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HOT: Green Tea Restaurant – China Town Mall Shop 1B, 31 Duncan St Fortitude Valley

By CazM ⋅ November 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

In search of a casual dining venue to satisfy our hunger and budgets for a Saturday night team-building feast, the work crew and I booked a table at Green Tea Restaurant after a hot tip from a China Town regular. Green Tea Restaurant is one of the new additions to the revamped China Town Mall and [...]

HOT: Super Bowl Chinese Restaurant – 185 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley

By CazM ⋅ October 12, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Amongst the neon lights of the Wickham St strip, you could pretty much blink and miss this China Town venue and to be honest it’s not too remarkable in appearances from outside or in. What Super Bowl lacks in glamour, frills and decor however it makes up for in its sizeable menu and notable vibrancy [...]

HOT: Belesis Cafe – 198 Old Cleveland Rd, Coorparoo

By CazM ⋅ September 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

For a small and understated suburban venue with minimalistic signage, Belesis has a thriving trade and from what I can tell, this isn’t limited to the brunch-time goers on the weekends. On the odd occasion that I’ve wandered past at lunch during the week (when I’m ‘working’ from home…) or driving past in the evenings, [...]

HOT: Mints Vietnamese & Asian Cuisine, 4/21 Nash St, Rosalie

By CazM ⋅ August 10, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

I was tempted to keep this short and sweet with just a HOT….and leave it at that. No wordiness or imagery, just pictures; after all I don’t know if my words can do this place justice. In the spirit of blogging however, I’ve used both wordiness and pictures to best portray how good this place [...]

NOT: Earth ‘n’ Sea Amazing Pizza & Pasta, 142 Oxford St Bulimba

By CazM ⋅ July 20, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

MM and I were on the hunt for a quick and relatively cheap feed before catching a movie recently, so instead of settling at one of the fancy cafes on Oxford St, we headed to Earth ‘n’ Sea for what we anticipated would be a cheap, hearty meal that we could woof down and then [...]

HOT: Bow Thai Restaurant, Shop 14, Cathedral Place, Wickham St, Fortitude Valley.

By CazM ⋅ July 14, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

A friend recently asked me where they could find a decent Thai restaurant in the Valley, and to their surprise (and mine), I had nothing. How could someone who spends so much time eating and drinking their way around the CBD and immediate surrounds not be able to nominate a decent Thai place? So (with [...]

HOT: My Thai, 113 Haig Rd, Auchenflower

By CazM ⋅ May 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

With a Thai restaurant on pretty much every corner in Brisbane these days it’s never hard to kill that craving for a red curry or some fish cakes – but in my humble opinion, the odds of finding one that does them right, are pretty slim. I was tasked with organizing a venue for a [...]

HOT: West End Garden, 190 Melbourne St, South Brisbane

By CazM ⋅ May 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Past experience has taught me that Chinese/Vietnamese venues can be synonymous with cheap and nasty – which isn’t a problem if cheap and nasty is what you’re after to fill your belly. One little gem of the Chinese/Vietnamese variety that has time and time again proven itself is West End Garden and it is absolutely, one hundred [...]

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 [...]