Issue 47 · Autumn in the precinct

The pocket of Brisbane that quietly does its own thing.

Wedged between Fortitude Valley and Newstead, Bowen Hills has a habit of doing the small things very well. Pop-up dinners in old warehouses. Saturday food trucks behind a panel-beater. Two streets that get more interesting every six months. This is where we keep notes on it.

Recent dispatches

From the past few weeks
Bowen Hills is the kind of suburb you find by accident, then you keep coming back because nobody told you to. , A note pinned to the corkboard at Garage

Inside the column

Long-running threads

Calendar

What's on this month

The events worth blocking out, the ones you can skip, and the ones we always forget to mention.

Eat & drink

Eat with us

Rotating shortlist of where we actually go. Pizza, dumplings, the coffee that does not disappoint.

Logistics

Book a table The Local List

Reservations across our regulars. We do not take a cut. We just got tired of texting links.

Elsewhere on the column

Reference and archive

Longer pieces and the back-catalogue live in the Journal, including a few archive entries like the original Tiny Dog Festival from 2020 that became the prototype for Dogs Day Out. The slowly-growing directory of trades and small businesses we recommend around the precinct is The Local List. New to the column? The about page explains who writes it and why.

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