A friendly family-run Thai restaurant. Great for casual dining, especially in summer as it has tables out the front where you can watch the world go by. Located in the popular restaurant hub of Hawken Drive in St Lucia, just moments away from the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus.

This place is run by a true coffee obsessive, so if you're a hard-core coffee lover then this is the place for you. They do specialty roasting, so you can try all sorts of new blends and really get your coffee snob hat on! It's only open til 4pm, so get in there early in the day for your caffeine hit.

This is the only cupcake place in Brisbane that I've found that does a low gluten cupcake that actually tastes good. Usually the options for gluten intolerant people are almond and orange cake or some dried out and disappointing attempt at a cake. I like these ones even better than the real thing (and my husband loves their regular cupcakes too). We go here as often as we can for our cupcake fix. The icing is the best I've had!

Approximate cost: $3.50 to 4.00

We've had Craft do work on our house twice, once quite a big extension job and once more of a renovation of existing aspects of the house that were in need or updating and repair. While Craft are not the cheapest builders around, they gave us realistic quotes and a contract that they stuck by even when the work proved more difficult than expected (and thus took them more man hours than they expected). When we had a problem with an aspect of the work they came back repeatedly until they were sure it was rectified and did not charge us for the repairs. As a result, I would trust them to get the job done well, unlike other builders and tradespeople we have had much less positive experiences with. If you want cheap, then don't get a good builder, but don't expect good results either. With Craft you can trust you get good results at a fair price.

Nadine does both my hair and my husband's hair regularly. We've also used Jemima, who does a great job, too. Nadine is very experienced and friendly and also did my hair and makeup for my wedding.