Portside Wharf

Great selection of shops and services. Their events center is beautiful and fairly accommodating. This is a great place for quality and service.

I used to work on Hercules st last year in a horrible cubicle desk job for 3 months. I couldn’t wait until lunchtime when I could walk down to Portside Wharf and sit outside near the water. It makes such a difference to the day! I would stroll down the road, buy a snack from the IGA and make myself a space on one of the seats right on the water. The view of the water and the city are a great combination and it makes you feel lucky to be in Brisbane.
Trendy shops, up market restaurants, relaxing cafes, a cinema and markets on the occasional weekend, Portside has everything I like best for a relaxing weekend day.
There is plenty of undercover parking or street parking on weekends. The only time you will run into trouble is when a cruise ship is docked. You might have a bit of a trek by the time you park down the road.

Check this fancy little shopping mall out when there’s a cruise ship moored here. It’s quite exciting, to browse through some fancy fashion stores a bit out of my price range and take in the ambience of the well planned wharf shopping precinct, while some behemoth of a ship is dwarfing everything in sight just metres away from where you’re sipping coffee at one of the alfresco eateries. The Dendy Portside Cinema is here too and that’s very nice too; I like to take my wine in and sit in the dark feeling just a little bit naughty; why can’t we do this at all cinemas?

I helped with the launch of Portside Wharf back in the days I worked for a radio station, but might I say, this little gem of a mall has come from strength to strength since.
The shops on this little mall are very posh. Back in the day, if you wore a top hat and a puffy hoop skirt, this would be the place you would shop. Even the news agency seems a little better than your suburban one.
What I love about this place, that not very many people know about is the Dendy Cinemas. You can watch a movie and have something to eat. Whether it’s the fancy Sono Japanese Restaurant upstairs to your Fisherman Seafood place downstairs… and ice cream at the Movenpick. It’s a pretty great day out… especially when there’s a ship ported. Those ships are massive and it’s one of the few places you can go to see how big these cruise ships truly are.
They also have many little markets and expo’s during the year if you go at select times. Great little place with a great atmosphere… very romantic too at night time. Wink wink nudge nudge.