Photo Courtesy of Emporium Hotel
On a recent short stay in Brisbane I was thrilled to stay in the lovely Emporium Hotel. Everything you could ask for in a chic, boutique hotel including its location in the slightly grungy and deeply cool Fortitude Valley.

The Belle Epoque Café next door is a handy spot for breakfast. A [...]

If you’re ever in Brisbane for a night, catch a ride to a city-fringe suburb called Bulimba and have a meal at Sugomi Restaurant.
Sugomi is a casual place to eat, but has a menu and staff that far exceed the expectation that its reserved veneer portrays.
Caine Edwards, the restaurant manager, was working the night we [...]

I’d never been to Brisbane before and from all accounts I was led to believe it was the poorer cousin of Sydney and Melbourne. Coming from a city like Auckland, where our population doesn’t come close to that of Sydney and Melbourne’s, I was also expecting Brisbane to be alive with the same hustle [...]