Dreaming of your next overseas holiday? One of the best things about travelling is the chance to experience new and exciting cuisines!
Well travel bugs and foodies, have we got a food trail for you! Brisbane can have you eating your way around the world in under 5 kilometres!
Ciao in Italy!
Italian has to be one of the most popular dining out options, largely because it’s so family friendly. But forget your plain mid-week Spag Bol, Popolo in South Bank is premium Italian!
Napoli born Head Chef Francesco Vitagliano proudly creates his traditional Italian favourites with a little extra flair. His theory is to strike a balance between traditional and contemporary.
Chef’s signature dish is the linguine with Moreton Bay Bug doused in a spanner crab and lobster bisque.
Popolo has long been a Brisbane favourite with Italophiles but you’d be forgiven if you don’t recognise the place after it has had a major makeover.
The sleek new design is modern and light, perfectly complementing your afternoon sipping Aperol Spritz while overlooking the Southbank Green.
Halò in Scotland!
The Gresham Bar on Queen Street is a slice of Queensland history as it was originally the home of the Queensland National Bank in 1881.
So where does Scotland fit in you ask? With its whiskey my wee friends, the traditional drink of Scotland.
Continuing the travel theme, here the flights are included too. Whiskey flights that is. Think a beer paddle, but with whiskey shots.
“The idea of whiskey flights is to get a bit more of an idea of each region of Scotland, otherwise different countries of origin for the whiskey as well,” said The Gresham’s Dan Gregory. “You can go to Japan, Taiwan, ever Australia and Tasmania. They produce some of the world’s best whiskey now.”
The Gresham provides not only a feast for the tastebuds but a visual one too with the interior design a feature in itself.
Think old world charm meet funky sophistication.
“At the end of the day we have a spirit and whiskey focus but we try to portray ourselves as a bar in general, so we have an amazing coffee offering,” Dan said. “The wine list is phenomenal as well and then obviously we have vintage and rare spirits in the back cabinet as well.”
How you doing in New York!
Walters Steakhouse brings the Big Apple to Brisbane’s Alice Street.
Here Chef Gert Pretorious is a true master of meat!
“I live for meat,” he said. “I live for cooking meat, I live for butchering meat and this job and this place, being surrounded in the opulence of New York and being able to cook some of the best meat in Australia which we all agree is some of the best meat in the world just absolutely sings to my heart strings.”
This restaurant is a real experience.
“It just feels like New York and that’s exactly what we want,” Gert continued. “We want it to feel like you’re stepping into the Big Apple, into the steak house.”
“You’re going to have a business lunch you’re going to have some opulence with your family and that’s it. A fully immersive New York hey-day experience!”
The signature dish of such an experience? A prime Australian grain fed porterhouse, dry-aged and cut in-house.
The Porterhouse is what Australia commonly knows as a T-bone steak, so the very flavourfull sirloin on the long end and the very tender eye fillet on the other end.
“It’s the epitome of beef,” Gert concluded.
Take your very own trip around the world without leaving Brisbane at Popolo, The Gresham and Walters Steakhouse.
All are part of the Dap and Co family, a hospitality group focused on old fashioned hospitality and impeccable food.
“Hospitality restored is our ethos,” said the group’s Sean Waters. “Reviving the level of hospitality of yester-year with a focus on putting hospitality venues into heritage buildings.”
Sean is excited for 2023, which promises to be a big one for Dap and Co.
“It’s exciting to be a part of shaping the landscape of Brisbane in the lead up to the Olympics, Eagle Street Pier, Queens Wharf,” he said. “We’re looking forward to contributing in a hospitality sense to the overall Brisbane landscape.”
