LAST time I was in the Hyde Park Hotel I was wearing flares and humming the theme tune to M*A*S*H. Well it wasn’t quite that long ago, but it’s been […]

HUMPTY DUMPTY sat on a wall, where the poor old egg fell into a vat of curry at the Royal India Restaurant. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men […]

I  THINK only the Dockers were feeling bluer and looking more shambolic than me a few weekends ago. We’d just moved house and got a pre-dawn visit from the local robbers […]

DESPITE having lived in the bustling inner city suburb of West Perth for little over a year now, I have never fallen victim to the incessant social media hype surrounding […]

MY companion and I had been heading elsewhere for lunch when the quaint Outram Cafe caught our eye. It is an oasis of a genteel yesteryear amid the sharp edges […]

LUNCHING alone at the West End Deli was so relaxing I felt right at home reading the paper while waiting for my meal. But the first mouthful of the Sri […]

THERE’S a nice synergy between West Perth’s Gordon Street Garage and Fremantle’s Bread in Common. The coffee-roasting West Perth eatery provides beans to its sister joint, which in turn provides […]

“GALAKTOBOUREKO”. It’s Greek for custard pie—but could just as easily be Greek for delicious. Made with semolina, eggs, vanilla and cream it slid down my throat like silk, the taste […]

THAT men and women have very different ways of seeing the world was highlighted over lunch at this sleek, utilitarian West Perth restaurant. The only woman in a sea of […]