Brisbane's Best Pub Food
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If you're sick of the usual soggy chips, over cooked lasagne and fatty sausages being served up at your local pub, try one of these more gastronomic alternatives.
At the Chalk Hotel's Sticks Restaurant (735 Stanley Street, Woolloongabba), fancy ingredients like polenta and pancetta round out a gourmet menu. Sticks provides selections like seared ocean trout salad with salmon caviar and rye croutons, sea scallops with cauliflower and white truffle oil and kangaroo fillet with chorizo and grilled pear. They also have a well-rounded choice of oysters, from the traditional kilpatrick to more exotic offerings such as tempura oysters with bush lemon and saffron aioli.
The Boatshed Restaurant at the Regatta Hotel (543 Coronation Drive, Toowong) has already won awards for casual dining, and now has a menu to rival some of the finest dining establishments in Brisbane. Here, you don't want to skip on bread - choices range from the tame (mozarella and roasted garlic bread) to the more unusual (olive and rosemary with beetroot tapenade.) A wide variety of entrees will please everyone, while stand out main meals include grain fed beef, rack of lamb with goats cheese polenta and roasted blue pumpkin, and a roasted vegetable stack with pesto.
The suburban pubs also offer gourmet selections, like Cucina Bar and Restaurant at the Albion Hotel (300 Sandgate Road, Albion), which serves up tasty Italian treats. Start with the gorgonzola salad with roasted beetroot, walnuts, spinach and Vino Cotto, or the Milanese risotto with saffron. Chase the experience with a traditional Italian main like the Italian sausage and chilli calzone or the veal saltimbocca with proscuitto and sage cream sauce.
The Oxford 152 (152 Oxford Street, Bulimba) offers a boutique menu to match the boutique beers on tap. The 152 Restaurant provides a variety of fresh salads and pasta to compliment mouth watering mains, like the citrus glazed duck with broccolini and parnsip puree and kangaroo rump with sweet potato wedges and juniper berry jus.
Once you've navigated your way through the high-vis clad tradies in the Waterloo Bay Hotel (Berrima Street, Wynnum) beer garden, you will be pleasantly surprised by the al fresco dining area, complete with waterfall and view of Moreton Bay. Why not sample Moreton Bay's bounty with a fresh seafood laksa? Or you could try the five spice dusted quail, haloumi, pumpkin and roasted macadamia nut salad or the glazed belly pork with scallops and tomato salsa.
For fresh seafood, you can't go past the posh new Woody Point Seafood Grill at the Belvedere Hotel (corner Woodcliffe Cresent and Oxley Avenue, Woody Point). Nibble fancy entrees like roasted figs with proscuitto, blue cheese and walnuts, or deep fried zucchini flowers stuffed with crab and goats curd, followed by whiting from Bribie Island, snapper from Bowen or seared Tasmanian salmon. Finish the experience with a mouth watering dessert - turkish delight mousse, anyone?
The gastronomic pub crawl provides a quality foodie experience - and with no meal in this article topping $50, it's also a lot cheaper.
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154330 - 2023-06-14 09:08:44