Jetsetting Joyce

Jetsetting Joyce has written 83 posts for BNE: HOT OR NOT

HOT: Mons Ban Sabai Thai Garden Restaurant, 12 Martha St, Camp Hill

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ January 11, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

RM and I were wilting a bit from the humid tropical heat and one night we decided that spicy Thai food was the only solution for our lacklustre appetites. Doing a quick round of Google pulled up ‘Brisbane’s most awarded Thai Restaurant’, Mons Ban Sabai. Based on that slogan, we thought it was worth giving [...]

HOT: Vapiano, 191 Albert Lane, Queen Street Mall, Brisbane

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ January 8, 2010 ⋅ 10 comments

Today we have another guest blog from Jetsetting Mum reviewing her excellent recent visit to Vapiano. Lots of exclamation marks! Another tip-off from Jetsetting Joyce (Ed: Thanks to Eyes Bigger Than Belly and FourThousand) saw Jetsetting Dad and I stepping into Vapiano, an Italian eatery which opened shortly before Christmas in a CBD alley. It’s [...]

NOT: Grasshopper Asian Kitchen, Shop 6, 36 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ January 6, 2010 ⋅ 7 comments

Today we have a guest blog from Jetsetting Mum, a lady who knows her Asian food (being Chinese and the cooking force in her family). Having received a tip-off from Jetsetting Joyce that Grasshopper was offering 25% off takeaway for a limited time, I couldn’t wait to download their menu and make a choice of [...]

HOT: Cafe Bouquiniste, 2/121 Merthyr Rd, New Farm

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ January 4, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

A bouquiniste is someone who sells books, but Cafe Bouquiniste is a little workers cottage cafe which sells all manner of nice things, not just books. I can just imagine how much fun the owner Meredith has picking up delightful objects for her cafe store, from Chinese bamboo tea trays, silk scarves, Moleskine notebooks and [...]

BNE: HOT OR NOT 2010 Reader Survey

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ January 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Happy New Decade! We hope you had a fun/exciting/reflective/relaxed New Years eve, gearing up for a bigger and better 2010. BNE: HOT OR NOT is still a little baby but with the new year we thought that it was the right time to get to know you better and to find out how we can [...]

HOT: Thai Charms Restaurant, 1/92 Merthyr Rd, New Farm

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ December 30, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

There’s a little strip of shops across the road from Merthyr Village where it seems restaurants have difficulty in keeping business. In the few years that the Jetsetting Parents have become New Farm locals, the location has variously housed a Vietnamese restaurant, a South American restaurant and who knows what before that. Don’t let the [...]

HOT: Nowhere Boy

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ December 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Poor John Lennon. Nowhere Boy is an engaging biopic directed by conceptual artist Sam Taylor-Wood about the turbulent teenage years of the Beatles’ life in post-war Liverpool. From age five he’s brought up by his strict and stern Aunt Mimi and kindly Uncle George and then he discovers that after all these years his mother [...]

HOT: In Search of Beethoven

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ December 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Who would have thought that a documentary about Beethoven would be so popular? We tried to get tickets to sold-out sessions of In Search of Beethoven twice before we finally managed to get seats. First things first – I am a great admirer of Beethoven. I love his passionate wildness, the musical innovations he developed [...]

HOT OR NOT? The French Kissers giveaway

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ December 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I have a couple of double passes for the new film The French Kissers for special advance screenings on Friday 18, Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 December, before the main release on 26 December. The breakout comedy sensation of the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival, and the surprise smash hit of the European summer, The [...]

HOT: Top Sushi, alleyway Queen and Adelaide St adjoining NAB and HSBC buildings

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ November 30, 2009 ⋅ One comment

From burgers to sushi - another post from guest blogger Matman this week. Brisbane CBD workers have got the taste for sushi and they are not afraid to line up for it. Like most things in Brisbane – pubs, clubs, restaurants – newness is an oversubscribed commodity. However, sushi in Brisbane is by no means [...]