“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 […]

PACIFIC Rim Mix Plate is no more. It sounds like something happened to the Earth’s crust  in South East Asia, but it was actually a quirky takeaway in Applecross that […]

HIGHWAY BURGER and my stomach seemed destined never to meet. Anytime I went to the Canning Bridge eatery it was shut or I couldn’t get a parking spot. On Tuesday, […]

SAILING clubs – the last bastion of white middle-aged men wearing chinos, blazers with gold buttons and smoking cigars the size of a French baguette?  That was my life-long prejudice […]

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 […]

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 […]

ANYONE for buttered crumpets and an episode of Murder, She Wrote? That was the vibe when I walked towards Messy Munchies, a quaint-looking cafe in Applecross where pensioners convened under […]

I’VE always been intrigued by a small, shabby-looking takeaway in Applecross called Pacific Rim Mix Plate. If the name wasn’t confusing enough (sounds like a research paper on the Earth’s […]