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Category: Dining Guide
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IT was one of those miserable winter days, where black clouds hung over the city like a bull’s scrotum. In need of a gastronomic cuddle, my buddy recommended we head to Viet Hoa, a restaurant he’d frequented for 20 years after first visiting with his mother in the days of grunge and AltaVista. “The décor’s…
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A LOVE triangle between doughnuts, croissants and muffins has the next generation of desserts upon us. Introducing the duffin, cruffin and cronut—the lovechildren of doughnuts and muffins, croissants and muffins, and croissants and doughnuts. Voice reporter Emmie Dowling went above and beyond, tasting them for readers on a cafe/bakery crawl in Perth the other week. You’re…
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I AM a bit sceptical of crowd-funding, especially when it involves middle-aged men subsidising films they want to see. Does the world really need Debbie does Dalkeith, Red Dog versus Predator or Kath and Kim: Confessions of a Sanitary Towel. For better or worse, new noodle bar Lucky Chan’s was a $100,000 crowd-funded baby, conceived in…
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THERE’S no monkey business at Food Monkey and you’d go a very long way to find a cafe as well priced and, more importantly, as good. It caters to the office lunch crowd and those foolhardy sorts wanting breakfast at 6am (what are you, farmers?). There’s a whole page dedicated to the popular bagel and,…
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THE bombsite that is to be Elizabeth Quay was creating traffic and parking chaos—and rain wasn’t helping, as the D’Angers plus friend struggled to get to the Annalakshmi. Dimly-lit corridors had us treading carefully as we picked our way between mesh fences, our destination on the Barrack Street Jetty sparkling tantalisingly just out of reach.…
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NOT a Ganesh nor photograph of the Taj Mahal is to be seen at Sauma in Northbridge. This is modern Indian dining, a cavernous space of polished concrete, raw brick, long tables, huge timber-framed windows onto William and James Streets, and funky blue and white light fittings—lots and lots of them—interspersed with shabby-chic timber screens…
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I WASN’T surprised when the Coode Street Cafe was named one of Perth’s top breakfast spots. Off the beaten track in a leafy Mt Lawley street, it’s a bit far out of my patch for breakfast, but I’ve dropped in for lunch a few times when in the vicinity and in need of victuals. The food…
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THE last time I was out in Northbridge on a Friday night I was wearing tan bell-bottoms and a Rolf Harris t-shirt. Several years on and aged 40 the streets seem alien to me—a vulgar tsunami of breasts and ribald tattoos. I seek refuge in Hong Kong bbq, cowering behind the red-glazed fowl in the…
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THE STANDARD, Northbridge by JENNY D’ANGER: THERE’S nothing standard about The Standard in Northbridge, as I found after discovering this fantastic bar/eatery last week. Off to see Dinner at the State Theatre, food was on the mind but so was not being late, and this addition to Roe Street is mere metres away. The decor…
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NEW NORCIA BAKERY, Mount Hawthorn by JENNY D’ANGER: IT was hard to picture austere, dark-robed Benedictine monks sitting down to dainty pastries and gurgy cakes as I gazed in awe at the sweet selection at the New Norcia Bakery. But apparently the sourdough bread, with its wonderfully chewy crust, is something the religious pioneers at…
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