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Category: Dining Guide
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DON’T worry, you won’t find a dry meat pie, soggy bread roll or limp vegemite sarnie at the Tuck Shop Cafe in Perth. Instead there’s a comprehensive breakfast/brunch menu and a mouth-watering range of pies. Finding a chunk of string in the watery filling of a pie in the school canteen put me off them…
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IN the fickle world of dining it’s good to see an eatery that has survived for 20 years and keeps getting better. Rifo’s Cafe opened in Maylands in 1999 and quickly became part of the Eighth Avenue renaissance. The mercury was hitting 41 when the D’Angers dropped in for lunch recently, but we still appreciated…
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A BOWL of Sicilian olives satisfied a craving for something salty and savoury while we waited for lunch at Pappagallo in Leederville. Rich-green and wonderfully firm, we polished off the bowl of olives ($8) in record time. I’d ordered the mushroom gnocchi ($24), which on first inspection looked a bit unappealing with a gelatinous sheen.…
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BEAUX LANE in Mt Lawley has a great mix of eateries to suit all tastes. Pax & Co is one of my favourties and has the best nasi goreng ($15.50) I’ve ever eaten. Brown rice gave the dish a pleasant chewiness, and the flavours were simple but layered, creating a complex tang. The Asian eatery…
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THE cake cabinet at Fiorentina Patisserie looked so good I thought about having a sweet for lunch. Like a kid in a lolly shop, I was almost drooling at the colourful array of tortes, tarts and Italian biscotti. But I’d already ordered, so I decided to take home some cakes instead. Sipping a freshly squeezed…
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RELAXING amongst the brightly coloured cushions in a packing crate seat at Lot Twenty was a great start to an evening of culture. A friend and I were off to the Blue Room Theatre next door, and as time was short, the helpful waiter recommended we order from the share section on the menu. In…
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LITTLE B is a sassy, modern take on the Bangkok back-lane eatery. Its red-and-yellow theme screams fast food and the menu is crammed with pictures, but behind the razzmatazz there are healthy, interesting options like spicy soups, noodles and Thai salads. There’s also a whole page devoted to street food classics including barbecue pork sticky…
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THE Secret Garden was a favourite read as a kid, so sitting in an almost secret garden for a solitary lunch at the Garden Cafe on Guildford was most enjoyable. Unlike the young and misanthropic Mary Lennox, I like people and am usually happy to chat – a lot – as my husband will tell…
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YOU wouldn’t know it, but below St Georges Terrace is Lalla Rookh – a restaurant-bar serving Italian-inspired fare. As I wandered down the staircase and into the expansive dining room, I felt like Alice in foodie wonderland. Wasting no time, we kicked off our culinary adventure with sardine bruschetta ($16). The toasted bread was topped…
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SWEET REMEDY is the cupcake equivalent of the shop in Chocolat. The Leederville cafe sells every type of cupcake imaginable and they’re all made fresh in-store. When I visited during lunchtime on the school holidays there was a fun atmosphere and kids were decorating their own creations. For $6.50 parents can buy a vanilla dream…
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