Brisbane is a dynamic, vibrant and multicultural city and its food scene is beginning to reflect that. Brisbane’s Budget Bites has now arrived, showcasing Brisbane’s cheap eats scene for those who don’t necessarily want to fine dine all the time. We’ve scoured the city and suburbs, uncovering the city’s hidden culinary gems for you.

To keep Brisbane’s Budget Bites as accessible as possible, we chose restaurants, cafés and providores across the city, looking for two things:
• good value (in this case, under $20 for a meal), and
• a consistently high standard of food for the price.

If you think your favourite places have missed out, please write to us and let us know – we’ll check them out for next year’s edition.

Here it is: Brisbane’s first ever cheap food guide. 120 restaurant reviews, 20 top coffee places and 30 ethnic providores and bakeries later, we have eaten ourselves silly and had lots of fun doing the guide. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have. Happy Eating!

Brisbane's Budget Bites 2009 has been received so well. Thank you to all of you who bought the book, used it to eat around Brisbane and made it happen. We thought we might try and better the current edition! Eating and reviewing is underway for the 2010 edition - look out for more information down the track.