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Category: Dining Guide
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CRUSHED cornflakes and Rice Bubbles mixed with toasted almond meal, to serve as a crunchy breakfast sprinkle. Who comes up with this stuff? The blokes behind tbsp. cafe in Bayswater. They’ve turned arguably the most unoriginal cafe breakfast classic—muesli ($13)—into something so crazy it actually works. In front of me are golden, toasted oats and…
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THE salted caramel donuts were glistening with sugar, the sweet and salty centre peeking out as temptingly as a burlesque dancer’s decolletage. I should have reserved one because by the time I got to dessert and coffee they’d gone. “We usually sell out by 11,” Aliment co-owner Grant Greyling tells me, too late to be…
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LUNCH at Bossman Coffee hit a minor bump when I discovered they only do coffee and Greek pastries. Undeterred, my lunch companion and I headed next door to Munchies Sushi, where the queue was long and the place pumping with Japanese efficiency. The ginger fish bento box special ($17.50) sounded so good we agreed to…
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VOICE snapper Matthew Dwyer has a great eye for a photo, but no node of location, so despite giving him directions as I searched for parking I still arrived well ahead of him for our lunch. In fairness The Peasant’s Table is invisible from the street, and last time I was at the Mezz shopping…
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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…
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PUBLIC HOUSE is the newest addition to Adelaide Terrace, combining a modern setting with a casual atmosphere. Movies projected onto the outdoor wall can be viewed from the decking area, while inside, animal heads pop out quirkily from the walls. Dim lighting creates a cosy feel. Before we had even looked at the menu, the…
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SOUTH AFRICAN food had never caught my eye while I was living in Europe; chakalaka sounded more like a tribal dance than anything and I had no idea of what a malva pudding was. But after coming to Australia and discovering there was more to the country than the 2010 world cup (that Spain won),…
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Local chef Paul Zammit’s love for WA produce knows no bounds. A veteran of the Perth culinary scene, Paul has pretty much done it all – from running famed seafood restaurant Mosmans, to authoring several cookbooks championing our amazing produce (including Buy West Eat Best). Noticing a gap in the seafood restaurants around Perth, Paul…
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THE Old Bakery on Eighth Avenue has been given a make-over as Lebanese eatery Rotana. A mate and I dropped in recently to check it out. The decor is fresh and modern, with plenty of jarrah, and lovely wrought-iron balustrading separating the street from a pleasant alfresco area, where plenty of flowering pot plants add…
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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…
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