Category: Dining Guide

  • Saint or sinner?

    IN honour of Jannik Sinner winning The Australian Open, I decided to take my kids out for an Italian meal. Yes, I was paying my respects to a supreme athlete by eating my bodyweight in pizza and pasta. But it made sense in some parallel universe where there were no wars, over-eating was good for…

  • Food ahoy

    MOST folk associate Fremantle Fishing Boat Habour with fish and chips, but in recent years there has been a wider variety of eateries at the waterfront precinct. Bathers Beach House’s modern Australian cuisine and the Char Char steakhouse have given punters slightly more choice, but one of the most recent additions, Ostro Italian, could be…

  • Burger time

    IT was perhaps my lowest moment of 2023 – watching Brendan Fevola in the semi-final of The Masked Singer. It was reminiscent of the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where the primates touch the monolith and learn how to use a bone to whack things. I needed a pick-me up, and in times of…

  • Mexican curio

    OPPOSITE Kings Park is a tasty Mexican hideout. Situated in an elevated courtyard setback from the busy Kings Park road, you would only know about Donnie Taco if you glimpsed the small A-frame sign on the pavement or heard about it through word-of-mouth. The eatery was like an upmarket food truck and there was a…

  • Super lunch

    WITH the warmer weather arriving, it’s time to ditch the stodgy fare and get into the salads and light summer cuisine. So my wife “Special K” told me as I hoed into a cheeseburger and chips on Saturday night. Maybe it was her subtle way of telling me to shed some timber and loose the…

  • Cool relief

    IN times of extreme heat, I always turn to sushi. It’s light, cold and can be eaten anywhere, so as Helios unleashed his wrath this week, I drove to Miyavi Japanense Food for lunch.  Unfortunately the air con on the Voice jalopy had packed in, so by the time I reached Perth CBD I looked…

  • Balkan treat

    THE MATILDAS feel good factor had slowly washed over me. No, I haven’t put a poster of Sam Kerr on my bedroom wall – I’m in my late 40s and that would be all wrong – but her World Cup antics did inspire me to take my two young kids to see Perth Glory Women…

  • Snag heaven

    ELMAR’S recently closed one of its outlets in Myaree, so I was worried the sausage kaiser might be in financial strife. But thankfully their flagship store in Highgate appears to be in rude health and was overflowing with snags, cured meats, pâté and tales of German gymnastics when I visited on Tuesday morning. Elmar’s is…

  • Banh mi buzz

    WITH Christmas on the horizon and the economy still biting like a junk yard dog, the Voice decided to search for a bonzer budget meal. Situated in the ritzy end of East Perth, Claisebrook Cove may not seem like somewhere you’d go for a cheap meal, but there are lots of cost-friendly places nearby on…

  • Flaming Moe

    ANGELO STREET in South Perth is like Beverly Hills smeared in vegemite. A few years ago there was just a crummy old Laundromat, tatty milk bar and some joint selling sausage rolls that would make a billy goat puke. But with the opening of new cafes, restaurants, small bars and a Coles Local (it’s like…