We had been living in Morayfield for a while and then shifted a bit closer into Brisbane City, which is a few suburbs over into the Narangba area and although we had an old fish and chip shop we use to frequent they went off the boil in regards to serving size and also value for money, which led us into where we currently frequent and we ask ourselves now every weekend, is this the best Fish and Chip Shop in Brisbane and more importantly for us, Brisbane Northside?

We have a young family and have taken it upon ourselves to have a takeaway meal pretty much every Saturday night.

This lets the hugs and kisses have a night off preparing food and also it is a treat for us for the week, something we can all look forward to.

We vary these nights with Pizza, Chinese, Thai Food, McDonalds, Hungry Jacks and of course Fish and Chips.

We were at a bit of a loss when or old faithful fish and chip shop wasn’t cutting it anymore and also we, we meaning the whole family got food poisoning one night too which was the last straw for the place we had been going to for a few years.

Since that time we struggled to find a replacement although we were keen to fill the void.

We found a pretty good one up Caloundra way but that is a bit too far to travel for fish and chips let alone going there every Saturday night.

Most, even though there weren’t many fell short of fish and chip shop expectation and were either too expensive (One shop had a $9 price tag on a family size chips) or just didn’t cut it in respect for the actual cooking part, soggy chips, bad burgers and out of the box frozen potato scallops.

I had even resorted to cancelling Saturday night takeaway for the standard spaghetti and eggs on toast as I was finding that more enjoyable than some of the meals we were getting when the squids were getting theirs from the big chains in fast food.

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We got given tickets for the Brisbane International Tennis for Christmas this year, this is after getting tennis tickets for the hugs n kisses parents last year as a present, so they duly returned the favour by sending us to the tennis this year because they had such a great time.

I say the best seats on main court at the open as once your there, every seat in the arena is the best in the house, because you can see and hear everything no matter where you are seated.

This tennis tournament can come under many different names if you are going to start looking for information before you go, it can be called the Brisbane International, Brisbane Open Tennis, Queensland Tennis Centre and the Pat Rafter Arena to name a few, you can search for any of these and you should make it through to the main Brisbane International Tennis website that will give you a lot of information about the tennis tournament etc ( brisbaneinternational.com.au ).

If you are getting your tickets early it’s hard to know who is playing on the night and this year was no different with Roger Federer playing men’s singles tennis as well as the men’s doubles, as I heard on the radio it was an organiser’s nightmare trying to shuffle it all around to fit and also keep the crowds happy each session.

So the days are broken up into sections and you can buy tickets for each session for each day in different areas depending on who you want to watch.

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