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Category: Dining Guide
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NO. 4 BLAKE STREET, North Perth by JENNY D’ANGER: My friend’s double mastectomy meant I was dining alone. It’s probably up there in terms of an excuse for cancelling a long-standing lunch date. My mate is doing fine, al la Angelina Jolie, and her prognosis is excellent, post-operatively. The waiter looked a trifle askance at…
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BELGIAN BEER CAFE, Perth by STEPHEN POLLOCK: AHH, Belgium. That indiscriminate little country that throbs at the end of Tintin’s foot, like Captain Haddock’s piles. Time for walkies, Snowy! Cliches aside, the Belgian beer cafe, like the country itself, has been the butt of some bad jokes and middling reviews, so it was time for…
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“Do you want shisha?” was the greeting at Egyptian restaurant Aida, in Northbridge. A little odd to be asked what we wanted to eat before seeing a menu, we thought. But despite being flavoured with peach, guava, lemon or mint, you don’t eat shisha, you smoke it (and it’s not like a smoked haddock either). Throughout…
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THE GLOBE COFFEE HOUSE, Mt Lawley: by JENNY D’ANGER: The 40-watt smile of the staff at the Globe Coffee House is better than a jolt of black coffee when it comes to a pre-work breakfast. The cafe makes no pretence to be anything but what it is, a homely little place that exudes a pleasant…
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MR MUNCHIES, Mt Lawley: Winning the lotto has never been easy. For instance, in a Powerball game alone there are roughly 175 million number combinations to choose from. But as luck will have it, in at Mr Munchies, hidden in a little alley behind Grill’d on 669 Beaufort Street, your chances of picking the winning…
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CHILLI ORANGE, North Perth by DAVID BELL: Angove Street is killing it just now. Once little more than a side street near the pool hall, these days it’s full of top-notch cafes and quirky shopfronts and on any given weekday morning there’s a healthy population down on the strip. Chilli Orange is up there with…
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LITTLE BIRD CAFE, Northbridge by JENNY D’ANGER: A black crow sat on the fence nearby, its head cocked quizzically, checking out my meal, while its mates caw cawed in a nearby tree, asking for more. “Never more,” I replied, with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe, swallowing the last morsel. There was no way I was…
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SIAM THAI, Mt Lawley Have you ever visited the same restaurant twice and felt as if though you’re were visiting a a different restaurant the second time? The service was different, the feel was different, even the food was different. The lack of unity in many restaurants have left people hopping to and fro in…
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FORMOSA, Northbridge by JENNY D’ANGER: Formosa Vegetarian Eating House is a strange and disturbing place that challenges concepts of food and can leave your head spinning. Just finding the eatery had the D’Angers puzzled because the space is dominated by signs for Utopia, a bubble tea and Asian sticky bun and cake vendor. The two…
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METRICO & CO, North Perth by JENNY D’ANGER: Landing at Metrio & Co in North Perth for lunch was more good luck than good planning. Angove Street has blossomed in recent years and is full of trendy eateries, so I might have just as easily gone to one or other of them. But it was…
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