Briny's Restaurant And Bar

Was hard to locate. Short walk from the Fortitude Valley train station. Was greeted warmly by the Taiwanese lass who cleared our groupon voucher and ushered us to our table. We had fish and chips and washed it down with a refreshing glass of Sauvignon Blanc and a lager. Fish was battered nicely, accompanied by an uplifting coleslaw and green salad along with a generous supply of piping hot thick cut chips that was salted just right. The lovely owner came out for a chat and even showed us how fresh her oysters were. Another time perhap? Even without the Groupon Voucher, prices were really reasonable too. I would highly recommend you to try this place if you'd like a quick, effordable and pleasant place for lunch or dinner. Suitable for couples, singles, families or groups. Lots of carparking available too beside the restaurant. Only negative was that it was a tad stuffy on a summer's day.

We were waiting for hidden cameras to jump out and yell surprise... Dining here was like watching a train wreck in slow motion... We got seated and noticed table numbers were napkins with numbers written on in red pen... we just brushed it off but it really should have been a red flag to what was to unfold. We tried to order some white wine and then told there was no white wine available, at 6:30pm on a Saturday night. We then tried to order cocktails - told that no cocktails were available. So basically just beer and cider. My friend got a cider and requested some ice...the waiter dropped the ice in, the cider fizzed and was overflowing all over the table. We grabbed what napkins we could to stop the flow but the waiter just stood there watching, we we had to explicitly ask him if he could please get some cloths to mop it up. We tried to order oysters and informed there were none left, but then told that we could get half a dozen. They dropped the oysters on the table but did not give us any plates or cutlery which we then had to ask for... the waiter came back with 4 and we had to tell the waiter that we needed another set as there were 5 of us... The final outrage was in the chicken wings... $14 for two really skinny wings that were overcooked and dried. (Funnily this was the same night that Trista another diner wrote her review...) I guess you should never order chicken in a seafood restaurant.. but hard when there's a scarcity of seafood to begin with. Scallop carbonara had 3 scallops.. fisherman's basket comprised half chips.. you'd be pretty disappointed if you paid full price, but even with 50% off from the Fork.. you're better off going to Maccas.. which we did go after :)

The price is so tricky... The "seafood and chips "is not worthy $38 at all. And the" Fish & Chips" costs us $30. I thought it would be a big size. But it turned out three small pieces of fish. So terrible. Don't try this restaurant for the Fork or Groupon half price promotion. You will see the truly original price - fish&chips $12, seafood&chips $16. Not happy at all. 🤢

We won’t come back again as taste bad and overprice. We ordered 9 dishes but we have been waiting for more than 1 hour to get only 3 dishes. Oysters are not fresh and really fishy. We had chicken wings as well but it’s too expensive. It cost $14 of original price and only has 2 tiny chicken wings. We booked the restaurant through the frok which offer 50 % off the of the food menu. Before we went to the restaurant, we had a look of online menu from other websites ( like zomato and online takeaway order website) and found that the original price of the menu from website is cheaper than the menu that they provided in the restaurant.

Very good food, clean and tidy and well decorated. Good selection of beers and cocktails. Not sure if I've been poisoned or there is something I don't know, but we were the only customers on a Saturday night. Get on before it closes because it's something to experience. I recommend the abalone if you love prawn crackers.

Terrible food, service and so very highly over priced. Went here for my sisters Birthday she had a 50% voucher so we decided to give them a go even though there are so Many poor reviews. The oysters were the only item that tatsed ok but everone I had (half dozen), had shell fragments in it andthe oysters were tiny! We tried the abalone- this was by far the worst. So expensive and only 3 abalone which were terrible tasting and so hard you could barely chew them, my husband spat his out. We had $14 sweet potato chips that was about the size of a cup, so expensive and unsatisfying. We tried the scallops, they were ok but again so expensive for mediocre seafood. We also had the pipis and these were terrible. We were so hungy after this we had to go to the valley and order mains from superbowl as we were starving. I had 2 mocktails and on the second one the lady tried to charge my husband $17 (full cocktail price) instead of $9 which is what she charged the first time. THIS PLACE IS A JOKE. LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT IT WILL BE NEXT. Hopefully something that is well priced and good quality food as the actual place/ building is very cool.

Even with a 50% off Groupon it was vastly overpriced. $38 for the smallest fishermans basket I've even seen. Wait staff didn't know what house wine was then we we told we could only certain things on the menu with our Groupon - basically only starters and pasta dishes. When we complained we were grudgingly given small portion of fish and chips. We will not be back - avoid, avoid, avoid.