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Brisbane Restaurants

Verve Café

1 reviews | Write a review

Good for: atmosphere, food, Solo Travellers, service

  • Address
    • 109 Edward St
  • Phone
    • 07-3221 5691
  • Price
    • mains $15-21
  • Hours
    • lunch Mon-Fri, dinner Mon-Sat

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Lonely Planet review for Verve Café

This cavernous bar-cafe-restaurant where the cool kids hang has work by local artists for sale on the exposed brick walls. Food is modern Italian – blue-cheese risotto, and goats-cheese gnocchi are the big sellers. There’s acoustic music on Thursday nights and DJs on Friday nights.

 

Traveller reviews for Verve Café (1)

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    Does Magneto play cricket and eat pasta?

    whiskysix recommends this,

    Who is the X-Men's nemesis? What country was invaded by the U.S. in 1991? What sport does Shane Warne play? Magneto, Iraq, and apparently Shane Warne is a great Australian cricketer and one of the game's finest bowlers. We did not know this last answer, not being Australian. Or cricketers. Or having the faintest clue as to what a bowler was.

    But we came in third in Verve's weekly trivia night anyways, so felt pretty good about ourselves, a fact that was helped considerably by the bartender continuing to give us the Early Bird/Happy Hour wine special long after that promotion should have ended...

    Verve's basement location and raucous trivia-night atmosphere originally made us feel like we were at a university pub night, but then the food arrived, and it was definitely not simple pie 'n sauce or potato wedges.

    Our starter was pita and toasted breads with an array of dips: tapenade,
    artichoke and sun-dried tomatos, hummus. Service was a bit slow, but with
    the dips and wine and trivia contest, it was a pleasant hour until the mains
    came.

    Pasta special that day was a pumpkin gnocchi that made us see, or at least glimpse God. And my girlfriend---who generally eats lower on the food chain than I do---ended up eating half of my veal marsala.

    All-in-all, great food and a very entertaining place to go. Just be up on
    your spin bowlers.

    Good for: atmosphere, food, Solo Travellers, service

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