YOU know a restaurant must be doing something right when it’s been around for 35 years. Thai Corner opened in Applecross in 1989, when Especially for You by Kylie Minogue […]

IT was like a middle-class version of Custer’s Last Stand with kids running about with bowls of olives and adults munching on cheese platters. I was in the Quarter Acre […]

APPLECROSS Village – a sleepy hollow for the mega-rich where botox rubs shoulders with designer handbags, cryptocurrency and the whiff of Chanel No 5. The little cabal of high-end shops, […]

LOTS of rich people in lycra exercising. That was the scene in ‘Applecross Village’ as people power walked their way to beauty and health at around 5pm on Tuesday. Like […]

ARE you in the smashed burger camp or the thick burger camp? Or do you have low cholesterol and don’t care? I used to be firmly in the thick camp, […]

APPLECROSS Pizza are the Led Zeppelin of the pizza world. The owners aren’t cavorting with mudsharks, groupies and using cocaine instead of flour to make their dough, but their pizzas […]

  APART from Clancy’s and Raffles, the steep hill leading down to Canning Bridge in Applecross has historically been a culinary graveyard. Many restaurants and cafes have come and go, […]

“IT’S botox central,” warned my friend. Thankfully when the Chook visited The Rowing Pavilion in Mt Pleasant, it wasn’t full of Joan Rivers clones and nobody looked like an extra […]

IF you chucked the 1970s and a vindaloo into a blender you’d probably get something close to 7 Spices Incredible Indian Cuisine. It’s a gloriously old-fashioned looking curry house – […]

IN the same week Mark McGowan flew non-stop from Perth to Rome, I went to Gucce Pizzeria e Cucina Italiana in Applecross. It didn’t take me 15 hours, but the […]