[ MUST TRY ] EAT STREET HAS A WHOLE LANEWAY DEVOTED TO LOADED DOUGHNUTS, CRONUTS AND SOFT SERVE 🍩 Kombi Alley is the sweets laneway at Eat Street Northshore, a disco ball lit run of containers piling soft serve onto churro ice cream cones and frying funnel cakes to order. It glows under fairy li

[ NEW ] A BRAND NEW RIVERSIDE MEDITERRANEAN RESTAURANT HAS LANDED ON THE BRISBANE RIVER AT SOUTH BANK Azure Mediterranean has just opened at River Quay in South Bank, taking over the former Jetty site directly on the water. It is an all day Mediterranean restaurant from the Alemré Group, built a

[ EVENT ] WE FOUND A CAKE DECORATING EVENT SO GOOD YOU WON’T BELIEVE THEY ARE REAL The Queensland Cake Decorators Association is marking 45 years with its annual Cake Decorating and Sugar Art Show at the heritage listed Queen Alexandra Home. Across three days you will find hundreds of competitio

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[ THINGS TO DO ] MAGICAL WATERFALL WITH A RAINFOREST SWIMMING HOLE IS JUST 90 MINUTES FROM BRISBANE Kondalilla Falls is one of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland's most loved waterfalls, where Skene Creek drops 90 metres into a rainforest valley. The walk winds through subtropical rainforest past lo

[ NEW ] FIREHOUSE SUBS HAS OPENED ITS FIRST EVER AUSTRALIAN STORE IN BRISBANE 🌯 Firehouse Subs has landed in Brisbane, opening its first ever Australian restaurant at Westfield Mt Gravatt. The brand runs more than 1,300 stores worldwide and is known for hot subs that are steamed to order, with m

[ EVENT ] REAL SNOW IS FALLING IN BRISBANE EVERY DAY THESE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS Snow4Kids is back for winter 2026, dropping fresh, real snow on demand across two Brisbane sites for the June and July school holidays. Snow is a rare thing in Queensland, so this is about as close as the kids will get t

[ BRISBANE ] QUEEN’S WHARF LIGHTS UP IN THE STARS AND STRIPES AS USA 250 GLOWS ACROSS THE CITY SKYLINE 🦅 🇺🇸 The Star Brisbane’s crescent facade at Queen’s Wharf has been beaming red, white and blue, with USA 250 lit up across the front to mark 250 years since American independence. It is part o

[ NEW ] JOHNNY GIO’S HAS OPENED ITS SECOND BRISBANE PIZZERIA IN ROSALIE Six months after the crowds turned out for its New Farm debut, Sydney-born Johnny Gio’s has landed a second Brisbane store, this time on the Nash Street strip in Rosalie. The Rosalie kitchen runs the same menu as New Farm: h

[ THINGS TO DO ] TWO GIANT TRANSFORMERS ARE GUARDING A BRENDALE BUSINESS AND SEEING THEM IS COMPLETELY FREE Optimus Prime and Bumblebee stand watch over the front entrance of All Hose and Valves at Brendale, and the towering pair have quietly become one of the area's most photographed roadside l

[ THINGS TO DO ] BRISBANE HAS A FREE GLOWING LIGHT CEILING HIDDEN INSIDE A CITY OFFICE TOWER AND MOST PEOPLE WALK STRAIGHT PAST IT Tucked into Level 1 of Heritage Lanes at 80 Ann Street is a 232 square metre digital ceiling that runs the length of the laneway like a tunnel of moving light. It pl

[ NEW ] THIS PUB HAS REVEALED A STUNNING ITALIAN GARDEN RESTAURANT SERVING AN 8-COURSE BANQUET FOR ONLY $59 Signor Fox is the brand-new Italian-inspired restaurant that has taken over at the newly renovated Albion Hotel. The venue features a “Feed Me” menu designed for sharing, offering eight co

[ EVENT ] AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST BOOK SALE RETURNS TO BRISBANE FOR NINE DAYS OVER A MILLION BOOKS FROM $2.50 📕 Lifeline Bookfest is back at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, and this winter it lands with more than one million pre-loved books on sale across nine days. Prices start at j

[ NEW ] A BRAND NEW TENERIFFE CAFE HAS SPLIT ITS ENTIRE MENU INTO WHOLESOME AND WICKED 😈 Good Mother Bad Mother has opened on the riverside end of Macquarie Street in Teneriffe, and the whole menu runs on one cheeky idea: order something wholesome, or go wicked, the choice is yours. The wholesom

[ EVENT ] CJ HENDRY’S WORLD FAMOUS FLOWER SHOP IS POPPING UP IN BRISBANE WITH $10 STEMS THAT NEVER WILT The Brisbane Flower Shop is the retail-style version of CJ Hendry’s viral Flower Market, and it is landing in Fortitude Valley from 26 June. Hendry grew up in Brisbane before becoming one of t

[ THINGS TO DO ] ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S BIGGEST GLOW WORM CAVES IS FREE TO VISIT AND SITS LESS THAN TWO HOURS FROM BRISBANE Natural Bridge is the rock arch in Springbrook National Park where Cave Creek pours straight through a hole in the roof of a cave and lands as a waterfall inside it. By day it

[ THINGS TO DO ] THIS FREE PARK SOUTH OF BRISBANE HAS A 5 METRE KOALA YOU CAN CLIMB INSIDE 🐨 Alexander Clark Park in Loganholme is built around a giant koala you actually climb up through. It sits on 23 hectares on a bend of the Logan River, about half an hour south of Brisbane, and entry is fre

[ PROPERTY ] THIS MAJOR UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE BRISBANE CBD AND IT DOUBLES AS A PUBLIC ARTS PRECINCT QUT Gardens Point sits right in the heart of the city, wedged between the Brisbane River, the City Botanic Gardens and Queensland Parliament House. It is the only major universi

[ EVENT ] BRISBANE BALLET’S GISELLE IS BACK FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY THIS AUGUST 🩰 Brisbane Ballet’s Giselle is back in the city for just one night at QUT Gardens Theatre. So many people wanted to see it that they added another show. It’s a sad love story about a girl, the boy who breaks her heart, an

[ THINGS TO DO ] ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST INFAMOUS KILLERS MIGHT BE BURIED IN A BRISBANE CEMETERY 🪦 High on a hill in Toowong Cemetery, Queensland's largest burial ground, sits a weathered headstone that made world news in 2008. The man beneath it is Walter Thomas Porriott, a convicted killer and