Brisbane: smart and easy food guide

I love food and I love Australia, mix these things up and you get a rough idea of why I put together this guide of eating and drinking in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 

The guide is not ready yet, it will be released in late November: I need a while to put things together and add some good pictures. It will be free of cost, so I need to focus my attention on other priorities at the moment, such as eating Australian cooking as much as I can (it's for science, guys!) and make a selection of the best restaurants in Brisbane for 2016 and early 2017.

This is a sample of the content you will find in the guide:

"Brisbane, Queensland, is a beautiful city on the Ocean and all surrounded by picturesque hills. It has a wonderful warm climate and a motorcycle friendly atmosphere, as a tourist I almost felt pampered. the tropical vegetation also exerts great fascination, especially the bougainvillea... I do not know how it was in the past, but certainly today is a cosmopolitan city, full of great restaurants and clubs and also with a lively artistic activity. But the best thing, if you are lucky like me off stay for several days, is discovering, hidden among the many modern skyscrapers and the underground casino, typical wooden cottages with verandas that make you realize the relaxed lifestyle of inhabitants of the city.

The center of Brisbane is virtually inserted into a U-shaped bend of the river, so I say now that to know him well is advisable to use the ferries, and also runs well and easily even on foot. The streets are made available to the grid, are named after British royalty and various curiosities ...: kings and princes from east to west, north-south queens and princesses! The city center is really nice, there coexist tall glass and steel skyscrapers and elegant palaces 800. The real heart is Queen Street, across the pedestrian zone. However, most of the historic buildings overlooking the river and gives clues about the origins of the port city.

Things to see in the center are many, come to mind immediately missed two things: the parliament building (is gorgeous, in French Renaissance style) and the commissariat store museum (museum housed in a former barn). Then the St. Stephen cathedral, Queensland clubs, the old building of the Coal Ministry, Elizabeth Arcade (all full of shops in the bohemian style and new age bookstores). It deserves also the town hall, is very imposing neoclassical (classic greek temple style facade to understand), and with a majestic clock tower, where you can also go up and take pictures on the city.

Even the suburbs of Brisbane still has a certain atmosphere: to the east of downtown is the Kangaroo Point and west Paddington.

Further north should go to Fortitude Valley (people there are crazy!), THAT I LOVE, is practically the bohemian center of the city and I think it's also where there are many places to eat, including some of the best pizza restaurants of Brisbane. On weekends in a street called Brunswick street also holds an outdoor market: INCREDIBLE !! (Though I do not recommend at night, trust me ..). In this area it is also Chinatown (so full of Asian restaurants, supermarket, cinema, martial arts centers etc ... Etc.).

City

What to see: For art lovers, the "Cultural Center of Queensland" is pretty much the heart of Brisbane artistic environment, with the spectacular setting of South Bank: inside there are museum, art galleries, library and I do not know how many collections.

Where to eat: One of my favorite areas for a refreshing break is not far from the first urban botanical gardens, around Alice Street, where many old pubs have been restored and today there is a lot of people, there is a great atmosphere.

Useful tips: For those who want to use the ferry: the best place to board is Riverside Centre.

The City Cat ferries bring in the most popular and crowded, and South Bank, Eagle Street, Riverside, Dockside, New Farm and Kangaroo Point. The two main starting points are in Eagle Street.

For those who would just turn in the bus, definitely recommend a day pass.

However Brisbane is a compact city and can be visited by walking. Everywhere there are maps (tourism offices, hotels ..) marked with excellent recommended routes / distances on both sides of the river. Here, as in other major cities in Australia, there is the TransLink (buses, trams, ferries), with which you can have one ticket which is valid for all means.

Vabbeh .. Then there are also the "usual" City Sights tour bus.

PS: public transport is active until midnight, but at night the center is full of taxis."