Long marble tables under a ceiling-high wine wall, a private mezzanine above, and street-side dining beneath fairy-lit trees. Book 10 to 100 guests on East Street, with a chef’s banquet built around your table.
Group Dining
Snack Man is a dark, high-ceilinged concrete room on East Street, with the wine wall down one side and long tables running the length of it. Regional Chinese snacks, 500+ wines, and a room that carries a crowd.
Groups of 10 or more eat the chef’s banquet, sent out by the kitchen and matched to your table on the night. Gluten free, vegetarian and vegan are handled as standard, so a table with mixed dietaries orders together.
The space flexes with your numbers, and the menu flexes with the people at your table.
The Spaces
Snack Man is a single cavernous venue on East Street with three genuinely different spaces inside it. Pick the one that fits your group, or take the lot.
10 to 12 seated · ~30 standing
Our private dining area, tucked upstairs above the restaurant. Removed enough to hear each other and make a speech, close enough to keep the buzz of the room below. The natural choice for a milestone dinner or a team that needs to actually talk.
~70 seated · 80 to 100 standing
The heart of the venue: high ceilings, polished concrete, and the ceiling-high wine wall behind the bar. We run long tables down the room for semi-exclusive events, so your group sits together in the middle of the atmosphere rather than tucked away from it.
Al fresco · weather dependent
Street-side dining under East Street’s fairy-lit trees. It’s the part of the venue people photograph, and the easiest place to start or finish a night. Perfect for arrival drinks and snacks before your group moves inside.
“A slick cavernous wine bar… bifold windows opening onto the street where there is outdoor seating under enchanted fairy-lit trees.”
Concrete PlaygroundThe Banquet And The Wine
Groups of 10 or more dine on the chef’s banquet, matched to a 500+ bottle list. The banquet is built around your table on the night rather than chosen weeks out.
Dishes trace back to specific regions rather than a generic pan-Asian menu. Your banquet is drawn from the same kitchen that sends out the à la carte list, so this is a fair picture of the night, not a stock photo of one.
Xiaolongbao
Soup-filled pork dumplings
Shanghai
Har Gao
Opaque prawn dumplings
Guangdong · GF
Wortip
Pan-fried dumplings, pork and chives or peppered pea
Hong Kong · VO
Yan Su Ji
Boneless salt & pepper chicken pieces
Taiwan · GF
Fu Pei Gyun
Crispy tofu skin roll with prawn, or veg with sweet corn
Guangdong · VO / GF
Chuanr
Lamb with cumin and chilli on a stick
Xinjiang · GF
Indicative only. Your chefs build the banquet on the night around your group’s preferences, the season, and anything the table can’t eat.
The wine wall is the first thing your guests will notice. Behind it is a list built around small European producers, plus daily rotating by-the-glass selections and classic cocktails.
There’s no wine list on the wall to decipher. Tell our team what the table likes and what they’re eating, and they’ll pour to it, from genuinely affordable drops through to premium bottles. For a group, that removes the single most awkward part of ordering for other people.
“Our selection is very much a blend of beautiful benchmark bottles from regions which suit our food.”
Cameron Votan, co-founder · Young Gun of Wine
What We Host
30ths, 40ths, 50ths. Cakeage is $2 per person, so bring the cake.
A room that impresses without being stiff, and a bill that doesn’t frighten finance.
We’ve hosted wedding receptions across Snack Man and Happy Boy.
Anything from ten friends to a hundred people standing with a drink in hand.
Three Venues, One Street
Snack Man is one of three East Street restaurants, side by side under the same ownership. Between us we can cover almost any event, and we’ll happily point you next door if it’s the better fit.
Chinese · Wok & BBQ
The original. Wok cooking and Chinese barbecue, Cantonese-leaning, matched to the best small-producer Australian wine. The biggest room of the three, with a fairy-lit outdoor deck.
Chinese Snacks · Wine Bar
Regional Chinese small plates and dumplings against a 500+ bottle European-leaning wine list. Dark, moody and the most flexible of the three, with a private mezzanine and terrace dining.
French Bistro · Wine Bar
The neighbourhood bistro on the corner of Ann and East. French cooking, and the only one of the three with a dedicated private dining mezzanine that still feels connected to the main room.
Planning something bigger? Because all three sit within a few steps of each other, we regularly run events across more than one venue, including wedding receptions. Tell us your numbers in the form below and we’ll work out the right combination.
How It Works
Date, rough numbers, and what you’re celebrating. That’s genuinely all we need to start.
We’ll come back with the room that fits, what it holds, and what it costs, including whether one of our sibling venues suits you better.
Confirm with a $200 prepayment for groups of 10 or more. It comes straight off your final bill. Then send through dietaries and we’ll build the banquet around them.
What Guests Say
“We got the banquet and there was about 7 or 8 courses, and one of the best banquets I’ve had so far. The food was so well cooked and quite authentic.”
“Had a fabulous night, we tried lots of delicious options and enjoyed them all. Lovely atmosphere and fantastic service.”
“The kitchen serves a choice selection of expertly crafted dumplings, steam buns and bar snacks. The wine and cocktails at Snack Man are really the heroes here.”
Details
Around 70 seated in the main dining room, or 80 to 100 standing for canapé-style events. The mezzanine seats 10 to 12, or around 30 standing. If your group is larger than that, we can look at running the event across Snack Man and our neighbouring venues, Happy Boy and Petite.
The mezzanine is our private dining space, and the full venue can be booked exclusively for larger events. For mid-sized groups we run long tables in the main dining room on a semi-exclusive basis, so your group has its own space while the restaurant keeps trading around you. Tell us your numbers and we’ll tell you honestly which one fits.
Groups of 10 or more dine on the chef’s banquet, from $65 per person. There’s no set banquet menu: the chefs vary it for every table, built around your group’s preferences and dietary requirements. Smaller groups can order à la carte.
Yes, and it’s one of the advantages of the banquet format. Gluten free, vegetarian and vegan options are part of the standard menu rather than an afterthought, and most other requirements can be catered for with notice. Send them through when you confirm your numbers.
A $200 prepayment confirms bookings of 10 or more. It isn’t a fee: it comes off your final bill on the night. Cakeage is $2 per person if you’re bringing a cake. Cancellations inside 48 hours or no-shows are charged at $45 per person.
The terrace is open-air street-side dining under East Street’s fairy-lit trees, so it’s weather dependent and we don’t hold it exclusively. It works best as the place your group gathers for arrival drinks and snacks before moving inside, and we’ll always have an indoor plan if the weather turns.
East Street, Fortitude Valley, between Wickham and Ann Streets, next door to Happy Boy and a few steps from Petite. We’re a short walk from Fortitude Valley station and the Valley’s paid parking stations, which makes it straightforward for a group arriving from different directions.
Enquire
Send through the date and rough numbers and we’ll come back with the space that fits, what it holds, and what it costs. If another of our venues suits you better, we’ll say so.