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Southside runs its yum cha menu every Sunday.

Southside

Yum cha and cocktails in bucolic surrounds.

  • Matt Shea
Wild shot venison rack with beetroot and blueberry.

Clarence

For a seasonal menu served at the base of a Fish Lane apartment building.

  • Matt Shea
Chef and co-owner Ollie Hansford’s menu taps into nostalgia without laying it on too thick.

Marlowe

Head-turning dining space in an old apartment building.

  • Matt Shea
Uncle Don’s katsu sando.

Find the ideal sando in this unfussy South Brisbane restaurant

Want to be transported to back to the streets of Tokyo? Step this way, please.

  • Matt Shea
Otto’s longstanding head chef Will Cowper will leave the restaurant at the end of March.

‘There’s always a time limit’: Otto Brisbane to lose star chef

The upmarket riverside restaurant will lose the only head chef it has ever had. But Fink Group isn’t in retreat, with a former Sydney mentor stepping in to take the reins.

  • Matt Shea
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Otto’s champagne lobster spaghettini.

Is this $75 stunner Brisbane’s best pasta?

South Bank’s Otto restaurant isn’t cheap, but it’s just about always excellent value, and nothing exemplifies that better than this spectacular dish.

  • Matt Shea
The classic margherita pizza, with an authentic charred crust.
13.5/20

Mister Paganini

Meet Mister Paganini, the new face of authentic pizza in Brisbane's South Bank.

  • Natascha Mirosch
Julius

Julius Pizzeria

There's a lot to like about Julius; the laneway location in Brisbane's cultural heartland, the sexy, semi-industrial fit-out with a cheeky nod to the Italian "ristorante" of old inherent in the arched brick doorway, and a convivial bar full of jewel-like bottles of Aperol and Cinzano.

  • Natascha Mirosch
Olive oil chocolate mousse.
13.5/20

Fish Lane Bistro

Fish Lane has the potential to be a very good bistro, the kitchen just needs to pay a little more attention to detail.

  • Natascha Mirosch
Bird's Nest

Bird's Nest Yakitori

Eat your way from beak to tail at this unusual contemporary yakitori bar.

  • Natascha Mirosch