Outrage at restaurant's homage to 'stylish days' of British empire

Brisbane’s British Colonial Co marketed itself as celebrating ‘the empirical push into the developing cultures of the world’

An Australian restaurant promising to recapture the “stylish days” of the British empire’s “developing cultures of the world” has been criticised amid claims it is romanticising colonial rule.

British Colonial Co, a bar and restaurant in Brisbane, marketed itself as “inspired by the stylish days of the empirical push into the developing cultures of the world, with the promise of adventure and modern refinement in a safari style setting”.

PSA: if ur in Brisbane and in the mood for imperialism and genocide for dinner, I got u pic.twitter.com/HVn5QgSF0E

Imagine that you are reclining in a comfortable wicker couch.. while black women are raped & their men slaughtered.. pic.twitter.com/NYwmRwrHX6