For restaurants on James Street in Fortitude Valley, along Boundary Street in West End, under the Story Bridge at Howard Smith Wharves and around Market Square in Sunnybank: a site that gets the table booked, puts your wine list online with its prices, which Queensland lets a restaurant do, and leaves out the cut-price drinks offers the state's Liquor Act keeps out of advertising.
The same site is read by a couple choosing between two places in the Valley on a Friday night, a project manager organising thirty people for an end-of-year dinner, and a family in Sunnybank checking whether the yum cha menu has changed. Queensland's Liquor Act has its own rules about how drinks may be advertised, online included, so a template written for a Sydney or Melbourne venue needs reworking before it goes live here.
Section 142ZZC of the Liquor Act 1992 stops a Queensland licensee from advertising the price of drinks served on the premises, and the Act says advertising includes doing it electronically. A restaurant trading under a subsidiary on-premises licence, with meals as its principal activity, is carved out of that price rule. So your wine, beer and cocktail lists can sit on the site as text with their prices, which is what many diners want to see before they book.
The same section bars advertising free drinks, multiple quantities such as two for the price of one, and promotions suggesting drinks are cheaper than usual; the Act's own examples include happy hours and all you can drink. Advertising seen or heard only inside the premises is allowed. On that wording, a discounted spritz hour or a bottomless brunch is something to promote on the board behind the bar rather than on your site or social pages. OLGR's Guideline 12 also limits advertised packages: a meal with one drink of no more than 1.5 standard drinks, or a meal for two with one bottle of wine up to 750mL, is acceptable, but a package with more than one drink is not. If an offer seems borderline, Business Queensland's guidance on liquor advertising is the place to check before we publish it.
A Queensland restaurant licence lets each adult who eats a meal leave with one opened and one unopened bottle of wine. That's worth a line on the wine list page: finish your bottle at home, or choose one from the list to take with you. It answers a question floor staff hear on most busy nights.
Selling wine with takeaway meals needs a condition endorsed on your licence, and licensed cafes can't get one. The limits are narrow: 1.5 litres of wine per transaction however many meals are ordered, no beer or premixed drinks, sales between 10am and 10pm, and only alongside a meal that can be eaten with cutlery while seated, so not with chips, snacks, entrees or kids' meals. Delivered orders need a proof-of-age check, can't be left unattended and must be completed before midnight. An online ordering page should offer wine on exactly those terms.
On a restaurant licence you can pour a drink for someone who isn't eating, but most of each day's guests have to eat a meal, most of the room has to be set for dining, and the kitchen has to stay open until no more than an hour before close. Give both times on the site, last orders for food and closing, so a group arriving at 9.30 knows whether mains are still on, and the venue reads as a restaurant with a bar rather than a bar that serves food.
Business Queensland says the liquor regulator doesn't regulate BYO at restaurants: guests can bring their own with your consent, you and your staff can refuse it, and the guest must be 18 or over. Some councils need to be told and may endorse BYO on your food licence, so ask Brisbane City Council before the site invites it. Then set out corkage, wine only or beer too, and whether you're licensed and BYO or licensed only, the two phrasings the state's own venue signs use.
In the 2021 Census, 26.7% of Sunnybank residents spoke Mandarin at home and 6.8% Cantonese. A restaurant near Market Square on Mains Road may want dish names in Chinese characters beside the English. Set as text rather than a photographed menu, both versions can be read on any phone, copied into a message and indexed by search engines. You supply the translation, and we lay it out so each dish reads cleanly in both.
Liquor licensing in Queensland sits with the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR), and restaurants usually trade under a commercial other (subsidiary on-premises) licence (opens in a new tab), where serving meals must be the main business. Section 67A of the Liquor Act 1992 (opens in a new tab) spells out what that means each trading day: most guests eat a meal, most of the floor is set up for dining, the kitchen stays open until up to an hour before the end of trading, and there are enough staff to cook and serve. The same section allows drinks with meals, drinks for guests who aren't eating, and one opened and one unopened bottle of wine to leave with each adult diner. Wine with takeaway meals (opens in a new tab) is a separate condition, and OLGR won't consider it without town planning approval that allows takeaway liquor. Section 142ZZC covers advertising, as described above, and Guideline 12 (opens in a new tab) sets out which meal-and-drink packages may be advertised; Business Queensland's BYO page (opens in a new tab) leaves BYO to the restaurant and its council. Questions about your own licence belong with OLGR; our part is a website that matches it.
Three of Queensland's 15 safe night precincts (opens in a new tab) are in Brisbane: the CBD, Fortitude Valley and the Inner West, which takes in Caxton Street. Inside a precinct a licensee can apply to trade until 3am; outside one, 2am is the latest. Venues in a precinct with permanent approval to trade past midnight must run networked ID scanners at each entry, but Business Queensland lists restaurants on a meals licence among the exemptions (opens in a new tab), unless a licence condition requires scanning. Business Queensland describes a temporary extension (opens in a new tab) between midnight and 5am as being for a special occasion that someone other than the licensee wants to hold at the venue. It is capped at six dates a calendar year, New Year's Eve and Australia Day included, and one day in any calendar month, and the application has to be in at least 21 days ahead. So a functions page should quote your normal finishing time, and mention a later one only once an approval is in hand.
Brisbane diners search by precinct. Fortitude Valley has the shopping and dining strip on James Street and the Chinatown Mall (opens in a new tab) along Duncan Street. West End (opens in a new tab) is known for its cafe and restaurant scene along Boundary Street and has traditionally been home to Brisbane's largest Greek Australian community. Howard Smith Wharves (opens in a new tab), on the north bank below Bowen Terrace with the Story Bridge's northern pylons inside the site, opened as a redeveloped precinct in late 2018 and gained a ferry terminal in 2020. Sunnybank (opens in a new tab), 16 km from the CBD in Runcorn Ward, is known for its many Asian shops and restaurants, with Market Square facing Sunnybank Plaza across Mains Road. All four sit inside the City of Brisbane, so the Eat Safe Brisbane star rules on our Brisbane cafes page apply to restaurants there as well.
The river sets one date in the calendar. Brisbane Festival (opens in a new tab) runs from 3 to 25 September 2027, and Riverfire returns on Saturday 4 September 2027. Since 2022 Riverfire (opens in a new tab) has opened the festival, with fireworks along the river from South Bank to the Story Bridge. A riverside restaurant running a set menu or a minimum spend that night should have the sittings, the price per head and the cancellation terms online well before the date, because that's when the bookings come in. The Queensland public holiday list (opens in a new tab) brings a few dates that change opening hours and surcharges, covered in the questions below.
We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Brisbane businesses by phone and email. We haven't built a restaurant site yet. Our Queensland clients include Queensland Dance & Performing Arts, on Brisbane's bayside, and M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas. You send the menus, the drinks list, photos of the room and your booking link; we put them into a draft you can check on your phone between lunch and dinner service, and you pay once you approve it.
Neither is a restaurant. Queensland Dance & Performing Arts, on Brisbane's bayside, gives each program its own page and carries a weekly timetable, much as a restaurant gives each menu and its functions offer a page. Resolve Forward, in Sydney, prices its packages on the page and links each one to online booking, the way a set menu or a function package can open your reservation system.
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A Sydney family dispute resolution practice with six service pages, priced packages that each lead to online booking, and a five-step intake form. A restaurant's functions page can work the same way: each food package priced per head, then a form that collects the date, guest numbers and dietary needs before you reply.
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A single page with the menu, the wine list and its prices, kitchen and closing hours, a booking button and a map. Enough for a neighbourhood place without a functions trade.
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A home page with booking and directions, a menus page carrying food and drinks, and a functions page with an enquiry form. A Riverfire sitting or a Christmas Eve menu goes on the home page while it applies.
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Room for private dining, function packages, gift vouchers, a takeaway page set out within your wine condition, a menu in two languages, events, your story, or a second venue in another Brisbane suburb.
Queensland's Liquor Act bars licensees from advertising free drinks, two-for-one deals and promotions that suggest drinks are cheaper than usual, and it names happy hours and all you can drink as examples. Advertising includes electronic advertising, so a website or social media post counts; promotion seen or heard only inside the venue is allowed. A meals-licensed restaurant can still publish its usual drink prices. In the Brisbane City Council area, licensees approved to trade after 1am also have limits on the happy hours themselves: none after 1am, and none longer than an hour between 9pm and 1am. How you run an offer is your decision, so read Business Queensland's guidance (opens in a new tab) or ask OLGR first, and we'll publish the wording you settle on.
Yes, within your licence. Each adult eating a meal can leave with one opened and one unopened bottle of wine. Selling wine with takeaway or delivered meals is a different matter: it needs the takeaway condition on your licence, and it stops at 1.5 litres of wine per transaction, sold between 10am and 10pm. We can link the ordering platform you already use or build ordering and payment into your site, quoted for the job.
Not if you trade on a subsidiary on-premises (meals) licence with no scanning condition. Networked ID scanning applies to venues in a safe night precinct with permanent approval to trade past midnight, and Business Queensland lists restaurants on a meals licence as exempt. If that's your position, a short line on the site saying there's no ID scan at the door helps a group planning a late dinner in the Valley.
Christmas Eve is a part-day public holiday in Queensland from 6pm to midnight, so a public holiday surcharge, if you charge one, would fall on the dinner sitting rather than lunch. The King's Birthday holiday is the first Monday in October (5 October in 2026, 4 October in 2027) and Labour Day the first Monday in May. The Royal Queensland Show holiday, a Wednesday in August (11 August in 2027), applies in the Brisbane area only. Show any surcharge on the menu itself, and check the ACCC's price display guidance (opens in a new tab) for how to word it. Email us the dates and hours and we'll update the site; text changes on existing pages are covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
By phone and email. We're an Adelaide web design team with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. One call covers your menus, functions and licence type; you email the words and photos; we send a draft link to check on your phone. Ask for as many changes as you like, and pay once you approve it. Adelaide moves its clocks in summer and Brisbane doesn't, so the gap between us is thirty minutes one way or the other depending on the season. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your menus and drinks list, a few photos of the room, your booking link and the kind of liquor licence you hold, or tell us you're BYO. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay nothing until you approve it.
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