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Just seen a post about "The Garage" is there anything like it in Brisbane?

Not sure on a place like the garage... but I have heard mention on other forums about somewhere called 'harry's diner'? I think it's on the northside somewhere.

I feel incredibly lucky to be living in a city that has something like the Garage Cafe. It's a rare luxury.

Mmmmm, Garage Cafe'...

yeah Harry's is at Newmarket and is probably as close as it gets to something similar to the garage cafe. I'm not sure of opening times these days, but it's only usually Friday and Saturday nights. There are always plenty of P plate wearing bogans there, and cops, but there are also some very good cars too. Predominately US muscle cars and harleys... Either the first or last Friday of the month (can't remember exactly which) has a massive turn out of muscle cars - always some very good machinery.

It got a bad rep a few years ago when some dill in a Corvette lost control leaving the car park and plowed into numerous people standing around watching... There used to be hundreds of people there every Friday night, and most cars would leave in a cloud of tyre smoke.

Edit: Is on Newmarket Rd, at Windsor...

Sitting down in a garage full of MX5's having a nice meal, sipping on a glass of your favorite tipple while engaged in good conversation, was what I envisaged, bogans in a tyre smoke covered muscle car is a bit off the mark...

It's a bit like making a date with Audrey Hepburn and have Paris Hilton turn up. (young ones may need Google to find out who Audrey Hepburn is)

andybris wrote:Sitting down in a garage full of MX5's having a nice meal, sipping on a glass of your favorite tipple while engaged in good conversation, was what I envisaged....

I couldn't agree more.

Maybe we can just set up a meet-up once at Harry's, on an "off-peak" night, say Wednesday, and see how we go?

The best we've done is 3 MX-5's in a row, then another car, then another MX-5, and two others in a row on the opposite side of street on Park Rd

1red5 wrote:

andybris wrote:Sitting down in a garage full of MX5's having a nice meal, sipping on a glass of your favorite tipple while engaged in good conversation, was what I envisaged....

I couldn't agree more.

Maybe we can just set up a meet-up once at Harry's, on an "off-peak" night, say Wednesday, and see how we go?

The best we've done is 3 MX-5's in a row, then another car, then another MX-5, and two others in a row on the opposite side of street on Park Rd

we should start a lets take over Harry's for a night thread...

Or we could take over MX5 Plus at Geebung is office is HUGE,,, we could get 50 in there, and all bring a plate we may need to tie Danny up first.

edit.. we may need to hide that last bit from him so he isn't ready with police and cuffs.

I took my bright yellow Moke to Harry's once I thought some of the muscle car crowd would get a bit aggro with some 4 cylinder thing that can't make tyre smoke but they just happily ignored it.

I just live down the road and when it was at it's peak (prior to the last ownership change) there would be cars doing laps around the burbs for hours after the place closed. Nearly had some in our front yard! The accidents and the cops got the crowds down and reduced the back street hoons. I haven't been back since the last change in owners.

If I were to recommend something it would be Vinnies Cafe at the Reading Newmarket complex. Excellent food incl pizza and they are on the edge of the Coles car park. We could probably organise to hog the whole carpark near Vinnies. They do dinners Wed Thur and Fri.

M

Sounds good, but i'm still in for roping Danny up, that mans office is just too big to be ignored

I'm just up the hill from Harrys and once a month on a thursday evening they have an import night...

All too ricey for my taste...

Tezzax5 wrote:I'm just up the hill from Harrys and once a month on a thursday evening they have an import night...

All too ricey for my taste...

"ricey not nicey"