Exciting news for Sizzler and all-you-can-eat fans with pop-up in Brisbane

Beloved all-you-can-eat restaurant Sizzler is making a long-awaited comeback, reopening for one night only, four years after the last branch closed its doors.

Former staff will be in uniform serving up iconic dishes from the restaurant’s glory days at a pop-up restaurant in Brisbane on Tuesday.

The cultural icon closed its doors for good in 2020 after serving cheese toast, grilled steaks and salads for thirty years.

Since then, Sizzler fans have attempted to recreate some of the popular menu items or opted for knock-off versions of the cult cheese toast, which went viral on social media.

Fritzenberger, a popular Brisbane eatery, has purchased an original Sizzler cheese toasting machine and is now serving the iconic dish to customers.

Following its huge success, Robin Bailey and Kip Wightman, presenters of the KIIS 97.3 morning show, announced they will be launching the pop-up.

Listeners of The Robin and Kip Show have a chance to win tickets to enjoy the brand’s iconic pumpkin soup, potato skins, cheese toast, the brand’s signature salad bar and a dessert bar complete with soft serve ice cream machine.

Sizzler fans were left salivating when the radio duo shared the news on social media this week.

Former Sizzler employees will don their uniforms and serve dishes from the restaurant’s glory days during a pop-up on July 16

‘I wanted to go so badly and I was lucky enough to win a double prize [pass] “That made my year,” someone said.

“I would pay a lot of money to get a seat,” wrote another.

“Table for two please,” a third person remarked.

“Please take me there,” wrote another.

In the run-up to the big night, Robin and Kip have been busy tasting the menu items that the pop-up diners will enjoy, claiming that it ‘tastes just like Sizzler’.

Last month, South Bank restaurant Fritzenberger bought a cheese toasting machine from Sizzler’s Maroochydore restaurant at auction after the restaurant closed.

A Brisbane restaurant has acquired an original toaster from Sizzler’s Maroochydore restaurant after it closed

“The team was very excited to purchase the machine and offer this iconic item to our customers,” a spokesperson said The courier post.

Chef Sebastian Calais said they have stayed true to the iconic recipe, but use higher quality ingredients.

The first Sizzler restaurant opened in California in 1958 by founders Del and Helen Johnson.

It wasn’t until 1985 that the restaurant came to Australia, with the opening of the first restaurant Down Under in Annerley, in Brisbane’s south.

In 1993 the chain grew to 38 restaurants spread across the country.

Parent company Collins Foods made the “difficult decision” in 2020 to close its last nine restaurants in Queensland, western Sydney and Perth, blaming the coronavirus for the end of its buffet menu.