Ria, just a short hop and skip from Leederville train station, is among the most authentic Malay style kitchens in Perth – they are creating outstanding Asian fusion food – an amalgam of Chinese, Indian and Portuguese influences, flavours and styles ...
On our previous visit to the Flour Factory a few months ago we had one of our best lunches of the year – a lunch special that had excellent choices, brilliant cooking and outstanding presentation. So we went along last week full of expectation – ...
We hadn’t had our Varnish fix for a while and after finding nothing on the menu at a nearby place we had picked for lunch we knew that Varnish would not let us down, and so it proved. It is one of our favourite small bars and has been recognized in ...
Amani Bar in Leederville is in Oxford Street, near Vincent Street, but a little away from the main Leederville “strip”, across the road from the Luna cinema. It is small and cosy– a long room with seating down one side and a bar along the other; ...
On Toodyay Road, a little off the beaten track of Swan Valley wineries, Jane Brook Estate has been producing excellent wines for many years - certainly from the time David and Bev Atkinson bought the Vignacourt winery back in the early 1970s. Some ...
A couple of friends came up from the Deep South – well Bunbury – last week and we met up with them close to where they were staying, at the Balti on the corner of the Terrace and Victoria Avenue. Set at the bottom of an apartment block Balti is well ...
Brygon Reserve Wines On my recent trip down South I dropped by Brygon Estate’s new cellar door on the Osmington Road, just along from Colonial Brewery. It is a picturesque place set amongst lawns and vines, and offering a wide range of wines to ...
In Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”; Friday night at Lot20 it was more a matter of “how to prepare an oyster? Let me count the ways”…and in the hands of Jerry Fraser and Lot20 ...
Firetail has a charming little cellar door in Rosa Glen, a place I know well – my grandfather farmed just a few hundred metres away from the winery – with a cosy tasting room, a deck out front to sit and enjoy the vista across the vines, a welcoming ...
The bistro at Trustee is in the basement of the old WA Trustee building in St Georges Terrace, part of the outstanding renovation of historic buildings in the Brookfield Place development; and the food meets the expectations set by the style and ...