DURING the October school holidays, Perth can be a desolate, sunny nirvana. There’s a mass exodus as families fancy a change of scene, leaving behind an eerie and surreally quiet capital city. By the second week of the holidays, Perth was beginning to splutter back into life, and the roads were a bit busier as…

WA Day was a bit of a miserable affair. It was bitterly cold and God had unzipped his fly and let rip all over the state. When I drove into Leederville – swerving past a mini ocean on the road – there were only a handful of eateries braving the conditions and open for business.…

THE Voice is always on the hunt for new sushi joints. The bite-size Japanese food is healthy, affordable and versatile, with a new flavour incarnation always just around the corner. The latest sushi joint to catch our eye was Fushi in Leederville, which has received glowing reports from locals. The takeaway is part of a…

Elon Musk’s Starship is the biggest rocket ever built, but despite its impressive height and girth it could only manage a “wet launch” on Monday and didn’t get off the ground. I wonder if the same psychology applies to rockets as other areas of life – you need a big It could apply to burgers…

MONDAY lunchtime. Sun hotter than the inside of a party pie. Inglewood quieter than Michael Clarke’s endorsement team. My strange experiment in psychogeography – wandering around Perth suburbs to get a true feel for their history, culture and social origins – ended at Mori Japanese Kitchen. Tucked away in the corner of Inglewood Town Square,…

ARE you on a diet yet? If like this plump Chook you seriously over-indulged during the festive period, then going out for a big meal is probably low on your list of priorities right now. So instead of a five-course feast, the Voice decided to kick off the new year with a light lunch at…

IF you have a variable rate mortgage, you are no doubt feeling the financial strain with some monthly payments doubling since the successive hikes in interest rates began this year. With this in mind, the Voice is keeping it simple and low-cost this week with a food review of The Oxford 225. A small, cute…

IT WAS one of those days when you crave soup for lunch. Bright and sunny, but at the fag-end of winter, the wind cut you in two and folk on the Leederville cafe strip were still wearing heavy jackets. There was only one place on my mind – My House Dumpling on Oxford Street. I…

YOUNG kids are the best covid protection you can get. That’s because office workers don’t want to sit beside them when you’re out for a family meal, in case they act up. So when I took Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles to Bunn Mee for lunch on Tuesday, we had a whole table to ourselves. Not all…

TO say The Re Store in Perth has a rich family history is a massive understatement. The roots of the delicatessen stretch back to 1885 when Giuseppe Re immigrated from Italy to Sydney. In 1894 he was lured to WA by the Kalgoorlie gold rush, but saw another business opportunity and opened a deli in…