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The Expo Food Fantasy
The World Meets at Expo
World Expo '88 was
pivotal not only because of the significant
impact it had on Brisbane City's retailing
laws - especially where we now expect 7-day
trading - but also - it significantly raised
our expectations of international service with
regards to the restaurant/cafe industry as
well.
Brisbanites could have a choice of over 50
different restaurants of foods and flavours
from all over the world - not only in many of
the international Pavilions - but also in Expo
Authority and private enterprise ventures -
and all open 7 days a week 10am to 10pm. And
in fact, some of these experiences - the
Munich Festhaus, the Picasso Spanish
Restaurant, the Britannia Inn and so on - have
become a permanent part of culinary Brisbane
today.
So the legacy given to us just from the food
and catering aspects of World Expo '88 has
been quite considerable.
And South Bank Parklands today - the
transformed World Expo '88 site - reflects the
public's enjoyment of Expo as a food venue
with its numerous fastfood outlets, cafes,
restaurants, pubs and icecream stalls - at the
variety Australian pub restaurants - The Ship
Inn, and The Plough Inn (two of Expo's
pre-existing heritage listed buildings); the
flavours of Turkey, Japan, Greece, Vietnam,
China, Italy, Lebanon, and India - at Ahmet's
Turkish Cuisine and Mado's Delights of Turkey,
Ginga Japanese Restaurant, Kapsali Greek
Restaurant, Viet de Lites, Wang Dynasty, Cafe
San Marco, and the Gandhi Curry House and Chez
Laila - located at the Brisbane riverside most
popular World Expo '88 al fresco eatery - now
a permanent part of South Bank Parklands -
'The Board Walk', with its signature verandahs
overlooking a spectacular river City, and
gently lapping sounds of the Brisbane River by
a hedged mangrove rampart.
Other memories of the food fantasy of World
Expo '88 that have faded into popular World
Expositions history were the Pacific Village
Lagoon Restaurants - including the fine dining
of the Pacific Village (Islands of the
Pacific), Lockwood Lodge (New Zealand) and
Tsuruya (Japan) - each within their own
handcrafted pavilions around the rim of the
Pacific Lagoon near the centre of the Expo
site, as well as that of Picasso Restaurant
(Spain) amidst the sophistication and
cosmopolitan European Boulevard and Times
Square, and Terrace (Switzerland) Restaurant
featuring inside the artificially cooled snow
wonderland of the Swiss Pavilion - with
regional Chefs and specialities from each of
the Swiss cantons; and the USSR Pavilion
Restaurant 'Troika', which featured the finest
of Moscow cuisine prepared by some of Moscow's
finest Chefs.
Finally, the best of Queensland seafood could
be savoured at the permanently moored
Kookaburra Queen steam boat restaurant - which
still can be boarded today for fine dining
lunch, afternoon tea and dinner cruises in
Brisbane; the 1,300 seater Bavarian Village
fantasy of the Munich Festhaus - the largest
restaurant on site - with its lederhosen
attendants, sauerkraut and sausage, and
Bavarian brass band almost always permanently
in party mode to one of the Expo's most
popularly remembered dance-songs 'the chicken
dance' (!), which would incessantly engage
innocent strangers to embrace one another -
beer tankard in one hand - and in dance the
other - and keep in time with the dance's
ever-increasing tempo; and who can forget the
Americana Food Village - a cultural
smorgasboard of food, drink, and beverages
from Hollywood, Honolulu, New York, New
Orleans or Anchorage - each with their own
themed hut order counters, menus and staff, by
World Expositions catering veteran, Chuck
Sanders of Sanders International Ventures Ltd.
Want to know more? Here is the list of all the
restaurants, takeaways, and cafes at Expo:
courtesy of the World Expo '88 Official Guide
Book, ACP Publications.
International Pavilions
CANADA: The Provinces. Family Restaurant,
licensed, seats 75 inside, 125 outside
CHINA: Chinese Fast Food. Family Restaurant,
licensed.
CYPRUS: Cyprus Pavilion. Foods to go,
licensed.
HUNGARY: Budapest Restaurant. Family
Restaurant, licensed, seats 50
KOREA: Seoul Restaurant. Family Restaurant,
licensed.
MALAYSIA: Sate Ria. Foods to go, unlicensed,
freestanding tables.
NEPAL: Sano Pagodas (2). Foods to go,
unlicenced.
NEW ZEALAND: Lockwood Lodge. Buffeteria,
licensed, seats 220. Also an ice-cream
outlet offering foods to go.
PAKISTAN: Pakistani Fast Food: Foods to go,
unlicenced.
PHILIPPINES: Philippines Buffeteria:
Buffeteria, licensed
SINGAPORE: Tiger Garden. Family Restaurant,
licensed, seats 40
SPAIN: Picasso Restaurant. Fine Dining,
licensed, seats 75. Tapas Bar - family
restaurant, licensed, seats 80.
SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan Restaurant. Foods to
go, licensed.
SWITZERLAND: The Terrace. Fine Dining,
licensed.
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS: The
Troika. Fine Dining, licensed, seats 270 -
indoor and outdoor.
UNITED KINGDOM: The Britannia Inn.
Tavern/Inn, licensed, seats 74 inside, 226
outside.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Americana Food
Village. Food plaza, seats 800.
YUGOSLAVIA: Dubrovnik Restaurant. Family
Restaurant, licensed.
Corporate Pavilions
Dry Dock Deli: Family Restaurant, licensed.
Primary Industries: Food Plaza. Unlicensed,
seats 50.
Food Concessions: Bistro
Staff Bistro (Entertainment House). Bistro,
licensed, seats 300, open 24 hours, adjacent
to the Plaza.
Staff Bistro (Media House). Bistro, licensed,
seats 220, located behind Young at Heart
Buffeteria
The Ultimate Buffet
All-u-can-Eat one trip. Buffeteria, licensed,
seats 120 inside, seating also available in
Boardwalk common area, located in the
Boardwalk area.
Family Restaurant
BBQ 88: Family Restaurant, licensed, seats
350, located at Young at Heart
COLLINS PLACE SPAGHETTI HOUSE: Family
Restaurant, licensed, seats 150, located in
Collins Place
GALAXY RESTAURANT: Family Restaurant,
licensed, seats 428 insde, 105 outside,
located at World Expo Park
STAR TERRACE RESTAURANT: Family Restaurant,
licensed, seats 356 inside, 324 outside,
located at World Expo Park
THE LOOKABOUT REEF AND BEEF: Family
restaurant, licensed, seats 150, located in
the Boardwalk
Fine Dining
KOOKABURRA QUEEN FLOATING RESTAURANT
Fine dining top deck, licensed, seats 200,
located adjacent to the Boardwalk
PACIFIC LAGOON RESTAURANT
Fine dining, licensed, seats 250, located at
the Pacific Lagoon
TSURUYA JAPANESE RESTAURANT
Fine dining, licensed, seats 120, located at
the Pacific Lagoon
Food Plaza
FOOD ON THE WALK
Food plaza, licensed, seating available at the
Boardwalk common area, located at the
Boardwalk
YOUNG AT HEART
Food plaza, licensed, seats approximately
1,200 persons, located at Young at Heart
Foods to Go
COCK AND BULL
Foods to go, licensed, seating in the
Boardwalk common area, located at the
Boardwalk
CHOCOLATE DOME
Foods to go, unlicensed, seating for 50
nearby, located at World Expo Park
DONUT DOME
Foods to go, unlicensed, seating for 50
nearby, located at World Expo Park
KONA COFFEE STAND
Foods to go, unlicensed, located Arcade near
Australia's Opal Mining Showcase
KONE ICE CREAM PARLOUR
Foods to go, unlicensed, located at World Expo
Park
MOBILE SNACK UNITS
Foods to go, unlicensed, 13 french fry
mobiles, 8 hot dog mobiles, 4 ice cream
mobiles, located all around the site
OYSTERMAN'S BAR
Foods to go, licensed, seating available in
Boardwalk common area, located at the
Boardwalk
PIE & CHIPS STALL
Foods to go, unlicensed, seating for 50
nearby, located World Expo Park
Ice Cream Parlour
Ice-Cream Parlours. Ice-cream parlours,
unlicensed, four locations
Tavern/Inn
ALICE'S ROCK CAFE
Tavern/Inn, licensed, seats 385, located
opposite Young at Heart
MUNICH FESTHAUS
Tavern/Inn. Licensed, seats 1,200 persons,
near Media House
PLOUGH INN
Tavern/Inn. Licensed, seats 490, located near
Time Square.
SHIP INN
Tavern/Inn. Fine dining, Disco, licensed,
seats 100 - seafood restaurant, seats 100 -
courtyard -deli, seats 40 - coffee shop, open
24 hours, located adjacent to World Expo 88
House.
With Kind
Thanks to Australian Consolidated Press
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