The Riverside Market is Brisbane’s largest and most popular outside weekend market. Located at Riverside on Eagle Street in the CBD, you can easily get there by bus, train or Citycat ferry. For more than two decades the market has drawn huge crowds every Sunday as locals and visitors alike come to see live entertainment, sample fresh produce, locally made gourmet foods, jewelry and other handicrafts. The market was born when several years ago the stores were not open on Sundays throughout the city of Brisbane. Since then crowds come each week to enjoy everything that the market has to offer while overlooking the beautiful Brisbane River and enjoying the sunshine and sub-tropical climate.

The market runs every Sunday from 7am to 3pm and there are hundreds of stalls offering a wide range of products. Some of the longstanding favorite stalls at the market include: the Lollipop Lady, who sells a wide range of old-fashioned candy and fudge; Boulder Mines offers some of the very best native Australian opals; Lippy Galore Cosmetics and A Zumble Zay handicrafts. Combine your visit with a rest stop at one of the cafes or restaurants in the center and you have the makings of a perfect Queensland Sunday outing.

Located on the busy Queen Street, Kikki.K is a gift shop specializing in designer stationery from Sweden. Simplicity and timelessness are the key features of the items you'll find here, such as classic storage boxes and diaries. It's a great store to go to for gift ideas with a strong sense of fashion and style.

The Post Office Square Shopping Center houses a number of small specialty boutiques with souvenirs, fashion products, home gifts and lots more. Interestingly, the center is located right underneath Post Office Square, and can be accessed from Queens Street or via an escalator in the center of Square Park.

Biome Eco Store is a well-known local family-owned gift retailer that specializes in “green” merchandise, like eco gifts and home decor, organic baby products and natural beauty products. Conveniently located in the busy downtown area, locals think of it as a “green haven”. Open daily except Sundays.

The Brisbane Arcade is a heritage listed building that contains one of the city’s most charming shopping arcades. In addition to its art deco style architecture, the arcade is of historical importance as it was built by one of Brisbane’s most important and mysterious colonial families – the Maynes. The arcade was built by siblings James and Mary Mayne and opened in 1924 on the land their brother Isaac had bought in 1892. The Mayne family was also responsible for donating the land used to form the University of Queensland at the beginning of the 20th century. Their family had a murky past of madness and murder as it was said that their father Patrick had begun his immense fortune with money he had stolen from a man he murdered on the banks of the Brisbane River in the mid 19th century.

There is entry to the arcade from both Queen Street and Adelaide Street and inside there are two levels of retail stores. Each level has ornate floral moldings on the pilasters on the first level there are stylish wrought iron railings. Stepping into the arcade is like stepping back into the jazz age of the 1920s and its romantic nouveau aesthetic. Many of Brisbane’s most respected designers have boutiques here.

The hustle and bustle of Brisbane’s CBD centers on Queen Street Mall, which is a large pedestrian shopping mall. It is the city’s predominant retail space with hundreds of retailers with mall shop frontage or nestled into one of the many shopping centers or arcades there. The major shopping centers on the mall include: the Myer Center, the Wintergarden, Broadway on the Mall and the most recent addition Queens Plaza. Here you will find many of Queensland’s most prestigious stores alongside regular fashion and retail chains.

The Queen Street Mall is also where you can find a major tourist information center as well as enjoy some of the many buskers and street performers who entertain there each day. You will also find many alfresco cafes along the mall, some of which are open 24 hours, as well as food courts in the basements of the shopping centers. Along the mall there are plenty of Victorian or Edwardian facades that can still be seen, so keep your eyes up as you wander along the stretch – don’t miss strolling through the historic Brisbane Arcade on the Adelaide Street side of the mall. At the top of the mall you will find the Treasury Casino - one of the state’s most beautiful buildings.

The Myer Shopping Center offers an incredible choice of accessories, gifts and fashion, as well as entertainment options. Open seven days a week, the site is also the main hub for most of Brisbane's bus services.