DEJAXO Artisan Bakery is a bit of an anomaly. Surrounded by houses as far as the eye can see, it’s plonked in the middle of the Mt Hawthorn burbs and there’s no other businesses close-by. A bit of digging revealed the building used to be the milk bar for the neighbourhood, and suddenly it all…

DOES the world need another burger bar? It’s a philosophical question Plato might ponder if he was still alive, along with ‘Did Today Tonight actually exist or was it just shadows flitting across a cave wall?’  I’m a bit of a Fred Flintstone in the pro-burger camp, so I grabbed my club, leopard-skin jeans and…

   THE subconscious is a strange beast. Last week I binge-watched the latest season of Narcos: Mexico, then completely forgot about it and went on with my day-to-day life. But this Tuesday I woke up with a weird, insatiable urge to eat tacos. I wasn’t pregnant (although my gut is getting bigger every year) and…

THERE are some interesting cafes at the quieter end of Oxford Street in Leederville. Three Sisters Vietnamese and Pixel Cafe spring to mind, and this week I stumbled upon Dear Green Cafe, which serves Asian-style brunch dishes. The cafe is diagonally opposite the old Midway taxi rank, which is now caked in graffiti and overgrown…

BACK in my meat-eating days I used to enjoy a good parmie, so when I saw an eggplant one at Lupo Lab, I was in like Flynn. I was expecting chunks of aubergine instead of chicken, but Lupo’s version ($25) is more like lasagna with eggplant forming the basis of the sauce. Pasta sheets were…

GINGER beer and cold black coffee. Really? On the recommendation of the waiter I sipped Leaf & Bean’s drip-brewed coffee with peppery ginger bubbles over ice. I was instantly won over. The concoction was amazingly refreshing on a hot summer day, and didn’t have the overpowering sweetness of most soft drinks. And I have to…

CAMBODIA has never been high on my holiday wish list, but after a lovely dinner at Tamarind in Mt Hawthorn I’ve been checking the price of airfares to Phnom Penh. The Cambodian cuisine at Tamarind is reminiscent of food from Vietnam and Thailand – think creamy curries and sour soups – but every dish has…

MY chief of staff has strong opinions on most topics, including unassuming vegetables like cabbage. “Coleslaw is the most under-rated soul food of the world,” the Grunter opined in his usual take-no-prisoners tone. “And this one,” he said, with a wave of his hand, “went beautifully with the bagel.” A curious mix of new-age hippie…

IT’S spritza time!” shouts Mario Tolardo as he glides around tables, squirting soda into huge glasses of bright orange aperol. The theatrical service from the co-owner of Spritz Spizzicheria and the occasional honking of horns on the busy Scarborough Beach Road, lent an air of Rome to our recent lunch. And the food lived up…

JAFFLES with baked beans or canned braised steak and onions were camping staples when I was a kid. And to this day, I make sure I always pack jaffle irons when I go on a camping adventure. Dejaxo Artisan Bakery and Cafe, in Mt Hawthorn, has taken this Aussie toasted sandwich and turned it into…