Super Whatnot

Came here on our last night in Brisbane. We were on a search for local beers and a bite to eat. Located in an alley way, it was pretty easy to find.
We ordered the Brazilian cheese bread and chicken wings with creole seasoning. The cheese bread were tasty! But the chicken wings were… not so great. It was drenched in cumin and no other seasoning at all. I tried to mask a drumette with the blue cheese dip and that seemed to help a bit. Along with our bites we ordered a flight of beers that were on tap. Came in a trio. I kind of wish the bartender described them or at least told us what they were. They were good though. I usually don’t like darker or port like beers, but the coffee porter was pretty tasty. Service was a little slow. Our waitress kept saying she will bring us napkins but they never came at the end of the night.
Seems like a great place for 20 somethings. Can get pretty crowded. But it’s a bar, what do you expect?

This is a great bar. The atmosphere is casual yet funky. The burgers are delish. They have a great cocktail menu.
A great spot for lunch on a Friday or drinks after work.

Super Whatnot is super hot to trot! I love this quaint little hole in the wall bar. From eye catching décor to the sunken lounge, this bar puts its best foot forward with an American inspired menu and fantastic beer selection.
Super Whatnot has a homely intimate feel and is ideal for a small group or casual date as seating is limited. I would jump at the chance to go back here and work my way through a few more craft beers or even lash out for a few cocktails which also looked delicious. If you’re looking for something a little quirky with some real character without being too fancy then this place should feature in your shortlist.

Am I in Melbourne? Something you don’t see often in Brisbane is appreciated interior design, this place stands out from the others! Enjoyed several wines and nachos during happy hour on Friday night. I particularly liked the Aesop soap in the bathroom to! a touch of class and a little treat to the customers! Love that this place offers happy hour and relaxed sunken lounge atmosphere! Music is good to!

We loved it! Great craft beers on tap, nice wines, nice small plates of food, great upbeat music, good atmosphere, nice people. All in the middle of a somewhat unattractive city lane-​way. Will definitely go back!

There is a reason this place is packed every time I come. With a great beer list, gourmet eats (masquerading as ‘bar food’) and really REALLY great beats, Super Whatnot rocks my socks. The bar tenders are all really emotionally invested in whether or not you are enjoying what they prepare you, going to great lengths to describe what is on tap, what is a house favourite, and what they would personally drink. And don’t even get me started on the Wagyu Burger $ 13. Sometime you just wanna jazz it up, and when you do, you get this burger. Fluffy brioche bun, perfectly cooked Wagyu burger patty, pickles, tomato, secret sauce, lettuce. Let’s just say, one didn’t cut it.

Austrian ski lodge interior & Latin kitchen?
This place offers a strange mix in styles, but a great one. Excellent cocktails, great beer list (personally I love the stouts & porters), and good service. This place is quite small and gets often very busy, so experiences can be a bit variable.
However, this place is mucho/​muito different from other places. Great hangout after a day at work.

This place was packed out on a Friday night. It wasn’t even that late, I think a lot of people hit it up after work. I had an espresso martini that was pretty good and the guacamole and chips… maybe try something else?
Not that it’s a bad place, clearly people like it there were heaps of people there… just didn’t stand out to me.

Super Whatnot is, quite simply, cool. The atmosphere is good and I found the staff to be quite good. One night I was there I got some beer advice from the bartender and, at the end of the night, was provided a promotional package from the brewery. Really cool!
The space is small, so I really prefer to drop in on weekdays, when the CBD belongs to the natives.

There are a couple places where my beer fanatic friends love to go and Super Whatnot is definitely one of them. Come here to try the 3 rotating beers that they’ve got on tap. I’ve had a great range of beers here from some delicious hoppy IPA to smooth dark dunkels.
Highly recommended for after work drinks and ‘slightly’ classy affairs such as company happy hours or team drinks. There’s an upstairs lounge area if the downstairs area is full, and oh yeah the bathrooms have Aesop hand soap!

Nice décor. We went Sunday afternoon so there was no atmosphere. It was hot upstairs.

My colleague and I came here for mid-​afternoon beers while on the job in the city. I’d been down this Melbourne-​esque laneway so many times before — mostly to get to Brew — so I was intrigued by this hole in the wall bar.
The guy at the bar knows his beers. They have rotating craft beers on tap and I had some guacamole. The beer was good, the chips and dip were fine. About half an hour into our visit one of the staff brought us a new mexican dip he’d made to try out. It was pretty tasty!
A nice place to duck into and have some drinks if you’re in the CBD — I wouldn’t make a special trip there though.

Fall break has officially begun, and since the girls have been eyeing Super Whatnot in the city, we decided on a low-​key rendezvous there. The narrow entryway to this trendy bar is easy to miss. For one, it’s located on Burnett Lane, an alleyway off of Queen Street and George. The lighting is dim, making the entrance unassuming and even more difficult to find, but this definitely isn’t stopping it from being a popular hangout spot!
The ambience of the bar is a relaxed, warm one, which I immediately liked. The brocade couches, wooden panels, day of the dead skulls, and picture of a deer on the wall did it for us! We ordered a few plates of nibbles along with our beer, which were all pretty decent. We had the Pao de Queijo (9), a Brazilian cheese bread, which was essentially a cheese flavored mochi bread ball. It was freshly made and had a nice crunch on the outside, with a chewy bread center. The Nachos Locos with beef (14) weren’t quite as impressive, as they were a bit dry, as one of us pointed out, and the portion was just a bit small for what we were paying for (even for Oz!). Lastly, we had the Rasta Chicken (11), a crunchy Jamaican peppered chicken drumsticks, which came with «Bob Sauce.» The chicken itself was nice and crunchy on the outside, but the highlight was definitely the sauce. I didn’t pay attention to what it was, but it was good!
Overall, the food was quite decent, along with the place itself. My only complaint was that the food took over 20, maybe even 25 minutes, to arrive. It wasn’t busy at all, so I wonder at why their service was a bit slack. Either way, I would definitely recommend this place for a drink if you’re in the city, as they also serve a variety of cocktails.

Great place, nice crowd, tasty chocolate beer!

I’ve heard a lot of talk about Super Whatnot but rarely find myself in the city. So I only just checked it out this week. It was a bitter sweet experience.
The fitout is gorgeous, I hear the space used to be a loading dock and they have done a magnificent job turning it into a stylish and yet cosy space. The drinks we had were good, with average prices for a city venue. The food was a completely different matter. My friend ordered the Mexican Hotwings and the Tortilla Chips with Guacamole at just over $ 20. They arrived beautifully presented but the serving was tiny and the food quality average at best. $ 11 for FOUR wings? The guacamole was bland and I just can’t understand how you can do bad guacamole, that stuff is magical.
I’d got back for a drink or two but would not recommend it or make this a regular visit.
4 wings for $ 12 average guacamole

I can’t say much more than those before me, & I’m working on my Saturday hangover while writing this but:
Bar down an alley +
Trendy setup +
Great beer list
=
A good place to be any day of the week.

I was looking for a couple of quick afternoon beers in the CBD before heading over to South Bank. I was looking for somewhere that wasn’t in the mall and wasn’t Brew. Super Whatnot gave me what I was looking for.
You need to get here early though. The place is tiny and fills up in no time. Thankfully the bar guy asked some other customers to shuffle along the bar so we could take up a stool and settle in to sample the fine range.
Super Whatnot’s location, size and atmosphere gives a real speakeasy vibe. I like it. A lot.

Super Whatnot, I want so badly to love you and yet our first moment together left me lukewarm. It was a quiet Wednesday night, but I don’t like a lot of hustle & bustle so I was grateful for the ample choice of seating. And I do love a sunken lounge, so sinking into yours was a real treat. You had Bacchus Oatmeal Stout on tap, which was good, because your cocktail list was a little short — but your collection of spirits seemed full. Should I have just asked for a negroni? I usually find that a good enough way to test the calibre of bartender (who was friendly enough on our Wednesday night date, if a little cool)…
Okay, Super Whatnot (can I call you Super?). I’ll be back. Suit up.

Oh Super Whatnot, how you indulge my hipster sensibilities. Set along Burnett Lane you had me from the moment I walked in your former beauty school storage doors and I certainly didn’t feel like a drop out as I sipped cocktails (The Walking Dead and The Baron enticed me on name alone) and dined on your ‘Americana’ bar menu (mmm, organic cornbread) in your upstairs alcove. Surrounded by a larger than life image of a deer head and with cute cacti hanging from the ceiling it kind of felt like being indulged in a New York Loft meets Mid-​West saloon. It does get crowded quickly with its 60-​person only capacity, however, that said we visited on a Tuesday evening and there was plenty of room!

This guy is an up and comer. I saw Super Whatnot pop up on Facebook as a new place down Burnett Lane in the city — an after-​product of a failed laneway project attempt — and I think it’s utilised its space well.
It’s hard to believe that this little space used to be a storage area for a hairdressing salon, and I think it serves a much greater (and more lucrative) purpose now.
I visited it on a Friday night so naturally, there were more older people here after work or having a night out. It seems like upstairs is an area occupied by the younger and downstairs by the older. Funny, that. Downstairs has lounges that wrap around the perimeter of the room while upstairs has more of a bar setting with bar stools and a really impressive and intricate design that forms the balcony barrier.
Anyway, after having a turf war with a lady over a stool (seriously calm down, it’s just a tool) my group and I managed to nestle into a corner and enjoy the ambiance. You can get a pipsqueak cider for $ 7, which was definitely my number one option.
I like the place, but I’m not overly enthusiastic about it. It’s still a young venue, still finding its feet, so I’ll be really interested to see how it pans out and what type of venue it establishes itself as. I will say this, on a quieter night, I think the upstairs area would be a nice place for quiet conversation or a more intimate setting.