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The Hope & Anchor is latest venture from Jamie Webb, the man behind adored Brisbane watering holes Lefty's and Sonny's, and Spanish bar and eatery Gordita, and, more recently, Ginger's Diner.

After a brief hiatus (following a fleeting false start), live music venue and new Brisbane bar, The Foundry is cranking back up. The two level complex capacity for up to 300-person live audience, a rock'n'roll bar also moonlights as an arts space and is home to 20 creative studios, too.

The Stores Grocer at West End might just be the best kept secret on Brisbane’s food scene. It’s a busy food den with an aura of abundance, neatly tucked into a stunning architectural heritage space on Montague Rd. A team of chefs gets busy each day in an open kitchen stocking a deli section with fresh in-store-made pastas, cakes, salads and spectacular sandwiches you can have on site with locally roasted Fonzie Abbott coffee in the leafy café or take home.

Tucked away in the streets of Wynnum, the coffee they're brewing at Dramanti is definitely worth the trip to the Bayside!  A combination cafe and roasting house, Dramanti Artisan Roasters allows their customers an insight into the mastery that goes into creating their brew.  

High ceilings littered with antique chandeliers make Grape Therapy in the CBD the perfect place to enjoy a fine glass of wine or host your next function. The basement venue offers Bare Espresso Coffee from 7:30am each weekday morning and splashes out rare vintage bottles of wine in the evenings. Cheese platters can be enjoyed with a newer boutique wine selection, or you can order a pizza from Cicco's Pasta Bar upstairs with your aged port. 

Set to open in the coming weeks, Pizzantica Pizzeria in Hawthorne is the bricks and mortar iteration of the much loved Pizzantica Food Truck.

Mr Edward’s Alehouse & Kitchen is a city-slickin’ craft brewery and eatery ready to take you from your 7am coffee to your 5pm Friday knock-off drinks. Armed with a desire to create a haven where craft beer, European eats and city life go hand-in-hand, owners Gerry Murphy and Daniel Whiffen have executed their plan to bring another fine meeting (and drinking) place to Brisbane’s CBD.

West Enders can treat themselves to a riverside brew at roastery cafe, Veneziano Coffee Roasters. Their kitchen serves an all-day brunch menu of feastings and treats, perfect for a leisurely morning or a tasty lunch and, of course, amazing coffee. The local roaster serves up a range of house blends to kickstart your tastebuds and showcases a rotating schedule of single origins, sourced directly by their baristas. Drop by for a coffee any way you like - black, white, filter and even nitro-charged!! 

An old school boxing gym with a modern twist. Brisbane Boxing at West End has 39 bags for you to get your hands on and provides a workout that'll get your heart rate through the roof. Walk out with less stress, a new skill and a wonderful feeling of achievement.  

Bulimba's newest drinking hall, The Oxford Tap House, is a boozy temple with enough beers on tap to float a small boat. Their codex of brews covers everything from stout to ale, bu anyone fancying something a little sweeter can dip into lashings of wine and a sprinkling of cocktails to even out the ratio. 

Having recently set up shop on Bulimba's Oxford Street, Nom Nom is cranking out the dairy whip like it's nobody's business. Family-owned, and made exclusively on milk from Maleny Dairy, Nom Nom is wholly dedicated to churning out the purest sconces of cold and creamy sweetness. With handmade waffle cones, cold-pressed coffee, and spectrum of flavours from green tea to gingerbread, Nom Nom is re-painting Brisbane's legendary gelatoscape. 

New Teneriffe bakery, Danny's Bread is an artisan organic sourdough bakery―music to the ears of every Brisbane bread lover.

Inspired by the '40s flagship, Nantucket Kitchen & Bar, adorably retro NKB is an express option for Cape Cod-esque burgers, hotdogs, waffles, bagels, shakes, sodas...you name it, if it's delish, they've got it.

The Spaghetti House is a vibrant Italian trattoria located at South Brisbane. Serving up rustic fares Monday through to Sunday, intended to be enjoyed over the perfect spritz or vino with perfecto company.

What sets this hip new Brisbane yoga studio apart is that they've created a space where you can feel at ease, moving away from the chanting and customaries of traditional yoga and setting their contemporary studio in a funky industrial warehouse.

Tucked around the corner from sibling venue, Gauge, Maker is the latest Brisbane establishment from Sourced Grocer's Jerome Batten.

Feel the West-Coast vibes at new Cali' eatery, California Native. With a casual Mexican/American menu, a boutique bar, and warm, relaxed interior, California Native is already a hit with locals.

Brisbane's premier late-night supper club, Farrier, is dedicated to easing the beastly cravings beyond the witching hour. Boasting a substantial and modern menu with nods to the site's pub origins, Farrier is about so much more than the midnight snack, making it the ideal place for late-night partygoers, shift workers, and the jetlagged. One thing is certain; if everyone is closed, Farrier is open. 

Get your health-freak on at Pineapple Express, the latest foodie attraction to his Portside Wharf. Jump aboard this organic, clean-eating bandwagon and treat yourself to the fresh and vibrant flavours the team at Pineapple Express have to offer. They've got green smoothies, cocowhip, zucchini pasta, acai bowls, and coffee from Campos to have you bursting with energy and flouncing around the office like the sainted health-nut you are.  

From sorting the customs of Brisbane, to serving the customers of the city Customs House is one of Brisbane's most historic buildings and also one of our fair city's most iconic restaurants.  

Gluten free kids and doughnut fans alike are all over the spherical goodness coming out of the Nodo bakery. After once only filling the sweets counters of some of Brisbane's best cafes, Nodo opened a sleek, minimalist bricks and mortar bakery and cafe, and quickly became one of our favourite spots for brunch. 

Open for breakfast, lunch and snacks, this Bowen Hills cafe is a splendiferous mecca of all things fresh, wholesome, and nourishing. Bowen Arrow specialise in health-charged vegetarian and vegan options as well as coffee, raw treats, cold pressed juices, and matcha tea. For a super-clean, pious feeling to have you walking on air, get your health fix with a visit to Bowen Arrow. 

Just across from the Antique Centre, Chapter IV is the latest haunt for Paddington's committed breakfast-goers. Serving up a delicious menu for breakfast and lunch, Chapter IV also bake all manner of sweet treats in house, making it a great local spot for mid-morning coffee or afternoon tea. For a perfect Sunday morning, settle in on the balcony at Chapter IV and soak up Brisbane's best view with a breakfast feast. 

Who does Valentines Day better than the French? This V-Day, book a stay for you and your S.O at Sofitel, Brisbane's award-winning, 5 star hotel. Enjoy a night in French-style luxury, and woo your special someone with breakfast for two, complimentray parking, plus welcome drinks upon arrival, for only $265 per room per night. It's what V-Day dreams are made of. Oh la la! 

Steak at the front, whisky party in the back. The Morrison Hotel may be known as Brisbane's best steak restaurant but their kick-ass bar the Naked Whisky Bar is ticking all the cool, under-the-radar boxes this part of Woolloongabba is known for.

Award-winning GOMA Restaurant offers elegant and contemporary dining in the heart of the GOMA. 

The third Harajuku in to pop up in Brisbane, Harajuku Gyoza South Bank is no less dumpling packed, sake-soaked, or fun then its predecessors.

Judy C has been baking all things tasty for more than 30 years. In her quaint store in Ashgrove, you'll find a plentiful selection of cheeky treats―think Rocky Road cupcakes, lemon and Cointreau Madeira cake and peanut butter Whoopie Pies. Her tried-and-tested receipes produce yummy goods that can be enjoyed in-store or ordered in for a special event. Our tip? Don't leave without having a locally-roasted cup of Wolff Coffee!  

We're fan-girling over Brisbane cafe King Arthur; the latest offering from the team behind delightful South Brisbane cafe, Merriweather.

Q Pilates is a boutique Pilates studio on the south side of Brisbane specialising in clinical and rehabilitative Pilates. They also offer mat and reformer Pilates through a range of classes focussed on body toning, mum and pregnancy Pilates as well as barre Pilates.

Local favourite and all-around bitchin' hang out, Salisbury's Apples on Ainsworth has been flying under the radar as one of suburban Brisbane's best coffee gems.

Bloodhound Corner Bar & Kitchen in Fortitude Valley is serving beers, cider, tacos and other weekend essentials from its Brunswick Street digs. Sidle up to their massive wooden bar and you'll find an ever-rotating lineup of 10 local, national and international craft beers, as well as a massive selection of bottles and tinnies of beers and ciders. 

Steamtrain Espresso is a new hole-in-the-wall coffee joint in Red Hill, brewing Fonzie Abbott Espresso, blending fresh smoothies, and serving a healthy menu of brekky and lunch fare ideal for busy locals to grab and go. 

Malt Traders is an independent bottle shop and deli in the CBD. Malt Traders is home to both small-batch beer, wine, and spirits, and a quality array of booze-friendly nibbles. 

Promising to bring the real flavour of all of New York's 'urban communities' to our American-loving city, 5 Boroughs is a new Brisbane bar with Yankee 'tude in all the right places.

JS-PT provides high quality, tailored physical training and nutritional coaching for businesses and individuals. Located in Milton, this Brisbane personal training service offers small group training, nutritional coaching, corporate wellness, and one-on-one training, and is a must-try if you need to get your body movin' this year. 

The ultimate destination for burgeoning bookworms, West End's Where The Wild Things Are is a bookshop devoted to children's and young adult's fiction. Check out their Facebook page for upcoming events (they've got tonnes in the works) and pop by the next time your sister-in-law's son has a birthday. Their book tree is also pretty baller. 

Epic Hair Designs has multiple salons throughout Brisbane, and now they're bringing their affordable yet skilled hairdressing services to the east side, with an adorbs salon in Norman Park. 

Epic by name, epic by nature, Epic Hair Designs in Newmarket is one of the best hair salons in Brisbane. With serious colour cred' (all their stylists are expertly trained by the Goldwell team) and multiple salons throughout Brisbane—including Kenmore, Newmarket, Upper Mount Gravatt, Norman Park, Fortitude Valley and Springfield Lakes—the Epic Hair Designs crew will have your mane perfectly wrangled in no time! 

These kids know their bean! Nestled in Holland Park, Deedot Coffee House offers a selection of coffee blends from local Brisbane roasters Uncle Joe's. as well as house-made sodas for the wicked, cold pressed juices for the pious, and old-school spiders (how we've missed them). 

Located in Helen Street in Teneriffe, Green Beacon Brewing Co. is a boutique craft brewery and bar that produces beautifully unique brews on site. From the working brewery to your glass, Green Beacon bar pours these brews up seven days per week in the casual and friendly surrounds of the warehouse slash brewery.

Rolling to a parking space near you, the brains behind Brisbane food truck Chocolate Komberry Co. are masters of culinary amalgamation. Their swift and sweet menu features all manner of croissant-esque tasties, including cronuts and cruffins, in a variety of colourful flavours. Drool...

A cute Brisbane cafe in a corner of Greenslopes where cute's not the norm, Jam Pantry shines like a breakfast beacon on Logan Road. 

West End's  Brisbane Brewing Co is an ultimate destination beer hall. With no fewer than eight craft beers (brewed on site) and a full menu of delicious tasties, this is one homebrew you can definitely jam with. Hidden down a very West End appropriate laneway adorned with twinkling lights and in a converted carpark, Brisbane Brewing Co. is the perfect combo of industrial-cool and comfortably casual, making it an ideal post-work or weekend hang out. 

We love us a cool Asian eatery, so it's no suprise we're already big fans of late-night Thai restaurant and bar, Longtime in the Fortitude Valley.

Home to some of the best hairdressers Brisbane has to offer, Epic Hair Designs in Upper Mount Gravatt, will coiff and colour your locks to perfection every time.

Luxury Parisian jeweller, Cartier's first Brisbane boutique has opened on Edward Street in a beautiful multi-level showroom—the ideal location to peruse their covetable collections.

A suburban hair salon and espresso bar run by sisters Carla and Nadine, Cheveux Design and Espresso in Auchenflower is the ideal place to meet a friend and get your hair did. Serving up delicious bakery treats and Allpress coffee Cheveux also houses a kitted out meeting space for hire. 

Great coffee may be at the heart of Camp Hill cafe, Black Bird Espresso, but the moreish baked treats, cold-pressed juice and tasty breakfast fare on offer don't hurt.

Brisbane restaurant Lamberts may be hiding in plain sight in Kangaroo Point but the secret is out about this gem: it's more than list-worthy. With a paddock-to-plate ethos reflected in the modern Australian menu, Lamberts Restaurant serves up sophisticated and contemporary fare seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 

The eagle has landed at new Brisbane rooftop bar Eagles Nest in Kangaroo Point, and with it comes free-flowing Moet. If you like your champagne bubbly, on ice (it's a thing), aaannnd at altitude, then this is the Brisbane rooftop bar for you.   

Tucked away down Albert Lane in the CBD, Vapiano is making its mark as one of the freshest and tastiest Italian joints in town. Hand-made pasta, sinfully good pizzas, and a seriously relaxed and spacious decor makes Vapiano the perfect spot for a quick lunch or a lazy evening meal with friends.

Beloved Brisbane baker, Two Teaspoons has set up a shop in Jindalee, so their dairy and gluten-free sweet treats are now available to all. Fresh breakfast and lunch options with Two Seasons coffee and juice from Elemental Juice Co. round out the menu at this new Brisbane cafe.

Specialising in delicious, steamy, handcrafted glory the folks at the Bun Mobile have reached cult status as one of Brisbane's favourite food trucks. The eponymous buns are a traditional Taiwanese style bun sandwich (gua bao) and come in a variety of different fillings to tickle every pickle. 

A bustling Gold Coast restaurant tucked into the iconic QT Gold Coast Hotel, Bazaar has the feel of a marketplace, with cuisines from around the world at your fingertips. As well as a seafood station and the many tempting meals ready and waiting to be eaten there are made-to-order options.

Rio Rhythmics has done the cha cha right into Brisbane locals' lead-footed hearts since opening their Brisbane dance studio doors in 1994. Not just for the salsa-loving, Latin dance obsessed though, Rio Rhythmics is all about dancing for everybody, and getting fit while doing it.

Epic Hair Designs is one of the best hairdressers in Brisbane, and epic is as epic does. With serious colour cred' (all their stylists are expertly trained by the Goldwell team) and multiple salons throughout Brisbane— incuding Kenmore, Newmarket, Upper Mount Gravatt, Greenslopes, Springfield Lakes, Norman Park and their new flagship in the Valley—the Epic Hair Designs crew will have your mane perfectly wrangled in no time! 

Organic cafe, Pando is bringing healthy chow to Brisbane's CBD, serving Toby's Estate Coffee as well as healthy salads and smoothies for dining in or take-away. 

Warawara Izakaya is a Brisbane Japanese and Korean fusion restaurant, providing authentic flavours and dishes in a fun atmosphere. Take a few friends and share some late night gyoza.

Smoked Paprika in Bardon is a new Brisbane cafe with its spice in all the right places. Dishing up a mean all-day breakfast, and lunch everyday, Smoked Paprika's menu is an egg-cellent breakfasting triumph featuring all the classics like eggs benedict, chorizo-filled omelettes and eggs with zucchini fritters.