 17th, 2009 - 12:35 pm § in CAFE, RESTAURANT
Mahjongg Cafe Review
Worth the trip The word ‘Portside’ never used to bother me. It’s just a funny little place with a cinema, a few shops, and half a dozen restaurants. It also had the Coffee and Chocolate Affair the other weekend. The one with the chocolate strawberries. And the Lindt fountains. And [...]
July 17th, 2009 - 12:09 pm § in CAFE
Extract Espresso Bar Review
Simple CBD munchiesNow that I’m an unemployed loser, there’s one thing that I miss about working (aside from the money thing and the stationery cupboard). Weekday city cafes. There are seriously tonnes of quirky little places all over the CBD that sadly close their doors on the weekend. [...]
Coffee and Chocolate Affair 2009 Round-Up
If you happen to know who is responsible for the idea of dedicating an entire day to coffee and chocolate, and then actually making it happen please tell me. I and several thousand other people would like to tell them they rock! The 2009 Coffee and Chocolate Affair at Portside Wharf last Sunday (12 [...]
July 9th, 2009 - 1:01 pm § in QUICK BITES
Quick Bites: 10 July
Cheap grub: keep your wallet and tum full 1. Get some iron and save some copper. The Fox, at South Brisbane, is doing $2 Steak Sundays. Yes. TWO-DOLLAR-STEAK. Are they mad? Do they not know the sheer amount of meat-hungry people we have in this town, who will lurk hungrily outside The Fox’s do[...]
July 9th, 2009 - 9:07 am § in SPOTLIGHT
He said/she said: Paniyiri 2009
Paniyiri, AKA the Greek Festival, has been and gone for another year, leaving in its wake thousands of poor souls clutching their over-stuffed bellies. Two of those souls, Ally and Nick recount the weekend of festivities. Um-pah! NICK: Paniyiri is something that I look forward to on the calendar. I[...]