Style Magazine

Save the cheap eats and casual pub outing for another day. It’s time to treat yourself. In good fortune, Brisbane’s fine dining scene is really having a moment. From indulgent Italian to exquisite Japanese, we have curated the perfect list of Brisbane restaurants serving up a luxury experience. For that extra special occasion, or you’re just wanting you’re in the mood to indulge, these are Brisbane’s best fine dining experiences you need to book in.

Cooking up a storm in the kitchen to serve a delectable feast to your guests sounds like a great idea in theory, but if it means spending the evening slaving over a hot pot while your guests mingle about without you, then it’s a theory debunked. Whatever event you’re planning, be the hostess with the mostest without the mess (or stress) of the kitchen, and let the pros take care of the culinary action.

What began as a university side project has become one of Australia’s biggest food platforms. After almost walking away from Coconut & Bliss altogether, Sophie Fisher returned to what she loved most – creating recipes – and built a career that’s taken her from her own kitchen to MasterChef Australia and, soon, the launch of her first cookbook. When Sophie Fisher started posting recipes to Instagram in 2014, she wasn’t chasing a career in content creation.

The Maldives is often described in clichés of paradise. At SO/Maldives, Tracy Sinclair discovers something more compelling: stingrays beneath her villa, dolphins on the horizon, and a destination that feels every bit as extraordinary as the photos suggest. “You paint blue. Maldives is blue.” That was the art teacher’s instruction during our art class at SO/Maldives. Simple, almost absurdly so.

Pilates, but make it fashion. Following the overwhelming success of NUA Studios‘ sold-out launch event at The Calile Hotel, which sold out in just three minutes, founder and lead Pilates instructor Katie Gosson is returning with another exclusive experience, this time with a fashion twist in her studio, located just off James Street.

You ever walked into one of those homes that is full of character? More often than not, spaces like this come with a collection of pieces gathered over years of collecting and arranging antique heirlooms. There’s a distinct feeling to spaces like these, one which Bronte Taton, the founder of gallery design studio Cleo Collects, has become very familiar with as a bona fide master in antique sourcing.

If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and wondered why your skin suddenly looks a little dull, you’re not alone. From late nights and stress to changing seasons and everyday environmental factors, there are plenty of reasons your complexion can lose its natural glow. While it’s tempting to reach for the latest serum or trending skincare ingredient, brighter-looking skin often comes down to one simple step that’s easy to overlook: exfoliation.

Celebrating 50 years, the Birkenstock Boston continues to prove that the best wardrobe investments never chase trends. Fashion moves fast. One season it’s ballet flats. The next it’s boat shoes, jelly sandals or sneakers in every imaginable colourway. But every now and then, a piece quietly transcends the trend cycle altogether. The Birkenstock Boston is one of them. Celebrating 50 years since its debut in 1976, the iconic clog has become much more than a comfortable shoe.

For Jorge Mariño Brito, making art wasn’t part of the plan. The Cuban-born psychiatrist only began painting in his forties, yet his debut solo exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art, These, I, Singing in Spring, already feels like the culmination of a lifetime’s worth of stories waiting to be told. Bringing together paintings, innovative papermaking works and printmaking, the exhibition explores memory, masculinity and human connection through figures whose relationships are deliberately left undefined.

Bulimba‘s Oxford Street is welcoming two weekends of fashion, food and local experiences this July as The Oxford Edit brings together exclusive pop-ups, cult Australian brands and plenty of reasons to make a day of it.