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Gauge

South Brisbane

GAUGE AT SOUTH BRISBANE HAS PERMANENTLY CLOSED AS OF MARCH 2021.

Gauge is a star addition to South Brisbane’s Fish Lane precinct - a gorgeous café bar in which to hang out and enjoy fine dining calibre food at café prices.

Owner of Gauge is Jerome Batten, the creative brains behind Teneriffe institution Sourced Grocer, who, with the help of a talented kitchen team – Executive Chef Cormac Bradfield (who also oversees Sourced and nearby laneway bar Maker) and Head Chef Ollie Hansford (ex-Stokehouse) – has created an unpretentious yet serious foodie’s destination.

Gauge South Brisbane

Located on Grey St across the road from the Dinosaur Garden, Gauge enjoys prime T-Rex views from its street window seating or diners can pull up a custom-designed seat at one of the communal tables or, with a bit of luck, score a cow-hide chair in the cosy mint green timber slat-walled booth.

Seating inside Gauge in South Brisbane

A display board of fresh-baked daily pastries lures passers-by from the express window, where they can pick up a delicious croissant, brioche crumble or seasonal fruit Danish and coffee-to-go, or pop inside where a more extensive selection at the counter includes the house specialty - lemon curd and tarragon meringue.

Meringue curd on a plate

The in-house food menu is a carefully curated selection that is in a league of their own. Snacks such as house cured wqagyu bresaola or appelation oysters with melon and sichuan pepper are a great way to start.

Black garlic bread, brown butter and burnt vanilla on a plate

For lunch, choices range from house ciabatta, local prawn, macadamia and sorrel or house pastrami, pickled celeriac and blackened onion sourdough sandwich, salads like cucumber and freekah with miso dressing, coriander, currants and fetta through to line caught Australian squid, roast gem lettuce, fried wakame, sea parsley and basil or the highly recommended chicken breast, pumpkin, nashi pear and chestnut cream.

Chicken breast, pumpkin, nashi pear and chestnut cream on a plate

Coffee at Gauge is from local Supreme Roasters, with milk from Maleny Dairies, and for non-coffee drinkers there’s English Breakfast, lemongrass and ginger, Yunnan green or peppermint teas, watermelon and mint or cold pressed juice, organic cola or Hepburn sparkling water.

Barista drinking cup of coffee next to coffee machine

Need to know – Gauge is fully licensed, with a curated bar menu.

*Gauge is also open for dinner on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights, making a perfect pre-theatre dinner venue for some top class share plates of the calibre of the day menu. And around the corner in Fish Lane its baby sibling – micro-sized laneway bar Maker is a worthy destination for a bespoke drink.

Note that some menu items may have changed since this review.

Gauge

77 Grey St

South Brisbane

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77 Grey St South Brisbane

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