Basket case?
THE odd time I’ve been to The Foodies Basket in Attadale I’ve been really impressed. There’s a nice vibe to the shop/deli with super friendly staff and a great range […]
Category Archives: Dining Guide
Quality cuisine
I HAD some weird side-effects from the flu jab this week – I was feeling energetic, optimistic and well, decidedly Australian. My wife was very concerned, but I assured her […]
Quirky vibe
THERE’S kitsch and then there’s Sensations en Ardross. The cafe’s interior was a crazy jamboree of vintage bric-a-brac with everything from old radios, neon flamingos, a 1970s crock-pot to a […]
Rolling on
THE Chook normally doesn’t review franchises, but since Roll’d is the first eatery to open in the FOMO complex in the redeveloped Kings Square, we made an exception. There was […]
Emily’s back
THERE’S been some famous Emilys down the years. Suffragette Emily Pankhurst, poet Emily Dickinson, and “Big Emily” from the Gorbals, who I met in a Glasgow nightclub in the 1990s. […]
Holy moly
THE Bistrot Cafe is around the corner from the Herald offices in the West End, so a visit was long overdue. The original Bistrot has been operating in Bibra Lake […]
Spicy future
A CLEVER labour-saving device or a glimpse into a soulless future with automatons? That is the question philosophers might ponder after eating lunch at Spice Market in Fremantle. In the […]
Spicy pull
IS the hilly strip between Hungry Jack’s and the Canning Bridge a black hole for restaurants? It seems that Clancy’s Fish Pub is the only one to escape its gravitational […]
Danger zone
I WAS fortunate enough to have lunch with a Herald legend this week – Jenny D’Anger. Jenny was the longest serving member of the Chook editorial team when she retired […]
Proustian grub
WAKING up to find a half-eaten kebab in my jacket pocket was a regular occurrence during the 1990s. It coincided with “Cool Britannia” and England rising from its imperial ashes […]
