Five rooms, and not one of them sells a cheap oyster all day. Bar Miette gives it two hours. Hibiscus gives it ninety minutes. Bar Francine gives it sixty. Shucks gives it three hours from noon, and Dalgety opens it at two in the afternoon and stops when the tray is empty. Turn up on the right day at the wrong hour and you are paying the menu price.
For each venue, only what it publishes itself: a journal entry, an event page, a menu page and an about page, all fetched on 16 August 2026. Google reviews were read newest first, sixty per venue, but only to check that the pages still match the room. Nothing from a review is quoted here.
This is not a count of the city. Brisbane runs more cheap oyster hours than five, and we have already written up another one here: Mr Percival’s pours an aperitivo under Story Bridge with three dollar oysters, weekdays from three. The five below are the ones where the window itself is the whole trick.
Where a venue writes a time range with a dash we have written it out in words, and said so on the label under the quote. Everything else inside the quote marks is theirs, character for character.
Bar Miette
Two dollars an oyster, three afternoons a week, and it is not on the menu.
● 443 Queen Street, Brisbane City · @bar.miette · Get directions
Bar Miette shuts on Mondays and Tuesdays. It trades the other five days, and the two-dollar oyster runs on three of them, which is every weekday the room is open at all. The one line that says so was posted to the venue's own journal on 1 May and it is still up.
"From 3 to 5pm, Wednesday to Friday, we're serving ice-cold $2 Sydney Rock Oysters, shucked to order."
From the Bar Miette journal, 1 May 2026. The time range is written with a dash on the page and set out in words here.
That price appears nowhere on the standing menu on the same site. The paper trail for it is the journal entry above and one Instagram caption from 10 July, which repeats the days and the hours word for word. If you walk in on a Wednesday afternoon and nobody mentions it, this is why.
The other document worth reading before you plan around it is the trading hours, because they rule out half the week on their own.
"Wednesday to Sunday 11:30am to 10pm"
From the Bar Miette site. Written with a dash on the page and set out in words here.
Before you go. Wednesday to Friday, 3 to 5pm, Sydney rocks shucked to order. The menu footer adds 10% on a Sunday and 15% on public holidays, and Sunday is a day the deal does not run anyway.
Hibiscus Bar and Terrace
Ninety minutes on a Wednesday, up on Level Four of the Hyatt.
● Level Four, Hyatt Regency Brisbane · @hibiscusbarandterrace · Get directions
This one has a name. The venue calls it Shuck and Sip and gives it a single evening a week, ninety minutes long, with a second ending written into the same sentence.
"Every Wednesday, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM (or until sold out)"
From the Hibiscus Shuck and Sip page. The time range is written with a dash on the page and set out in words here.
Two dollars an oyster, the same figure as the bar down the street. Bar Miette finishes at five on a Wednesday. This starts at five on a Wednesday.
"Where: Level Four, Hyatt Regency Brisbane"
From the Hibiscus Shuck and Sip page.
The venue publishes two addresses, which is the sort of thing worth knowing at 4.55pm. On foot it is 72 Queen Street, opposite Uptown Mall, the one most people still call the Myer Centre. By car it is 33 Burnett Lane. Oysters do not appear anywhere on the standing July menu, so Wednesday is the only way to get one here.
One more line off the venue's own menu footer: card and mobile wallet payments carry a 1.5% merchant fee, and no surcharge applies when a debit card goes into the terminal. The terrace also adds 10% on weekends and 15% on public holidays.
Before you go. Wednesday, 5 to 6.30pm or until sold out. Walk-ins welcome, bookings encouraged, and the venue lists the offer as running to 31 December 2026. Worth a call first: the event page is live, but the venue has not posted about Shuck and Sip on Instagram since June, while the others were promoting their oysters this month.
Bar Francine
The cheap hour here is the first hour the doors are open.
● 29A Vulture Street, West End · @bar_francine · Get directions
Bar Francine calls its window Golden Hour and gives it sixty minutes on two nights. The room opens at five on a Friday and a Saturday, and the oyster price runs five to six, so the deal and the doors start at the same moment. Sixty minutes is the shortest window on this page.
"Every Friday and Saturday from 5 to 6pm"
From the Bar Francine site. The time range is written with a dash on the page and set out in words here.
Two menus at this address carry the same oyster at two different numbers, which is the clearest version of the point the rest of this page keeps making.
"Oysters, natural or mignonette 3ea"
"from Smoky Bay, SA"
"Oysters; natural or rhubarb mignonette 7/36"
The first two lines are from the Bar Francine Golden Hour menu, the third from the standing dinner menu on the same site. Three dollars each inside the hour, seven each after it, or thirty-six for a dozen.
The price and the bay sit on the same line of the menu, so what three dollars buys you here is written down rather than announced at the table. Smoky Bay is in South Australia, and the venue names it rather than the state alone.
Sixty minutes and a small room do not leave much slack, and the venue says as much about seats: the walk-in spots tend to fill up pretty quick of an afternoon, in its own words.
Before you go. Friday and Saturday, 5 to 6pm, three dollars an oyster from Smoky Bay. The same oyster is seven on the standing dinner menu once the hour is up. Walk-ins are fine, but the hour is the whole deal, so five o'clock is the time to be there rather than the time to leave.
Dalgety Public House
The other specials here start at five. The oysters start earlier.
● 110 Macquarie Street, Teneriffe · @dalgety2.0 · Get directions
Dalgety runs a special every day of the week, and the whole roster sits in one block on the menu page. Read it in a row and the Sunday line is the odd one out twice over.
"Mondays 2 for 1 Steaks From 5pm | Tuesdays $19 Parmis From 5pm | Wednesdays 25% Off Mains From 5pm | Thursdays $5 Tacos From 5pm | Sundays $2 Oysters From 2pm until sold out"
From the Dalgety menu page, weekly specials.
Four specials start at five o'clock. The oysters start at two, and they are the only line in the block with no finish time written on it at all. The menu page adds one detail the others skip: natural or kilpatrick, your pick. The venue's own post on 14 August put live music on at the same hour, which suggests the room is planned around two o'clock on a Sunday rather than five.
Small thing that trips people up when they go looking: the trading name is Dalgety Public House. The 2.0 exists only in the Instagram handle.
Before you go. Sunday only, from 2pm, and it runs until they sell out, not to a set time. The menu footer names a 15% surcharge on public holidays and nothing for weekends. Doors from 11.30am on a Sunday, so there are a couple of hours in the room before the oysters land.
Shucks Bar
Three hours from noon on a Sunday, and the list changes with the harvest.
● 459 Esplanade, Manly · @shucksbar · Get directions
Shucks numbers its Sunday lunches. The session posted on 9 August was the eleventh. Three hours is the longest window on this page, and it needs to be, because this is the one you drive to rather than walk to.
"We source them whole from different regions in Australia, from the famous Coffin Bay oysters to St Helens in Tassie; Sydney rocks from Port Stephens and even better still our local Straddie oysters."
From the Shucks Bar site. One dash in the original is set here as a comma.
Bar Francine names one bay and holds it. This is the other approach: a list of regions that moves, on a page that says so in advance.
The list moves, and the same page says so: the bivalve menu is ever changing, dependent on weather and harvests. The venue's own session posts bear it out, with Franklin Harbour named in late July and scampi caviar dressed oysters in the August one.
One number we left off the carousel. The Sunday session line on the site carries a price, and we have not been able to confirm it against anything else the venue publishes or against the room itself, so the slide runs without it.
"Sunday snack sessions every Sunday lunch from 12 to 3pm. Slurp some $4 oysters freshly shucked to order and enjoy champagnes by the glass, What better way to close out the weekend! Online bookings are highly recommended."
From the Shucks Bar site, undated. The time range is written with a dash on the page and set out in words here.
Take that figure as the venue's own claim rather than ours, and check it when you book.
Before you go. Sunday lunch, 12 to 3pm. Online bookings are highly recommended, in the venue's own words, which matters more here than anywhere else on this page because it is a drive out to the bay. Lunch runs on other days too, but the snack session with a price attached is the Sunday one.
A note on the facts.
Every venue fact above comes off the venues' own journal entries, event pages, menu pages and about pages, fetched on 16 August 2026. Google reviews were read newest first, sixty per venue, and used only to check the pages against the room; nothing from a review is quoted. Nothing here is based on a visit. Where a venue writes a time range with a dash, it is written out in words and flagged on the label. Prices, hours and offers move faster than posts do, so read the line again before you drive out for it.
A note on what this page is not. It is five windows we could read end to end off the venues' own documents, not a survey of every cheap oyster in Brisbane. There are more of them, they open on days this page does not cover, and they change. If you want the one nearest you rather than the one nearest us, treat this as a starting list.
The Shucks Bar price is the one figure we could not close, and the carousel runs that slide without a price rather than guess at one. The Hibiscus offer is listed on its own page to 31 December 2026, but the venue has not promoted it since June, so call before you make the trip.
Carousel photos are the venues' own, from their Instagram accounts. All five venues are tagged.
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