Five Sisters: Art House, Cafe and Bar

I went ages and ages ago to Five Sisters Art House Cafe with T., as soon as we finished our night shifts. We drove haphazardly into the Coles in West End and staggered across to this little cafe. I think that might be why all my photos were a little blurry cause I swear they looked fine when I took them.

Much blur, such legible

They have both cute outdoor and indoor seating areas. Take advantage of their cool garden space with a lazy drink or two!

Yassss

Wind corridor! 

Shady outdooors

Even more tables

It's a counter service place and they have a really amazing drink selection! A lot of very unusual drinks stocked here.

Cakes and other takeaway stuff!

Not sure if delicious or not

I liked the interior as well, I have a feeling its a converted house to cafe which explains the rooms and fireplace haha. Here is their menu by the way!

It'd be a pretty neat house

Whats that black gap?

I got a soy based flat white which came with two crumbly, super short and buttery biscuits! They had over heated the soy a bit too much so it did that thing where it becomes a nice solid raft of soy. Not the best soy coffee I've ever had to be sure.

Most defs had worst though

T., got the big brekkie which consisted of your choice of eggs, haloumi, wilted spinach, garlic mushrooms, bacon, roasted tomato, sausages and toasted sourdough. It's a pretty huge feed! T., didn't finish this as she usually does but she said that she especially enjoyed the haloumi, crusty sourdough and poached eggs. On the odd side was the super lemony wilted spinach. I thought I was imaging the taste but T., confirmed it for me and we were both puzzled.

Not bad

I got the brekky stack, smashed avocado, bacon, haloumi, poached eggs, wilted spinach and sourdough bread. It had nearly the same ingredients as what was on T.,'s dish barring the rocket and I thought it was a good sized serve of food.

Good flavours

Obligatory yolk porn

Five Sisters Art House, Cafe and Bar
Atmosphere: 8, breezy house turned cafe. I liked the atmosphere!
Service: 5, counter service!
Food: 6, not bad! Cheap, filling breakfast with solid ingredients and flavour combinations. I would easily go back here again if I wanted somewhere I was sure people would easily enjoy it.

Landmark Restaurant

Oh man Landmark is probably the best known yum cha restaurant in all of Brisbane. I swear if you've ever been to yum cha, you've probably been here before. I don't really like it though, mostly because the food can be a bit hit and miss. If you go there during peak hour, everything is great otherwise it's really average. The fried food can be a bit oily, the calamari can be tough at best and the service is surly at best.

Anyway, it's still an easy place to go to for a quick catch up with friends. Especially since parking is so easy since its in the shopping centre at Sunny Plaza. The day we went was really a get together for all the parents and me, because I like to eat.

I was on the prowl as soon as we entered the restaurant! My friends normally leave me to order for the table because I usually know whats good, but H., has to rein me in because I usually over order! We started off with har gao, some prawn and coriander dumplings plus siu mai! The har gao and prawn and coriander dumplings had very juicy, plump and flavoursome whole prawns inside, you can pretty much guarantee for all of Landmark's failings that their prawns dishes are pretty good. The siu mai was nothing special, the won ton wrapper was a little tough for some reason but I guess that's because we went a little before lunch time.

We had doubles of this!

You can faintly see in this photo that we had deep fried prawn rolls, salt and pepper calamari, steamed pork buns and crunchy kai lan with a side of oyster sauce. The salt and pepper calamari were a hit with the kids at our table, S.,'s daughter Olivia had one tentacle in each hand and was chewing gleefully. She kept trying to share her food with the other little boy there, Oliver, he was somehow convinced that he was eating chewy chips but tried the calamari anyway. He was a very shy little boy and kept asking his dad for more "chips". That being said, they were rubbery as anything, I don't think there's been a single time that I've had tender calamari here. The steamed pork buns were too sweet for my liking and had very little char siu inside them.

The token vegetable

A slightly different angle

You can't really see through all the steam but this was an interesting dish with eggplant where the hollowed inside was filled with fish paste and prawns before being steamed! Oliver was also gamely trying this considering he hadn't had eggplant or fish paste before. I feel like I shouldn't be allowed near small children cause I'd just feed them exotic foods without telling them what it was. I guess that's no different to how I treat some of my adult friends really.

What's behind that cloud of steam????

These were more deep fried prawns and beside them is a slippery plate of steamed rice noodles with more prawns inside them covered in a sweet soy sauce.

Well at least their prawns are good

Landmark Restaurant
Atmosphere: 5, your usual bright red and gold Chinese restaurant! Complete with tanks full of live seafood for you to pick and consume at your leisure. 
Service: 3, surly and unhelpful. Skip the trolleys and bring your bill straight to where they steam the food. Your variety will be a lot better and the food a lot fresher.
Food: 4. the food is nothing special. Anything with prawns is a safe bet, otherwise gloves are off as to what you're getting.

The Sushi Train and Buffet

I feel like VGirl and I have been going out to eat a lot recently! This time we decided to go out for Japanese food and I remembered that there was a sushi train in Buranda that did a buffet for dinner for about $20. VGirl agreed to go as long as I paid, which I always do being the big sister, and so we were off! Parking is easy at that time of night, just street park or park across the road at the Buranda shopping centre.

It's a simple place, just rock up and pick anything off their menu or train and its included on the buffet pricing. Just pay extra for drinks and set meals like their karaage dons.

The first thing I grabbed was the crab claws. These were a bit cold but they had a great crunch and a sweet interior that tasted vaguely of crab. It thought they were awesomely, terribly delicious in the way that fake food can be, like chicken nuggets and that kind of food.

The craw.

VGirl didn't have many options but she honed in on the avocado rolls as soon as she saw them. I think she had two or three of them. She likes their simplicity.

She's quick when shes hungry

I got the tuna and avocado roll and it was probably the best thing of the night for me. The tuna was moist, well seasoned and holds up quite well considering the length of time it would have been sitting there.

Ye old faithful

I got this soggy tempura prawn roll with avocado and tobiko roe on the outside. It had been sitting there for a while since it was getting a bit on the warm side but it wasn't anything too bad I guess.

Meh

We got a complimentary miso soup as part of our buffet. It had wakame and soft tofu pieces in it. I don't think I finished mine but VGirl drank all of hers.

Miso soup

Kakiage roll! Aka vegetable fritter roll, VGirl pounced on this once we finished puzzling over whether or not this was vegetarian at all. She ate about three of these in total and said it was pretty good.

Aw yiss

This was a particularly thickly riced piece of salmon nigiri. The salmon was quite thinly sliced and I found it to be nothing spectacular.

Its not the prettiest piece of salmon either

I got scorching hot takoyaki ordered, it was absolutely drowned in Japanese mayonnaise! I quite liked this, I suspected it was a frozen takoyaki but it was a good brand as the octopus pieces were still quite tender in the middle.

Classic Aussie sushi train appearance

This was their spicy chicken and avocado roll. The spicy part was literally the drizzle of sriracha sauce on the top of the roll. I don't even think it was the top of the line Cock sauce Sriraicha either but some random knock off brand due to its profound fruity and sweet flavours to the sauce.

Bruh

We got edamame ordered as well and it came out oddly warm.

What did they do to you?

This is their chicken and egg roll, a large piece of chicken, avocado and a very, very thin piece of tamago. I know tamago is a slightly sweetened egg omelet, but this was ridiculously sweet, like I fried off cake batter and ate it. The tamago here has a very odd appearance, rather than the thick, spongey block it usually comes in, this looks like a super thin fried egg.

What

Tamago nigiri, even VGirl with her inability to taste major flavours looked at me questioningly at the sweetness of this dish.

Blergh

You don't need to know where this place is. Seriously.