I learnt two important lessons on Saturday. Firstly if it’s the sunny side of 40 degrees, then make sure wherever you plan on going for lunch has more than decent air-conditioning. And secondly, if you’ve been out for a particularly impressive burger the weekend before (Enter Café Downey http://atomic-temporary-19383105.wpcomstaging.com/2012/01/27/3680/), whose homemade patties were seriously delicious, […]

Ahhhh a Friday lunch – felt like it had been a lifetime since I’d had one of these lined up. And sure, perhaps only the Friday before I’d spend 75% of my work day at the WACA watching the sensational first day of the Perth test between the Aussies and India, but still, a lunch […]

GG and I headed deep south the other weekend. We ventured to The Chase in Baldivis, nowhere near our neck of the words, but it was for a farewell dinner for GG’s uncle and aunty. Their last night in Perth after a 6 week visit from the UK to the great ol’ land of Oz. […]

I grew up in Maylands. Lovely part of the world, right near the river. Back in the day there used to be a Chicken Treat on the corner of Seventh Ave and Guildford Road. Now we are taking many, many moons ago. I was still in primary school at this stage. Following on from this, […]

One thing I like about food blogging is that if people know you do it they tell you about good food experiences they have had. I love chatting about food and especially recommendations to new places. So when two people gave me rave reviews about Café Downey in Mt Lawley I knew I had to […]

I found out the hard way last week that if you have your heart set on somewhere for dinner and you don’t get to eat there (because it’s so incredibly busy because everyone has figured out how fab it would be to have a dinner of steak tartare, field mushrooms and a Monteith’s Pear Cider- […]

Quite high on the list of “my favourite things” along with raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens is to lunch in the Swan Valley when the skies are blue and the sun is shining. An opportunity such as this presented on Sunday. Quite delightful summer weather and as GG had given his car a […]

I had a good ol’ chat with my boss the other day who was looking for a place to take his wife for her birthday. So I started spieling off all of my faves and he asked about Petite Mort. I haven’t been was my reply, but I did follow up that it had a very […]

New Years – so overrated isn’t it! Always seems to be a bit of a struggle for me to muster much enthusiasm for a late night out. Stay up til midnight? Who am I, Cinderella? I’ve never been much of a night owl, much more of an early bird so I knew it would be […]

As soon as I had heard that Nobu was going to be opening in Perth I knew I wanted to head along and check it out. For two reasons – firstly my appreciation for Japanese food had definitely stepped it up a notch during 2011 and secondly I was a big Iron Chef fan and […]