Overseeing both venues is a hatted former Paper Daisy and Raes on Wategos chef, who has also worked at Attica and Stokehouse. Here’s what’s in store.
The two-hatted Pilot is popping up in the star Brisbane eatery for a nine-course degustation with paired drinks. But you’ll need to be quick to nab a booking.
In a brightly detailed spot it will serve lovingly prepared tonnarelli, ravioli and tortellini (which can be purchased retail), along with wood-fired mains.
An ex-Greca head chef is cooking Jordanian- and Moroccan-inspired food such as crab omelette with chilli, pipis with harissa butter, and wagyu with mustard.
They’ve worked at Gerard’s, Essa, Pilloni and Bar Romantica. Now they’re on their own with eye-catching food and a killer globe-trotting wine list.
It will serve katsu sandos, soba salads and deep-fried curry bread. There will also be specialty coffee and strawberry matcha, with wine and cocktails to come.
Tickets are on on sale now for this colourful DJ-driven lunch, but you’d best be quick.
There’s no TAB and no pokies. Instead, you’ll find cask ale on tap alongside Scotch eggs, sausage rolls, fish and chips, and braised steak and Guinness pies.
These precisely presented bowls specialise in chicken-broth ramen, and are turning heads with local noodle nerds and Japanese expats.
In an old Coorparoo trophy shop, it’s set to serve egg drop brioches, omurice with prawns, and eggplant rice, with a small-producer wine list (and shop) to come.
Owner-chef Clarissa Pabst is writing her own small-town rules at this vine-covered cottage.