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Category: Dining Guide
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MY wife gave me a strange look as I parked outside “Play and Pleasure” on Bulwer Street in Perth. Glancing at the purple panties in the window, I quickly confirmed we were going for lunch at Panda & Co a few doors down and not buying some toys for the weekend. After weeks of biblical…
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WHEN grain, wool and meat prices plummeted in 1991, things weren’t looking good for the Nenke family in the small town of Kukerin in the Wheatbelt. They had three kids in boarding school and the bills for their farm were mounting by the day. The family had been selling yabbies as a side business to…
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ITALIAN techno from the 1990s was playing when I visited La Mortazza. I wasn’t at a rave for middle-aged Italian expats, but a funky cafe/deli in North Perth. According to the friendly lady behind the till they were listening to live radio from their homeland, where people were still out partying in the wee hours.…
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A FREMANTLE restaurant open and fully booked on a Monday lunchtime? Normally you’d file that one under unicorns or the Eagles winning a match. But I can confirm on Monday, Tonic and Ginger at the Old Synagogue was full and I was left astounded and red-faced for not booking. It’s a reasonably big venue and…
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I always associate Atomic Espresso with garish lycra. The South Perth cafe used to be overflowing with the stuff on a Saturday morning when bikies – not the scary ones, the annoying middle-class ones – would rendezvous there for breakfast after zooming around the river on their fancy push bikes. That was many…
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THE Beaufort Street roadworks seem to be going on forever. It took me three prog rock albums, a steering wheel drum solo and endless diversions through the leafy burbs to finally reach Finlay and Sons in Inglewood. Situated on the corner of Dundas Road and Beaufort St, it’s a stylish cafe with a pavement alfresco…
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IF you’re going to Side Door Barbecue for dinner, then it might be worth fasting for a few days beforehand. The American-style portions are so gigantic that even Clive Palmer would probably raise the white flag and waddle back to his Learjet with a full belly. The good news is that Side Door hasn’t scarified…
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THE last time I was at the Tradewinds Hotel for a Christmas party someone tried to kick down the cubicle door while I was inside. Thankfully that was many moons ago and you can’t cater for the odd bad apple, but I was still a bit apprehensive returning there for lunch on Friday, so I…
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WHEN are you too old to wear a hoodie and when is it uncouth to wear one? Those were the philosophical questions I pondered when my wife gave me the ‘look’ as we drove to the swanky Petition for lunch. Apparently a hoodie is too casual for this upmarket CBD restaurant, but I didn’t…
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IS the lunch sitting a thing of the past? It seemed that way when I traipsed through Mt Lawley on a wet, Tuesday afternoon. Nearly all the restaurants in Beaux Lane were shut, as were most on Beaufort Street leading up to the Walcott Street intersection. I guess it doesn’t make financial sense to open…
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