Aspley Hotel

Aspley Hotel

Anooska Tucker-Evans

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Trivia nights have become a hit with pubs trying to attract patrons on usually quieter nights. And Aspley Hotel, in Brisbane's north, is doing a tremendous job at just that.

We arrived shortly after 7pm on a Wednesday to find the restaurant of the renovated pub packed.

Not a table was spare in the traditionally decorated space with timber tables and chairs against cream walls with the kitchen and bar occupying one wall.

Luckily, there were a few spaces left in the stainless steel and red modern sports bar in the centre of the building, and in a cute, covered courtyard off the restaurant.

We grabbed two menus off the bar and weaved our way through the deep-in-thought trivia crowd to the courtyard.

The menu at Aspley Hotel is modern and inviting.

There are the compulsory steaks, some light entrees, plus a variety of appetising mains like our mimosa prawn risotto and parmesan-crusted lamb cutlets.

We started, though, with a contemporary pub favourite – the salt and pepper calamari.

This was a very good version with a generous serve of tender and nicely seasoned rolls of scored calamari on a bed of simple s...

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