west end bars

You Came Again is Brisbane’s first vegan tapas bar, perched in a line-up of historic West End shops

Luigi’s Italian is more than a restaurant, it’s an artful wining and dining experience by a small posse of creatives

Ballistic Alehouse & Kitchen is a sibling for Salisbury brewery Ballistic Beer Co, located on a leafy street in West End

Billykart Bar is quite the contrast to their next door West End dining hotspot Billykart, serving casual bites to eat, groovy cocktails and even take away six packs.

Covent Garden is a splendid botanical-themed bar and eatery with tropical rear garden in a colonial West End store.

Montague Hotel is West End’s newest neighbourhood pub, reincarnated from an old office block off the beaten track on Montague Rd.

Lokal + Co is an inviting oasis of Nordic cool tucked away in a West End side street, and the only place in Brisbane to offer Norwegian-inspired cuisine.

Catchment Brewing Co is the West End bar with the mostest – in a stunning character-filled art deco building, with its own beers brewed onsite, a top wine list, and superb gastro pub style food.

Brisbane's secret inner city craft brewery and bar is Brisbane Brewing Co. tucked away down a West End laneway.

Cobbler is the type of bar that you frequently look for but never find – a cool New York loft style whisky and cocktail lounge

The Bearded Lady is your quintessential West End bar - an anything-goes kind of joint that is cosy recycled wood cabin with honky tonk piano up front and graffiti splattered rumpus room with performance space out back.

Gilligan’s island meets Blue Hawaii at Jungle tiki bar, the West End oasis where the lost world of the Pacific south seas can be found alive and kicking.

BOSC is a rustic little beer and gin bar that oozes warmth and hominess from its corner outpost on West End's Vulture St. The creation of Emily Tankey, BOSC stands for bar of social conscience, meaning that 20 % of bar profits go to charity but the goodwill extends environmentally to the fitout, most of it recycled or upcycled from used timber.

From sunset cocktails on the terrace to late night suppers and wine in the lounge bar, Loft is the Queensland-chic upstairs hideaway that has it all.

Those who mourned the end of cult video store Trash Video now have reasons to rejoice at The End, being the uber ambient micro bar which has taken over the space.

A fairly eclectic crowd gather in this corner lounge tucked behind the mosaic goanna, spilling outside to the seats under the tree or in the bean bag corner inside.