WHEN I heard about a place called Gami Chicken & Beer I knew I already liked two of those three things. Turns out Gami, roughly translated from Korean, means “good delicious”, and the friend I was eating with had been there two nights in a row so I figured the name was on the mark.…

EATING soup-like red curry with chopsticks was never going to work; then it dawned on me that eating with little planks of timber isn’t a Thai tradition, so I reached for a spoon. The low-key S&T Thai Gourmet Cafe is one amongst many on William Street, but tables crowded with a mix of Asian and…

I’LL say it. Northbridge Brewing Company is the best restaurant in town. Its fresh, tasty, fun and well-presented food, partnered with outstanding customer service, made for one of the most enjoyable dining experiences I’ve ever had. Located in the heart of Northbridge, next to the piazza, the custom-built brewery is forever bursting at the seams…

AS I ambled towards PappaRich I half-expected to see Anthony Bourdain pop out from an alleyway to bend me over and ram his spatula into my groin. “Pollock, why are you reviewin’ a chain?!” he’d have yelled in New Yorkese. I would have replied that a friend, a chef who’d spent time in Malaysia, reckons…

“HOW very Northbridge,” I thought, the Perth nightlife area’s seedier reputation in mind when I discovered a cafe called Little Willy’s. It turns out it’s got nothing to do with the little red sausages synonymous with kids’ parties that elicit a snigger, but is a literal description for a tiny cafe on William Street. There’s…

THERE’S no pasta, no pizza and — some will sigh, sadly — no horse head on the menu at No Mafia in Northbridge. The mafia may enjoy Hollywood-like notoriety outside Italy but the Cosa Nostra is very much on the nose back in the old country of Sicily, with “no mafia” signs bravely sprouting on…

BEFORE writing Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov read about an ape raised in captivity and given a set of crayons and paper.  The first thing it drew were the bars on its own cage. For a long time, Perth’s dining scene felt like a flatulent ape, trapped inside a cage of high prices and self-congratulation. Thankfully the…

WIND may have rattled the cafe blinds at Tarts in Northbridge but we were snug as proverbial bugs in a rug, enjoying the wild weather over a lovely lunch. We’d already checked out the tempting array of gifts and jewelry on sale inside, but it was the cakes that had us salivating — row upon…