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What's Open Christmas Day 2025

in Brisbane

Updated: Jan 01, 2026

Here's what's open around Brisbane on Christmas Day, including bars, restaurants and cafes, with most open for takeaway coffee, some offering snacks, light meals, drinks and pastries, and a few offering the full package:

Note that opening hours may be subject to change - always check with the venue before visiting.

North

Exterior of Gramps Cafe, Red Hill, Brisbane

Ach Wine Bar - 389 MacArthur Ave Hamilton 11.30am-2pm

Bunker - 21 Railway Tce Milton 6am-2pm

Emily  Yeoh - Given Tce Paddington 11am-3pm; 5-9pm

Famished on Frasers - 62 Frasers Rd Ashgrove 7am-1pm

Fat Dumpling - 370 Brunswick St Fortitude Valley 11.30am-3pm; 5.30-9pm

Fonzie Abbott - 40 Fox St Albion 7-11am

Fratelli - 283 Given Tce Paddington 12pm (lset menu $99pp)

Goldie Espresso - 97 Thistle St Gordon Park 6-10am (coffee only)

Goodfolk Cafe - 58 Rainworth Rd Bardon 7am-12pm

Gramps Cafe - 110 Windsor Rd Red Hill  7-12pm 

Haig Rd Bistro - 111 Haig Rd Auchenflower 11.30am-2.30pm; 5.30-8.30pm 

Hope & Anchor - 267 Given Tce Paddington 5.30am-12pm (coffee & takeaway)

If You Say So Espresso - 88 Gailey Rd St Lucia 5.30am-12pm

KatsuCo - 63 Jephson St Toowong 6.30-11am

Kazba - 1000 Ann St Fortitude Valley 7am-8pm

Kimino - 71 Wardell St Ashgrove 6am-12pm

Libertine Restaurant & Bar - The Barracks, 61 Petrie Tce Petrie Terrace - 11am-2.30pm

Maru Grill House - 73 Mary St Brisbane 11.30am-3pm; 5-11pm

Mews -  Howard Smith Wharves 5 Boundary St Brisbane 6.30-10.30am

Moda Tapas Brasa Bar - The Barracks, 61 Petrie Tce Petrie Terrace 11.30am-3.30pm (2 lunch sitting)

Navy & Oak - 22/1000 Ann St Fortitude Valley 7am-3pm

Reverie Coffee House - 31 Kennedy Tce Paddington 5am-12pm

Round Table Coffee - 67 Gawain Rd Bracken Ridge 6-10am

Salud - 109 Haig Rd Auchenflower 6.30am-2pm (Xmas lunch banquet & limited brunch menu)

Simple Bliss Coffee - 3 The Esplanade Forest Lake 6am-1pm

Sweetshop Specialty Coffee - 3/1A Stuartholme Rd Bardon 8-10am (takeaway only)

The Woolshed - 15 Helen St Teneriffe 5.30-10am

Tillerman - 73 Eagle St Brisbane Ist siting from 11am; 2nd sitting from 1.45pm

Time & Temp - 337 Sandgate Rd Albion 7am-12pm

South
Interior seating at Bellisimo Coffee, Bulimba

A Mano Cafe - 5 Cracknell Ave Annerley 7-10am

Anita Gelato - West Village, West End 10am-11pm

Aroma Bakery - 799 Old Cleveland Rd Carina 7am-12pm

Bavarian Sizzle - 198 Old Cleveland Rd Coorparoo Lunch & dinner

Bellissimo Coffee - 35 Oxford St Bulimba 6-11am

Billykart Kitchen - 1 Eric Cres Annerley 6.30am-2pm

Bne Baracca - 212 Cracknell Rd Tarragindi 7-11.30am (takeaway drinks, cakes & snacks only)

Clancy's Espresso - 1/198 Wynnum Rd Norman Park 7am-12pm

Coffee Head Co - 62 Manning St South Brisbane 6am-2pm 

Fieldy's Coffee - 41 Fairfield Rd Fairfield 5.30-10am

Hallowed Grounds - Shop 2, 1417 Logan Road Mt Gravatt 7am-2pm

Hedge Espresso - 94-96 Lillian St Salisbury 7am-2pm

Kor Dak - 342 Montague Rd West End 11.30am-8pm

Kurtosh - West Village, West End 7am-10pm

Microlot Coffee House - 5/135 Riding Rd Hawthorne - 6am - 12.30pm

Mourning Roast - 377 Logan Rd Stones Corner 4am-3pm

Snug - 3/321 Chatsworth Rd Coorparoo 7am-2pm

Supernumerary Coffee - 655 Toohey Rd Salisbury 7-11am

The Boundary Hotel - 137 Boundary St West End 11.45am-3.30pm (lunch)

The Jam Pantry - 2/575 Logan Rd Greenslopes 7.30am-2pm

The Mailman - 2 Bluebell St Alexandra Hills 6.30-11am (takeaway only)

What's open for dining and drinking on Boxing Day HERE

Check out our New Year's Eve guide HERE

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