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Best Things To Do In Newmarket

Next Stop Newmarket! The best things to do in Newmarket, Brisbane, a leafy north side suburb with its fair share of secret treasures. 

The suburb of Newmarket has come a long way from the late 1880s when it was Brisbane town’s main stockyard and go-to for cattle sales. Today it is home to an authentic French bakery, a creperie, artisan gelateria, boutique cinemas, one of Brisbane's oldest Mexican restaurants and a city farm and a secret forest: 

Evolve Cafe
Evolve Cafe Newmarket
Evolve Café in Newmarket is a fully organic café dishing up delicious plant-based fare
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Allora
Allora Newmarket
Serving up fresh, artisan gelato with a variety of creative flavours, Allora is a gelato lover's heaven
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Miss Claude's Crepes
Miss Claude's Crepes
Miss Claude's Crepes at Newmarket is a fully licenced authentic French creperie serving delicate sweet, savory and gluten free crepes
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Crunch K Korean Chicken
Crunch K Korean Chicken, Newmarket
Crunch K offers a winning combination of crispy Korean fried chicken and cold beer
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Reading Cinemas
Reading Cinemas Newmarket
Reading Cinemas Newmarket offers reclining, luxury seating for all movie-goers to enjoy, plus state-of-the-art cinematic technology
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Northey St Farm
Creek and bush
This 4km return creek side jaunt follows a shady flat paved path to Northey St City Farm
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Banks St Reserve
Bush track and yellow flowering bush inside Banks St Reserve in Newmarket
Straddling Newmarket and Alderley is this 37ha of peaceful bush and parkland where once fields of market gardens thrived.
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Newmarket Pool
People swimming in Newmarket Pool with giant floating castle with children playing on it.
This fantastic family friendly pool complex and playground features giant Joan Miro-esque water sculptures dotted in and round the kids’ pools.
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Northey Street Organic Farmers Market
Northey Street Organic Market, Windsor
Held in the shaded car park adjacent to the farm, this is the only pure organic produce market in Brisbane
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Pepe's Mexican

The rustic little Mexican cottage bar and eatery in Newmarket is a long time Brisbane institution

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