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Category: Dining Guide
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THE Windsor finally has some competition. The iconic South Perth hotel has had a monopoly on the pub-lunch market for years with locals forced to jump on the ferry into the city to find another casual watering hole. With the arrival of The Station, that’s all changed. Situated in the old heritage-listed 1908 South Perth…
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LIONS and Tigers on Bannister Street in Freo is not your average Indian restaurant. If you rock up expecting beef vindaloo and garlic naan you’re in for a surprise. A great surprise! My handsome co-reviewer and I rolled on in one Saturday for lunch, to be greeted by the loveliest server ever. She took us…
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THE Fat Dragon was somewhat of an institituion in Mt Lawley, so I was bit miffed when it closed its doors in January last year. The food wasn’t spectacular and sometimes the service from the restaurant’s matriarch was like something you would get at a prisoner of war camp. But it was my comfy go-to…
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WHEN I used to take my young kids to the playground on my day off, I would always hold their shoes in my hand as a prop. Otherwise I would get strange looks from mums, who wondered who this random guy lingering at the edge of the sandpit was. I felt the same odd sensation…
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IF you’re on a no-carb diet you don’t want to be living anywhere near Chez Jean-Claude Patisserie, because his bread is that good. My wife “Special K” has been a long-term fan of the Swiss bakery, which opened in Subiaco in 1997 before expanding with another patisserie in West Leederville in 2005. Anytime she was…
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ON Thursday I had three burgers for lunch. My wife now calls me Wimpy, after the character in Popeye. There was mitigating circumstances – my lunch date had stood me up and I couldn’t just eat one burger for a food review. Thankfully they were from the excellent Corner Store Foods in Attadale. It used…
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THE VOICE’S hunt for sushi perfection led to a ritzy enclave in South Perth. Just down from The Windsor Hotel on Mends Street, HeyBro is in a food court in the small, anodyne South Shore shopping centre. It’s a sleepy hollow with the odd rich person shuffling in for a pedicure or haircut. Time seemed…
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SCARLET-faced, sweaty and on the verge of passing-out – I felt like I was in the hot box in The Bridge on the River Kwai. I was actually in Mary Street Bakery on a stinking hot Tuesday afternoon, and it appeared there was no air conditioning. I took refuge under a large ceiling fan in…
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WELCOME to Vic Park. As I parked the Voice jalopy on the Albany Highway, some guy across the road was going ballistic at a driver for parking in a bus stop and it nearly all kicked off. There’s always a bit of hubbub and pistols-at-dawn when I go to Vic Park for lunch, and I…
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TUCKED away in North Perth is the classy cafe/restaurant Blake Hill. Just up from Walcott Street, on a random suburban hill, it’s one of those places you could easily miss while going about your daily business. The restaurant/cafe has a lovely look and feel – think European artisan with a pinch of rustic glamour. There’s…
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