Best Bars in Brisbane for over 40s
Good old and fun time perhaps is what you’re looking for in Brisbane. In a city where it always feels alive, you may have thought of where to go with your friends on a boring weekend – having drinks, grooving to the music of your time, and singing along with the best hits just gives us excitement. But when most bars are flocked by young people, sometimes it can get annoying.
If ever you’re over 40 and looking for a bar that makes you reminisce and even create great times with your friends, Brisbane has an array of bars that can pour you the perfect drink, along with the rest of 80s to 90s music. More so, you’ll be meeting strangers in the same age bracket, and you might not know it but perhaps you can also make new friends dancing to the greatest hits.
Don’t know where? Make your weekend feel more alive by visiting these bars:
Death and Taxes Brisbane
36 Burnett Lane, Brisbane City
The name speaks for itself – a bar most especially open for the working class, get your custom cocktails, along with the wine and craft beer in an old-world bar decorated with over a thousand bottles of spirits. Opening its doors to you, travel into the underground bars of London and Paris, where you’ll get lost within the intimate lighting and the extensive drinks they provide to you; these drinks are also particularly concocted and sourced around the globe, so you’ll get a bit of taste of alcohol varieties. Food booths are also available inside, and you can munch into different cuisines and let your palette be surprised.
The Gresham Bar
38 Queens Street, Brisbane City
Go vintage with this brekkie and bar bites bar in a Victorian sandstone building with vintage decor and a beautiful fireplace – Gresham Bar is one for the books, with a chill but the lively atmosphere to give your alcohol fix after that stressful week in the office. Offering you the finest grade of wine, rum, and whiskey in the country, you’ll be craving for an additional shot or more. They also have extensive and progressive cocktails to serve, crafted by the best bartenders in the industry. This bar also is not crowded most of the time, so you can have a relaxing and serene atmosphere while you succumb to their fantastic drinks. On broad daylight or sundown, create wonderful times with your friends in this aesthetically pleasing venue.
Suzie Wongs Good Time Bar
678 Ann Street, Brisbane City
Creating good times with friends can never go wrong with this bar – enjoy a variety of jazz and songs of the 80s and 90s, in a moody, New York-style bar with an exposed brick interior. As you enter through a retro fridge door, you’ll be greeted by surf shack cocktail booths, and live and retro music, that just screams good times for you and your friends. Tag along with your best mates as you sing your lungs out, jump with the beat of the crowd, drinking a fantastic selection of liquor satisfying your every need. Great vibes, brilliant atmosphere, a lively crowd – well, what can go wrong?
WET® Deck
81 North Quay, Brisbane City
Located at W Hotels Brisbane, get on a rooftop and deck bar and see the Quay as it flickers the city lights on a relaxed, pleasant, and well-lit venue (minus the annoying led lights). Chase a life of indulgence, pleasure, or anything in between as you chat along with friends over cocktails and craft beers, also with an outdoor venue if you just wanna take delight on the cold nights of Brisbane. Amazing and satisfying servings of food are also dished for you, letting you enjoy your drinks and food that just pairs well to suit your cravings. This place is chic, laid-back, uncrowded, and easy – you can always skip the loud music especially when you’re so over partying with so much crowd.
Super Whatnot
48 Burnett Lane, Brisbane City
A speakeasy and relaxed place for all-night chatting with friends with mid-volume music to hype your mood somehow, this bar on Burnett lane speaks cocktails, wines, and a great selection of craft beer to satisfy your preferences. In an industrial-chic, split-level space you’ll enjoy great retro and pop music hits of the 90s on the lower floor, and a chill space of moody interiors and feel on the second level. This place also serves tasty and delightful food, which your choice of drinks can be perfectly paired with. For those hosting parties, they can also cater functions with a lovely, euphoric, pleasurable, and great atmosphere to get you alive until midnight.
Bar Pacino
175 Eagle Street, Brisbane City
Mostly flocked by people in their 40s, this outdoor bar gives you an easy and convenient setting for your outdoor pleasure over alcohol. Packed with food, cocktails, craft beers, and local and foreign wines, booze up as you taste the varying drinks made in different centuries all around the world. Well, they don’t have DJs to keep you grooving all night long, but this bar makes you socialize even more with the bounty of people who visit and drink their worries away. The bar also fronts the Brisbane River, providing you with a cool breeze any time of the day – day drinking or not, it sure is another awesome place for people over 40s.
Lighten your mood and let loose with these amazing bars for people over the 40s in Brisbane. Weekday or weekend, there sure is a place for you to wine up and get a dose of your needed dose to cap off your alcohol needs. More chill, fewer worries, mate!
