A new parkside pub for Brisbane

Post Office Square, right in the middle of Brisbane’s CBC, has a number of eateries.

Add to that the city’s latest micro-pub Isles Lane, overlooking the precinct focusing on the handsome green lawn.

Located at the parkside space at 300 Queen Street, the pub is a 400-person venue.

It’s the brainchild of Trent Meade and Matt Blyth, the team behind Fortitude Valley's The Met and GPO Hotel.

Isles Lane is a casual watering hole that offers everything from daytime eating to afternoon drinks every day of the week.

As Meade told Concrete Background, it’s inspired by "classic big city eating houses, from New York to Barcelona". At the same time, the team has added an Australian twist.

The drinks list has all the conventional beers plus some rotational brews like for example Balter, Stone & Wood and Kaiju. The 12 taps include nine beers, a cider, ginger beer and Pimm’s.

That’s in addition to curated list of cocktails, with riesling, rosé, prosecco and Champagne thrown in for the wine lovers.

But its big focus is on food, Isles Lane has positioned itself as a gastropub.

Head chef Lucie Woods is looking to provide diners with dishes like karaage-topped waffles, lobster rolls with tangy mayo and iceberg lettuce, spicy barbecue beer-can chicken with smoky barbeque sauce, crab omelettes, slow-roasted lemon and oregano lamb shoulder.

The kitchen is also offering sides of haloumi chips and spicy fried school prawns with burnt lemon aioli.

Breakfast served daily includes an eggs Benedict served with crispy polenta cake, barbequed pork belly, smashed peas and apple-cider hollandaise. Coffee comes from the Sunshine Coast’s Kai Coffee.

In terms of décor, Sydney’s AZB Creative was hired to bring the outside in. The result is a venue with lots of natural light, greenery and a colour palette with black-and-white-tiled floors and Parisian-style chairs.

Leon Getler 3rd May 2018.